David Richter is key half of top management team along with his father Irvin E. Richter in boosting Hill into a project management/claims megafirm altering landscapes around the world.
The experience of women who have charged into the "good ol’ boys"
universe of construction in the last quarter century has improved but still remains worlds apart from male peers in many aspects.
Since the 1920s, the family owned heavy contractor quietly toiled, but grew large, building lots of infrastructure in and around New York City. It took a more public stance decades later in rushing in to dig out and rebuild the devestated Ground Zero area of Manhattan after 9/11.
Twenty-five years after the first college-level program earned legitimacy through accreditation, construction education is feeling the highs and lows of maturity.
