U.K.-based design firm Atkins has named industry veteran and AECOM top executive George L. Nash Jr. as CEO of its North America unit, replacing L. Joe Boyer, who resigned in February after three years. Nash, who takes the role on Oct. 31, was AECOM group president of energy, infrastructure and industrial construction since 2014, when it acquired URS Corp. He had been president and chief operating officer of that firm’s energy and construction division, which included work in power, industrial, infrastructure, mining, oil and gas, and federal environmental sectors.
Atkins North America COO Barry Schulz and CFO David Quinn have been leading the Tampa, Fla.-based unit. Boyer now is the Austin-based CEO of construction and program management at Bernhard Capital Partners, a role he assumed in August, says his Linked-In profile.