There is no future without a past, and this year’s group of ENR Newsmakers clearly demonstrates a throughline between those moving points in time, offering solutions to the types of questions we all may have asked ourselves at some point: How do I look at what came before, and fix it? Improve upon it? Do it differently? Make it better?
Their answers include successfully guiding complex drilling for a massive geothermal field; harnessing genuine collaboration to finish a $2.4-billion train electrification project; creating a program to transition members of the military to civilian careers in construction; championing safety culture education at universities; bringing a polluted river back to life; managing unknowns to keep the largest U.S. offshore wind energy project on track; reopening a critical shipping channel after a tragic bridge accident—and innovating jobsite AI solutions for everything from document review to sustainable construction.
There are many more inspiring Newsmaker achievements. Read on—and meet these achievers in person at ENR’s Award of Excellence gala dinner on March 27 at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers in New York City. Visit enr.com/aoe to register.

John Ballas
Vice President/PX
Auburn Construction Co.
Avon, Mass.
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Mark Bransom
CEO
Klamath River Renewal Corp.
Berkeley, Calif.
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Nikki L. Bruno
Vice President, Clean Technologies, Gas
Eversource Energy
Westborough, Mass.
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Sarah Buchner
Founder & CEO
Trunk Tools Inc.
New York City
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Jordan Carrier
Executive Vice President - Pipe East
Garney Construction
Fairfax, Va.
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Robert D. Evans Jr.
Construction Manager
PCL Industrial Construction Co.
Katy, Texas
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Vince Granato
Chief Projects Officer
Port of Portland
Portland, Ore
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Martin Gross
Co-founder and CEO
Gross-Wen Technologies
Slater, Iowa
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Karl E. Humberson
Vice President, Construction- Offshore Wind
Dominion Energy
Richmond, Va.
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Tony Ingram
Senior Project Manager
Bancroft Construction
Wilmington, Del.
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Mateo Jaramillo
Co-Founder and CEO
Form Energy
Somerville, Mass.
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Tanya Wattenburg Komas
President and CEO
CPI Foundation
Chico, Calif.
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Anthony F. Leketa
Chair, NAC Safety Committee and Retired Executive Vice President
Parsons
Gambrills, Md.
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Josh Levy
Co-Founder and CEO
Document Crunch
Alpharetta, Ga.
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Tommy Linstroth
Founder and CEO
Green Badger
Savannah, Ga.
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Robert J. Mahoney
Chief Engineering Officer
Denver Water
Denver
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Marjorie Mayfield Jackson
Executive Director
Elizabeth River Project-Pru & Louis Ryan Resilience Lab
Norfolk, Va.
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Logan Mullaney
Group CEO
InQuik
Boulder, Colo.
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Mark Pestrella
Director
Los Angeles County Public Works
Alhambra, Calif.
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Col. Estee S. Pinchasin
Director of Logistics
National Security Agency
Baltimore
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Seth Randall
Regional Safety Director, Infrastructure Group
Clark Construction Group
McLean, Va.
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Pranaya Shrestha
Vice President , Senior Program Manager
HNTB Corp.
Golden, Colo.
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Dale Sinclair
Fellow, Head of Digital Innovation
WSP
London
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Robert Wood
Project Director Texas Division – Civil/Marine
McCarthy Building Cos. Inc.
Channelview, Texas
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Stuart Yanow
President
GeoTility
Kelowna, BC, Canada
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