For Florida contractor Jennifer Todd, industry commitment to construction diversity and inclusion has to be more than a press release in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In March, Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army and 54th Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was getting ready for a well-deserved retirement. Then the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic came into focus.
Thomas J. McGuinness has spent three decades on projects with agencies such as the New York State Dept. of Transportation building mostly highways and bridges.
New technologies are offered up to the construction industry every day, but actually stitching them together into a usable workflow is the real challenge.
Years of working on prominent, fast-track projects in Africa equipped Italian engineer Claudio Lautizi to manage the speedy replacement of Genoa’s 1.1-km-long collapsed Polcevera viaduct in full public glare.