Pioneering civil engineer, whose early focus on megaproject risk management and arbitration made her an asset on global works, had a cancer diagnosis, says her firm Pegasus-Global Holdings Inc.

Managing director of engineering programs at the American Society of Civil Engineers retired in 2022.

Florida executive formed three companies from the 1960s to the 1980s, becoming one of the largest concrete pumping companies in the Southeastern U.S, said a family statement.

Longtime Duke University civil engineerng professor authored 20 books on engineering, design and history.

Best known for his Statue of Liberty lighting for its 1980s restoration, the innovator personally contributed to more than 2,500 projects in 60 countries during his career.