Pea-Mora lost faculty vote of confidence and stepped down. Related Links: October 2011 letter to interim Columbia U. Provost John H. Coatsworth Pena-Mora resignation statement Even with strong support on campus and off in three years as dean of the Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Feniosky Peña-Mora could not survive faculty dismay with his administration.The New York City-based university announced his resignation July 3 in an email to students and staff, and said faculty veteran Donald Goldfarb would become interim dean while a search for a permanent successor begins. He had been named several months
Related Links: Turner Construction Co. has elevated Mark Breslin to CEO of Sahara Turner—the contractor's new partnership with Indian developer Sahara Prime City Ltd. and Acropolis Capital Group, a financial investment firm—to oversee an estimated $2.5 billionin construction in India over the next five years. He had been vice president and general manager of Turner's New York North region. Breslin, who joined the firm as a superintendent in 1995, will be based in Mumbai. Turner promoted Rich Homan to executive vice president. Formerly senior vice president, he now adds supervision of the firm's multistate Southeast region to his duties. Homan
Related Links: Detailed obituary on William D. Kennedy Fifth International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security, March 14-16, 2012 KENNEDYWilliam D. "Bill" Kennedy, a transit engineering pioneer and a key figure in the development of tunnel ventilation systems for road and rail tunnels worldwide, died on June 23 at the age of 69. The cause was cancer, according to officials at Parsons Brinckerhoff, where he was a vice president and a 46-year company veteran.In the 1970s, Kennedy and a small group of colleagues worked with DeLeuw, Cather & Co. and Kaiser Engineers to develop the "Subway Environmental Design Handbook"
Jens-Peter Saul has joined Copenhagen-based engineering firm Ramboll A/S as CEO. Most recently, he had been CEO of Siemens Wind Power, a unit of the German conglomerate. Saul also served as managing director of Siemens Energy in the U.K. and northern and western Europe. As Ramboll CEO, Saul succeeds Flemming Pederson, who becomes a consultant to the company, the largest engineering firm in the northern Europe region. It ranks at No. 26 on ENR's list of the Top 200 International Design Firms, with $701 million in 2010 revenue. Pedersen had been CEO of Ramboll since 1992.Charles D. Linn has been
Photo courtesy of Naval Facilities Engineering Command Gregory, a 1982 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was promoted to rear admiral in 2010. Her career has included tours of duty in Japan, the Mediterranean, Iraq, Haiti and several U.S. assignments. Related Links: Gregory bio Rear Adm. Katherine L. Gregory has been named the new commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the Navy’s chief of civil engineers, the Dept. of Defense announced on June 18. Gregory will be the first woman to lead NAVFAC in its long history, which it traces to the formation of the Bureau of Navy Yards and
Related Links: Oh, By the Way: Don Short's Last ENR Commentary Website of The Tempest Co. Don L. Short II, a nationally known cost estimating expert and a prolific crusader for fundamentals in the practice, died June 8 in Omaha. He was 60 years old and had been diagnosed with liver cancer several weeks earlier.Short was president and founder of The Tempest Co., an Omaha estimating firm and consultant. He also was a two-term past president and Fellow of the American Society of Professional Estimators.Known for his bluntness, Short authored numerous articles and opinions that appeared regularly on ENR.com and
Gerald Buckrell has joined engineer Hatch Mott McDonald as principal project manager in Thunder Bay, Ontario, the firm tells ENR. The role follows Millburn, N.J.-based HMM's May 29 purchase of Engineering Northwest Ltd., of which he was president. Sixty employees joined HMM.Judy L. Hricak has been promoted to the newly created position of chief marketing officer at Gannett Fleming, a Harrisburg, Pa., design and construction management firm. A 23-year company veteran, she also is a vice president. PressleyHill International, the Marlton, N.J., risk consulting and construction management firm, has elevated Shawn L. Pressley to senior vice president and chief information
Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Nancy Hamilton has joined design firm HOK as global director of its engineering services. Based in Chicago, she also is a senior vice president, the firm confirms. Hamilton had been principal and aviation business leader at Arup and was at that firm since 1987. She now leads HOK's firm-wide mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) and structural engineering group. HOK also has elected Carl Gallioto to its executive committee. With the firm since 2009, he is managing principal of its New York City office. HOK Chairman and CEO Patrick MacLeamy also was elected to
Related Links: Minimee Cited by ENR for Olympian Efforts to Spur Bridge Construction Utah Embraces Accelerated Construction Method AASHTO obituary of James C. Minimee James C. “Jim” McMinimee, who pioneered accelerated bridge construction techniques in Utah and across the U.S., died suddenly on May 10 in Washington, D.C. He was 51. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, for which he was a contractor, says he died of natural causes, but did not provide further detail. McMinimeeMcMinimee led AASHTO’s effort to implement the latest congressionally-mandated Strategic Highway Research Program, a transportation-sector effort probing highway congestion.For 25 years, he
MUNIZLydia Muniz has been promoted to director of the U.S. State Dept.'s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, which oversees design and construction of U.S. embassy facilities around the world. She succeeds Adam E. Namm, who was confirmed by the Senate on April 26 as ambassador to Ecuador. Muniz, who has been acting in the role for several months, had been principal deputy director since 2009.Maj. Gen. Michael R. Eyre has been named to command the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Trans-Atlantic division in Winchester, Va. He had been serving as deputy commanding general for military and international operations and
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