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First-generation immigrant is changing industry perceptions and leading girls to pursue new paths for the future.

Sener architect Jorge Vizcaya likens the company’s patented retractable system to use and store a stadium soccer field to installing a car engine.

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.

James Perry, the San Diego-based CEO of Israeli water consultant ASTERRA, has long been fascinated by disruptive technologies.

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.

Orange County Water District manager is key manager of design and construction to restore quality of its 270-sq-mile groundwater basin—a $1.8B effort, at least. over the next three decades to cut contamination in supply for a major West Coast population hub.