Next generation of leaders solves challenges at work and contributes to communities despite rapid industry changes.

In 2015, when Sony BMG and Universal Music left Music Row to lease office space in downtown Nashville, some worried about the future of the historic neighborhood where country music greats like Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley recorded their hit songs, says Hayne Hamilton, senior development manager for Panattoni Development Co. 

A new hangar in British Columbia mirrors the shapes and curves of a plane.

When Daniel O’Connell’s Sons won the construction contract in 2018 for the $122-million York Street Pump Station and Connecticut River Crossing project in Springfield, Mass., the owner’s designer, Kleinfelder, suggested pipe jacking to launch three new wastewater conveyance pipelines at the pump station that would run under a railroad and flood wall before crossing the river and passing through a levee to the Springfield Water & Sewer Commission treatment facility in Agawam, Mass.

In the historic Boston neighborhood of Nubian Square, a wellspring of revitalization is replacing blighted areas with innovative community developments that seek to clean up the environment and provide affordable housing. 

Columbia Property Trust chose a mass timber frame over a steel frame for an addition atop the oldest high-rise in the U.S. Navy Yard neighborhood.

Completed on budget and on schedule, the $165-million recreation center was the college’s largest capital project and one of the nation’s first complexes to integrate five major athletic venues in a single construction project.