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Newsmakers Past and Present Take the Stage

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Janice L. Tuchman
April 20, 2015
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ENR Award of Excellence, Newsmakers and winners from across the years joined this year’s class and winner, Anvil Builders’ CEO HT Tran, on stage at the gala in New York City on April 16.


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ENR 2015 Award of Excellence: HT Tran, An Inspired and Inspiring CEO

Wounded in Iraq, the young entrepreneur now executes a new mission as construction firm CEO and veterans' advocate.
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Debra K. Rubin
April 16, 2015
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While hanging out with friends in his California living room one day in 2006, HT Tran had an epiphany that changed his career path and the direction of his life. The wounded Army veteran whose family fled Vietnam went on to start a fast-growing construction firm that's building San Francisco and careers for fellow veterans.


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Contractor Guru Helps Veterans Shape Startups

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Debra K. Rubin
April 16, 2015
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What started as an effort by Bob Nilsson, a U.S. Marine vet with a broken leg to help other Vietnam War wounded heal at a Navy hospital in Queens, N.Y., has grown decades later into a nationwide crusade to transition veterans, injured and not, into entrepreneurs in the construction sector—and beyond.


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Industry Firms Are Actively Seeking Vets

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Debra K. Rubin
April 16, 2015
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The Obama administration made construction careers for veterans a high-profile initiative, announced last year by First Lady Michele Obama, that asks industry firms to hire 100,000 vets in the next five years.


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Investing Big So Industry Looks More Like America

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Debra K. Rubin
January 21, 2015
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George J. Pierson has had his share of kudos for engineering the sale last October of global design firm giant Parsons Brinckerhoff in what many consider an impressive $1.35-billion deal.


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Straddling East and West to Steer a Pile-Driving Feat

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Aileen Cho
January 21, 2015
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In 1999, David White accompanied his father, the founder of American Piledriving Equipment (APE), to Shanghai.


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Orchestrated Epic Concrete Placement in Downtown LA

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Scott Blair
January 21, 2015
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Like the maestro of a Wagnerian opera, Michael Marchesano conducted a chorus of 400 workers, 19 concrete pumps, 208 mixers and eight batch plants to perform a 19.5-hour continuous concrete placement for the Wilshire Grand Center's foundation.


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Polytechnic Project Team Delivers for Calatrava

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Scott Judy
January 21, 2015
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Early in the process of building Florida Polytechnic University's $60-million Innovation, Science and Technology building, architect Santiago Calatrava expressed his doubts to Skanska USA Building's project leader, Chuck Jablon, about the ability of U.S. craft workers to deliver the quality the architect envisioned.


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Setting Safety Precedent in a Frozen Environment

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Scott Blair
January 21, 2015
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Contractors regularly fret over jobsite safety, but few have faced the challenges Peter Willmott met in bringing his workforce home in one piece from Antarctica, where even summer temperatures plummet to -25° C and howling winds create white-out conditions.
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Randall W. Poston Led a Six-Year-Long Remake of the Concrete Code

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Nadine M. Post
January 21, 2015
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Few people would get excited about leading a much-needed overhaul of a 500-page building code, even if it is the global bible of concrete design.


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