In celebration of International Women in Engineering Day on June 23, we are sharing how our women engineers #MakeSafetySeen by demonstrating strong safety principles in their work and committing to deliver a safer world through their engineering expertise. Follow this year’s conversations on LinkedIn and Twitter, as well as the AECOM Blog. As chief resident engineer from our Water business line in Hong Kong, Cherry Yau shares one of her most impactful Water projects: the transformation of a traditional sewage treatment plant into a safe and green ecological campus for all. The project started ..read more

Our People Spotlight series gives you an inside look at our technical experts around the world. This week, we are highlighting a wastewater process engineer from our Water business line in Canada and providing an insight into their inspiration and work. Anna Cleaver is the market sector leader for wastewater in Ontario, Canada and a process engineer who focuses on biological wastewater treatment design and operations. She is a former student of AECOM’s Water Academy, a global advanced training program that nurtures and develops emerging water technical leaders at every stage of their career wi ..read more

Our People Spotlight series gives you an inside look at our technical experts around the world. This week, we are highlighting a senior construction manager in our Water business line in New York Metro region and providing insight into their environmental remediation inspiration and work. David is a vice president and senior construction manager in AECOM’s Water business line in New York Metro region. With 32 years of experience in environmental engineering and construction management, David has managed construction projects in New York City for agencies such as the NYC Department of Environme ..read more

Our People Spotlight series gives you an inside look at our technical experts around the world. This week, we are highlighting a process engineer from our Water business line in Canada and providing insight into their civil engineering inspiration and work. Based in our Winnipeg office in Manitoba, Canada, Natalie is the Area Market Sector Leader for Western Canada and a process engineer focusing primarily on wastewater treatment. Natalie completed her master’s thesis in civil engineering on deammonification in 2017 while on maternity leave. She and her family are avid camping enthusiasts. Tel ..read more

How do you complete a project that requires 49 easements, runs through peoples’ backyards, employs heavy equipment and has extremely limited space in which to operate? As we learned during the design and construction of the Lake Katherine sewer line replacement project in Columbia, South Carolina, the only way to complete a task of this magnitude is by taking action, exchanging information, building trust and cooperation between engineers, contractors and the community as well as – crucially — thinking out of the box to find solutions. The City of Columbia identified the 2.7-mile-long sewer li ..read more