Aileen Cho

1 month ago | enr.com | Aileen Cho

Construction has begun on a 10-million-gallon-per day advanced purification facility in El Paso, Texas—the first direct potable reuse project of its kind in the U.S. The purified water will supplement local drinking water supplies during dry seasons and reduce amounts that are withdrawn from the Rio Grande.

2 months ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders |Aileen Cho

Shortly after she took the reins at the Massachusetts Port Authority for capital programs and environmental affairs, Luciana Burdi asked her team to envision how technology could be leveraged to easily access information about the agency’s infrastructure assets—more than 200 buildings and utilities across three airports and multiple marine facilities.

2 months ago | enr.com | Aileen Cho

With the successful installation of five 295-ft-long steel girder sets over a single weekend last month, a $660-million, 2.5-mile extension of the Interstate-495 Express Lanes in northern Virginia is now entering the homestretch. Using cranes with a maximum capacity of 500 tons, crews installed the girders, consisting of 10 beams, over northbound I-495 to support a new express lanes ramp as part of the 495 NEXT project during the last weekend of January.

Jan 16, 2025 | enr.com | Aileen Cho

Joe Schneider recalls when he and Dave Garske approached Vince Granato about a series of near-misses on the construction site of the $1.2-billion TCORE project, the centerpiece of the $2-billion PDX Next program to transform Portland International Airport.

Jan 16, 2025 | enr.com | Aileen Cho

While studying at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Tommy Linstroth began noticing that the forests he had played in growing up in were disappearing, overtaken by urban sprawl. That realization sparked a lifelong interest in sustainability. And that led to a career with Melaver Inc., a sustainability focused, family-owned real estate developer in Savannah, Ga.—back in the early 2000s when LEED was in its infancy.