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Skanska has promoted Axel Wingard to chief financial officer of its Skanska USA Commercial Development unit. The division invests in and develops office and multifamily properties in Boston, Houston, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Wingard is based in New York City. He has worked for Skanska since 2008 and joined the development unit in 2010. He most recently served as its finance director.

E-J Electric Installation Co., New York City, has promoted Dave T. Ferguson to general manager of the roadway division. Most recently, he was vice president of operations. He also managed projects in banking critical systems, data centers, retail and power generation. Ferguson is a graduate of the I.B.E.W. Journeyman Training Program and a New York state-certified welder and licensed crane operator.

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JLL, formerly Jones Lang LaSalle, has announced that Jerry Sullivan, senior vice president, will take over the daily management of its project development team in New Jersey and co-manage the group in Long Island. Scott Lesh, the managing director who previously managed those teams, will transition to the firm's brokerage division. Sullivan has been with JLL since 2005.

Dewberry has promoted Anthony Fulco to associate vice president in its highway engineering department in Bloomfield, N.J. He was most recently project manager for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's Interchange 6 to 9 widening in East Windsor under five separate construction contracts.

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MAST Construction Services Inc. has promoted three senior project managers to project executive. Troy Marzziotti, Jim Napolitano and Paul Skabich will take on corporate responsibilities in management, staffing and client relations, among other areas. Marzziotti joined MAST in 2004. He specializes in the education and health care sectors. Napolitano has been with MAST since 2002. In his new role, he oversees work from preconstruction through close-out. Napolitano specializes in managing government, corrections, institutional and education projects. Skabich, who joined MAST about 10 years ago, focuses on the company's work in the parks and recreation, institutional and education sectors. 

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Ware Malcomb has promoted Michael Bennett to principal in the architecture and engineering firm's Woodbridge, N.J., office. Bennett opened that office in 2005 and was elevated to regional manager in 2006 and to regional director in 2012. The office manages operations for the California-based designer in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.

Cava Construction, a construction management firm in New York City, has named Bassam Tarazi to the newly created position of director of business strategy. Formerly, he served as director of operations at OmniBuild, a renovations-focused CM firm, which Cava says is now integrated into its operations.

James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, has bequeathed $1.75 million in his will to the school, along with another $1.75 million to the university's engineering school, where he was an undergraduate, Rutgers announced on April 13. Hughes has been dean of the Bloustein School since 1995. The school offers degrees in urban studies, planning and public policy.