A decade ago, Jack P. Moehle got a bee in his bonnet about the sorry state of the approvals process for performance-based seismic design of tall buildings.
While working in his family's plastic molding business making traffic signals and LED crosswalk lights, 31-year-old Daniel Lax decided to start a new division that would make jobsite lighting units for subway track work and construction.
Inspired by the one-room schoolhouses of a bygone era, Marshall G. Zotara is bringing an array of construction industry giants together to perform old-fashioned barn raisings for low-income, Title 1 school districts around the country.
Skanska USA, the New York City-based contractor, has named Denny L. Quinn executive vice president of its new Midwest region based in Evansville, Ind. The role follows the firm's Dec. 29 acquisition of Industrial Contractors Inc., also based there. Quinn had been president of ICI. Skanska says the firm, which specializes in industrial and energy markets, will be integrated into its Skanska USA Civil unit under the name Industrial Contractors Skanska. Alan Braun, ICI chairman and CEO, becomes chairman emeritus and an advisor to Skanska. He is a 48-year firm veteran. Skanska also acquired three ICI affiiliate firms: Professional Consultants
GREBBIENParsons Corp., Pasadena, Calif., has announced new roles for two top executives, following a corporate restructuring announced on Nov. 30. Virginia L. Grebbien is named president of the firm's new global environment and infrastructure group, which combines its former commercial technology and water infrastructure groups. Formerly president of the latter, she joined Parsons in 2008 from a previous role as western division manager for MWH Americas Inc. Parsons also named Michael M. "Mike" Walsh as president of its new Parsons Australasia group. His base location is still being determined, says the firm. Walsh was president of the commercial technology
Melinda B. Peters has been appointed by Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) to head the state highway administration. She is the first woman to run the agency, one of the state's largest with an annual budget of $1.1 billion and a staff of 3,100. A civil engineer who joined the agency in 1995, Peters had been, since 2006, project director of the $2.5-billion Intercounty Connector (ICC). The 18-mile, six-lane toll road, the largest single highway construction project in Maryland's history, opened in late November. Peters was named an ENR Newsmaker (ENR 1/17 p. 36) for her achievements on the project,
HEITMANNMichael Heitmann has been named president and CEO of Garney Construction, Kansas City, Mo., replacing in those roles, respectively, Robert Millwee and Montie Tripp, who retired. At the firm since 1990, Heitmann was vice president. Garney also named Wes Weaver as president of its wholly owned subsidiary, Weaver Construction Management Inc. The change follows Garney's Oct. 17 acquisition of Weaver General Construction, an Englewood, Colo., water-wastewater contractor, of which he was founder and principal. Weaver is based in Englewood.Infrastructure Corp. of America, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based program management firm, has hired Phil Stevens as chief operating officer. Most recently, he
Four construction executives will receive 2012 Golden Beaver awards from The Beavers, a Los Altos, Calif., group of practitioners mostly based in the western states.
Darryl Schimeck has joined Veolia ES Industrial Services Inc., League City, Texas, as president and CEO. He previously had been president of Atlantic Plant Services Inc., an industrial services firm, and is a former executive at Waste Management Inc. Veolia ES Industrial, a unit of Chicago-based Veolia Environmental Services North America Corp., is the largest industrial cleaning services company in North America.Matheson Financial Advisors, a McLean, Va.-headquartered financial adviser and investment banking consultant to engineers, environmental firms and contractors, has elevated David Cohen to the position of managing director. He continues to head the firm's Boston office. Matheson also has
WHITAKERCynthia Whitaker, 69, former preconstruction vice president at ISEC Inc., an Englewood, Colo., contractor, died on Oct. 15 of cancer, says the firm. She joined the firm in 1978, retiring in 2005. ISEC ranks at No. 45 on ENR's Top 600 Specialty Contractors list, with $252.5 million in revenue.
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