Top 25 Newsmakers

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Joe Benvenuto spent four years perfecting the “top-down” superstructure construction technology of LIFTbuild before work began in 2022 on Exchange, a 207-ft-tall residential mid-rise in Detroit.

If not for the Great Recession and Sean Beatty, construction of the curvaceous reinforced concrete sea-creature tanks in the 50,000-sq-ft Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion would have been even more arduous.

Guiding the state’s push to reach nation-leading goals in clean energy deployment, the chief of the NY State Energy Research and Development Authority acknowledges the “heavy lift” ahead amid construction headwinds but says the challenge to mitigate climate change is "compelling."

For more than 20 years, Scott Bartkowski, president and founder of Living Shoreline Solutions Inc., has been engineering and constructing artificial reef modules for a variety of project owners, across the U.S. and internationally.

Visionaries making the path to decarbonization easier to follow and skilled managers called in to create expedited fixes in the face of structural failures or to avert disaster are among the 25 individuals who came up with the needed solutions last year.

In the cartography of human accomplishment, you’ll find ENR’s Top 25 Newsmakers in past years all over the map. I mean that literally and figuratively.

As varied as their backstories and accomplishments are, these 25 Newsmakers are united in their efforts to make the industry—and their communities—better places to live and work. Read their stories here and meet them in person at ENR’s Award of Excellence gala on April 13 at Pier 60 in New York City.

The sudden collapse of Pittsburgh’s Fern Hollow Bridge early on Jan. 28, 2022, gained national attention, occurring the same day as a pre-planned visit to the city by President Joe Biden and just weeks after Congress passed the $1.2-trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, in part to restore the safety and integrity of aging U.S. transportation systems.

Wil V. Srubar III is the common denominator for cotton, cattle, the Houston Astros, the Dept. of Defense, micro algae and Prometheus Materials.

Codes and standards committee work might be viewed as a thankless job. It is unpaid. It takes years to develop new codes and improve old ones.