Related Links: How Andrew Buckley Is Shaping the Future of Australian Engineer Cardno Cardno FY15 guidance and market update Richard Wankmuller, a veteran American engineering executive, started his tenure on June 29 as CEO of Australia's Cardno Ltd. as the Brisbane-based professional services firm copes with falling profits, market gyrations and a possible takeover by a private equity firm.Wankmuller, the former president of rival Australian firm GHD Group Pty Ltd.'s North American operations who was named by Cardno's board as CEO and managing director in late May after a search, has relocated to Brisbane and now is visiting its Asia-Pacific,
Harvard University Doyle formerly headed an engineering department and major research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Related Links: Incoming Dean, Rising School Timely' Gift Will Lend SEAS Momentum in Era of Transition John A. Paulson School of Applied Science and Engineering at Harvard University Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., has named Francis J. "Frank" Doyle as dean of its John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), effective in July. He had been associate dean for research at the University of California, Santa Barbara College of Engineering, launching a major push into bioengineering, according to Harvard.Doyle will
Denver-based Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping Inc., which says it is the largest U.S. concrete-pumping firm, has hired Gary Bernardez as chief operating officer. He is formerly senior vice president of global services for Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, and also had been president of its AMECO integrated equipment unit. Brundage-Bone was acquired last August by an affiliate of Peninsula Pacific Strategic Partners LLC, a Los Angeles investment firm.The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), a Washington, D.C.-based trade group for more than 300 public sewerage agencies and related companies, has elevated Adam Krantz to CEO, effective on Aug. 1. He will
Executive is overseeing hiring of 300+ examiners and inspectors and "project advocates" to link DOB to other city agencies involved in construction. Related Links: NYC Mayor Selects Rick Chandler to Head DOB Crane Accident Injures 10 in Manhattan With New York City's Dept. of Buildings on track to receive a record number of building applications this year, its commissioner is moving to streamline the process."The number of applications we're seeing is higher than it has been in decades," DOB Commissioner Rick Chandler told ENR in an interview.In 2014, the agency reviewed 90,000 building applications. If permits for renovation are included,
Allen Soast, 78, whose coverage of building and infrastructure construction took him to many global locations in a 35-year editorial career, died on March 18 of cancer in Hillsborough, N.J., says his family.
Related Links: Vanir Construction Management Inc. and CEO Mansour Aliabadi Raise the Bar on CM Geoprofessional Business Association website Earl “Chip” Mitchell has joined CH2M as president of its 5,000-person oil, gas & chemicals business group (OGC), based in Houston. He had been group vice president for the upstream, midstream and pipeline business at Jacobs Engineering Group, and also had headed its OGC market sector in Canada.CH2M CEO Jacque Hinman said the firm’s OGC markets “are poised for substantial growth over the next several years.” But earlier this year, the firm reversed a planned sale of its OGC business in
U. of Michigan Ponce de Leon founded an innovative digital and robotics focused architecture lab at the University of Michigan. Related Links: Deans List: Monica Ponce de Leon of University of Michigan's Taubman College Spinoff of Hertz Equipment Unit Faces Delay-2014 2014 Q&A with Lisa Farrar, SVP of Hertz Equipment Great expectations for new International IBEW President Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., has named Monica Ponce de Leon dean of its School of Architecture, effective in January. She replaces Alejandro Zaera-Polo, who resigned last October in a dispute with the university over plagiarism issues, says Architectural Record (AR), sister publication of
Robert L. "Bob" Nichols, an early proponent of environmental engineering in a 67-year career at Fort Worth, Texas-based water-wastewater design firm Freese and Nichols Inc., including serving as president and vice chairman, died on May 8 in Arlington, says the firm.
A memorial event is set for June 14 in Englewood, Colo., for Richard P. Arber, vice president of engineer Hatch Mott MacDonald and an early champion of water reuse, who died on April 21 at age 68, says the firm.
WardChristopher O. Ward has joined AECOM as senior vice president and CEO of design and consulting services in its metro New York region, five months after leaving a top executive role he held since 2011 at Dragados USA, a unit of the Spain-based contractor and concessions firm.Ward left the Dragados role as executive vice president for major projects at the end of 2014, telling Crain's NY Business that the expected public-private-partnership construction market "was not as large as it had been." The firm was part of a design-build team that had been short-listed for the $4-billion Tappan Zee replacement bridge
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