New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on April 7 that he is appointing Columbia University civil-environmental engineering and computer science professor Feniosky Peña-Mora, who also had been engineering school dean, as commissioner of the city's Dept. of Design and Construction (DDC).
DDC is the city's capital construction project manager, with a staff of nearly 1,200 and a $10 billion portfolio, says its website.