STEHLY Richard D. Stehly was an activist in the American Concrete Institute for more than 30 years, pushing the technical boundaries and construction possibilities of the materials to the global industry. But his Sept. 18 death in Edina, Minn., apparently after suffering a fatal heart attack at a hockey game, has silenced him only six months after reaching the advocacy group’s top spot as president. ACI says that Kenneth Hover, Cornell University professor of civil and environment engineering, and the group’s senior vice president, will succeed Stehly as president. Stehly was also senior vice president and principal engineer of American
WRIGHT Ted Wright has joined engineer-contractor KBR, Houston, as president of its North American government and defense business unit. Now based in Arlington, Va., he was most recently president of technology services and solutions for BAE Systems in Rockville, Md., the U.S. arm of U.K-based defense, security and aerospace firm BAE Systems plc. AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles, has appointed Gary Lawrence as vice president and chief sustainability officer. He had been the urban strategies leader in New York City for U.K-based engineering firm Arup. Lawrence also served as a sustainability adviser to the Clinton Administration’s President’s Council on Sustainable
CALDWELL Kathy J. Caldwell, president of Caldwell Cook & Associates, a Gainesville, Fla., design firm, will become president of The American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Va., on Oct. 22. She is an adjunct engineering professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Caldwell was president of JEA Construction Engineering Services Inc. and vice president of its parent, Jones Edmunds & Associates Inc. She is only the second woman to lead the 144,000-person civil engineers group, founded in 1852. The Shaw Group, Baton Rouge, La., has promoted Jeff Jenkins to chief operating officer of its environmental and infrastructure group, one of
Robert A. Olmsted, the first director of long-term planning for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and a transportation engineer, builder, historian and industry mentor for more than 60 years, died on Aug. 16 in Manhattan. He was 85. Olmsted early in his career at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (left) and at the 2009 Manhattan Bridge centennial. Olmsted—a descendent of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New York City’s Central Park—began his own industry career in the late 1940s as a Cornell University engineering graduate on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. A protégé of Ole Singstad, the innovative
Robert A. Olmsted, the first director of long-term planning for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and a transportation engineer, builder, historian and industry mentor for more than 60 years, died on Aug. 16 in Manhattan. He was 85. Olmsted—a descendent of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed New York City’s Central Park—began his own industry career in the late 1940s as a Cornell University engineering graduate on the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. A protégé of Ole Singstad, the innovative structure’s chief engineer, Olmsted went on to work for other New York-area transportation agencies and on global engineering
LARRABEE Lisa V. Larrabee has been named president and CEO of Harris & Associates, a Concord, Calif., professional services firm, effective on Oct. 18. She succeeds Guy Erickson, who is retiring after 30 years with the firm, the last eight in those roles. Larrabee was senior vice president and environment planning division leader at ICF International, Fairfax, Va., and also served as COO of design firm Jones & Stokes before ICF acquired it in 2008. Praj O. White has joined Manhard Consulting Ltd., Vernon Hills, Ill., as area manager in northern California. The change follows its Sept. 2 acquisition of
ACTON BMW Constructors Inc., Indianapolis, has elected Brian K. Acton to president and chief operating officer in a planned corporate succession action. He had been executive vice president, since returning to the firm in 2009 from a previous role as president of an affiliated company in Seattle. While in that position, he launched the firm’s entry into the semiconductor, biotechnology and aerospace construction sectors. Acton also serves on the advisory board of the construction and engineering dept. at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Hill International Inc., the Marlton, N.J.-based global project and risk management consultant, has announced several executive appointments
BISSONETTE Leah Bissonette has joined New York City-based global engineer Environmental Resources Management (ERM) in a new position as managing partner for its North America power-sector work. She is based in Irvine, Calif. Bissonette is formerly an energy practice director for Navigant Consulting Inc. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Phil McBride has been named New South Wales divisional manager of U.K.-based design firm Mott MacDonald Group Ltd., following its Aug. 12 acquisition of consultant Hughes Trueman Pty. Ltd., of which he had been managing director. The move is part of Mott MacDonald’s strategy to set up a base in
Starbucks would be the last place one would expect to find the man New York City prosecutors tried to portray as “Wild Bill Rapetti.” Photo: Renee Rapetti Rapetti embraces a coworker during an event honoring crane-accident victims. Related Links: Full text of interview and reader comments Rapetti Wants His Licenses Back Rapetti, the master rigger recently acquitted on manslaughter charges stemming from the deadly 2008 collapse of a Manhattan tower crane, was called “reckless” by the prosecution and vilified as the “killer crane rigger” in the tabloids. But during an interview with ENR, Rapetti sat in the coffee shop, sipping
XU Minda Xu has been named vice president and regional director for business and strategic development in China for AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles. She had been vice president for China with New York City-based McGraw-Hill Construction (which also publishes Engineering News-Record). Xu, based in Shanghai, formerly worked for Standard & Poor’s, also a unit of McGraw-Hill Cos. KBR, the Houston-based engineer-contractor, has named Dennis S. Baldwin vice president and chief accounting officer. Prior to joining the company, he served in a similar role at engineer-contractor McDermott International. Granite Construction Inc., Watsonville, Calif., has promoted Terry Eller to vice president,
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