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Honored ACEC presented five Member Firm engineers with 2008 “Young Professional of the Year” Awards at its Fall Conference in Montréal. Selected by the ACEC Fellows, these engineers were recognized for making significant contributions to the profession at early stages in their careers. 2008 Young Professionals of the Year Benjamin L. Phillips Joshua Boltz Civil Engineer Stantec Consulting Services Lexington, Ky. Phillips is helping to head an extraordinarily large and diverse geotechnical program. After being one of the first geotechnical engineers on the ground in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Phillips established an 8,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art soils testing laboratory and a 10,000-squarefoot warehouse near the Crescent City to process the 630 tons of samples needed to define the underlying soil properties of the levees surrounding the city. Process Engineer CH2M HILL Tampa, Fla. As a project wastewater process engineer at CH2M HILL, Boltz already has made his mark in the wastewater industry by co-developing a novel hybrid bioreactor that CH2M HILL engineers now use as a global design standard for the construction of advanced nutrient control systems. Boltz also has published 31 articles, authored two chapters in Biofilm Reactors and is active in the Water Environment Federation. Christine Brazill Electrical Engineer HSMM Washington, D.C. Brazill is leading the sustainable design for the U.S. Capitol’s first green project—the Science and Technology Committee suite. Brazill also is the sustainable design coordinator for the modernization of the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building. She devotes her spare time to teaching and promoting engineering, having created and instructed a course on lighting at the Art Institute of Washington. Stephanie Hoffman Project Engineer DMJM Harris Solana Beach, Calif. As a project engineer for the Energy and Power Division of DMJM Harris, part of AECOM, Hoffman developed sustainable solutions for two campuses of the California State University system that will deliver annual savings of more than $600,000. As the design lead on a project to develop airconditioning standards for the San Diego Unified School District, Hoffman has targeted offsetting the increased energy use from airconditioning school buildings with a variety of energy-efficient measures. Zachary Kostura Structural Engineer Arup New York City Kostura has worked on several complex projects, most notably the Fulton Street Transit Center, where he performed structural analysis of the existing cast-iron-lined subway tunnels and helped design the transit center’s innovative circular, glazed, light-steel “Oculus” structure. Kostura also has been involved in WaterAid Nigeria, a humanitarian effort to improve the clean water delivery infrastructure for local communities in Nigeria. NovEmbER / dECEmbER 2008 ENGINEERING INC. 29

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