Richard H. Stanley, former longtime chairman of Iowa-based Stanley Consultants who leveraged the success of his family engineering firm to help launch and lead a foundation that continues to strive for global harmony, has died at 85.
Stanley, P.E., F.ASCE, followed his father into a business that began in 1913 and is now ranked 72nd among the nation’s top 500 design firms by Engineering News-Record....
Roy M. Alverson, a Life Member with a passion for applying his professional skills in the Tuscaloosa, AL, community he was born and raised in, has died at 76.
He joined ASCE in 1965 and had been active in a variety of roles with the Tuscaloosa Branch.
Alverson graduated from the University of Alabama with a B.S. degree in civil engineering and a master’s in petroleum...
Life Member Roger K. Hanson, whose skills in water resources engineering and structural inspections enhanced works around Colorado, has died at 78 after a long illness.
Hanson, P.E., M.ASCE, joined ASCE in 1971. Over a career from the mid-1960s through 2005, he designed reservoirs and modeling water rights for the Colorado River, as well as conducted inspections of ski-lift equipment throughout Colorado’s ski resorts. He...
Word has reached ASCE of the passing of Fellow and Life Member Sigmundo Golombek, founder of Brazil’s first and most prominent engineering consulting firm Consultrix, who has died at 93.
In 1953, Golombek started Consultrix, which has produced approximately 11,000 projects in Brazil, including office buildings, bridges, shopping malls, hospitals, and industrial complexes.
In addition to his ASCE membership, Golombek belonged to Ibracon, the Engineering Institute...
ASCE Fellow John V. (“Jack”) Christiansen, a pioneer of thin-shelled concrete design and structural engineer of the Seattle Kingdome, once the world’s largest concrete dome, has died at 89.
Christiansen, P.E., F.ASCE, was celebrated around the world for creative structural designs that embraced the connections between engineering, architecture, and construction. In 1952 he joined the consulting engineering firm W.H. Witt, which continues today as Magnusson...
Texas Section 1988 President and former ASCE Board member Malcolm L. Steinberg Sr., a state Department of Transportation engineer and author, has died at 90.
Steinberg, P.E., F.ASCE, enjoyed a 40-year career as a transportation engineer for the state in San Antonio and El Paso. An active ASCE membership included his Section presidency and as president of a local branch. He served on the ASCE...
Joel Herbert Rosenblatt, a World War II veteran whose lengthy civil and structural engineering career based in Baltimore, MD, and in Florida included extensive time on international projects, has died at 92 at his home in Muncie, IN.
Rosenblatt, P.E., F.ASCE, “contributed to the development of pre-stressed concrete used in bridges and housing as well as to the applied technology of hurricane resistance in the...
William R. “Bill” Nash, P.E., M.ASCE, who applied expertise from a career as a construction engineer to enhancing ASCE’s policies and standards as a “pillar” of the Construction Institute, died unexpectedly on June 24.
Nash represented ASCE and CI on the ANSI A-10 Standards Committee on Construction and Demolition, and served for a number of years as co-editor of CI/SEI’s award-winning journal Practice Periodical of...
The project manager behind the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span and other major works, Dennis Jyh-Yeh Jang, P.E., M.ASCE, senior vice president and structural engineer at T.Y. Lin International, has died unexpectedly at 62.
Jang joined the firm as a project engineer in 1987, advancing to project manager for numerous long-span signature bridges and other structural projects. He proudly oversaw tremendous project and...
Distinguished Member Joel Ivan Abrams, chairman of the University of Pittsburgh’s civil engineering department for more than 20 years and a past president of ASCE’s Pittsburgh Section, has died at 88.
Abrams, P.E., Dist.M.ASCE, served as department chairman from the mid-1960s through 1987, and was founding director of Pitt’s groundbreaking program in public works. “He was a passionate defender of the value and the transformational...
