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Home » ENR's Top 25 Newsmakers 2017

ENR's Top 25 Newsmakers 2017

ENR's Top 25 Newsmakers 2017
 

Individuals from diverse sectors have been recognized by ENR’s editors for their service to the construction industry and the public.


 

Bilal Ayyub

 

Bilal Ayyub

 

A passionate effort will give engineers their first formal guidance when designing infrastructure to be more resilient to weather extremes.

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Platt Boyd

 

Platt Boyd

 

Founded additive manufacturing firm that is pioneering techniques for designing and fabricating structurally sound 3D-printed objects.

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Michael Braden

 

Michael Braden

 

Turned around 20 years of escalating costs and delays on a lock-and-dam project that’s crucial to U.S. shipping traffic.

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Deron Brown

 

Deron Brown

 

Led creation of innovative project-delivery software that allows changes to virtual models in a more collaborative environment.

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Eric M. Dean

 

Eric M. Dean

 

Launched a groundbreaking maternity-leave program for women ironworkers.

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Robbie Ferris

 

Robbie Ferris

 

The architect uses a design-build-finance-operate-maintain approach to deliver energy-positive K-12 schools.

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Andy Foan

 

Andy Foan

 

Engineered an elegant, curved platform system that enables fixed rail to transition to a floating bridge structure. The system can move as much as 2 ft in any direction.

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Adam M. Grist

 

Adam M. Grist

 

DOT officials praise this C.W. Matthews vice president for a “highly proactive” emergency rebuild of a key Atlanta artery after 700 ft collapsed.

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Ted Henifin

 

Ted Henifin

 

Unusual problems drive unusual water solutions in one of the fastest-sinking areas of the nation.

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Susan Hou

 

Susan Hou

 

Through formal partnering and a risk-management program that she designed, Hou guides one of the Bay Area’s largest water projects to completion.

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Barry King

 

Barry King

 

Steel erector took modular delivery to the next level for risky air-rights project atop FDR Drive along Manhattan’s East River.

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Ron Klemencic

 

Ron Klemencic

 

Engineer organized public-domain research to test the seismic and wind performance of his modular composite steel core-wall system, intended to transform office-tower construction.

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Kevin J. LaMalva

 

Kevin J. LaMalva

 

Engineer, a linchpin in the creation of the nation’s first standard and how-to manual on structural fire design, is energizing the discipline.

Click here to read more about Kevin J. LaMalva

 

 

George E. Leventis

 

George E. Leventis

 

Negotiated in an intense political environment to help broker deals that saved Greece’s multibillion-dollar roadway program.

Click here to read more about George E. Leventis

 

 

Jane Howell Lombardi

 

Jane Howell Lombardi

 

Successful film about engineering, which is geared to inspiring kids, now is making its way to schools across the U.S.

Click here to read more about Jane Howell Lombardi

 

 

David Mangus

 

David Mangus

 

Late-blooming high school engineering teacher inspires at-risk students to design and build complex power projects for poor communities abroad.

Click here to read more about David Mangus

 

 

Drew Molly

 

Drew Molly

 

Public-works engineer and plant manager gives the city of Houston a much-needed win during Hurricane Harvey’s torrential downpour.

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Bruce Mowry

 

Bruce Mowry

 

Engineer led enactment of Miami Beach’s program aimed at fortifying the coastal area against flooding caused by rising sea levels.

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Stephen M. Muck

 

Stephen M. Muck

 

Bringing automation technology to construction with a prototype rebar-tying robot.

Click here to read more about Stephen M. Muck

 

 

Stefano Panseri

 

Stefano Panseri

 

Engineer adapts tower-demolition cocoon for a tower-construction job, accelerating the project and improving safety.

Click here to read more about Stefano Panseri

 

 

Paul Paradis

 

Paul Paradis

 

Visionary for Salesforce Tower, the centerpiece of San Francisco’s revival, never gave up on the difficult project, through the Great Recession and myriad other obstacles.

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Charles L. Pattillo

 

Charles L. Pattillo

 

Creating technology and construction programs that prepare prison inmates for returning to the workforce.

Click here to read more about Charles L. Pattillo

 

 

Jeff Petersen

 

Jeff Petersen

 

With drive and leadership skills partly learned from his Olympics-level rowing experience, Petersen guided his team to fix a damaged spillway and keep craft workers—and the community—safe .

Click here to read more about Jeff Petersen

 

 

Jason Reigstad

 

Jason Reigstad

 

Project manager is on a campaign to alert owners of more than 100 parking garages that their underdesigned double-Ts may be in danger of failure.

Click here to read more about Jason Reigstad

 

 

James Starace

 

James Starace

 

Immersed in both design and construction of an unprecedented engineering feat at the Bayonne Bridge.

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