Richard Weingardt

Richard G. Weingardt

Chairman, Richard Weingardt Consultants, Inc.

A practicing structural engineer for 50 years, Weingardt is the author of nine books and some 600 published papers and articles on engineering, business, leadership and creativity. One of his latest books, Engineering Legends, features the contributions of U.S. engineers in developing this country, from the Revolutionary War to present. In 2003, his book Forks in the Road earned the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) Journalism Award, the first and only engineer to ever receive the award. Weingardt writes regular columns in ASCE's Leadership and Management in Engineering Journal and in Structural Engineer magazine. He also often writes for STRUCTURE magazine and contributes op-ed pieces for a variety of trade and non-trade publications.

Weingardt has held leadership roles in numerous professional and community groups, among them key appointments by three governors to policy-making state boards and commissions. He was the national president of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) headquartered in Washington, DC. A motivational speaker, he has traveled extensively on all seven continents and lectured on all but Antarctica.

A graduate of the University of Colorado with masters and bachelors degrees in civil-structural engineering, Weingardt is a registered professional engineer in 30 states. The consulting firm he founded in 1966 has completed more than 4,700 major projects worldwide. Many of them have received engineering excellence awards, among them: Airside Terminals A, B & C at Denver International Airport, Jefferson County Courthouse in Colorado, Integrated Teaching and Discovery Learning Laboratories at the University of Colorado, Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Ceres Agricultural Mills in western Russia and Saleh Kamel Towers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Weingardt is an ASCE Distinguished Member and the recipient of a myriad of awards from various professional and public groups. Among his pastimes is oil painting. Several of his landscapes of the American frontier hang in corporate headquarters around the world. He has been on several national and international TV programs, including appearances on the National Geographic Channel ("Big Bigger Biggest"), History Channel ("Modern Marvels") and Fox News ("The Greta Van Sustrene Show").