In Abu Dhabi, a United Arab Emirate as-sociated with opulence, there is a $22-billion megadevelopment called Masdar City under way, which, if built out, would be the world’s first carbon-neutral mini-city.
Textura founders Eichhorn and Allin (right) streamline how contractors get paid. Shortly after PWC sold its consulting arm to IBM in 2002, William Eichhorn, a former e-commerce consultant at PWC, came to Allin with an unusual idea
Ray Mangrum’s wealth of experience in the waste-management profession has culminated in a one-of-a-kind river cleanup in Wisconsin that is expected to save as much as $100 million over traditional methods.
From an ephiphany came an airport. Until 2004, Connecticut-based businessman and former bond trader Steve Peet knew little about Branson, Mo., the Ozark Mountain recreational hub.
Having been intel corp.’s director of construction for 12 years, Tom Weise could have retired, in 2008, to a life of leisure in sunny Arizona. But with a key industry mission still ahead, that’s not what he had in mind.
British engineer Alex Cartwright had just three months to convert paper designs of a new-generation, column-plunging frame into a working tool for the foundations of London’s 310-meter-tall Shard, which will be Europe’s tallest building.
Unlike the high cost of life and limb, accident prevention is a less tangible thing to measure. But Aviad Shapira has found a new way to quantify risks on construction sites.
Trying to make the impossible possible is the kind of challenge that Daniel Groves likes. His latest success: Directing development and launching a national labor supply/demand forecasting model for the nonprofit Construction Workforce Development Center.
The Missouri Dept. of Transportation’s request for proposals was challenging: The agency wanted 11.5 miles of Interstate 64 through St. Louis redesigned, upgraded and modernized, with 30 bridges and overpasses rebuilt; it wanted the project completed in four years, and it wanted it all for $420 million.
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