ESPN Linbeck was the go-to guy to lead an independent probe of the Texas A&M bonfire structure collapse; the 1999 accident killed 12 students and injured 27. Related Links: June 17 Tribute to Leo Linbeck Jr.s leadership of Bonfire Commission by former Texas A&M President Link to PDF-Report of Texas A&M University Bonfire Commission Investigation Can Leo Linbeck IIIs Super PAC Remake Congress? Leo Linbeck Jr., who led Houston-based Linbeck Group LLC to become a regional building giant and took on high-profile causes in Texas and nationwide, died in Houston on June 8 at age 78 from complications of a
Related Links: Engineering News-Record LABROSSEDHI Group, a Horsholm, Denmark, global water engineering firm, has announced a management succession as of July 1. Antoine Labrosse is elevated to CEO from chief operating officer. A 16-year company veteran, he will replace Asger Kej, who will retire after 17 years in the role and 39 years at the firm. Kej will remain as an adviser through December. Jacob Høst-Madsen becomes COO and managing director of DHI Denmark. DHI says it has 1,100 staff and about $140 million in revenue.Harley Lacy has joined MWH Global as business development and strategy executive for its environment-and-ecology
Related Links: Engineering News-Record PereiraRailworks Corp., a New York City-based provider of track and transit systems construction and maintenance services, has appointed two unit presidents. Mark Patterson has been elevated to president of its transit systems subsidiary, L.K. Comstock National Transit Inc. He had been vice president of operations. Nuno Pereira joins Railworks as president of its subsidiary PNR RailWorks Inc., an Abbotsford, British Columbia-based firm that provides track, communications and transit system services to the country's rail industry. Most recently, he was vice president of roads and bridges at SNC-Lavalin, Montreal. Railworks is ranked at No. 85 on ENR's
Related Links: Joseph R. Loring & Associates Inc. Virginia Tech College of Engineering Joseph R. "Joe" Loring, founder and former CEO and chairman of the New York City electrical-mechanical design firm that handled electrical engineering for the 12-million-sq-ft World Trade Center six years after the company's launch, died on May 30 in Arlington, Va., at age 86.LORINGLoring founded the now 90-person Joseph R. Loring & Associates Inc. in 1956. The firm had key roles on large jobs, such as Manhattan's Citicorp Center in the 1970s and Australia's Parliament building in the 1980s (ENR 1/15/87 p. 20).The firm's work in replacing
Related Links: July 31 Deadline for Cervantes Online Fundraiser/Tributes page Los Angeles Community College District Builds Green ENR California's 2007 Owner of the Year: LACCD Michael Cervantes, an architect whose development of building information modeling (BIM) standards for firms participating in the Los Angeles Community College District's (LACCD) $6-billion sustainable building program was touted by owners and designers nationwide for their ease of use and practicality, died suddenly on May 16 in Long Beach, Calif., of an unknown cause, according to information provided by district colleagues.Cervantes, 38, had been the district's BIM manager since 2009.The district's BIM approach "has been
Northern Ireland's first new hospital in ten years was also the first project in Northern Ireland to be built under a public-private partnership agreement.
Serving up to 80 students, this 6,000-sq-ft early childhood development center and teacher training facility in Johannesburg, South Africa, was the culmination of two years of planning, design and construction led by student volunteers from Cornell University.
Part of the 16-acre World Trade Center complex under construction in Manhattan, the memorial is a public space centered around two reflecting pools that sit in the footprints of the original towers.
When the project team started plotting its construction strategy for The Shard, no one in the U.K. had ever planned a 306-meter-tall building or worked at such lofty heights.
Lacking reliable infrastructure, nearby suppliers and skilled workers, the project team building a $135.8-million U.S. embassy in war-torn Liberia faced an uphill battle.
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