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Aileen Cho

Aileen Cho

Aileen Cho, ENR's senior transportation editor, is a native of Los Angeles and recovering New Yorker. She studied English and theater at Occidental College, where a reporter teaching the one existing journalism course encouraged her to apply for the LA Times Minority Editing Training Program. Her journalism training led to her first stories about transportation, working as a cub reporter with the Greenwich Time. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Many of her experiences with engineers and contractors have inspired material for her alternative theater productions way, way off Broadway. For ENR, Aileen has traveled the world, clambering over bridges in China, touring an airport in Abu Dhabi and descending into dark subway tunnels in New York City. She is a regular at transportation conferences, where she finds that airport and mass transit engineers really know how to have fun. Aileen is always eager to hop on another flight because there are so many interesting projects and people, and she gets tired of throwing her cats off her computer in her home office in Long Beach, California. She is a very conflicted Mets/Dodgers fan.

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Moving

At Workforce Conference, Lessons About Inclusion, Burnout, Ethics

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
Derek lacey
Derek Lacey
Enr justin rice
Justin Rice
Jan tuchman enr
Janice L. Tuchman
March 16, 2023

Gathered in a city populated by master musicians and chefs, ENR’s third-annual Top Young Professionals conference attendees absorbed another kind of expertise in New Orleans March 9-10.


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Best of the Best

2022 Project of the Year: Linking Los Angeles

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
March 15, 2023

The 2023 Oscar awards featured a Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor who reinvented themselves and came back for a second act. The tunnel-boring machine Angeli is the LA performer that did much the same, but entirely underground.


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Corridor H
Rugged Construction | Part One of an ENR Series

West Virginia Wild: Crews Carve Out Corridor H Through the Appalachian Mountains

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
March 1, 2023

When crews with Kokosing Construction Co. began a $209-million design-build contract—the largest of its kind in West Virginia—in 2015, they first had to build roads in order to build the actual road called Corridor H.


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Transportation Agencies Seek New Ways to Build

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
February 15, 2023

Executives discussed building big with limited resources at the Western Winter Workshop infrastructure project delivery event in California earlier this month.


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In Earthquakes' Aftermath in Turkey and Syria, Evaluating Buildings and a Search for Survivors

Damage across southern Turkey and northern Syria is still being catalogued
Jeff rubenstone
Jeff Rubenstone
Scott lewis
Scott Lewis
Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
February 6, 2023

As rescue crews continue to dig out survivors from collapsed buildings in the wake of two severe earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, killing thousands, engineers' response efforts turn toward cataloguing and evaluating structures that failed or suffered significant damage.


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Transportation

California Transit Agencies Face Future Funding Uncertainty

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
February 3, 2023

California's projected budget calls for $2 billion in cuts to transit agencies, creating uncertainty despite recent state and federal funding windfalls.



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Port of Long Beach Plans Offshore Wind Turbine Assembly Terminal

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
January 26, 2023

Southern California staging and integration facility for floating wind energy would be largest at a U.S. seaport, as new federal report points to needed investment boost in port, manufacturing and vessel support to meet wind production goal.


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ENR 2022 Top 25 Newsmakers

Mario Rodriguez: Fostering Innovation, Excellence, Diversity and Inclusion at Indianapolis Airport

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
January 26, 2023

Mario Rodriguez likes to talk about the word “sawubona”—the Zulu greeting that translates to “I see you.” Engineers, he asserts, just want to be seen for the good work they do.


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ENR 2022 Top 25 Newsmakers

Michael H. Jones: Bringing Novel Seismic Concept to Fruition Through Collaboration

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
January 26, 2023

If the 6-ft, 4-in.-tall Mike Jones had only been a bit taller, he might not have become a veteran of Southern California infrastructure. “I needed another four to five inches,” says the former high-school basketball forward.


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Rick Cotton
ENR 2022 Top 25 Newsmakers

Rick Cotton: Pilots an $8B Rebuild of LaGuardia Airport in Part Through a P3

Aileen cho
Aileen Cho
January 26, 2023

Rick Cotton pulled no punches when talking about the need to transform LaGuardia International Airport. Speaking to ENR last year while standing in the light-filled, glossy new Terminal B, he said, “LaGuardia had become the laughingstock of the city, nation and probably the world.


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