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Mateo Jaramillo, co-founder and CEO of long-duration battery storage innovator Form Energy, hit the trifecta last year: completing its first factory in West Virginia with plans to expand this year; getting its first U.S. commercial system installations under way; and gaining an eye-catching $405 million in a private funding round.

With only his shovel and a squeegee for company, Tony Ingram cut a lonely figure after hours one night last spring, as he cleared runoff from a torrential rain that had turned a section of the rear entrance of the 1,100-acre Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., into a mud flat.

Dominion Energy engineer keeps construction of the country’s largest offshore wind energy project—a novel $10-billion, 178-turbine effort off the Virginia coast on track to finish by the end of 2026—demonstrating clean energy's critical role in generating needed power and in confronting US climate change impacts.

Martin Gross, co-founder and CEO of Gross-Wen Technologies, has long been fascinated by the possibilities of algae as a sustainability solution.

Joe Schneider recalls when he and Dave Garske approached Vince Granato about a series of near-misses on the construction site of the $1.2-billion TCORE project, the centerpiece of the $2-billion PDX Next program to transform Portland International Airport.

Robert D. “Danny” Evans Jr. couldn’t help but smile as four lines of self-propelled modular transporters gently backed a new 2,800-ton cracking furnace into position at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.’s Baytown, Texas, ethylene plant in September 2022.

As executive vice president of Garney Construction’s eastern U.S. pipeline operations, Jordan Carrier helmed a team that pushed the limits of trenchless construction by conducting a 5,700-ft horizontal directional drill to install 42-in.-dia HDPE pipe for a wastewater force main under a busy shipping channel in Virginia.

As artificial intelligence continues to transform everyday activities, an arms race in construction technology AI services has begun, and a site-focused startup called Trunk Tools is leading it.

When interviewing to work for Eversource Energy in 2020, Nikki L. Bruno was asked if she had experience in the geothermal field. Bruno said no, but offered that she’d taken geology classes and could learn.

Mark Bransom, CEO since 2016 of Klamath River Renewal Corp., credits his more than 30-year career in water resources management and engineering for his ability to oversee the successful completion of the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.