EASTIN Keith Eastin has joined The Louis Berger Group, Morristown, N.J., as vice president of strategic planning for the firm’s work at global U.S. Defense Dept. installations. He most recently was assistant U.S. Army secretary for installations and environment, directing military construction, base closure, environmental and other programs at 150 Army installations around the world. Eastin also was a senior consultant for the U.S. State Dept. in Iraq. Black & Veatch, Overland Park, Kan., named Gary Erickson director of business development in its federal services division. He had been president of federal services for engineer-contractor MWH Americas, Broomfield, Colo. Erickson
Elaine K. Dezenski, the managing director of the new Global Security Initiative for INTERPOL, the International Criminal Police Organization, is currently president of the Women’s Transportation Seminar. Her career path has been an unusual journey from transportation to global security. She worked for the rail giant Siemens in marketing and business development, then joined the Federal Transit Administration in 1999. She was working as a Brookings Institution fellow when the attacks of September 11, 2001 occurred and that helped spur her return her to public service. She joined the Transportation Security Administration and became director of cargo and supply chain
Earlier this month the Obama Administration breathed new life into the FutureGen experimental “clean coal” electric generating plant in Mattoon, Ill., that would trap and store carbon dioxide emissions. The administration pledged $1 billion to its development. Initially introduced by the Bush administration in 2003 as a means to develop low-emissions coal-fired power plants, the project was dropped early last year due to cost overruns. FutureGen Alliance, a consortium of coal and utility companies working to build the plan, estimate the project will cost approximately $2.4 billion to complete. A decision on whether to go forward with construction on the
A 32-year veteran of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., one of the industry�s oldest and most prestigious firms, Hawksworth was named CEO in January, 2008, succeeding Thomas J. O�Neill. ENR business editors Debra K. Rubin and Richard Korman sat down recently with Hawksworth in PB�s Manhattan headquarters and talked about how the engineer and program manager is reorganizing and restrategizing. Among the topics covered: a recent merger deal PB seriously considered; the company�s push for improved marketing; the ramifications of the financial crisis and the legacy of the Big Dig. Keith J. Hawksworth Related Links: Video: Parsons Brinckerhoff’s Future O'Neill Sheds CEO
As New York City-based contracting giant Bovis Lend Lease prepares to cope with possible new legal trouble, the firm announced on June 15 the surprise resignation of Executive Vice President James Abadie, its top operations executive in the city, a veteran of nearly three decades with the firm and a major participant in local construction groups and collective bargaining activities. Bovis did not say why Abadie resigned as principal-in-charge of its New York office, only stating that he would be replaced in that role by Senior Vice President Ralph Esposito, a marketing executive and a 13-year veteran. A Bovis spokeswoman
GLOVER The Shaw Group Inc., Baton Rouge, La., has announced several senior executive changes in its power group. Monty Glover is named to the new position of president of construction for the group’s nuclear and fossil and renewables divisions. He had been president of the former fossil division since 2007 and construction president of Shaw’s energy and chemicals group. Ron Barnes joins Shaw as president of the fossil and renewable divisions. He previously served as vice president of Duke Energy, with responsibility for project management and construction of the Cliffside Modernization Project in North Carolina. Also joining Shaw is Eli
KORF Victor W. “Bill” Korf Jr., former national director of transportation at Omaha-based engineering firm HDR Inc. and former deputy secretary of transportation and chief engineer for the Washington Dept. of Transportation, died on June 9 at age 77 of complications due to cancer. Korf joined the agency in 1956 and was involved in construction of the Seattle Evergreen Point floating bridge. He retired in 1985. At HDR, Korf managed offices in Washington, Arizona and California, and worked with the newly independent Polish government in the 1980s on its first privately funded highway project. Arthur C. Erickson, the Vancouver, British
DUHAIME Peter A. Marchetto has joined Tishman Construction Corp., New York City, as president of construction operations. He previously served as CEO of Bovis Lend Lease, also locally based. He worked for Bovis for more than 25 years. Pierre Duhaime has been elevated to president and CEO of Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin, Canada’s largest engineering and construction firm. He had been executive vice president responsible for the firm’s global mining and metallurgy operations. Duhaime, who joined SNC Lavaline in 1975, replaces Jacques Lamarre, who retired last month after 42 years. Kameran L. Onley has joined PBS&J, Tampa, Fla., as associate vice president
PENA-MORA Feniosky Peña-Mora has been named dean of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at Columbia University, New York City, effective July 15. He had been an endowed professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an associate provost there. Robert M. Scaer was appointed president of architect-engineer Gannett Fleming, Harrisburg, Pa. A 25-year firm veteran, he had been president of GeoDecisions, a company division. Scaer is a co-inventor and holder of the patent for IRRIS technology, which integrates real-time sensor information into a common operating platform for enhanced
MILLSTONE Isidore E. Millstone, a founder of Millstone-Bangert Inc., a major building and heavy contractor in Saint Louis and a local philanthropist, is presumed dead at 102 after an apparent suicide on May 16. A 1927 engineering graduate of local Washington University, he founded Millstone Construction in 1929. His firm merged with Bangert Construction in 1996. The firm built Busch Stadium, among other local landmarks. He managed projects in Israel in the 1950s.
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