Walter C. Grantz, who oversaw the design of many iconic transportation tunnels including the I-95 Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore, Boston’s Ted Williams Tunnel, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel’s parallel crossing, has died. He was 88.
Grantz, P.E., a Life Member of ASCE, applied his talent at immersed-tube design over 40 years with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, then capped his career as...
ASCE United Kingdom Group President Carlos A. Brebbia, recognized for advancements in the boundary element method of engineering calculations, has died at 79.
Brebbia, Ph.D., F.ASCE, founded the Wessex Institute of Technology in Southampton, England, to engage in research and promotion of the boundary method technique that he developed in 1977-78. He enabled WIT to link with major academic institutions worldwide, including a U.S. office...
Samuel Weissman, a former senior vice president at Ammann & Whitney in New York whose work on major transportation projects earned him acclaim from the White House to the mayor of New York, has died at 86.
In 59 years with Ammann & Whitney, Weissman, P.E., F.ASCE, was responsible for hundreds of projects. He led work on the George Washington, Triborough, Throgs Neck, Bronx-Whitestone, Verrazano...
Life Member Jesse T. Perry, a Nashville-based civil engineer who taught architect-engineer contracting to hundreds of professionals over a lengthy career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has died at 82.
Known as “Jess,” Perry, P.E., F.ASCE, was active in ASCE since his membership began in 1963. He was president of the Nashville Section in 1974-75. Many consultants who aspired to contract with the...
Distinguished Member Dennis M. Kamber, who oversaw the design and construction of the Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, has died at 76.
As senior vice president of global water management for ARCADIS U.S. Inc. since 2003, Kamber, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the development, design, and construction oversight of the hurricane system,...
Duane S. Ellifritt Sr., a globally recognized expert in steel building design and creator of the steel-connection teaching sculpture, has died at 82.
Ellifritt, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, was a professor emeritus in the civil engineering department at the University of Florida. His expertise in steel structures and connections was forged over nearly 20 years in the industry, and 24 years in teaching and research. He...
Werner Gumpertz, co-founder of the Massachusetts-based engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, and an Honorary Member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section, has died at 99.
Gumpertz, P.E., F.ASCE, was one of three Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors who together established SGH in 1956. He led its building technology group until 1993, and never retired. He was known for putting together creative and...
Life Member John P. Bergson, a registered land surveyor and former president of the ASCE Duluth Section, whose works can be found across Minnesota, has died at 83.
Bergson, P.E., M.ASCE, began his interest in civil engineering while working for the City of Duluth (MN) and Duluth Engineering during his college years.
Following graduation, he worked briefly for the Minnesota Department of Transportation, then for DM&IR...
Distinguished Member Soli J. Arceivala, a pioneering environmental engineer in India and coauthor of a well-known instructional guide to wastewater treatment projects, has died at 91.
Arceivala, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, established India’s first postgraduate two-year academic program in environmental engineering at the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai. He served as director of India’s National Environmental Engineering Research Institute from 1967 to 1971, before becoming a...
Robert H. Marks, M.ASCE, an ASCE Life Member who shifted from a civil engineering career to one that provided crucial research in chemistry and physics, has died at 91.
Time spent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology getting Navy officers’ training during World War II, followed by service in the submarine naval reserve, served him well after the war when he earned a bachelor's degree...
