Richard "Dick" Geary, who rose from a Kiewit Corp. highway project engineer in Oregon to president of the giant contractor's corporate unit that won and executed its signature I-15 design-build project in Utah in the 1990s, died on Oct. 19 in Lake Oswego, Ore.
Frank Bardonaro Sr., who, over several decades, helped to streamline the operations of crane rental firms, died in Cincinnati on Oct. 21. He was 71.BARDONAROBardonaro served as dispatcher and operations manager for 27 years at Carlisle Crane, which, in 1999, joined with Anthony Crane to become known as Maxim Crane Works LP. He left Maxim in 2002 to become vice president of operations for Ohio at AmQuip, later working as that firm's special-projects manager until his death.According to Frank Bardonaro Jr., his father designed processes—such as matching crane-operator qualifications to assigned machines and contractor requirements—that made renting cranes safer and
Related Links: Website of RWDI On line death notice of Walter Podolny Jr., memorial service details Online obituary- Henry C. Hines Website of The DiSalvo Engineering Group WilliamsColin J. Williams, 66, an expert in microclimate impacts on building performance and founding partner of Canadian design firm Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, died on Sept. 17 in Elora, Ontario. The cause of death was cancer, says the company. In a 40-year career at the Guelph, Ontario, firm, he helped grow it from a small regional company to a 400-person global consultancy, says CEO Michael Soligo. Williams “was a much published author
Related Links: Structural Engineer Daniel A. Cuoco Remembered Thornton Tomasetti Structural engineer Daniel A. Cuoco, former president and CEO of Thornton-Tomasetti, died of cancer on Sept. 21. He was 68 years old.He joined the New York City-based firm in 1971, when it was named Lev Zetlin Associates. He became president in 2002 and president and CEO in 2008. He retired in 2011.CUOCOIn the mid-1980s, Cuoco formed LZA Technology, the firm's structural forensics arm. After the World Trade Center attacks, he identified this work as his most important job, say his colleagues. Beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, Cuoco led a team
Related Links: John R. Forrester--Obituary notice Link to Photo of Rick Forrester With Brothers, Fellow Execs, at Forrester Construction ENR: D.C. Cuts Forrester Payment by $1M Over MBE Joint Venture ForresterJohn R. “Rick” Forrester, founder and principal of Forrester Construction Co. Inc., Rockville, Md., died on Aug. 29 in an undisclosed Virginia location. The cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, a spokesman for the state Medical Examiner confirmed to ENR. Forrester was 55.A memorial service for him is set for Friday, Oct. 10, at 4:00pm at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Road, Bethesda,
Related Links: Holabird & Root obituary on Gerald Horn HornGerald A. Horn, 79, a prominent Chicago architect, died on Aug. 9 of cancer. He was a partner at architecture firm Holabird & Root from 1988 to 2004, managing numerous designs, including the Illinois Bell Telephone building, which won an American Institute of Architects national design award in 1974.Other noteworthy designs include those for the the Chicago Historical Society expansion, Federal Reserve Bank Building addition and Northwestern University Law School.Horn also was a longtime educator at the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture.He studied under mid-century modernist architect Craig Ellwood
FahoumKhaldoun Fahoum, a geotechnical engineer, soils and foundation expert and a vice president and U.A.E.-based Middle East regional manager for Langan Engineering, died on July 23 in Dubai, says the firm.The cause of death was cancer, it says. Fahoum was 51 years old, says Langan.He joined Langan in 2008 and was key to the firm’s involvement in several major projects, most notably Kingdom Tower and King Abdullah Financial District in Saudi Arabia.A 20-year industry veteran, Fahoum also was Middle East chairman of the Deep Foundations Institute and named a trustee in March.He had extensive experience in deep and raft foundations
ENR Archives Price was a key figure in Australia's Snowy Mountains Scheme, a billion-dollar hydropower construction program that lasted nearly 25 years. PriceDouglas G. Price, whose engineering career began as Australia's massive Snowy Mountains hydroelectric project got under way in 1950 and ended nearly four decades later when he was CEO of the global design firm spawned from what became the country's largest-ever infrastructure program, died on July 10 in Armidale, New South Wales. He was 87.Price was a key project leader on the 23-year, billion-dollar-plus project known as the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Located in Australia's southeast, it was one
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
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
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