Richard N. Wright
ASCE
Richard N. Wright is the volunteer director of the infrastructure community initiative on Practice, Education and Research for Sustainable Infrastructure (PERSI). He represents the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in the Engineering Founder Societies’ Carbon Management Project, and the program committee for the workshop Engineering Solutions for Sustainability: Materials and Resources. He is a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), member of the National Academy of Engineering, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and member of ASCE’s Committee on Sustainability. He retired as director of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and was Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Syracuse University, and the Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in Civil Engineering. He registered as Civil Engineer in New York and Structural Engineer in Illinois. He has been chairman of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Academies; co-chairman of the Subcommittee on Construction and Building of the National Science and Technology Council; president of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB); and president of the Liaison Committee of International Civil Engineering Organizations.