The Lake Champlain bridge between New York and Vermont is the only viable crossing for 3,000 residents, as well as one of the first continuous truss road bridges built in the nation.
Thrill seekers can drive life-size Tonka toys and move massive mounds of earth thanks to Ed Mumm's $1-million heavy- equipment theme park in Las Vegas.
Since joining the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in 2000, Matt Gillen has worked to coordinate and plan a variety of construction safety research efforts while also building stronger relationships between scientists and the construction industry.
Making the decision to blow almost four miles of Mississippi River levee to operate the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway was one of the most difficult decisions of Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh's 34-year career as an Army officer.
H. Kit Miyamoto, a structural engineer and an expert in seismic-resistant design, has enormous experience bringing engineering relief to the scenes of disasters and helping local leaders restore safety and order amid danger and chaos.
Gary Chock is the inspiration, driving force and leader of an American Society of Civil Engineers' committee that began work in January 2011 on a new addition to the society's engineering standards.
Soon after a failed coal-ash pond at a Tennessee Valley Authority powerplant in 2008 spewed waste onto 300 surrounding acres, Stantec Inc. senior engineer Alan Rauch was on a plane to Tennessee.
D. Kent Smith is well aware there are no shortcuts when it comes to cleaning up 60 years of radioactive and other wastes at the U.S. Energy Dept.'s Hanford former nuclear-weapons site in Washington state.
It took teamwork to build the New York City Dept. of Environmental Protection's $1.4-billion, 2-billion-gallon-per-day Catskill/Delaware Ultraviolet Disinfection Facility—the world's largest—on time, on budget and with less than 2% change-order costs.
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