正如E新利lucknr第53届卓越奖得主Ron Klemencic所说的那样，他于2001年9月13日星期四在9/11恐怖袭击发生两天后接电话，并听到有人说：“您该怎么办？这是ENN的Nadine帖子。新利luck您是高层建筑委员会主席。你会怎样做？”

帖子，撰写本周的En新利luckn Buildings Editor卓越奖cover story（请参阅第34页），马格森·克莱米森·克莱米森（Magnusson Klemencic Associates）结构 +土木工程师的董事长兼首席执行官克莱米奇（Klemencic）询问，他的计划对抗尖锐的声音，指责高大的建筑物（而不是恐怖分子）对9/11的死亡和破坏。

The call inspired him to act. A month later, he convened a workshop of tall-building experts to consider the safety and security of tall buildings post 9/11. Afterward, Klemencic held a press conference to disseminate the experts’ opinions in an effort to calm a jittery public.

Klemencic calls the workshop and press conference—his first ever and one of many after 9/11—a milestone in his life. And he credits Post, the only journalist invited to sit in on the workshop itself, with inspiring him to act and forever altering his thinking. He also showed her his remarks for the press conference before the media arrived, and she advised, “ ‘Don’t bury the lead,’ ” he says. “Thanks to Nadine, in the course of 20 minutes, I changed my message and my delivery from thinking I was going to answer questions to staying on topic,” he adds.

Innovator Klemencic is receiving ENR’s top award for catalyzing an age of advancement in the design and construction of buildings through cooperative R&D. The engineer has become the “poster practitioner” for high-impact research through his pro bono work as a director of the Charles Pankow Foundation. The group funds public domain research initiatives for everyone’s benefit.

Earlier this year, Post—with members of ENR’s video team organized by Deputy Editor Tom Sawyer and including Luke Abaffy and Rehema Trimiew—traveled to San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago to interview Klemencic.

在采访之前，Post提醒克莱米奇（Klemencic）他传达强烈信息的机会。她不需要。他准备谈论他的最新十字军东征，这是一个基于更广泛的研究集体，以资助转型。