Larry Hurley has joined The Webber Group, a Houston-based construction and materials company, as president. He previously served as a senior vice president at CH2M Hill Constructors, a unit of CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd., He also had been director of design-build for the civil group of Zachary Construction Corp. Hurley replaces Charles Burnett, who has been president since 1979 and is retiring. Webber has been a unit of Madrid-based Grupo Ferrovial SA since 2005. Contractor W.W. Webber Inc. is part of The Webber Group.
Sevenson Environmental Services Inc., a Niagara Falls, N.Y., environmental remediation contractor, has named P. Thomas Gard vice president for federal programs. Formerly based in Shanghai, he had been head of project managers for Bayer Technology and Engineering Co. Ltd., a design and project management firm in the petrochemical and pharmaceutical sector. Gard also was a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retiring as a lieutenant colonel and military commander of the Humphreys Engineer Center in Alexandria, Va. He now is based in Chadds Ford, Pa.