PCL Industrial Construction hashired Glenn Schaefer as area manager. He will lead the contractor's new Houston operations.

Raymond Topping has been named director of FIATECH, the construction industry research and technology consortium based at the University of Texas, Austin. He previously worked at CH2M Hill Cos. as executive vice president and engineering design group director. FIATECH has also hired Michael Alianza to lead its project management office activities, including project execution, budgets and delivery. He had been chief operating officer at the Leone Group.

The Louisiana chapter of the Associated General Contractors has hired Michael Demouy as Baton Rouge area manager. In his new role, he will be responsible for developing and managing relationships with Baton Rouge area contractors as well as for establishing statewide training and educational programs.

Satterfield & Pontikes Constructionannounced that the Dallas Regional Chamber has recently selected Nic Flannery to its 2012 class of the Leadership Dallas Program. He is a project manager at the company.

LEMCO Construction Services has hired Travis Parker as senior project manager. He had been a senior project manager for Panattoni Construction Inc. and also held a construction management role at Baruch Properties Inc. Parker assumes project management responsibility for several of LEMCO's top clients.

Consultant Smith Seckman Reid has named Amy Lopez vice president and team leader in Houston. She will manage a full mechanical-electric-plumbing team and provide services to clients in federal health- care, higher education, science and technology markets. Lopez was director of business development and marketing at WHR Architects Inc. and a principal-in-charge of interiors. She also is a founder and current board member of the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Design and serves on the advisory council of the Texas Tech University's Interior Design Program.

Jason A. Ponce, a project engineer in the Houston office of Turner Construction Co., has been appointed to the ACE Mentor Program Board. He has been with the company for five years.

Turner has been involved with the national ACE Mentor Program since it was launched in 1994 and was part of the core group of construction industry firms that brought the program to Texas. ACE members introduce high school students to construction industry careers and provide internships and scholarships.