2009 ASCE Associate Editor Award

Ioannis Brilakis, information technology cospecialty editor, was honored at the 2010 Construction Research Congress Meeting for receiving the 2009 ASCE Associate Editor Award. This is a considerable honor because only one such award is given yearly for all ASCE journal publications. Dr. Brilakis serves on two editorial boards and was nominated by the editors in chief of both the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management and the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (JCCE). Dr. Brilakis initiated the Annual Best Paper Award in this Journal and has served as the chair of the awards committee for the last three years. He is also very active in the JCCE awards committee. In this Journal, he is a cospecialty editor in the highly subscribed and demanding information technology area. At JCCE, in addition to carrying the expected manuscript load for an Editorial Board member, he co-led the production of a highly successful series of special sections on the topic of IT Support for Advanced Infrastructure Systems (Vol. 23, Nos. 1–3, with a total of 12 papers in the three sections). Please join us in congratulating Dr. Brilakis for the notable achievement!Left to right: Lucio Soibelman, coeditor, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering; Ioannis Brilakis, ASCE 2009 Associate Editor Award recipient; and Charles T. Jahren, editor in chief, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management