2018 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Print > Feature Article - General Interest > Less Than $3 Million Revenue > Mid Atlantic

Awarded to

Robert L. Reid, senior editor/features manager, with contributors Luis Santanach Bernal, Miguel Lorenzo, and Norman F. Perkins, P.E., M.ASCE, Daniel Gessler, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, and Philip S. Stacy

Entry details

A Greater Wonder

Issue date (if applicable): 6/1/2017
Publication name: Civil Engineering
Publishing company: American Society of Civil Engineers
Website home page: www.asce.org/cemagazine

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

Civil Engineering’s 90,000 readers are civil engineers working for engineering firms or local, state, or federal governments or authorities. The mission of Civil Engineering is to provide a deeper understanding of the wide variety of issues, challenges, and achievements of the civil engineering profession and of its practitioners and leaders. Civil Engineering is edited for an intelligent, well-educated, and well-read readership—a readership that is also sophisticated in terms of the use of photography and graphics. With respect to the graphic design of the magazine, the layout of each article is developed to strengthen—or reinforce—the editorial focus of the article. The objectives of the magazine as a whole are to strengthen the readers’ understanding of civil engineering, to showcase civil engineering projects in ways that enhance the creators’ pride in the projects, and to make the magazine a pleasure to read.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

The Panama Canal was considered by many as the eighth wonder of the world, and its recent $5.25-billion expansion was considered no less of an engineering marvel. By adding a third shipping lane that is much larger than the others, civil engineers doubled the waterway’s capacity and increased the size of vessels that the canal can accommodate. The feature article on the project was originally intended to be written by one of the major engineering firms involved, but multiple delays by the authors followed by the acquisition of their firm by another threatened to sink the effort. So senior editor and features manager Robert L. Reid took over the writing, working from written background material, information submitted by the engineering firms, and telephone interviews. Reid also secured and edited three sidebars to ensure that all aspects of this massive project were adequately covered in one comprehensive feature.

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