Related Links: ENR cover story on BE&K-1993 Theodore C. "Ted" Kennedy, who pushed non-union contracting to new arenas as CEO of BE&K Inc., but worked with organized labor and owners to boost construction safety, productivity, ethics and image, died May 8 in Birmingham, Ala. He was 81.The cause of death was post-surgery complications, says a spokesman for Kennedy.Kennedy was the son of a union ironworker and accompanied him to jobsites as the teenage "water boy," later earning an engineering degree from Duke University.He then espoused the open or "merit shop" labor approach in co-founding BE&K in 1972. After his co-founders
Related Links: Alan Krause to Take Over as CEO at MWH Global Global Talent Converges on Panama Canal MWH Global Spin-Off Innovyze Leads With 'Wet' Infrastructure Apps Alan J. Krause—president and CEO of Broomfield, Colo.-based engineering-contractor MWH Global, which ranks at No. 123 on this year's ENR Top 400 Contractors list and at No. 16 on the Top 500 Design Firms list—recently spoke with ENR Mountain States Editor Mark Shaw on a variety of topics and industry trends. Here is an edited version of their conversation.MHW is leading the design work of the Panama Canal Expansion. How is it going?We
KHANPOURAbdy Khanpour has joined U.K.-based engineer and project manager AMEC as vice president and U.S. nuclear lead. He is based in Atlanta. Khanpour was vice president of engineering and projects at Florida Power and Light Co., a unit of NextEra Energy Inc., where he led engineering strategic direction and technical services for five nuclear plants. He also held management roles at Excel Energy and Bechtel Power Group.HNTB, Kansas City, has named Joseph Lawton, a senior vice president and national construction management practice leader. Formerly a senior vice president at AECOM, he now leads the CM practice across HNTB's infrastructure
Stanford Krawinkler Related Links: Helmut Krawinkler "lived and breathed" structural and earthquake engineering through teaching, research, analytic modeling, design and contributions to practice, says Gregory G. Deierlein, the John A. Blume professor of engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.Krawinkler, an Austrian native who joined the Stanford faculty in 1973, died suddenly on April 16 in Los Altos, Calif., during treatment for a brain tumor. He was 72. Krawinkler—who held the Blume post until 2007, when he became professor emeritus—developed methodologies that changed how engineers evaluate seismic safety and damage potential. His work in the 1990s laid the foundation for the
Turner Construction Co. Related Links: Turner Construction Co. obituary of Howard S. Turner Howard S. Turner, a noted research chemist and industrial manager who left a 29-year corporate career to join the family-run Turner Construction Co., New York City, as president, died on April 25 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 100. As CEO and chairman, he was the last Turner family member to lead the firm.Turner was tapped by his cousin—the son of H.C. Turner, who founded the contractor in 1902—to succeed him in 1965.While he had been a board member since the 1950s, Turner noted in a 2002
Courtesy of AFL-CIO McGarvey, BCTD secretary-treasurer since 2005, was Governing Board of Presidents' unanimous choice as new president. Related Links: BCTD announcement of Sean McGarvey's election as president ENR obituary for Mark Ayers The AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Dept. has elected Sean McGarvey, its secretary-treasurer, as its new president. The BCTD said the April 16 vote of its Governing Board of Presidents was unanimous.McGarvey, who is about 50, succeeds Mark Ayers, who died suddenly on April 8 at age 63. Ayers had led the building trades group since 2007. The organization’s board also voted unanimously to give Ayers the
JOHN CHASEJohn S. Chase, an architect who broke barriers in Texas and elsewhere, died on March 29 in Houston after a long illness. He was 87. He served as CEO of John S. Chase Architect Inc., a firm he founded in 1952 after graduating from the University of Texas-Austin as its first black architecture student. Chase also was the first black architect to be licensed in Texas and the first to be admitted to the Texas Society of Architects and the American Institute of Architects' Houston chapter. Chase collaborated on a number of local and national landmarks, and he
James R. Endler, a veteran New York City construction executive on projects such as the World Trade Center, the Disney Epcot Center and London's Canary Wharf, died on March 24 in Manhattan at age 82. A West Point graduate, he also served as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After two decades with Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Endler retired in 1983 as president and chief operating officer. Endler then joined Lehrer McGovern Inc., which was later acquired by Bovis, as president. "Jim brought wisdom, maturity, experience and that West Point discipline to our young company," Peter
Chase John S. Chase, an architect who broke barriers in Texas and elsewhere, died on March 29 in Houston after a long illness at age 87. He served as CEO of John S. Chase Architect Inc., a firm he founded in 1952 after graduating from the University of Texas-Austin as its first black architecture student.Chase also was the first black architect to be licensed in Texas and the first to be admitted to the Texas Society of Architects and the American Institute of Architects' Houston chapter. Chase collaborated on a number of local and national landmarks, and he was commissioned
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