Proper asphalt compaction is the key to ensuring the life of roads, and finding new ways to measure that compaction is seen as the key to improving infrastructure construction.
In 2010, when Ronald W. Wackrow was about four months shy of completing the rescue of the troubled 6.5-million-sq-ft Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, his boss, Related Cos. Chairman Stephen M. Ross, suggested his next assignment: Relocate to the East Coast to steer design and construction of the developer’s 17.5- million-sq-ft Hudson Yards—a 26-acre mini-city primarily sited over the Long Island Railroad yard on the far West Side of Midtown Manhattan.
The American Society of Civil Engineers will cite lifetime achievers in design, construction, management, government service and education on March 17.
Edwin “Ed” Malzahn, who invented the first compact trenching machine and built his family company into global manufacturer Charles Machine Works on the success of his “Ditch Witch,” died Dec. 11. He was 94.
Deborah Berke, founder and partner of the New York City-based architecture firm that bears her name, will join the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Conn., as dean next July, the school announced on Oct. 5.
Peter Zipf, former chief engineer of The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and a 30-year agency veteran, joined Omaha design firm HDR on Oct. 5 as vice president and northeast region transportation director based in New York City, ENR confirms.
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