Foster Wheeler AG, Zug, Switzerland, has elevated W. Troy Roder to be chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., based in Reading, England, and the largest subsidiary in the corporation’s global engineering and construction group. Currently president and CEO of another corporate unit, Houston-based Foster Wheeler USA Corp., he will replace Michael Beaumont, who is set to retire. Roder, who joined Foster Wheeler in 1989, has been in his current role since 2004. Beaumont has been with the company since 1973.
Carl Galioto, formerly partner-in-charge of the technical group at New York City-based architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill, has joined architect-engineer HOK, Saint Louis, as a senior principal. He will manage the firm’s New York City office and chair its company wide project-delivery board. Galioto currently serves as co-chair of the New York Building Congress Architect’s Leadership Council and is a member of a managing committee advising New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials on creation of a new city building code. He is a member of a special National Institute of Building Sciences task force to draft recommendations for future high-rise building codes nationally.