Engineering News-Record to Honor Top 25 Newsmakers and Name Award of Excellence Winner at Gala on April 8 in NYC

NEW YORK, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Engineering News-Record (ENR), McGraw-Hill Construction's prestigious publication and website and part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), will announce the 45th Annual Award of Excellence winner, selected from the finalists of ENR's Top 25 Newsmakers list, during a black-tie gala at the Marriott Marquis in New York City on April 8, 2010, following the 2010 Global Construction Summit. More than 1,000 construction industry leaders will gather to celebrate the Award of Excellence winner and ENR's Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009.

The Top 25 Newsmakers and Award of Excellence winner are selected from a large pool of nominees judged by ENR editors to have made the most significant contributions to the industry and the public in 2009. ENR magazine and its website, ENR.com, are the primary trusted sources of news, analysis, commentary, and data for the construction industry.

The Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009 are:

• Patrick Allin, Founder and Chairman, Textura Corp., Deerfield, Ill.
• Kenneth Atkins, Public Works Administrator, Osceola County, Fla.
• Jeff Bedey, Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and now president, Vali Cooper International, Madisonville, La.
• Mike Betz, Engineering Technical Team Leader, Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Ill.
• Alex Cartwright, Owner, A.C. Devco Ltd., and Co-owner, Aperio Engineering Ltd., London, U.K.
• Lou Coletti, President and CEO, Building Trades Employers' Association of New York, New York, N.Y.
• Joshua David, Co-founder and Chief Development Officer, Friends of the High Line, New York, N.Y.
• Gregory Deierlein, John A. Blume Professor of Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.
• Daniel Groves, Director of Operations, Construction Users Roundtable, Cincinnati
• John Hillman, Founder and President, HC Bridge Co., Chicago, and Senior Associate, Teng & Associates Inc., Chicago
• G.T. Ju, Engineering Manager, Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Houston
• Gary LaBarbera, President, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, New York, N.Y.
• J. Mark Loizeaux, President, Controlled Demolition Inc., Phoenix, Md.
• Ray Mangrum, Vice President and Project Manager, Tetra Tech EC Inc., Morris Plains, N.J.
• Jason Oglesbee, Laborer, Cramer and Associates, Grimes, Iowa
• Steven M. Peet, CEO, Branson Airport LLC, Branson, Mo.
• Don Rasmussen, Project Executive, Granite Construction Inc., Managing Partner of Gateway Constructors Inc. joint venture, Minneapolis, Minn.
• Aviad Shapira, Associate Professor of Construction Engineering and Management and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
• Sam H. Sleiman, Director, Capital Programs and Environmental Management, Massachusetts Port Authority, Boston
• Fritz Steiner, Dean, School of Architecture and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture, University of Texas, Austin
• Major Gen. Merdith W.B. "Bo" Temple, Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.
• Evan Thomas, Executive Vice President, Manna Energy Ltd., Isle of Man. U.K.
• Jeffrey D. Wagner, Senior Project Manager, McCarthy Building Cos., Dallas
• Omar Waqfi, Consultant and Specifications Manager, Masdar, Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co.
• Tom Weise, Director of Construction Services and Materials (Retired), Intel Corp., Chandler, Ariz.

To attend ENR's Award of Excellence Black-Tie Gala on April 8 in New York, visit http://construction.com/events/AOE2010/register.asp. For more details on the Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009, go to http://enr.construction.com/people/awards/2010/0113-topnewsmakers.asp. For more information about the 2010 Global Construction Summit, visit http://construction.com/events/globalsummitny/.

Sponsors of the 45th Annual Award of Excellence include AGC of America, AECOM, Bentley, The Construction Management Association of America, CMiC, FIGG, Halcrow, Hill International, HNTB, Parsons and Viewpoint Construction Software.

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