Structural engineer Nancy Hamilton, 60, known for leading and coordinating extremely complicated jobs—including JFK’s Terminal 4 and LGA’s Central Terminal Redevelopment phasing—died Oct. 24 from a gastrointestinal tumor.

Colorado-based engineering firm has grown steadily thanks to its reputation for solid design work and long-term client loyalty.

Structural engineers emphasize that poor communication about 3D-model content causes most disputes on BIM projects

The Detroit-based structural engineer helped realize the design visions of famed architects Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki.

Structural engineer Vincent J. DeSimone—an innovator with an outsize personality known for his ability to creatively support his architect-clients as they curved, twisted and stretched their building envelopes—died on Nov. 16, just two weeks shy of his 79th birthday.

When a retaining wall collapsed on CSX railroad tracks in Baltimore on April 30, 2014, city officials quickly called on engineering firm Whitman Requardt and Associates for help.