Greg Mella has been promoted to director of sustainable design at SmithGroupJJR’s Washington, D.C., office. Mella was project architect for the world’s first LEED Platinum building, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, Md. He also worked on the foundation’s Brock Environmental Center in Virginia Beach, Va., one of only 11 buildings worldwide to receive full Living Building Challenge certification.
Jeff Lindley has been named associate executive director and chief technical officer at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute of Transportation Engineers. Lindley, who will begin his new job on Oct. 17, will replace Philip Caruso, who will remain with the institute on a part-time basis. Lindley spent 31 years with the Federal Highway Administration, where he had been associate administrator for safety and, most recently, associate administrator for operations.