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A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers

A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers is a three-volume reference work, published for the Institution of Civil Engineers, covering civil engineers in Britain and Ireland from 1500 to 1920.

ABET

ABET, formerly the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, is a nonprofit accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology.

Adrian R. Chamberlain

Adrian R. Chamberlain (1929–2024) was an American civil engineer who served as president of Colorado State University and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

AECOM

AECOM, also known as AECOM Technology Corporation, is an American multinational infrastructure firm founded in 1990 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with $16.1 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue.

Ahmad Khalid Abdelrazaq

Ahmad Khalid Abdelrazaq is an American structural engineer who was chief technical director for the Burj Khalifa and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Aine M. Brazil

Aine M. Brazil is an Irish-born structural engineer and Vice Chairman of Thornton Tomasetti who led the design of Hudson Yards and Times Square towers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Albert A. Dorman

Albert A. Dorman (1926–2023) was an American civil engineer who founded, chaired, and served as first CEO of AECOM, and was the civil engineer of record for Disneyland.

Albert R. Marschall

Albert R. Marschall (1921–2008) was a US Navy rear admiral and civil engineer who commanded the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and served as chief of civil engineers from 1973 to 1977.

Alfred A. Yee

Alfred A. Yee (1925–2017) was an American structural engineer from Honolulu who pioneered precast, prestressed concrete construction and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

American Bridge Company

American Bridge Company is an American construction contractor specializing in complex steel structures, formed by J. P. Morgan in 1900 and known for bridges like the Verrazzano-Narrows.

American Society of Civil Engineers

The American Society of Civil Engineers, founded in 1852, is the oldest national civil engineering society in the United States, representing more than 160,000 members in 177 countries.

Apollodorus of Damascus

Apollodorus of Damascus (Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Δαμασκηνός) was a Greek engineer and architect active c. AD 98–125, Trajan's chief military engineer, credited with Trajan's Forum and a bridge over the Danube.

Arsham Amirikian

Arsham Amirikian was a civil and structural engineer who served as head designing engineer of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks and designed Cold War protective structures.

Arup

Arup is an independent, multinational engineering and design consultancy headquartered in London. Founded by Ove Arup in 1946, it engineered the Sydney Opera House and the Centre Pompidou.

Arup Group

Arup Group, formally Ove Arup & Partners, is a British multinational engineering and consulting firm founded in 1946, known for the Sydney Opera House and Centre Pompidou.

Bechtel

Bechtel, also known as Bechtel Corporation, is a privately held American engineering and construction company founded by Warren A. Bechtel in 1898, headquartered in Reston, Virginia.

Big Three (management consultancies)

The Big Three, often abbreviated MBB, are the strategy consulting firms McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company, widely regarded as management consulting's most prestigious firms.

Black & Veatch

Black & Veatch is an employee-owned American engineering, procurement, consulting, and construction company founded in 1915 and headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, with about 13,000 employees worldwide.

Board of Engineers Malaysia

The Board of Engineers Malaysia (Malay: Lembaga Jurutera Malaysia) is a statutory agency under the Ministry of Works, established under the Registration of Engineers Act 1967 to register engineers.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is an American technology and consulting company providing services primarily to the US government. Founded in 1914 in Chicago, it is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group (BCG), founded 1963 by Bruce Henderson, Boston-headquartered private management consultancy; 33,500 employees, $14.4B firm-reported revenue, 40% from tech and AI, CEO Christoph Schweizer.

Bramlette McClelland

Bramlette McClelland, born Thomas Bramlette McClelland, was an American geotechnical engineer in Houston who performed the first offshore site investigation in 1947, founded McClelland Engineers, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.

Bret Lizundia

Bret Lizundia is an American structural engineer at Rutherford & Chekene in San Francisco, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for seismic design.

British Dam Society

The British Dam Society is a British professional society for dam and reservoir engineering, founded in 1990 as a charity Associated Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Built Environment Coalition

The Built Environment Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2011 by civil engineer E. Sarah Slaughter to improve sustainability and disaster resiliency of the built environment.

Camargo Corrêa

Camargo Corrêa is a Brazilian heavy construction company founded in 1939 and now the infrastructure arm of the Mover holding, known for hydroelectric, transport, and industrial works in Brazil and abroad.

Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE, Société canadienne de génie civil) is a not-for-profit learned society for civil engineers in Canada, chartered in 1887 and known for its conferences and heritage work.

Carillion

Carillion plc, a British multinational construction and facilities management company, entered compulsory liquidation in January 2018 with nearly £7 billion in liabilities and about 45,000 employees worldwide.

Charles A. Kircher

Charles A. Kircher is an American earthquake engineer who founded Kircher & Associates in Palo Alto and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Charles Brian Crouse

Charles Brian Crouse is an American earthquake engineer and engineering seismologist, a principal engineer at AECOM in Seattle who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.