British engineer Alex Cartwright had just three months to convert paper designs of a new-generation, column-plunging frame into a working tool for the foundations of London’s 310-meter-tall Shard, which will be Europe’s tallest building.
Unlike the high cost of life and limb, accident prevention is a less tangible thing to measure. But Aviad Shapira has found a new way to quantify risks on construction sites.
Trying to make the impossible possible is the kind of challenge that Daniel Groves likes. His latest success: Directing development and launching a national labor supply/demand forecasting model for the nonprofit Construction Workforce Development Center.
The Missouri Dept. of Transportation’s request for proposals was challenging: The agency wanted 11.5 miles of Interstate 64 through St. Louis redesigned, upgraded and modernized, with 30 bridges and overpasses rebuilt; it wanted the project completed in four years, and it wanted it all for $420 million.
Evan Thomas knows full well the growing pains of building something new in the developing world from his work with Engineers Without Borders-USA while an engineering undergrad at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Veteran academic Frederick R. Steiner is a consensus builder. For the Sustainable Sites Initiative, he brought together myriad, diverse interests in all areas of design and construction to develop the world’s first green rating system devoted to landscapes.
As onshore oil yields decline and near-shore fields are tapped out, oil development is pushing into ever-deeper waters. The engineering challenges of deepwater production demand innovative thinking and vastly increase the risks of opening new fields.
Rear Adm. Christopher J. Mossey was named commander of the U.S. Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command and chief of civil engineers, based in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Defense Dept. said Dec. 28, 2009. He will take over next May from Adm. Wayne "Greg" Shear, who is retiring after serving in those roles since 2006 and in the Navy since receiving his commission in 1979. Mossey, who does not need U.S. Senate confirmation for the post, is currently director of the Ashore Readiness Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and vice commander for the Navy Installations Command.
VAUGHAN Clive Vaughan has been named by Foster Wheeler Corp., Zug, Switzerland, to the newly created position of CEO of the upstream oil and gas group of its global engineering and construction unit. He was director of facilities engineering and new development for Endeavor International and, prior to that, a managing director for Granherne Ltd., a division of KBR. Stephen M. Johnson has been named CEO of J. Ray McDermott S.A., the Houston-based engineering and construction unit of McDermott International Inc. that will become the corporate operating unit, effective on Jan. 1. He had been president and chief operating officer
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