Pam Hunter, ENR’s new sourcebook editor, is based in Washington, D.C. Hunter plans, assigns and edits the sourcebook’s market stories. She works collaboratively with Surveys Manager Gary Tulacz and Data Processing Assistant Theola King on the sourcebook ranking tables. Tulacz and King both became part of McGraw-Hill Construction Research and Analytics at the end of last year.

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Hunter’s additional assignment is   providing environmental coverage for ENR’s readers and the McGraw-Hill Construction News Bureau. She has been working with Business Editor-at-Large Debra K. Rubin on the Top 200 Environmental Firms ranking that will appear next week. Because the sourcebook and the Top 200 run in back-to-back issues, we are integrating the environmental breakout charts ranking design-firm revenue in niche market sectors such as water treatment and desalination and asbestos and lead abatement into the Top 200 issue.

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Hunter knows the industry. She freelanced for ENR for the past year and previously worked for a publication of Associated Builders and Contractors. “I’m thrilled to be working on staff for ENR,” says Hunter. “With so much happening right now with climate change, it will be interesting and a real challenge to cover the environmental beat from Washington. I welcome ideas from readers both for sourcebook articles and for stories about environmental construction issues.”

Our current issue also features a cover story about the successful IPO for design giant AECOM, written by Senior Business Editor Richard Korman, who has been following the company for more than 10 years. “This was the next chapter in a saga that began when AECOM tried to go public in 2003,” Korman says. “In the past few years, the IPO market heated up, and Wall Street decided that infrastructure is sexy. That and the company’s record of growth and execution led investors to buy it at a higher price and oversubscribe the shares.”