It isn’t an exaggeration to say that Nadine M. Post is the top journalist on building design and construction and related topics. Her retirement after a 46-year association with ENR leaves a gap impossible to fill.

The daughter of a past Associated Press journalist and junior high school guidance counselor, Post joined an ENR newsletter staff in 1978, but soon after switched to cover buildings for the magazine. Over the years she was promoted to positions of increased responsibility that allowed her to write and supervise coverage of, among many other projects, redevelopment of the World Trade Center in New York City, tall buildings such as the 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa, and unique structures such as Disney Concert Hall in L.A. and Bullitt Center and Rainier Square Tower in Seattle. Consistent with Post’s interest in exemplary projects, she wrote the McGraw-Hill published book Restoring the Statue of Liberty (1986) for project architects Richard S. Hayden and Thierry W. Despont.