Christopher O. Ward has joined AECOM as senior vice president and CEO of design and consulting services in its metro New York region, five months after leaving a top executive role he held since 2011 at Dragados USA, a unit of the Spain-based contractor and concessions firm.
Ward left the Dragados role as executive vice president for major projects at the end of 2014, telling Crain's NY Business that the expected public-private-partnership construction market "was not as large as it had been." The firm was part of a design-build team that had been short-listed for the $4-billion Tappan Zee replacement bridge but canceled its bid unexpectedly in 2012, citing unspecified project risk issues.