Jason F. McLennan, founder of the nonprofit that created the world's most stringent program for the certification of green buildings, is leaving his post as CEO of the International Living Future Institute to practice architecture.
Robert Halvorson has joined WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff as executive vice president, following its Sept. 1 purchase of Halvorson and Partners, of which he was founding principal.
Analysts speculated earlier in August that Timothy A. Ford could be heir apparent to Ronald DeFeo as CEO of crane and construction equipment giant Terex Corp., but the president of the Westport, Conn., company's cranes unit has departed in the wake of a top-level executive reshuffling made public on Aug. 19.
Arthur Hadnett has joined HNTB Corp. as president of the firm’s Los Angeles-based western division covering nine states and as a corporate senior vice president.
Edward Cruz, co-founder and former president of New Jersey-based heavy-highway contractor E.E. Cruz & Co. that was eventually sold to German giant Hochtief AG in 2010, died on July 14 at age 74 in Bayhead, N.J.
Daniel W. Falconer, the American Concrete Institute's managing director of engineering, died on July 29 in Hartland, Mich., after a 16-month battle with colon cancer.
Herbert Rothman, 91, a bridge engineer who worked on historic structures throughout the nation and was a colleague of legendary bridge designer O.H. Ammann, died on July 25 in Long Island, N.Y.
Gilbane Building Co. Firm President Michael McKelvy will take added chief's role in January, succeeding Tom Gilbane. Related Links: Crains: Forest City Ratner will keep modular factory in Brooklyn, names construction exec to run it Gilbane Building Co., the Providence, R.I.-based global builder, has elevated President Michael McKelvy to the additional role of CEO, effective on Jan. 1, the firm said on July 6. Now chief operating officer, he will succeed Thomas F. Gilbane Jr. in that role, which he has occupied since 2008. Gilbane remains chairman of the building company and CEO of Gilbane Inc., a holding company for