摘要: |
Lee Lawrence, regional director and senior principal with Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE), an engineering, architectural, and materials sciences firm, was born in Florida but ended up spending the majority of his childhood and subsequent adult life in Central Texas, primarily the Austin area. Lawrence attended the University of Texas at Austin starting in 1982, majoring in civil engineering with an emphasis on structures and materials for both his BS and MS degrees. His interest in the industry stemmed from working with family. "My father was a concrete contractor, and I spent several summers working for his company," Lawrence says. "This was my first exposure to the concrete construction industry, and it certainly helped motivate me to stay in school but also fired up my interest in the industry." After college and prior to joining WJE, Lawrence worked for a highway contractor for a few years and for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for almost 12 years. "Both of these jobs included significant amounts of concrete-related work," he says. |