Roger M. Soto has joined Odell Associates, a Charlotte, N.C., architecture firm, as president and director of design, leading its U.S. and overseas practices. Based in Richmond, Va., he was design director and principal of architect HOK, Houston, since 1990.
Stone Hill Contracting, Doylestown, Pa., has named James J. Lipo vice president of construction management. Most recently, he was southeast manager of construction operations for a unit of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. He also had managed water and wastewater construction operations for CDM Constructors Inc. in Phoenix.