Earl "Chip" Mitchell has joined CH2M as president of the firm's oil, gas and chemicals business group. Mitchell has spent the last 25 years at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., where most recently he was the firm's group vice president for the upstream, midstream and pipeline business. Previously, Mitchell was head of Jacobs' oil, gas and chemicals operations in Canada and had worked at M.W. Kellogg (now KBR), Howe–Baker Engineers (now CB&I) and Allstates Engineering.
FKP Architects has hired two employees. Jon Franklin rejoins FKP Architects as senior vice president and senior architect. He will manage FKP's team producing construction documents for the core and shell of the $506-million Texas Children's Hospital Pediatric Tower "E" Expansion, a 19-story critical care addition that will house the Texas Children's Heart Center.