This year’s winners, curated by a judging team from more than 1,100 submitted photo contest entries, offer stunning and eye-opening glimpses into day-to-day activity across the global construction sector.
Nicola Valiante, engineering-director of design services for Milan, Italy-based Webuild S.p.A, has always been interested to find better ways to do things.
From a young age, Col. Eric R. Swenson found himself drawn to construction and earthmoving equipment,“so much so that as a child I once lost my parents on a family bike ride after stopping to watch the Army Corps of Engineers dredging operations in Ocean City, N.J.,” Swenson says.
All it took was the look on the face of his wife. Josh Rizzo, a Brooklyn native, had pulled out of a tough childhood with a steamfitter father who was incarcerated.
Like other residents of Altadena, Calif., MATT Construction Senior Project Manager Nick Pemberton didn’t know that the days after Jan. 7, 2025 would irrevocably change his and his neighbors’ lives.
Harmon Parker was building a school for a remote village in Kenya in the mid ’90s when the director of a non-governmental organization came to him and his partner with a request.
Launching an environmental justice case in Syracuse, N.Y. in 2018, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin looked beyond her lawsuit against the $2.3-billion plan to replace the aging Interstate 81 viaduct bisecting a historically Black neighborhood.