CrawfordConnie Crawford has been elevated to lead the global rail and transit design practice of Berger Group Holdings Inc. (Louis Berger), Morristown, N.J. A senior vice president, she formerly led its U.S. transportation engineering division. Crawford is a former senior vice president and chief engineer at the New York City Transit Authority.Stephen M. Seeger and Michael C. Zisa have joined New York City-based construction, surety and contracts law firm Peckar & Abramson P.C. as partners, in Washington, D.C. Both were partners at D.C.-based Seeger P.C., which dissolved. Five other Seeger attorneys now are P&A associates.James R. Brown has joined Sam
Related Links: See who else is moving up, and moving on in the AEC sector Globe and Mail: Genivar Fuelled by Insatiable Appetite for Growth Arranged Marriages: Two Recent Deals Point to Growing Number of Mergers and Acquisitions Among Design Firms N.J. Turnpike Interchange 6-9 Widening David Ackert will join Montreal-based engineer WSP Global Inc. as CEO of its WSP Canada Inc. unit when the parent firm completes its stock and cash purchase of Focus Group Holding Inc., a 1,700-person design and geomatics company in Edmonton, Alberta. The $366-million deal, announced on March 12, is set to close within one
Related Links: Read obituaries of other AEC leaders and innovators Joseph Dear, 62, who, as head of the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration in the 1990s, streamlined safety rules and pushed industry to develop its own voluntary measures, died on Feb. 26 in Sacramento of cancer.Most recently, he was chief investment officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CALPERS), the largest U.S. pension fund.DEARDear joined the U.S. Labor Dept. as assistant secretary and OSHA chief in 1993, after heading a Washington state labor agency.He hiked penalties for willful violations and "was a bold and forward-thinking leader who embraced
Related Links: Production Tax Credit Extension Boosts Wind Sector Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet Peter W. Davidson, 54, a former investment banker and entrepreneur, is bringing the U.S. Energy Dept.'s 8-year-old Loan Programs Office (LPO) back to life following $527 million in controversial loans made to the solar-panel maker Solyndra, which declared bankruptcy in 2011. As executive director, Davidson oversees a 180-person staff and $50-billion loan budget for clean-energy projects, including nuclear power and advanced car technologies. Prior to leading LPO, Davidson was senior advisor for energy and economic development at the Port
Related Links: SNC-Lavalin Ethics and Compliance See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector Major Gen. Theresa C. Carter, U.S. Air Force civil engineer, will become special assistant to the commander of the Air Force Materiel Command. She will relocate from the Pentagon to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. CARTERBrig. Gen. Timothy S. Green, director of installations and mission support for the Air Combat Command, located at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, succeeds her in the renamed role of director of civil engineering. Other staff and organizational changes in the service's engineering and construction operations
Related Links: A conversation with: New Jersey Turnpike Authority Executive Director Veronique Hakim P3s, Maintenance In the Future for NYC Area, Transpo Leaders Say NJ Transit director channels inner Zen to steer agency through crises D.C. Silver Line Delay Could Cost Dulles Transit Partners Millions in Fines HakimVeronique "Ronnie" Hakim was appointed on Feb. 24 as executive director of New Jersey Transit, which serves New Jersey and parts of New York and Pennsylvania. It is the largest statewide public transit system and, by ridership, the third-largest U.S. provider of bus, rail and light rail. She replaces James Weinstein, who
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector Jane A. Chmielinski, chief operating officer of AECOM, has been named to the Chmielinskiadditional role of president of its Americas unit. The company confirms a Feb. 17 note to employees, obtained by ENR, that she replaces Michael Della Rocca, who was CEO of the group but has left the company, which he joined in 2011. Della Rocca had formerly been regional managing director in North America for U.K.-based Halcrow.Turner Construction Corp. has promoted Karen Sweeney and Tom Manahan to senior vice president from vice president.
Nicholas Griner-Baltimore Business Journal In 59 years as Whiting-Turning Construction's CEO, Willard Hackerman carved a unique niche as businessman and philanthropist. Related Links: Whiting-Turner website Baltimore Sun Editorial: Willard Hackerman, Baltimore's man to see Obituary, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Business Journal: Future of new Baltimore arena in question after Hackerman's death Willard Hackerman, who likely set industry longevity records as a construction company employee and as CEO, died on Feb. 10 in Baltimore.The 95-year-old, who worked for locally based Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. for more than three-quarters of a century, also led the firm to the top ranks of national building
Related Links: Rodgers Builders Melds Traditional Values, Innovation Bonar D. "B.D." Rodgers, 89, founder and chairman of the Charlotte, N.C.-based construction management firm that became one of the southeast's largest builders, died on Feb. 14 in that city.He had remained active in managing Rodgers Builders Inc., the company he founded nearly 51 years ago with $5,000 he borrowed against a life-insurance policy.No cause of death was announced. RodgersRodgers served with an engineering combat battalion during World War II and then earned a civil engineering degree from North Carolina State University. He worked for various firms as an engineer and contractor
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