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Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award

We are pleased to announce that a member of ASCE Dallas Branch, Joseph Castronovo, P.E., M.ASCE, has been selected to receive the nationalStephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award.  This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a member of ASCE who, through research, planning, design or construction, has advanced the art, science and technology of pipeline engineering.  

A senior project manager in the Fort Worth, Texas, office of AECOM, Castronovo has more than 38 years of experience in design, program management, and construction services relating to pipelines, pump stations, water systems, storm-water drainage systems, and collection systems. Within ASCE’s Pipeline Division, he has been a member of various administrative and technical committees, including the Pipeline Location and Installation Committee and the Task Committee on Condition Assessment of Sewer Collection. Castronovo’s primary expertise is in the design and construction of conveyance projects, and his work has encompassed pipeline material selection, subaqueous pipeline crossings, trenchless technologies, water distribution systems, condition assessment and rehabilitation, and the design of wastewater collection and pumping systems. The award will be presented at the Pipelines 2013 Conference in Ft. Worth on June 25, 2013.  

Additional information and recipient photographs are available athttp://www.asce.org/leadership-and-management/awards/bechtel-pipeline-award/.