CavallaroEffective on Jan. 1, Skanska AB has named Richard Cavallaro corporate executive vice president and president and CEO of Skanska USA, the Sweden-based contractor's U.S. construction operations, which includes its Skanska USA Building and Skanska USA Civil units. He will succeed Michael McNally, who is retiring from the company. Cavallaro currently is president and CEO of the civil construction company. Set to succeed him in those roles is Michael Cobelli, who now is the unit's chief operating officer. Wier & Associates, Arlington, Texas, has elevated Carlo Silvestri to president. A principal of the engineering firm since 2004, he joined in
Related Links: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association statement GaynorRichard D. Gaynor, a prominent researcher in the concrete industry since the 1950s and a former executive vice president of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, died in Maryland on July 16. He was 83.NRMCA said that Gaynor's wide-ranging achievements included work in developing standards for cement; strength and durability testing; reuse of returned concrete and wash water; characteristics of aggregates; mixing in truck mixers; and initiatives to improve ready-mix-concrete quality.The association said Gaynor was a prime mover in the revision, in 1985, of the American Society for Testing and Materials' C94
Related Links: Reuters: Candidates to Replace Perciasepe Unclear; Difficult Confirmation Process Anticipated PerciasepeRobert Perciasepe, deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 2009, will start on Aug. 11 as president of The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a Washington, D.C., climate-change and energy policy think tank. A 21-year EPA management veteran, he also had been the Maryland secretary of the environment and chief operating officer of the National Audubon Society. Perciasepe succeeds Eileen Claussen, who founded the non-profit group in 1998. At ENR press time on Aug. 8, an EPA spokeswoman confirmed that Lisa Feldt, associate deputy administrator,
CarlsonDonald R. Carlson, 84, a project architect and construction manager who helped build Chicago’s original McCormick Place convention center in the 1950s, died of renal failure on June 26.Carlson designed projects for Chicago-based C.F. Murphy Associates, which later became Murphy/Jahn Architects. He worked on the original $35-million, 320,000-sq-ft McCormick Place that opened in 1960 but burned down in 1967. He also served as architectural production chief during the early 1970s on all terminals, gates and operational facilities for the 13 original airlines at O'Hare International Airport.Carlson later worked for Martin B. Schaffer & Associates, redoing the top four floors of
Courtesy of Odebrecht Norberto Odebrecht, pictured (sitting) with son Emilio in the 1990s, died on July 19 at age 93. Related Links: ENR: Odebrecht Sues State of Florida Over Anti-Cuba Law Odebrecht Blog Marking 30th Anniversary of Key Merger with Brazil Contractors CBPO ENR: 2008 Q&A with Marcelo Odebrecht, President of Construtora Norberto Odebrecht SA Bloomberg: Brazilian Builder Odebrecht Emerges as World Cup Winner Odebrecht Foundation website ENR: Brazil Places Its Bets on Hydroelectric Dams, Despite Protests ENR: Brazilians Say Government Deserves a Good, Swift Kick for Broken World Cup Promises Norberto Odebrecht, whose launch, in the 1940s, of a
Related Links: Georgia Institute of Technology Prominent structural engineer and professor Stanley D. Lindsey has been called a genius, an innovator and an inspiration. He died on July 12 of a massive heart attack on his horse farm in Bluffton, S.C. He was 75.Not long after starting his eponymous firm in Nashville, Tenn., in 1966, Lindsey became known as a pioneer in the use of computers for the analysis and design of structures. Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates Ltd., which for years wrote most of its own software, was one of the first engineers to integrate computer-aided design with drafting.Lindsey
Rod Garrett, design director of the Washington, D.C., office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, died suddenly on June 27 while in Chicago, attending the American Institute of Architects convention. Garrett would have turned 54 on Aug. 7.Garrett, who joined SOM in 1986, focused on public and institutional projects and was considered an expert in the public agency and review process."He was recognized that way," says Mark Regulinski, managing director of SOM's New York City and Washington, D.C., offices. "He got his AIA fellowship designation on the strength of his expertise," he adds.GarrettHis recent projects include the master plan and
Related Links: See who's moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector CarragherVHB, a Watertown, Mass., design firm, has elevated Michael J. Carragher to president, effective Jan. 1, and to CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2016, says the firm. In those roles, he will succeed Robert Brustlin, who becomes chairman. Carragher, a senior vice president, directs VHB's Southeast region. He is also the Florida region vice president of the Design-Build Institute of America. Brustlin, a co-founder of VHB, has been president and CEO for 15 years.As it restructures and integrates global operations, Louis Berger has named Andrew V. Bailey II
Ohio State University Former students praised Merry's skill in teaching complex topics and connecting to aspiring engineers. Related Links: American Society of Civil Engineers' Tribute to Carolyn Merry On line Obituary and Tributes Ohio State U. College of Engineering Mourns Death of Professor Emerita Carolyn Merry; Link to Carolyn J. Merry Scholarship Fund A June 3 highway accident has killed Carolyn J. Merry, former Ohio State University civil engineering chair and noted remote sensing researcher. She was 63.Merry's husband Robert K. Redfield confirmed to ENR that tractor-trailer driver Adrian Rogers, whose vehicle slammed into a car driven by Merry on
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