Elsie Eaves (1898-1983): Cost Pioneer

摘要

Elsie Eaves joined ENR in 1926, five years after the magazine introduced its Construction Cost Index, but she soon made them her own. "Elsie Eaves was the one who made ENR's cost indexes the industry standard," says Ken Humphreys, the retired executive director of the American Association of Cost Engineers, of which Eaves was a founding member, in 1956. She was one of the first women to become a civil engineer and played a prominent role in the construction industry, but none more important than developing the esteem and relevance of ENR's construction cost indexes.