US Army Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. “Bo” Temple, a retired Corps of Engineers deputy chief, who led its major transformation to tackle an estimated $73-billion global military building expansion begun more than a decade ago, died on Nov. 1 in Richmond, Va., after 13 years of battling cancer, said an online obituary confirmed by industry sources. He was 67.
Temple was "a relentless, positive driving force against a really bureaucratic system and inertia,” retired Army Maj. Gen. Gregg F. Martin told ENR in a2010年故事与坦普尔在执行国防部的MILCON转型计划中的关键作用有关。目的是推动军事设计和建设的效率，因为它在美国和国外推出了多年的主要设施扩展和现代化。
Temple improved project time-to-completion by 30% while reducing costs by 15%, and expanded the Corps industry partnerships programs “in ways that allowed the Army to leverage commercial standards and construction techniques,” according to one biography. For that work, Temple was named an ENR Newsmaker in 2010.
以前的代理首席工程师和陆战队逗号nding general, Temple also managed Corps civil works, where he had oversight of the $14-billion post-Hurricane Katrina construction program in New Orleans and vicinity as well as $4.2 billion in Corps construction under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He also had commanded the Corps North Atlantic division and served in Iraq.
相关Katrina lessons learned坦普尔说，“我们国家各地的灾难失忆症”，“需要对现实进行审查。我们不能改变文化，但是我们可以改变人们和政客对这些问题的看法。”
Temple joined Dawson & Associates, a Washington policy consulting firm after retiring from the Army in 2013 with 37 years of service. He also had been a board director of design firm Dewberry since 2013.
一位在线致敬说，坦普尔（Temple）的安静态度，准备好微笑和支持性的性格增强了坦普的领导力，这激起了他所赋予的“我必须做得更好”的感觉。”
He received an OPAL Award for lifetime achievement in government from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2010 and the U. S. Army Engineer Association's 2014 Gold Order of the de Fleury Medal for contributions that “exemplify boldness, courage and commitment to a strong national defense.” He also was a member of the National Academy of Construction.
Temple was a civil engineering B.S. graduate of Virginia Military Institute and M.S. graduate of Texas A&M Uni=versity.
