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ENR's 2017 Top 25 Newsmakers

Empowering Budding Engineers to Power Up Villages in Nepal

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Justin Rice
January 21, 2018

Hiring good high-school engineering teachers is harder than ever these days, but David Mangus is an outlier.


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Bruce Mowry
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Engineer Led Miami Beach's Effort to Brace for Rising Tides

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Scott Judy
January 18, 2018
Ask engineer Bruce Mowry how much land should be given up to sea-level rise, and he gives a quick answer: “Not one inch.”
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Tybot
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Partnering With the Robotics World to Improve Construction

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Aileen Cho
January 18, 2018

In 2015, Stephen Muck was sitting in a Carnegie Mellon University seminar on robotics, and he could not stop thinking about how the technology might benefit the construction industry, which suffers from a labor shortage, especially for backbreaking work like tying rebar. 


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Stefano Panseri
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Engineer Finds That What Goes Down Can Be Made to Go Up

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Jeff Rubenstone
January 18, 2018

Containing debris and providing a safe worksite were the key goals of the Despe Top-Down demolition system, a self- contained, six-story metal cocoon that can hydraulically lower itself around a tower as the structure is demolished floor by floor.


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Salesforce Tower
ENR's 2017 Top 25 Newsmakers

Developer's Tenacity Crucial for San Francisco's Standout Building

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Nadine M. Post
January 18, 2018

All ended well this month, with the opening of San Francisco’s tallest landmark. 


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Oroville Spillway
ENR's 2017 Top 25 Newsmakers

Led Sprint to Repair Oroville Spillway Before Winter Rains

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Scott Blair
Christine Kilpatrick
January 18, 2018

Designing and building California’s $500-million Lake Oroville Spillways Emergency Recovery Project in just nine months—a job that typically would take 10 years—required an army of engineers and workers.


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Bayonne Bridge
ENR's 2017 Top 25 Newsmakers

Overseeing the Engineering Feat of Raising a Roadway

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Aileen Cho
January 18, 2018

In three decades of projects with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, chief engineer James Starace has no doubt that the “Raise the Roadway” project is the most challenging he has ever worked on.


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ENR's 2017 Top 25 Newsmakers

Sounding the Alarm About Problematic Parking Garages

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Nadine M. Post
January 18, 2018

Jason Reigstad is on a crusade to warn about lurking danger in more than 100 parking garages, each with an underdesigned—and non-code-complaint—precast double-T slab system. 


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ENR's 2017 Top 25 Newsmakers

Bringing Construction and Design Skills to Future Parolees

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Aileen Cho
January 18, 2018

Having spent the early part of his career as a military police investigator and as a narcotics officer in Alabama, Charles Pattillo has seen firsthand how job skills, particularly high-level skills, can make the difference between a repeat convict and a rehabilitated individual with a new career.


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Northeast Water Purification Plant
ENR's 2017 Top 25 Newsmakers

Clear-Headed Engineer Saves Houston's Drinking Water

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Pam Radtke Russell
January 17, 2018

On Aug. 27, Hurricane Harvey’s rains flooded a critical backwash pond at Houston’s smallest water plant.


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