J. Patrick Kociolek, the lauded visionary behind the super-green reinvention of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, doesn’t let grass grow under his feet, at least not for long.
Engineering professor Bernard Amadei could not have imagined when he founded Engineers Without Borders in 2001 the impact it would have on impoverished communities around the world, on young engineers and their peers in other fields, and on the construction industry’s expectations for a motivated and enlightened future workforce.
The perennial problem of workforce shortages and worries about bringing a new generation into the construction industry are nothing new for Bob Bailey.
Under intense scrutiny from engineers, politicians and the public, Bruce A. Magladry, director of the National Transportation Safety Board office of highway safety, oversaw a 15-month probe of the 2007 I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, in which 13 people died and 145 were injured.
Donald T. Resio, senior technologist in the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Miss., had an “ah-ha!” moment when he was trying to figure out how to plug a roaring levee breach: Use a big fabric tube floating in the flood, partially filled with water.
Elie H. Homsi will never forget the first day that his brainchild, a pile-driving, girder-launching gantry system, went to work on a $192-million contract to build the Washington Bypass, a six-mile alternative route to Highway 17 in North Carolina.
Contractors do not usually ask regulators to impose more restrictions, but a trend in fatal crane accidents last year prompted one industry insider to act swiftly to clean up safety lapses.
STONE Donald E. Stone Jr. has joined Dewberry, a Fairfax, Va., engineer-architect, as chief operating officer. In this role, he replaces Ronald L. Ewing, who became CEO of the firm in 2005. Stone had been COO at engineering firm O’Brien & Gere Ltd. and president of its Total Water Solutions division. In that position, he spearheaded creation of a special-purpose entity to finance the firm’s design-build-own-operate water and wastewater projects. PSA-Dewberry, the firm’s building services affiliate, also named Mike Tatalovich practice segment leader for federal architecture. He had been director of business pursuits for the government and infrastructure division of
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