The Engineering News-Record, a top publication in infrastructure circles, has named the 37-year-old head of Maryland's Intercounty Connector project as one of its top 25 news-makers of 2010.
Melinda Peters, the State Highway Administration's ICC project director, was selected for her roles as construction boss and the public face of the project.
In an article about her selection, the ENR said Peters "finds herself continually in the spotlight as the human face of the largest, greenest and most controversial highway to be built in metropolitan Washington, D.C., in decades."
The first 7.2 mile leg of the $2.6 billion ICC is expected to open early this year. The main segment of the highway, which will connect Interstate 370 and Interstate 95, is scheduled to open about a year later.
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