George Leventis

CEEAA Distinguished Alumni Award, 2018

For more than 30 years of distinguished contributions to advancing the engineering, architectural, construction and development profession on projects worldwide through thoughtful, creative, practical and innovative geotechnical design.

Biography

George Leventis serves on the Board and Executive Committee of Langan and is Managing Principal of the firm’s New York office. Also, as Managing Director of Langan International, he spearheaded opening offices in the Middle East and London. Between 1998 and 2001, Leventis served as Director General of the Organizing Committee for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. 

Leventis holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from National Technical University of Athens and an M.S. in Geotechnical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has over 30 years of land development engineering experience on waterfront, residential, commercial and supertall buildings; and has been Technical Advisor on large P3 concessions including: Rion-Antirion Link, Greece; Chacao Channel Bridge, Chile; Kastelli Airport, Crete and Olympia Odos Motorway, Greece. Currently, he is Full Adjunct Professor at Columbia University teaching a graduate course on deep foundations for supertall buildings. He is also Regional Director of ACEC, ASCE Fellow, member of The Moles, member of Board of Directors of New York Building Congress, and member of Advisory Board of Columbia University CE department and of Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business.

Leventis has received numerous ACEC State and National project awards, the 2005 ASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement OPAL and 2007 DFI Outstanding Project Award for Rion-Antirion Bridge, and has been named a 2017 ENR Newsmaker for his Greek Motorway work.