The responsibility for repairing and renovating the District’s crumbling public schools will be handed to a man with a reputation for delivering massive projects on time and on budget.

Allen Lew, chief executive officer of the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission, has won praise for guiding construction of the Washington Convention Center and the Washington Nationals’ new stadium. He will now be expected to do the same for the D.C. Public Schools as director of the new Office of Facilities Modernization.