As part of ENR’s annual Top Young Professionals program, which honors the best of the next generation of construction industry professionals across 10 regions, ENR is proud to announce its 2021 National Top 20 Under 40.

Across the country, hundreds of future leaders were nominated for the honor, based on their education, career experience, industry leadership, community service and other factors.

COVID-19 exposed flaws in many global systems but it also created new opportunities for the industry’s bright and motivated fixers.

COVID-19 kept this year's selected achievers from meeting in person to share ideas for tackling key construction challenges, but the virtual voices of these visionaries came through loud and clear

New realities of working through the pandemic have intensified the need to keep industry diversity on the front burner.

Awardees debunk industry stereotypes and want to create excitement as early as kindergarten, but some worry that virus-linked virtual training will cause craft and professional skill gaps.

Thought leaders see new, broader technology applications and an era of leveraging lots more historical project data