Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said on Nov. 23 that President and CEO Craig Martin will retire from the role and the firm, effective Dec. 26, for unspecified “health reasons.”
Related Links: B&W Announces Intention to Spin-off Its Power Generation Business Babcock & Wilcox Announces Third Quarter 2014 Results The Moles website FerlandThe Babcock & Wilcox Co., Charlotte, N.C., announced on Nov. 5 executive changes as part of its expected corporate split into two standalone companies to boost shareholder value, which will be completed next summer. Current B&W President and CEO E. James Ferland will take the same roles in one company, to be called Babcock & Wilcox, which will consist of the former firm’s power generation Bakerequipment and services business. He has been In his current role since
Related Links: Laing O'Rourke boosted by improvement down under AndrewsVeteran global executive Mark Andrews has joined U.K. construction firm Laing O'Rourke as managing director of its Middle East operations, primarily focused in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Most recently, he was chief operating officer of Arabtec Holding, a UAE-based construction services firm that ranks at No. 135 on ENR's list of The Top 250 Global Contractors, with more than $2 billion in 2013 revenue. Andrews also was formerly CEO of U.K.-based engineer NG Bailey and North American chief for global manufacturer Pirelli Power Systems and Cables, and held
Along with new cost impacts that Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. announced on Oct. 22 from “deterioration” of an unidentified northeast U.S. oil and gas pipeline project that will require it to restate results, the contractor has reshuffled its top management.John T. McNabb II has been named CEO, immediately replacing Robert R. “Randy” Harl, who has expedited his retirement from Jan. 2. McNabb, who is vice chairman of investment firm Duff & Phelps, has been a Willbros director since 2006 and now also becomes chairman. Harl, CEO since 2006, had been chairman and CEO of Kellogg Brown & Root. Willbros also
GloverAECOM confirms that David Glover, its London-based global CEO of building engineering, will depart at the end of October to become chief executive of Intelligent Engineering, a U.K.-based consulting firm.
Related Links: Balfour Beatty website: investors Financial Times: Balfour Beatty names Qinetiq head as chief executive Balfour Beatty: New chief exec speaks QuinnLeo Quinn, who began his career in 1979 as a civil engineer at now-struggling U.K. construction services giant Balfour Beatty, will return to the firm as CEO in January. The global contractor announced his appointment on Oct. 15, five months after the departure of Andrew McNaughton. Quinn, who will replace Executive Chairman Steve Marshall in the CEO role, joins the contractor after five profit warnings in the past two years and some analyst speculation over whether, before the
Related Links: Bob Pragada, Group Vice President of Jacobs, shares a quick vision of the pharma facility of tomorrow (2013 video clip). PragadaRobert V. Pragada has joined The Brock Group, Houston, one of the largest U.S. industrial services subcontractors, as president and CEO. In those roles he succeeds Jeff Davis, who continues as chairman. Pragada had been senior vice president of global sales at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and also served as chief operating officer at Kinetics, an industrial-process design-build firm. Davis was named CEO in 2008. Brock Group ranks at No. 6 on ENR's list of the Top 600
Hertz Global Holdings Inc. has named as its interim CEO, Brian P. MacDonald, who now is chief of the rental company’s construction-equipment unit. He replaces Mark Frissora who it said resigned on Sept. 8 for “personal reasons.”The company had announced earlier this year that it would spin off Hertz Equipment Rental Corp. into a separate $2.5-billion public company by early 2015. However, accounting errors—acknowledged but not disclosed in detail by the company—that have held up reporting of its 2014 results “could definitely delay the spin-off,” says Nicholas Coppola, a senior equity analyst with Thompson Research Group.The divestiture was set to
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector How health care and engineering went from Leidos' big play to its financial burden StevensMaj. Gen. Richard L. Stevens is named U.S. Army deputy chief of engineers and deputy commander of the Corps of Engineers, the Dept. of Defense said on Sept. 2. He will replace Maj. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, who will be deployed to Afghanistan for an as yet unannounced assignment, said the Army. Stevens was Corps deputy commander for military and international operations. No successor was announced. Semonite was deputy chief since
Related Links: Diversification Drive Keeps Webcor Healthy American Society of Civil Engineers' website Seeking Alpha: Is McDermott A Good Investment Pick? VahdatShahram Vahdat has joined HNTB Corp., Kansas City, Mo., as vice president and group transportation director. He was a vice president and Los Angeles office manager at URS Corp. since 2008. Vahdat also is a former president of the American Council of Engineering Cos., Los Angeles County chapter. HNTB also has named David Tiberi a vice president and regional construction leader based in Santa Ana, Calif. He had been construction services practice manager and executive vice president of Athalye
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