杰出的38年工程和管理职业使Wylie Bearup成为西南部公共和私人建筑的中心人物。这位退休的陆军中校和凤凰城工程师曾在全球范围内从事项目。新利18备用网址他率领凤凰城市中心的转型以及亚利桑那州如何看待施工方法。最近,他采取了新的挑战,将自己的知识传递给新一代的建筑专业人士。

These efforts led to Bearup's selection as the recipient of the inaugural ENR Southwest Legacy Award.

“他是一位出色的领导者,”凤凰城副航空公司副总监凯尔·科彻(Kyle Kotchou)说,他因对亚利桑那州及其他地区的建筑业产生了影响而提名了遗产奖的熊市。


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Bearup出生于亚利桑那州迈阿密的一个铜矿家庭,他想从小就成为一名工程师。他通过加入陆军预备役军官训练团(ROTC)并就读于图森大学,在那里获得了土木工程学位,从而意识到了梦想。

贝鲁普说:“我对数学和科学有兴趣,以及事情的运作方式,因此我成为本科生的专业。”他于1976年获得UA学位。

"Since I had accepted an Army ROTC scholarship to go to college, I owed the Army five years of active duty," he says. "After being in that commitment for three or four years, I decided to go back to graduate school, and the Army sent me back to get a master's [degree] in civil engineering. Again, I owed them a commitment for having gone to school and went back on active duty."

到那时,熊已经在军队中已经有十多年了,因此他决定作为职业生涯留在军队中。

在1990年代初期,Bearup在现役并获得博士学位时获得了建筑管理博士学位。1995年。

Bearup worked for the Los Angeles district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was part of numerous large-scale projects, including the $2.2-billion Santa Ana Mainstem Flood Control Project in Southern California. He also worked on the approximately $250-million Red Rock flood control system in Las Vegas and the Seven Oaks Dam, a $700-million project in the San Bernardino mountains.