JORDAN J. Bryan Jordan has been named president and CEO of Jones & Carter Inc., a Houston-based civil and electrical engineering firm, effective on Jan. 1. In those roles, he replaces founder J.R. � Bob � Jones, who becomes chairman. Jordan, who joined the 260-person firm in 1992 as an entry-level engineer, had been its operations manager. He is president-elect of the Houston chapter of the Texas Council of Consulting Companies. Jones & Carter ranks 345th on ENR�s list of the Top 500 Design Firms, with $30.4 million in 2009 revenue. TRO Jung|Brannen, a Boston-based architect and engineer, has named
IVY Robert A. Ivy, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record magazine since 1996, has been named executive vice president and CEO of the national American Institute of Architects (AIA), Washington, D.C. He assumes his new role on Feb. 1. The magazine, like ENR, is a unit of The McGraw-Hill Cos. and, until Dec. 31, 2010, is AIA’s official publication. In January, Architect magazine, published by Hanley Wood, assumes that role. Ivy permanently succeeds Christine McEntee, who resigned in July. He also is a vice president and editorial director of McGraw-Hill Construction Media, overseeing editorial quality of its print and online media, including
LUDOVICI Joseph D. Ludovici has been elevated to director of the U.S. Defense Dept.’s Joint Guam Program Office (JGPO), which is supervising the estimated $11 billion -$15 billion construction effort to relocate more than 18,000 U.S. Marines, family members and others from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam. Formerly deputy director, he succeeds David F. Bice , a retired Marine Corps general who is stepping down as JGPO executive director. Bice, in that role since 2007, is also a former Marine Corps inspector general and base commander in Hawaii and Camp Pendleton, Calif. Ludovici, who has been a JGPO
MORRISON Linda Morrison has joined Golder Associates Inc., Atlanta, as director of federal projects. She had been chief of operations in the Savannah, Ga.-based district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Morrison also previously directed the agency’s national regulatory wetlands program in Washington, D.C., which had a staff of 1,300 at the time. This year, Morrison received the Steel Order of the de Fleury medal from the Army Engineers Association for leadership and service to the Corps’ civil-works program. XL Insurance, the global insurance unit of XL Group plc, Dublin, has named David S. Hewett as executive vice president
FLOYD Harvey M. Floyd, senior vice president of KCI Technologies Inc., a Sparks, Md., engineer, has been promoted to transportation discipline manager for the firm. He was chief client services officer and headed KCI’s mid-Atlantic transportation market in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. S. Michael Tahan has joined Hill International Inc., Marlton, N.J., as senior vice president and head of the Southern California highway, bridge and water infrastructure practice for its project management group. The position follows Hill’s Nov. 10 acquisition of Ontario, Calif.-based TCM Group Inc., of which he had been vice president. Tahan continues to lead TCM,
CLAYBROOKE Phil Claybrooke has joined mechanical contractor TDIndustries, Dallas, as vice president of special projects in its north Texas region. He was most recently regional sales manager for the western U.S. for Johnson Controls and also served as a global account manager at Honeywell Inc. The company reports revenue of about $300 million. Predrag “Pete” Popovic, vice president and senior principal at engineer Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc., Northbrook, Ill., has been named president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) for three years. IABSE, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is a 4,000-member organization that works to advance
SEATON David T. Seaton has been named CEO of Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, in a planned succession. A 26-year veteran of the contractor, he will replace in that role Alan L. Boeckmann, who will retire but becomes the firm’s non-executive chairman. The executive changes take effect on Feb. 3. Seaton, formerly chief operating officer, also served as senior group president of three Fluor units: energy and chemicals, power and government. He is a former managing director of Fluor Arabia Ltd. Boeckmann, who has been chairman and CEO since 2002, joined Fluor in 1974. Stanton “Stan” Eckstut has been named principal
CHAMBERS Craig Chambers has been named president of engineer-planner BHC Consultants, Seattle. He is a founding member of the firm and previously served as director of engineering. Gary Bourne, former president, will remain with the company as a member of the executive committee. Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Elmwood Park, N.J., has named Philip Tringale as director of its western region. The role follows its Nov. 1 acquisition of geotechnical and environmental engineer Treadwell & Rollo, San Francisco, of which he was president. The acquisition, the first by Langan, adds 70 employees to the firm’s staff of 500 in three
LOOSE Michael K. “Mike” Loose, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and a former deputy chief of naval operations, has joined Parsons Corp., Pasadena, Calif., as senior vice president and manager of the installations and environment division in the engineer-contractor�s infrastructure and technology group. Loose, based in Washington, D.C., is a former chief of civil engineers and commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Parsons also named Alexander Kozlov as vice president. Based in Guam, he will support firm projects in the Pacific Rim. Kozlov, formerly a senior associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton, is a U.S. Army Reserve brigadier
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