DUNLAP Robert W. Dunlap, 71, founder and former CEO of Remediation Technologies Inc. (ReTec), a successful Concord, Mass., environmental services company, died on Jan. 5 in Tucson of cancer-related complications. Dunlap was ReTec president and CEO from 1985 until 1998 when it became a unit of ThermoElectron Corp. It was spun off and acquired by AECOM in 2007. Dunlap had been serving as senior consultant at engineering management consultant EFCG Inc., New York City, since 2001 and as a liaison to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He also was a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
DOMINICK Peter H. Dominick Jr., founder, president and chairman of architecture firm 4240 Architecture, based in Denver and Chicago, died on Jan. 1 after suffering a heart attack while skiing in Aspen, Colo.. He was 67. Over a 40-year career, Dominick was best known for designing hotels for the Disney organization, revitalizing the Vail, Colo., ski resort and transforming old rail yards in Denver into the Riverfront Park neighborhood. Dominick’s “deep understanding of the landscape and building traditions of the Rocky Mountain region can be seen in his distinctive architecture,” says Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School
John Hernan, a construction advertising sales executive whose West Coast-based career at Engineering News-Record and its parent firm McGraw-Hill Corp. spanned more than 44 years, died on Dec. 19 in California of melanoma-induced cancer. He was 85. HERNAN Hernan began his ENR career in 1960 and soon became one of its most prolific and successful sales executives. At his retirement in 2004, McGraw-Hill Construction Group Publisher Jay McGraw said he was “one of the most dedicated and knowledgeable members of our advertising sales team.” John Bodrozic, president of Meridian Systems, a Folsom, Calif., project management software firm, recalls Hernan’s guidance
John Hernan, a construction advertising sales executive whose West Coast-based career at Engineering News-Record and its parent firm McGraw-Hill Corp. spanned more than 44 years, died Dec. 19 in California of melanoma-induced cancer. He was 85. Hernan began his ENR career in 1960 and soon became one of its most prolific and successful ad sales executives. "He was an extraordinary professional," says Howard Mager, a retired McGraw-Hill senior vice president and ENR publisher. Hernan retired in 2004. John Bodrozic, president of Meridian Systems, a Folsom, Calif.-based project management software firm, recalls Hernan's guidance when the firm started operation in the
MARSCHALL Rear Adm. Albert R. “Mike” Marschall, third commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and an industry and government construction executive, died on Nov. 18 in Alexandria, Va. He was 87. A Naval Academy graduate, he was NAVFAC commander and chief of civil engineers from 1973 until he retired in 1977 after 36 years in the Navy. Marschall also was a vice president at George Hyman Construction Co., Washington, D.C., and a commissioner of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Public Building Service. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and was a national president of the Society
George W. Housner, an earthquake engineering pioneer, died on Nov. 10 of natural causes in Pasadena, Calif. He was 97. Housner, the Braun professor emeritus of engineering at California Technology Institute (Caltech) in Long Beach, was responsible for developing the most complete mathematical system to analyze effects of ground shaking on structures. HOUSNER Engineers previously only considered the quake force pushing upon a building. Housner realized that an earthquake isn’t static but rather sets off vibrations throughout the entire structure that could bring it down. His mathematical framework helped to better understand those vibrations and led to the implementation of