The format for the 2025 class of top young professionals in the ENR regions will be a little different next year. This is because ENR is revising its regions, consolidating them from 2025 onwards.
As the construction industry continues to evolve, the audience for ENR’s regional editions has also changed, with companies often working within wider geographic footprints and crossing over to work in neighboring regions. With this in mind, ENR’s Regional Editions, newsletters and website content are also evolving, and will be organized as follows:
New York, New England and MidAtlantic will merge to form ENR East.
Texas/Louisiana and Southeast will become ENR Texas and Southeast.
The ENR Midwest region will remain, expanding with the addition of North and South Dakota.
Additionally, the Mountain States and Southwest will join forces under the existing ENR Mountain States umbrella.
California and the Northwest will merge to form the ENR West region, adding Nevada, which was previously in the Southwest region.
However, much will remain the same, with each of the newly reformed regions continuing to publish six bi-monthly digital and print magazines, a bi-monthly newsletter and region-specific digital content published daily on the new regional websites within ‘ENR.com. .
In addition, ENR’s successful Best Projects Contests/Events and Best Business Rankings will continue to provide your company with the same level of opportunities to showcase your company’s outstanding work.
So, the following Top Young Professionals honorees make up the first class of the new ENR East region, which covers Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts , New York. Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.
It was a packed field, with judges evaluating 130 entries to choose the region’s top 20 professionals under the age of 40. Judges did not score applications from people who worked at the same company or with whom they had a conflict of interest.
Each honoree will appear in the first edition of ENR East on February 3, 2025, detailing their achievements and careers to date.
This year’s judges were: Stuart Meurer, president and CEO of Windover Construction Inc.; Lili Liang, deputy director of the Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration; Amar Maniar, Principal/Director of Engineering Operations at STV; André Barbour, director of diversity and inclusion at NEI General Contracting; Brian Derr, Head of Special Projects at Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson and Ioanna Magiati, Partner at AO Architects.
Below are our top ENR East 2025 young professionals in alphabetical order. Congratulations to the winners!
Anita Alexander, Assistant Supervisor, Environmental Engineering and Licensing Group, Bechtel Corporation, Reston, Virginia.
Lauren Alger, Director of Sustainable Design at STV, New York
Samira Ayati, CEO and President of IVY Engineering Group, New York
Candace Barfield, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, New York
Steven Burke, Senior Director of Sustainability at Suffolk, Boston
Matthew Calvey, Architect, AECOM, Boston
Anthony Gaglio, Jr., vice president, Viking Construction, Bridgeport, Conn.
Amanda Haven, owner and CEO of Illuminate Marketing Collective, Oakton, Virginia.
Qianyu Hu, Assistant District Engineer (Division Chief), Maryland Department of Transportation, Greenbelt, Maryland.
Adam Jeffery, project manager, MLJ Contracting Corp., Great Neck, New York
David Kaminski, vice president and general manager, Turner Construction Co., Philadelphia
Aneesh Karlekar, Director, AECOM, New York
Robert B. Lane, founder and chief executive of Endeavor Fire Protection Holdings LLC, Boston
Jennifer Mahan, Associate at Thornton Tomasetti, New York
Sami Majumder, Assistant Vice President – Transit & Rail at WSP USA, District of Columbia
Charles (Wesley) Southall, Department Manager, Burns & McDonnell, Roanoke, Virginia.
Irmak Turan, vice president of Thornton Tomasetti, Boston
Shelley Wynne, Dewberry Assistant Department Manager, Fairfax, Virginia.
Matthew D. Zettwoch, Vice President and MTA Executive for Programs, Construction and Development at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), New York City
Erik Zuker, senior project engineer, bridge technology leader at HNTB Corp., New York
