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Consulting-Specifying Engineer 40 Under 40 Bill Leuci, PE, 40 Principal, X-nth, Boston Tufts University, BS in Electrical Engineering euci, an electrical engineer, likes to joke that he “designs for facilities most people don’t know anything about that keep the world running.” Those facilities, typically mission critical and laboratory projects, include a NATO communications facility in Iceland that “can take anything but a direct nuclear hit.” His clients include Pfizer and various financial institutions, such as Citibank and Fidelity, where he makes sure data centers stay up and running to protect his clients’ confidential information. Leuci also is known for his design of alternative power systems, including solar, wind, and fuel cells. He successfully commissioned one of the largest rotary UPS and alternative power systems in the United States for the IRS. A former college football player (tackle) and track and field athlete (shot put, discus, and hammer), Leuci also finds time to make wine like his grandfather made that is then shared with 11 other friends who also make their own wines. Leuci enjoys deep sea fishing, being a Boston “homer” for the pro teams, coaching youth soccer, and spending time with his wife, Michelle, and their children, Jacqueline, 9, and Sophia, 7. Firas Makahleh, 38 Head of Cooling Engineer, SESAME Light Source, Amman, Jordan Mu’tah University, BS in Mechanical Engineering Jordan University, MS in Mechanical Engineering L A mid-fielder who played soccer at Mu’tah University, Makahleh said he became a mechanical engineer because he asked one of his friends to become an electrical engineer, Makahleh’s original intended major. “Fortunately, he refused, so I became a mechanical engineer,” he said. Makahleh is the head of the vacuum and cooling section, where he designs the cooling system of the SESAME 2.5 GeV synchrotron 1,000-ton chillers facility and supervises mechanical systems for hospitals, universities, and other facilities. Makahleh’s first design project was an HVAC and medical gases system for the Urology Centre in Amman, Jordan. His other projects include the Vocational Training Corp.’s 75,000-sq.-ft, 8-story building and the 5.38 million-sq.-ft Aqaba Business project where he handled the HVAC, fire fighting, drainage, storm water, and BMS. Makahleh said it was his mother’s sacrifice and the SESAME ex-technical director, Dr. Vignola Gaetano, who encouraged him “to enter a new, difficult field” that helped him get to where he is today. Married at 23, he is the proud father of six children with his wife, Mervat Budair. He enjoys traveling to the mountains in the summer and the Dead Sea in the winter. Rodrigo Manriquez, IALD, LC, IESNA, 36 Principal, Senior Lighting Designer, SmithGroup, Detroit University of Kansas, BS in Architectural Engineering Patrick McCafferty, 36 Associate, Structural Engineer, Arup, Cambridge, Mass. Cornell University, BS and MS in Civil Engineering cCafferty has always been fascinated with buildings. So much so that the structural engineer married his wife, Megan, in a jail that had been converted into an art museum in Doylestown, Pa. McCafferty was also one of the engineers called upon as an immediate responder to help with the search and recovery effort after the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. He served as the project manager and lead structural engineer for the schematic design of the $4 billion, 6-million-sq.-ft Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort in Singapore, which includes a 2-acre sky garden that cantilevers from the roofs of three 50-story hotel towers. He also led the design of the Air Force Memorial, an innovative “ball-in-box” damping system of 20-in.-diameter balls that roll freely into bumper pads to dissipate energy when the three slender, 13-ft-wide spires that range from 200 to 270 ft in height sway in the wind. An avid cyclist, McCafferty enjoys spending time with his wife and three young sons. His black-and-white photographs taken at Ground Zero in the days and weeks following Sept. 11 have been included in a book, “Here is New York—A Democracy of Photographs.” M O riginally from Santiago, Chile, Manriquez came to the United States as an exchange student in Georgia. “I didn’t speak any English and I was on the opposite side of the world in hot, muggy Georgia in the middle of August,” he said. That’s when he began drawing ice cubes “to try and cool my temperature down” and became interested in architectural design. Manriquez liked the United States enough to return—after waiting for a visa in Chile for two years—to attend college in Kansas and he became passionate about lighting design. “I hate Las Vegas because it is so confusing, with the purpose of gambling,” he said. “I like simplicity. People want simple things; they don’t want to be burdened with confusing spaces.” Manriquez’s ability to use lighting as a key component of view finding helped him create solutions for the Passenger Tunnel at Northwest McNamara Terminal in Detroit with an 800-ft-long LED installation; the Discovery Communication Headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.; and the Design Styling Dome at the General Motors Tech Center in Warren, Mich. Manriquez is married with three children. He enjoys coaching his sons’ soccer teams, playing acoustic guitar, and mountain and road biking. Consulting-Specifying Engineer • JULY 2008 25

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