John Wuestneck has been promoted to the new position of chief operating officer of engineering firm Birdsall Services Group, Sea Girt, N.J. Formerly president, he has been with the firm since 1987 and is based in its Lakewood, N.J., office.
Alain Bentéjac and Jacques Gaillard have been named co-chairmen of ARTELIA, a new engineering firm formed by the merger of Paris-based Coteba and Sogreah, based in Grenoble, France. Bentéjac had been chairman of Coteba, and Gaillard was in the same role at Sogreah. The merger creates a design and project management firm with about $378 million in total 2009 revenue and 2,540 employees, according to the companies. The new company, based in Lyon, France, will have a total of 30 offices in country and 40 internationally, it says. Sogreah ranks 139th on ENR’s list of the Top 150 Global Design Firms, with about two-thirds of its revenue in the water-supply and transportation markets.