ASCE has honored Amy Javernick Will, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, with the 2025 Peurifoy Construction Research Award for advancing construction engineering through research at the interface of social and built systems to enhance community resilience and postdisaster recovery and improving the sustainable delivery of infrastructure services for all segments of society, including marginalized communities.
Javernick Will's scholarly work in postdisaster recovery as well as in the sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene fields has had a significant impact on professional practice, research, and education. Her research has made significant positive influences in defining the current and future direction of innovations at the intersection of social, institutional, and infrastructure systems. She is a knowledgeable and passionate scholar whose mission has been the creation and proliferation of new knowledge that results in reliable and sustained delivery of water and sanitation services and which enables recovery, risk reduction, and enhanced sustainability and resiliency to future hazard events.
She currently serves as the editor for PLOS Water and as member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Construction Management and Economics. She serves as chair of the U.S. Department of Energy Project Leadership Institute Advisory Board, member of the Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements Academic/Practitioner Steering Committee, member of the ASCE Construction Research Council, and member of the Engineering Project Organizations Society. She was selected as a panelist in the National Academy of Engineering’s 12-member panel for the project entitled "Understand the Engineering Education-Workforce Continuum."
Javernick Will is a highly decorated academic. She is the recipient of the ASCE Daniel W. Halpin Award for Scholarship in Construction, University of Colorado's Top 20 Research Performer Award, Outstanding Teacher Award from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, the Distinguished Professor Award from the Construction Industry Institute, and the Engineering News Record Top 20 under 40 in the Mountain States Region.
The Peurifoy Construction Research Award is made to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of construction engineering through research and development of new technology, principles or practice.
