{"id":75555,"date":"2025-09-02T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=75555"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:47:23","slug":"featured-spotlight-construction-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-construction-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Construction Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">Ben Dymond<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">\u2014an associate professor for the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering\u2014joined students <\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">Payton Correia<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">,<\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\"> Isabella Velasco<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">,<\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\"> Caitlin <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">Yazzie<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\"> and <\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">Zachary Fukumoto<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\"> to earn a first-place victory in the Precast\/Prestressed Concrete Institute\u2019s 2025 Big Beam Competition. The nationwide challenge has teams of students and their faculty <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\">adviser<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW217980948 BCX8\"> design, construct and test the stability of a 20-foot concrete beam, being judged on their teamwork and innovation throughout.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW217980948 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-construction-management\/\">Ben Dymond\u2014an associate professor for the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Environmental Engineering\u2014joined students Payton Correia, Isabella Velasco, Caitlin Yazzie and Zachary Fukumoto to earn a first-place victory in the Precast\/Prestressed Concrete Institute\u2019s 2025 Big Beam Competition. The nationwide challenge has teams of students and their faculty adviser design, construct and test the&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}