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.
René Morkos is a second-generation civil engineer who has worked on underwater pipeline construction, automation engineering on a $350-million gas refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi and as a project manager in Afghanistan.
About a decade after founding Wespac Construction in 1991 in Phoenix, which has grown to be one of ENR’s Top 400 Contractors, John Largay thought about how he could give back to his community that had so greatly benefited him.
Todd Keller could not decide what he wanted to do career-wise as he neared the end of his stint at a college preparatory school in the late ’80s. “I struggled with what I wanted to be when I grew up,” he recalls.
Abigail Ross Hopper, the outgoing president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, has been the face and voice of the influential clean power advocacy group since she took the top role in 2017, and widely credited for the sector’s huge growth over nearly a decade.
As the sustainability movement took hold in construction a quarter-century ago, concrete maker Louis P. Grasso Jr. was nudged by its leaders to gain a competitive edge by producing a pozzolan made from locally sourced recycled glass to reduce cement’s carbon content.
On the project to partially reconstruct the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore for railroad company CSX Corp., Skanska Project Manager Michael Goetz found the way forward to deliver the project safely while cutting two years off the original timeline