LUDOVICI Joseph D. Ludovici has been elevated to director of the U.S. Defense Dept.’s Joint Guam Program Office (JGPO), which is supervising the estimated $11 billion -$15 billion construction effort to relocate more than 18,000 U.S. Marines, family members and others from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam. Formerly deputy director, he succeeds David F. Bice , a retired Marine Corps general who is stepping down as JGPO executive director. Bice, in that role since 2007, is also a former Marine Corps inspector general and base commander in Hawaii and Camp Pendleton, Calif. Ludovici, who has been a JGPO
MORRISON Linda Morrison has joined Golder Associates Inc., Atlanta, as director of federal projects. She had been chief of operations in the Savannah, Ga.-based district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Morrison also previously directed the agency’s national regulatory wetlands program in Washington, D.C., which had a staff of 1,300 at the time. This year, Morrison received the Steel Order of the de Fleury medal from the Army Engineers Association for leadership and service to the Corps’ civil-works program. XL Insurance, the global insurance unit of XL Group plc, Dublin, has named David S. Hewett as executive vice president
FLOYD Harvey M. Floyd, senior vice president of KCI Technologies Inc., a Sparks, Md., engineer, has been promoted to transportation discipline manager for the firm. He was chief client services officer and headed KCI’s mid-Atlantic transportation market in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. S. Michael Tahan has joined Hill International Inc., Marlton, N.J., as senior vice president and head of the Southern California highway, bridge and water infrastructure practice for its project management group. The position follows Hill’s Nov. 10 acquisition of Ontario, Calif.-based TCM Group Inc., of which he had been vice president. Tahan continues to lead TCM,
WICKHAM George Wickham, the former principal of San Francisco tunnel and geotechnical engineer Jacobs Associates Inc. who was known for his cost-estimating expertise, died on Oct. 25 in Lake Wildwood, Calif. He was 89. Wickham joined the firm in 1957 after 10 years of work for a contractor. He co-authored a 1974 research paper that introduced rock-structure rating methodology to tunnel design, according to Jacobs. The approach quantifies and predicts the support required for a tunnel based on key geologic parameters. Says the company, “Others have built on this work to produce rock-mass classification systems” that are widely used in
CLAYBROOKE Phil Claybrooke has joined mechanical contractor TDIndustries, Dallas, as vice president of special projects in its north Texas region. He was most recently regional sales manager for the western U.S. for Johnson Controls and also served as a global account manager at Honeywell Inc. The company reports revenue of about $300 million. Predrag “Pete” Popovic, vice president and senior principal at engineer Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc., Northbrook, Ill., has been named president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) for three years. IABSE, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is a 4,000-member organization that works to advance
POPE Jerry G. Pope, former vice president, chief estimator and special projects manager at Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Greeley, Colo., and industry activist in the state and nationally, died in Greeley on Oct. 2 of complications of heart disease. He was 75. A recognized expert in masonry construction and estimating, Pope was a former president of the Colorado Mason Contractors Association and the Colorado Masonry Institute. A 14-year Hensel Phelps veteran, he also had been chairman of the construction management committee of the Associated General Contractors of Colorado and served on a similar committee for national AGC.
Susan Martinovich, director of the Nevada Dept. of Transportation since 2007, is the new American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials president. She is the first woman to head the standards-setting group in its 96 years. NDOT has 1,700 employees, a $700-million budget and 5,400 highway miles to oversee. Nevada currently is undertaking its largest-ever project, a $246.5-million design-build widening of Interstate 15 in Las Vegas. MARTINOVINCH ENR: What do you hope to accomplish as president? Martinovich: AASHTO presidents had focused on everything from safety to climate, but without secure funding individual focus areas are stalled. My focus is
SEATON David T. Seaton has been named CEO of Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, in a planned succession. A 26-year veteran of the contractor, he will replace in that role Alan L. Boeckmann, who will retire but becomes the firm’s non-executive chairman. The executive changes take effect on Feb. 3. Seaton, formerly chief operating officer, also served as senior group president of three Fluor units: energy and chemicals, power and government. He is a former managing director of Fluor Arabia Ltd. Boeckmann, who has been chairman and CEO since 2002, joined Fluor in 1974. Stanton “Stan” Eckstut has been named principal
CHAMBERS Craig Chambers has been named president of engineer-planner BHC Consultants, Seattle. He is a founding member of the firm and previously served as director of engineering. Gary Bourne, former president, will remain with the company as a member of the executive committee. Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Elmwood Park, N.J., has named Philip Tringale as director of its western region. The role follows its Nov. 1 acquisition of geotechnical and environmental engineer Treadwell & Rollo, San Francisco, of which he was president. The acquisition, the first by Langan, adds 70 employees to the firm’s staff of 500 in three
Jeffrey J. Zogg, a leader of New York state general contractors for more than two decades and an activist in the national Associated General Contractors group, died on Oct. 24 in Delmar, N.Y. The cause of death was sarcoma, a form of cancer, says the Associated General Contractors of New York State LLC. He was 61. ZOGG Zogg served as the group’s president and CEO since 2008, when it was formed in the merger of the General Building Contractors of New York State (GBC) and AGC’s New York State chapter, which represented heavy and highway construction firms. The combined chapter
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