Gordon Maskew Fair Award

The Gordon Maskew Fair Award honors one of the pioneers of environmental engineering, Dean Fair. In addition to his own exemplary career, his living legacy includes hundreds of prominent practicing engineers and eminent professors who continue to emulate his values. He taught his students not only the technical aspects of the field but inspired them to use their skills to protect and enhance environmental quality.

Through the Fair Award, the Academy seeks to identify Board Certified Environmental Engineers, Members or Scientists who have contributed to the status of the environmental engineering or science professions by:

Exemplary professional conduct
Recognized achievements in the practice of environmental engineering and science
Significant contributions to the control of the quality of the world's environment

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2026 Gordon Maskew Fair Award Recipient

Robert Gardner, P.E., BCEE

Robert B. Gardner, P.E., BCEE, is a civil and environmental engineer with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Virginia. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and Board-Certified Environmental Engineer specializing in solid waste management. Bob recently retired from full-time service at SCS Engineers after 45 years with the firm, including 37 years on the SCS Board of Directors. He continues to support select clients and special initiatives.

Throughout his career, Bob has been a leader in the development and implementation of modern landfill and waste management practices. His early work in the 1980s included public works facility design, Superfund remedial projects, Virginia’s first RCRA clean closure, early RCRA Subtitle C corrective actions, landfill gas migration studies, and the establishment of SCS’s Florida operations.

In the 1990s, Bob led several industry firsts, including the design of Florida’s first materials recovery facility, the development of EPA and state training manuals, the implementation of the first onsite leachate treatment system, and corrective action projects that enabled site redevelopment.

During the 2000s, Bob served for 24 years as SCS’s solid waste practice leader, overseeing the firm’s engineering, consulting, construction, energy, and operations and maintenance services until his retirement at the end of 2025.

An active leader in AAEES, SWANA, and other professional organizations, including the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Environmental Research & Education Foundation, Bob has mentored generations of professionals who continue to advance environmental protection for industry and municipalities

Past Recipients

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Year	Recipient
2025	Strenstrom, Michael
2024	Newell, Charles J.
2023	Barlaz, Morton
2022	Daigger, Glen T.
2021	Tobiason, John
2020	Reible, Danny
2019	Dzombak, David A.
2018	Reinhart, Debra R.
2017	Hickox, Stephen J.
2016	Rittmann, Bruce
2015	Luthy, Richard G.
2014	McCarty, Perry
2013	Lawrence, Alonzo W.
2012	Sproul, Otis J.
2012	Huang, C. P.
2011	Shuval, Hillel I.
2010	Surampalli, Rao Y.
2009	Wilson, Thomas E.
2008	Haug, R. Tim
2007	Stahl, Jim F.
2006	Singer, Philip C.
2005	Marini, Robert C.
2004	Conway, Richard A.
2003	Johnson, Jr., Charles C.
2002	Schad, Theodore M.
2001	Lue-Hing, Cecil
2000	Pohland, Frederick G.
1999	Eckenfelder, W. Wesley
1998	Orlob, Gerald T.
1997	Woodruff, Paul H.
1996	Loehr, Raymond J.
1995	Weber, Jr., Walter J.
1994	Gilbert, Jerome B.
1993	Sorber, Charles A.
1992	Carroll, William J.
1991	Busch, Paul L.
1990	Garrison, Walter E.
1989	Geyer, John C.
1988	Longest, II, Henry L.
1987	Canham, Robert A.
1986	Lagnese, Jr., Joseph F.
1985	Bacon, Vinton W.
1984	Malina, Jr., Joseph F.
1983	Stern, Arthur C.
1982	Gloyna, Earnest F.
1981	Rohlich, Gerard A.
1980	Gibbs, William R.
1979	Lawler, Joseph C.
1978	Kappe, Stanley E.
1977	Weston, Roy F.
1976	Boyce, Earnest
1975	Gilbertson, Wesley E.
1974	Butrico, Frank A.
1973	Ludwig, John H.
1972	Okun, Daniel A.
1971	Coulter, James B.