ASCE

Heartfelt approach drives New Face to help his home communities, near and far

Name: Abbas Kazan

Credentials: EIT, A.M.ASCE

Job title: Bridge and highway engineer

Employer: Barton & Loguidice

Location: Syracuse, New York

Current ASCE role: Syracuse Section treasurer, Scholarship Committee member, precollege outreach champion, 2022 New York state infrastructure report card author

College: Duchess Community College – an associate degree in engineering science; SUNY Polytechnic Institute – bachelor’s degree in civil engineering (dual concentration: structural and transportation)

Abbas Kazan loves being in the United States. Loves the upstate New York region he’s called home for nearly eight years.

But on Aug. 4, 2020, when an explosion struck the Port of Beirut, it was suddenly very difficult to be 6,000 miles away from the place where he grew up.

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