As managing director of American Airlines, Palmina Whelan guided strategic plans for airport master planning and development across the Northeast, Dallas and Central Regions of both the U.S. and Canada for 15 years. She managed more than $6 billion in capital construction and worked with contractors, designers, airport authorities and state and regional government stakeholders. She recently launched her new company, Palmina Whelan Strategic Solutions.

The author and engineer chat with Aileen Cho, who accompanied McNichol on a cross-country infrastructure tour in 2015, about chronicling the messy and mesmerizing history of the New York City megaproject.

The CEO of Embrace Partners and CEO of the Minority Business Development Institute talks with Deputy Editor Aileen Cho about helping small contractors achieve business acumen and bonding capacity.

Jeff Yoders and Aileen Cho caught up with Autodesk’s Chief Sustainability Officer Joe Speicher and Global Vice President of Product and Engineering Lalith Subramanian at the ConExpo trade show in Las Vegas for a Tech Talk. Autodesk and the overall construction industry’s journey toward sustainability continues as workflows change and vendors like Autodesk push more cloud-connected workflows forward, including via Autodesk Forma.

ENR Deputy Editor Aileen Cho caught up with HNTB’s Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti at the Transportation Research Board conference to talk about transportation trends, mentoring and her legacy of leadership.

Jeff Yoders and Bryan Gottlieb welcome Clayco Executive Chairman Bob Clark back to the Critical Path for an exec talk about the data center boom and how Clayco is working to meet client demands for these mission critical facilities as well as get the story about the critical infrastructure of the future.

The Chair, Infrastructure & Projects - Global Disputes at Winston & Strawn LLP discusses strategies to better deliver infrastructure.

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