Leslie Butterfield has joined Hill International, the Marlton, N.J.-based global project management and claims firm, as senior vice president and head of Australia operations. The role follows Hill’s acquisition of McLachlan Lister Pty. Ltd., a Sydney project management consultant of which she had been CEO since 2002. The firm has a staff of 50. Butterfield, an associate fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, is a former strategic development committee chairwoman of the federal government’s Industry Research & Development Board. BUTTERFIELD Trow Global, a Brampton, Ontario, engineer, has named Anthony Brown as senior vice president. He was senior vice president
Samir Brikho has been CEO since 2006 of U.K.-based AMEC plc, a leading global engineering and project management services provider to the oil and gas, energy, water and environmental sectors. A former CEO of ABB Lummus Global and a former senior manager at France’s Astom, Brikho was born in Lebanon and received advanced technical and business degrees In Sweden and the U.S. ENR Business Editors Debra K. Rubin and Gary Tulacz interviewed him on June 10 in New York City. BRIKHO How will the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico affect your projects and work with BP? AMEC is
McNAMARA Robert S. McNamara has joined developer-builder Lend Lease, Sydney, Australia, as CEO of its New York City-based Americas division. Lend Lease is the parent of Bovis Lend Lease and Actus Lend Lease, both with U.S. units. Since 2006, McNamara was president and CEO of LVI Services Inc., a New York City abatement and demolition firm. LVI is a key subcontractor to Bovis on demolition of the Deutsche Bank building in Manhattan, damaged on Sept. 11, 2001. McNamara, also a former Fluor Corp. senior group president, now directs Lend Lease Americas units involved in development, project management, construction, public-private partnerships
James S. “Jim” Myers, former senior engineer at The Louis Berger Group Inc., Morristown, N.J., whose 40-year career included some of the firm’s toughest global assignments, died on May 13 of natural causes in Northport, Wash. He was 75. Myers held engineering and law degrees and was a certified scuba diver, licensed instrument pilot and marksman. “He was a man of such engineering brilliance, tenacity and dedication, he forever will be a legend at Berger,” says Larry D. Walker, Louis Berger president. Photo: Louis Berger Group Engineer Myers (left) at memorial to workers killed during an Afghanistan road rehab project
WUESTNECK John Wuestneck has been promoted to the new position of chief operating officer of engineering firm Birdsall Services Group, Sea Girt, N.J. Formerly president, he has been with the firm since 1987 and is based in its Lakewood, N.J., office. Alain Bentéjac and Jacques Gaillard have been named co-chairmen of ARTELIA, a new engineering firm formed by the merger of Paris-based Coteba and Sogreah, based in Grenoble, France. Bentéjac had been chairman of Coteba, and Gaillard was in the same role at Sogreah. The merger creates a design and project management firm with about $378 million in total 2009
PATTISON Robert K. Pattison, a high-speed-rail advocate and former public- and private-sector transportation senior executive, died on May 12 in Fairfax, Va. He was 88. Pattison’s career in freight- and passenger-rail engineering, operation and administration spanned four decades. He served as president and general manager in the 1970s of the Long Island Rail Road, the largest U.S. commuter railroad, and was general manager of the Penn Central-Conrail Railroad. Pattison also is a former vice president of Parsons Brinckerhoff, where he was technical director of railway engineering on all its domestic and international rail projects. He also is a founding member
Yves François is a firm owner who defies convention. The 45-year-old designer was born in Haiti but spent most of his childhood in Brooklyn. In 1986, he earned an architecture degree from the New York Institute of Technology and went on to work for 10 years at Pepsico as a facility manager and architectural consultant. He later held similar positions at Philip Morris and Cablevision. Photo: Aric Mei François, born in Haiti but raised in Brooklyn, derived his firm’s name from the names of his children, Erin and Chandler. Related Links: Congress Moving on Aid for Haiti, But Little Rebuilding
Construction safety, including safety of crane operations, is a priority for David Michaels, the chief of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Michaels, who became assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health last December, signed a voluntary agreement on May 17 with the National Center for Construction Education and Research, for crane-operator certification--the fourth such program to receive formal OSHA recognition since 1999. Before moving to the top OSHA post, Michaels was professor of environmental and occupational health at George Washington University�s School of Public Health and Health Services. Earlier, he was the Dept. of Energy's assistant
THOMAS David B. Thomas has joined engineer-architect Gannett Fleming, Harrisburg, Pa., as a senior vice president and national director of transit and rail. Now based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., he was executive vice president and director of infrastructure operations and client development for ARCADIS. Granite Construction Inc., Watsonville, Calif., announced on May 17 a planned leadership transition, as of Sept. 1. James H. Roberts, executive vice president and chief operating officer since last September, has been named as president and CEO. He replaces William G. Dorey, who retires Aug. 31 after four years in the positions and 42 with the
VIESSMAN LABIB Maher Z. Labib, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the buildings and facilities division of engineering and construction management firm STV Inc., New York City, died on May 12 at age 67. STV declines to disclose how or where he died. Labib, who earned civil engineering degrees in Cairo, Egypt, joined the firm in 1996 from a previous role as vice president for facilities and buildings at Raytheon Infrastructure Services Inc. Labib “re-engineered … the division into one of the most profitable arms of STV,” says CEO Dominick Servedio. Warren “Bud” Viessman, professor emeritus of environmental
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