Carla Sciara began working in construction as a design drafter for an electrical contractor on its Four Seasons Hotel project in Manhattan—the first hotel designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei. As was the custom in 1992, she drafted shop drawings by hand, on vellum, before they were reproduced and sent off for approval.
It seemed like an inauspicious first job, but it was more than that because the construction manager took notice of her work. “Tishman asked me for my resume,” says Sciara, currently an executive vice president at AECOM Tishman.
