The Legacy Awards are given annually by the ENR regional editors to individuals who have achieved a lifetime legacy of service in design and construction.
Two days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, structural engineer Irwin G. Cantor—guided by steel erector Bobby Stuart—walked up a darkened staircase to the 18th floor of a World Financial Center tower near Ground Zero, which his office had engineered in the 1980s.