These young leaders—the 2021 class of ENR Midwest’s Top Young Professionals—are making a positive impact not only on construction, but on their broader communities as well.
They include a civil engineer that worked in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan and has planned and designed some of the longest airport runways in the world. An energy expert who co-authored a plan for the state of Missouri. A project executive that started his career as a laborer and now is leading construction of a 9,000-sq-ft arena for the city of Savannah. A telecom expert who completed her associate’s degree and pursued a bachelor’s degree while forging a path to her current position as principal of telecom engineering at her firm. And a director of special projects who lost a friend in a workplace shooting and is studying psychology to be a colleague other employees can confide in.