A journalist's notebook: megaprojects, civil rights, college football, and the places where they meet.
West Editor, Engineering News-Record
C.J. Schexnayder has written for Engineering News-Record since 2004, covering the projects, the people, the money flows, and the workforce dynamics that shape what gets built. He has served as West Editor since 2022.
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Incoming ACP administrator Ilya Espino de Marotta inherits an $8.5-billion-plus capital plan: a new LPG pipeline, two container terminals, the $1.6-billion Río Indio reservoir and an expanded interoceanic land corridor.
Read the full article →Republished by Roll 'Bama Roll to mark the site's 20th anniversary, this Football Study Hall feature recounts the segregationist pressures around Alabama's 1953 Orange Bowl bid and the long road to integrating the program.
Structural analysis of the NCTCOG vs. Regional Transportation Council court fight over Michael Morris's role. Argues the dispute exposes a flaw at the core of every Metropolitan Planning Organization that becomes consequential as size and stakes rise.
A sample from the full archive across construction, sports history, Alabama, Latin America, and civil rights.
The landmark school-desegregation case that reshaped Alabama public education, and what it cost the families who brought it to court.
Alejandro Toledo got 20 years for taking $35M in bribes to approve construction of the Interoceanic Highway, a road I had been photographing on the ground in 2008.
After two decades of canal coverage, a new chapter: a six-year, $1.6B Rio Indio reservoir project to keep the canal flowing in an era of climate-driven dry years.