2024 ASCE New Orleans Branch Wall of Fame Award winner

Silas Cunningham, P.E. is the 2024 ASCE New Orleans Branch Wall of Fame Award winner in memoriam. Silas was born in San Diego, California to the late Capt. and Mrs. Silas D. Cunningham, USN. Si and Gay arrived in New Orleans, in 1963 where he attended Tulane University pursing his dream of Civil Engineering. He worked for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development while in school. He interned and eventually worked for Gus Perrin moving on to G.A. Heft & Co., where he designed Earhart Expressway. He joined Dixon and Associates becoming a partner in Dixon and Cunningham which later grew to become Brown, Cunningham and Gannuch. Projects he was involved in included Clearview-Veterans Intersection improvement, Harahan Pump to the River and Cousins Pumping Station. For the past nine years he has worked with Digital Engineering. While at Digital he continued working on Jefferson Parish infrastructure projects, such as Parish Line Pump Station and Sewer Capital Improvement Program projects.