Marjorie Mayfield Jackson: Non-profit Founder Used a Collaborative Approach to Address River Pollution and Sea-Level Rise
Marjorie Mayfield Jackson so loved the Elizabeth River, which she could see from the back porch of her home near Norfolk, Va., that she quit a successful career as a newspaper reporter in 1991 to save it. The river
Logan Mullaney: Introducing a Family-developed, Innovative, Semi-modular Bridge System to North America and the World
The InQuik Group is all in the family. Logan Mullaney began working for his father Bruce at a young age, learning carpentry and other construction skills. Fueled by an entrepreneurial spirit, at age 21 he founded his own business
Jordan Carrier: Assembled an Expert Team and Led its Installation of More Than a Mile of Pipe Under a Busy Shipping Channel
As executive vice president of Garney Construction’s eastern U.S. pipeline operations, Jordan Carrier helmed a team that pushed the limits of trenchless construction by conducting a 5,700-ft horizontal directional drill to install 42-in.-dia HDPE pipe for a wastewater force
Robert J. Mahoney: Denver Water’s Chief Engineering Officer Leads an Ongoing Effort to Update Standards
Around 2009, Denver Water’s capital plan was packed with upcoming work. Major projects—including the Gross Reservoir Expansion, Northwater Treatment Plant and lead pipe replacements—threatened to overwhelm the utility’s engineering department.To help handle the influx of work, Denver Water Chief
John Ballas: Contractor Pushes to Help Longtime Client, Brockton Hospital, Get Back to Full Service after 10-alarm Fire
Driving to his office in Avon, Mass., around 7 a.m. on Feb. 7, 2023, John Ballas received a call from his firm’s site supervisor overseeing two projects at Brockton Hospital in Brockton, Mass.“‘John, there’s a fire at the hospital;
Nikki Bruno: Massachusetts Utility Commissions First U.S. Geothermal Network Linking Residential and Commercial Buildings in an Urban Neighborhood
When interviewing to work for Eversource Energy in 2020, Nikki L. Bruno was asked if she had experience in the geothermal field. Bruno said no, but offered that she’d taken geology classes and could learn.About four years later, the
Tony Ingram: At Unique, Complicated and Diverse Longwood Reimagined Job, No Task is Too Big or Too Small for Bancroft’s Senior Project Manager
With only his shovel and a squeegee for company, Tony Ingram cut a lonely figure after hours one night last spring, as he cleared runoff from a torrential rain that had turned a section of the rear entrance of
ENR 2024 Top 25 Newsmakers
✕ There is no future without a past, and this year’s group of ENR Newsmakers clearly demonstrates a throughline between those moving points in time, offering solutions to the types of questions we all may have asked ourselves at some
Karl E. Humberson: Dominion Energy Exec Steers Construction of the Mammoth CVOW Offshore Wind Power Project—Largest in US
Karl E. Humberson jokes that his leadership role for the country’s largest offshore wind energy project—Dominion Energy’s $10-billion, 178-turbine CVOW off the Virginia coast, on track to finish by the end of 2026—started as a respite from
Anthony F. Leketa: Boosting Safety Culture Education in University Engineering and Construction Programs Around the U.S.
Over more than 50 years in construction, Anthony F. Leketa points to several “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunities. One involved leading a team of 750 from Parsons in rescuing the $2.3-billion project to design, build and operate a nuclear waste processing facility