{"id":22978,"date":"2018-04-23T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=22978"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:46:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T21:46:05","slug":"engineering-titan-building-panamas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/engineering-titan-building-panamas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"This Engineering Titan Is Building Panama\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/titan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22979\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/titan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/titan.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/titan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/titan-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why you should care.\u00a0Because Ilya Espino de Marotta\u00a0led one of the largest engineering projects of this century. You go girl!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When Ilya Espino de Marotta lifted off in a helicopter to survey her $5.2 billion project, her legs turned to jelly. That\u2019s because this marine engineer, whose day job often has her evaluating very, very big things from very, very high concrete platforms, is \u201cpetrified\u201d of heights. The flight also served to document one of the most momentous builds in history: a nine-year expansion project, completed in 2016, that added a third lane to the 100-year-old Panama Canal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">De Marotta, executive vice president of engineering at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/flashback\/the-panama-canal-turns-100\/33300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Panama Canal<\/a> Authority, was the chief engineer overseeing the expansion project. As a top exec in a 10,000-person organization that includes just 1,200 women, she\u2019s seen as a trailblazer in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/opinion\/so-whats-it-like-to-be-a-woman-engineer-at-nasa-today\/76527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">industry dominated by men<\/a> \u2014 in a region known for its machismo culture. After being on the four-person team that drafted the initial designs, de Marotta was tasked with managing the multiple companies hired to complete the work; helping to resolve issues of leaking locks, striking workers and squabbling contractors; and serving as the public face of a project that required a national referendum for approval and semi-annual televised updates to Congress. \u201cMy motto for this project was \u2018never a dull moment,\u2019\u201d the 55-year-old says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-element\">\n<div class=\"sleeve\">\n<div class=\"jwvideoblock videoblock\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/ZHSHDxBX-7XqNqlTA.html\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>An original part of the Panama Canal, from above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The project involved building a third set of locks to increase the capacity of the current two-lane canal, already one of the busiest waterways in the world, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The new locks can accommodate much larger ships, capable of transporting almost three times as much cargo as the previous limit. Which means much more money can flow through the gates \u2014 the first ship to pass through the expanded locks was charged around $600,000 \u2014 bringing billions to Panama in the coming decades. When then president Mart\u00edn Torrijos announced the project in 2006, he declared that Panama \u2014 already Central America\u2019s wealthiest, most developed nation \u2014 would be catapulted to \u201cFirst World\u201d status.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was, says de Marotta, \u201cdefinitely the most ambitious project\u201d the country has seen since the U.S. led the initial construction of the canal in 1914. From an engineering perspective, the key challenge was environmental: For each ship to pass through the old locks, 55 million gallons of fresh water were required, drawn from a reservoir that also supplies drinking water to Panama City, explains Carlos Vargas, the Panama Canal Authority\u2019s executive vice president of environment, water and energy. While it would\u2019ve been easier to build a new reservoir, de Marotta\u2019s team of engineers instead deepened the existing lake and installed innovative water-saving basins alongside each lock, conserving three-fifths of the water during each transit, so that the new locks use slightly less water despite being much larger.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">De Marotta defends the cost overruns as \u201cnot significant at all when you look at other megaprojects of this size.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A Panama native, de Marotta fell in love with the ocean as a child, thanks to her grandparents\u2019 seaside home and the films of Jacques Cousteau. An academic highflier, she started college in the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship and then graduated a year early. She\u2019d dreamed of becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozy.com\/rising-stars\/the-israeli-taking-concrete-steps-to-save-marine-life\/83343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marine biologist<\/a> but settled on design engineering in the canal\u2019s shipyard, steadily climbing the ranks over a 32-year career. With no women above her in the company, \u201cshe was the pioneer\u201d for female engineers, says Min Chen, former chair of a Panamanian women-in-engineering trade group.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Of course, not everything in the project went according to plan. In 2015, videos of water gushing from a crack in the concrete were shared online, prompting international headlines, and work was interrupted by strikes over pay. And from the start, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/06\/22\/world\/americas\/panama-canal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critics<\/a> argued that the Panama Canal Authority had awarded the contract at a rock-bottom price that called into question the long-term safety of the build. Ultimately, the third set of locks finally opened, 18 months behind schedule and, due to an ongoing claims resolution process, currently clocking in at $250 million over budget. De Marotta defends the cost overruns as \u201cnot significant at all when you look at other megaprojects of this size.\u201d<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Indeed, some of the setbacks were blown \u201cway out of proportion,\u201d argues Frank C. Townsend, professor emeritus of civil engineering at the University of Florida, particularly when compared to the original U.S.-led build at the start of the 20th century. Striking workers is certainly a better problem than 5,500 dead workers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Many credit de Marotta\u2019s leadership for steering the project around obstacles. She has \u201csoft skills that are sometimes missing in this engineering world,\u201d says Karen Smits, whose Ph.D. thesis examined cross-cultural collaboration in the canal expansion, which featured an American project management firm and a consortium of Belgian, Spanish, Italian and Panamanian construction companies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For her part, de Marotta believes her gender was a key factor: Women \u201cwill solve things differently,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re probably a bit better at putting ourselves in other people\u2019s shoes.\u201d Although she says she hasn\u2019t faced much explicit gender discrimination in her career, she understands that her name was submitted to the canal\u2019s all-male board of directors several times before she got the nod, amid concerns she could balance family and work.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And the mother of three admits that balance was tough at times: In 2011, her 17-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer; three months later, her husband, whom she met in the canal shipyard, received the same diagnosis. She moved to New York for a year while they received treatment, visiting the project one week each month. Fellow canal employees gave the couple a collective 1,300 hours of their vacation time \u2014 \u201cwe received a paycheck every single month they were in treatment. That was mind-blowing,\u201d de Marotta says.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAfter what I went through with my son and my husband,\u201d she says, everything else that life could throw at her was \u201cnothing.\u201d She\u2019s a scuba diver, a photographer and a former marathon runner, so it\u2019s easy to see why some view de Marotta as a superwoman \u2014 except, of course, she won\u2019t be leaping off any tall buildings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pagebreak\">\u00a0\n<div class=\"wpcf7 no-js\" id=\"wpcf7-f16536-o1\" lang=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" data-wpcf7-id=\"16536\">\n<div class=\"screen-reader-response\"><p role=\"status\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\"><\/p> <ul><\/ul><\/div>\n<form action=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22978#wpcf7-f16536-o1\" method=\"post\" class=\"wpcf7-form init\" aria-label=\"Contact form\" novalidate=\"novalidate\" data-status=\"init\">\n<fieldset class=\"hidden-fields-container\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7\" value=\"16536\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_version\" value=\"6.1.6\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_locale\" value=\"\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_unit_tag\" value=\"wpcf7-f16536-o1\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_container_post\" value=\"0\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_posted_data_hash\" value=\"\" \/>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><B><I>Sign Up for our Newsletter:<\/i><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>Your Name (required)\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"your-name\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-required\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"text\" name=\"your-name\" \/><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>Your Email (required)\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"your-email\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-email wpcf7-validates-as-required wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-email\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"email\" name=\"your-email\" \/><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><input class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-submit has-spinner\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\" \/>\n<\/p><div class=\"wpcf7-response-output\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ozy-advert-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why you should care.\u00a0Because Ilya Espino de Marotta\u00a0led one of the largest engineering projects of this century. 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