Related Links: Obituaries of other leaders and innovators in the construction industry GuytonWilliam F. Guyton, 95, a pioneer in groundwater hydrology study and founder of one of the first consultants in the field, died on March 2 in Austin, Texas.He was among the first employees in the U.S. Geological Survey's groundwater branch, beginning his career there in 1939.Guyton founded, in 1951, Austin-based William F. Guyton Associates, known for expertise in deep-well technology, large-scale water-supply development and hydrogeo-chemistry.The firm was acquired by consultant Leggette, Brashears & Graham in 1992 and now operates as LBG-Guyton Associates.Guyton was a past president of the
Related Links: See who else has moved up, or moved on, in the AEC sector BelechakJoseph G. Belechak has been promoted to chief operating officer, a new position, at Pittsburgh-based contractor dck Worldwide LLC. Since joining last September, he has been senior vice president of strategy and operational excellence. Belechak formerly is a senior vice president of nuclear fuels at Westinghouse Electric Co. and chief operating officer at Duquesne Light. He also was president of a consulting firm, Transformation Services. dck Worldwide ranks at No. 172 on ENR's list of the Top 400 Contractors, with $315 million in 2011
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector Marcos J. Pantaleón Prieto, founding principal of APIA XXI, a Santander, Spain, architect- engineer, has been named president of Louis Berger International's design center of excellence. The new role follows the March 14 purchase of the 400-employee Spanish firm by Morristown, N.J.-based global design firm Berger Group Holdings, parent of Berger International. COCHRANCB&I, the Woodlands, Texas, global infrastructure and government services firm, has named Robert Cochran as president of federal services in its government-solutions operating group. Cochran had been president and CEO of consultant CTG LLC
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector William L. Robertson has been named president and CEO of Weston Solutions Inc., the West Chester, Pa., sustainability consultant, a spokeswoman told ENR on March 18. ROBERTSONHe replaces Patrick G. McCann, who was president and CEO since 2003 and chairman since 2008; McCann has left the firm. Weston provided no details on what triggered the change. Robertson was Weston CEO from 1997 to 2003 and chairman for six years.Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., Oak Brook. Ill., said on March 14 that President and Chief
Photo Courtesy Pritzker Prize The Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture, completed in 2001 in Imbari-shi, Ehime, Japan. Related Links: The Pritzker Architecture Prize Tokyo-based architect Toyo Ito joins previous recipients Kenzo Tange, Fumihiko Maki, Tadao Ando and the team of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa as the latest winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, founded by the late Jay A. Pritzker and his wife, Cindy, sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation and awarded since 1979.ITOThe seven-person jury calls Ito's architecture innovative, fluid and superbly executed. Over 40 years, Ito, 71, has designed libraries, theaters, parks, houses, shops, office buildings and museums,
Related Links: Archives of obituaries on other industry leaders and innovators MooreMark E. Moore, a senior principal at forensic engineer Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc., Northbrook, Ill., and an expert in structural analysis and pioneer in use of nondestructive testing methods, died suddenly on Feb. 25 on company business in Washington, D.C., says a company spokesman. He did not disclose the cause of death for Moore, 55, who was based in Atlanta.Moore, a 34-year WJE veteran, "was involved in many of the firm's most significant structural investigation assignments," says President William Nugent.These include a probe of a partial 1999 parking-garage
Related Links: Archives of ENR obituaries of other AEC industry leaders and innovators KendallWilliam D. Kendall, a Houston architect whose soft-spoken passion for quality, discipline and service made his firm sought after as associate architects and architects-of-record by such design luminaries as Cesar Pelli, Norman Foster, Ricardo Bofill and Rem Koolhaas, died Feb. 25 in that city.Kendall, 70, who was serving as president of Kendall/Heaton Associates Inc. (KHA), at the time of his death, died of complications from melanoma, says the firm.Kendall co-founded the now 55-employee firm in 1978 with mentor and colleague James E. Heaton, who died in 1993.
Courtesy of CTLGroup Gene Corley (right) probes debris at site of World Trade Center after terror attacks in 2001. Structural engineer led numerous probes of major building failures in a 50-year career. Related Links: CTLGroup CorleyProminent structural failure investigator W. Gene Corley, whose career spanned 50 years, died March 1 at age 77, after a battle with cancer.Corley was perhaps best known for leading teams that studied the collapses of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, bombed on April 19, 1985, and the twin towers of Manhattan's World Trade Center, attacked on Sept. 11, 2001."Solving problems with structural
Related Links: Check who else has has moved up, or moved on, in the AEC sector Kleinschmidt Associates, an environmental and energy engineering firm in Pittsfield, Maine, has named Charles A."Chuck" Padera as president and CEO. He succeeds Jacob A. "Jack" Palmer III, who is retiring. Most recently, Padera was senior vice president and integrated water-resources national business director at Atkins North America in Tampa, Fla. Palmer has been with Kleinschmidt since 1997.COATESHolland-based global engineering firm ARCADIS has elevated Gary Coates, chief operating officer of ARCADIS US, its Highlands Ranch, Colo.-based unit, to the added role of CEO, effective on
Related Links: SNC-Lavalin Wins Contracts, Even as Ethics Issues Widen SNC-Lavalin Names CH2M Hill Executive to Top Job Efforts To Restart Libyan Projects Land SNC-Lavalin in Controversy POHLMANNAndreas Pohlmann has joined SNC-Lavalin, Montreal, as its chief compliance officer, a new position at the global engineer, says a spokeswoman.The firm is involved in a Canadian probe into alleged bribery and corruption by former executives on local and overseas contracts. Pohlmann was founder and principal of a corporate compliance consultant, Pohlmann & Co., in Frankfurt, Germany.The consultant's website says that, from 2007 to 2010, he was chief compliance officer at Germany's
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