Courtesy of Odebrecht Norberto Odebrecht, pictured (sitting) with son Emilio in the 1990s, died on July 19 at age 93. Related Links: ENR: Odebrecht Sues State of Florida Over Anti-Cuba Law Odebrecht Blog Marking 30th Anniversary of Key Merger with Brazil Contractors CBPO ENR: 2008 Q&A with Marcelo Odebrecht, President of Construtora Norberto Odebrecht SA Bloomberg: Brazilian Builder Odebrecht Emerges as World Cup Winner Odebrecht Foundation website ENR: Brazil Places Its Bets on Hydroelectric Dams, Despite Protests ENR: Brazilians Say Government Deserves a Good, Swift Kick for Broken World Cup Promises Norberto Odebrecht, whose launch, in the 1940s, of a
Related Links: Georgia Institute of Technology Prominent structural engineer and professor Stanley D. Lindsey has been called a genius, an innovator and an inspiration. He died on July 12 of a massive heart attack on his horse farm in Bluffton, S.C. He was 75.Not long after starting his eponymous firm in Nashville, Tenn., in 1966, Lindsey became known as a pioneer in the use of computers for the analysis and design of structures. Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates Ltd., which for years wrote most of its own software, was one of the first engineers to integrate computer-aided design with drafting.Lindsey
Rod Garrett, design director of the Washington, D.C., office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, died suddenly on June 27 while in Chicago, attending the American Institute of Architects convention. Garrett would have turned 54 on Aug. 7.Garrett, who joined SOM in 1986, focused on public and institutional projects and was considered an expert in the public agency and review process."He was recognized that way," says Mark Regulinski, managing director of SOM's New York City and Washington, D.C., offices. "He got his AIA fellowship designation on the strength of his expertise," he adds.GarrettHis recent projects include the master plan and
Ohio State University Former students praised Merry's skill in teaching complex topics and connecting to aspiring engineers. Related Links: American Society of Civil Engineers' Tribute to Carolyn Merry On line Obituary and Tributes Ohio State U. College of Engineering Mourns Death of Professor Emerita Carolyn Merry; Link to Carolyn J. Merry Scholarship Fund A June 3 highway accident has killed Carolyn J. Merry, former Ohio State University civil engineering chair and noted remote sensing researcher. She was 63.Merry's husband Robert K. Redfield confirmed to ENR that tractor-trailer driver Adrian Rogers, whose vehicle slammed into a car driven by Merry on
EERI Craig E. Taylor developed new natural hazard modeling and disaster risk assessment strategies. Related Links: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Tribute Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management/Sixth Intl Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis Website Craig E. Taylor, 68, an expert in multihazard risk management who shaped new directions in catastrophe modeling and risk simulation, particularly for earthquakes, died on May 31 in Torrance, Calif., after a brief undisclosed illness, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) confirms.A research professor at the University of Southern California and long-time consultant to insurers and federal agencies, Taylor was a
Related Links: Complacency is the Enemy: A Viewpoint by Jim LaMantia, PRIDE executive director (2009) PRIDE of St. Louis Inc. In 1972, union construction work in St. Louis was in turmoil, with the industry facing hundreds of restrictive labor work rules, frequent disputes among craft trades and disrupted projects.MantiaENR reported that "after just 12 days into construction of an Anheuser-Busch modernization project, a jurisdictional dispute erupted despite a nonstrike agreement among all unions. Work stalled for five months." Richard Mantia, then executive secretary-treasurer of the St. Louis Building Trades Council, and Alfred J. Fleischer, managing partner in a local contractor,
. Kenneth Liu helped lay the foundation for major seismic redesigns of hospitals throughout California. Related Links: LBL Architects Website American Institute of Architects May 12 Tribute to Kenneth Liu Kenneth Liu, 62, a California-based architect who helped revise seismic safety rules for the state’s hospitals after the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes in 1989 and 1994, respectively, died in Los Angeles on May 1. The cause of death was not given.Liu and colleagues Ken Lee and Erich Burkhart launched Lee Burkhart Liu Architects (LBL) Inc., Santa Monica in 1986, specializing in hospital design and planning in California. It also
Related Links: Online obituary of Charles G. Salmon and tributes Engineer cared about the regions past, future Online obituary of Louis L. Guy and tributes Charles G. "Chuck" Salmon, an emeritus civil-environmental engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he had taught for nearly 40 years, andnoted author of widely-used textbooks on concrete design, steel structures and structural analysis, was found dead on April 28 at his Las Vegas home. Details were not disclosed. Salmon was active in several industry groups, a past president of the civil engineering honor society Chi Epsilon, and recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime
Related Links: In Memoriam: Abe Gutman, Structural EngineerA Tribute by ENR Buildings Editor Nadine Post Abraham “Abe” Gutman, 73, an internationally recognized structural engineer and concrete foundations expert whose projects included New York City’s 6-million-sq-ft GutmanWorld Financial Center and foundations for the 3.3-million-sq-ft Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and who also was senior vice president and a 45-year veteran of design firm Thornton-Tomasetti, died suddenly on April 9 of an undisclosed cause.Gutman was one of the firm’s first principals and was named a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.He was actively involved in structural integrity inspections and
Related Links: Paul R. Munger Obituary-Missouri University of Science and Technology Paul R. Munger, 82, a Missouri civil engineer and longtime educator who probed the fatal 1981 Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse and chaired the board that revoked the licenses of its designers, died on April 19 in Rolla, Mo. The cause of death was not disclosed.MUNGERAs Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors chairman, Munger was among the experts who investigated the Hyatt incident. They found the collapse of two vertically contiguous atrium walkways was linked to design issues; 114 were killed and 216 were injured, making it
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