Four construction executives will receive 2012 Golden Beaver awards from The Beavers, a Los Altos, Calif., group of practitioners mostly based in the western states.

ENR's Top 20 Under 40 competition will identify some of the design and construction industry's leaders of tomorrow. Winners will be highlighted in ENR's regional editions. Related Links: ENR California Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Midwest Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Mountain States Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR New York Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Southeast Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Southwest Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form ENR Texas & Louisiana Top 20 Under 40 Nomination Form Who are the design and construction leaders of tomorrow? That’s the question

The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Jeffrey M. Baker, the visionary behind the nation’s newest symbol for sustainability, loves to recount the tale of the dreaded Kobayashi Maru test. For Baker, the fictional test from the “Star Trek” series is an allegory that became a guidepost during his 15-year crusade to develop a replicable model for the design and construction of affordable, ultra-green buildings.

Randy Holman, credited with overseeing the surge in military construction activity at San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston prompted by mandated base realignment, describes the program as “fast-moving, complex and dynamic.”

Many people serve to improve the construction industry every day. Each year since 1964, the editors of Engineering News-Record have reviewed the stories that have appeared in the magazine during the year and selected individuals for special recognition.

When Gilberto Neves, chief executive officer of Miami-based Odebrecht Construction, called Eloise Gonzalez in the middle of the night to come with him on an emergency trip to earthquake-torn Haiti, she was astounded.

Gustavo J. Parra-Montesinos is coming to the rescue of concrete-frame designers and contractors in earthquake country, long bedeviled by rebar-congested coupling beams that span openings in seismic shear walls.

Dean McClure didn’t have to be asked by Tuscaloosa, Ala., city school officials to help them improve elementary students’ chronically-low reading scores.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Jeffrey M. Baker is an agent of change. Thanks to his vision and leadership, building teams across the U.S. can avail themselves of the first field-tested, replicable performance-based design-build model for affordable, ultra-energy-efficient buildings.

Jim Stefanic, operations manager of Chilean drilling company Geotec Boyles Bros., led the drillers who successfully bored and then widened the “plan B” rescue shaft that became the path to life for 33 Chilean copper miners trapped for 69 days nearly a half-mile underground.