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Herbert Howard Government Civil Engineer of the Year Award Print E-mail
This award is presented to an outstanding Civil Engineer who has contributed substantially to the field. The award is named after Herbert Howard (1934-1997), who had a 36-year distinguished career with the New York District and North Atlantic Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Herbert Howard joined the Corps as a beginning civil engineer in 1957 when he received his Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree from the City College of New York. He also received a Master's Degree in Urban Planning from New York University. After his retirement from the Corps in 1990, Herb took on assignments as a consulting engineer. He was active in ASCE, serving as Chairman of the Met Section's Civil Engineers in Government Group, on the Met Section Board of Directors, and a member of an ASCE national committee. (This award was formerly known as the Met Section Government Civil Engineer of the Year.)

2010 Recipient:

Raymond E. Sandiford, PE, F.ASCE
Chief Geotechnical Engineer
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey

Raymond Sandiford is the Chief Geotechnical Engineer of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Ray is a licensed professional engineer in both New York and New Jersey and he has been a design engineer with the Port Authority for 28 years. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Earth and Space Sciences from SUNY at Stony Brook and his Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from Columbia University.

Prior to the Port Authority, he spent 10 years in the private sector working in the fields of power plant and port design. He has worked in a number of foreign countries, including Brazil, Uruguay, and Malaysia. Presently, Mr. Sandiford is the Senior Program Manager for Tunnels and Caverns on the Access to the Regions Core project. This is a project being developed jointly by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and New Jersey Transit, to construct in two new trans-Hudson rail tunnels and a new station adjacent to the existing Penn Station.

Ray has authored a number of technical papers on a broad range of subjects, including: the reconstruction of the World Trade Center, restoration of the PATH subway service after 9/11, the modernization of the Port of New York, improvement of soft ground for construction, use of high strength geotextile, subsurface geophysical techniques, deep foundation design and behavior, and waterfront design.

Past Recipients:

2009 Sreenivas Alampalli
2008 Peter J. Zipf
2007 Thomas Bach
2006 Richard Schmalz
2005 Bernard Yostpille
2004 Madan Naik
2003 Paul Zoltanetzky Jr.
2002 Jay A. Patel
2001 Robert E. Adamski
2000 Anthony G. Cracchiolo
1999 Robert Petrides
1998 Stephen Scaglione
1997 Luis M. Tormenta
1996 William M. Haid
1995 Raymond J. Finnegan
1994 Bojidar Yanev
1993 Edward O. Wagner
1992 Eugene J. Fasullo
1991 Joseph T. Miller
1990 Michael C. Ascher