Nick Hetrick was AECOM's project manager on a Milford, Del., highway interchange job when he got an urgent call from his boss: A Delaware Dept. of Transportation crew on June 2 had verified an engineer's report that piers supporting an interstate bridge in Wilmington had tilted.
A hoisting first is what Ferndale, Wash.-based Samson Rope pulled off under the direction of Michael Quinn, director of new market development, when it debuted the world's first synthetic hoisting rope—the KZ100—for use on cranes in 2014.
Nancy D. Fitzroy, a pioneer in heat-transfer and fluid-flow research for gas turbines, nuclear-reactor cores and other systems in a 37-year career at General Electric Co., could only access mens' rooms as an engineering student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the late 1940s.
TempleMaj. Gen. (ret.) Merdith W. "Bo" Temple has been awarded the U. S. Army Engineer Association's 2014 Gold Order of the de Fleury Medal for contributions that “exemplify boldness, courage and commitment to a strong national defense,” says the association that represents the service's active-duty and retired engineers.
In the summer of 1969, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's building-energy guru, Stephen E. Selkowitz, spent seven weeks in New York City brainstorming better ways to get hydroelectric power to the people.
Stephen E. Selkowitz, an expert on fenestration, daylighting and lighting, knows that laboratory tests alone are not enough to push the needle forward on building energy performance.
Buildings do not always perform as expected, says Stephen E. Selkowitz, senior adviser for building science at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
When Singapore's Building and Construction Authority issued its Green Mark guidelines in 2006, the South Asian island city-state moved to the forefront of sustainable design and construction for the 21st century.
One of the pioneers of software development for laser-scan data processing, Mark Klusza, won an ENR Newsmaker award for that work in 2003 (ENR 1/12/04 p. 26).
"FLEXLAB came out of 25 years of trying to figure out how things work in the real world," says Selkowitz, leader of the windows and envelope materials group and senior adviser for building science with the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
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