JÖNSSON Robert Jönsson has been elected president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers, the first non-North American to head the Bethesda, Md.-based group, which has 65 international chapters and 5,000 members. Jönsson is chairman of the Dept. of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety at Lund University in Sweden. He has been on its faculty since 1981 and department head since 1985. KBR, Houston, has hired Mark S. Williams as group president of its government and defense, infrastructure and minerals, and power and industrial business units. He was group vice president in northern Europe for Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.,

JACKSON Tim Jackson has been named Orlando-based managing principal of design and planning at AECOM Technology Corp, Los Angeles. Formerly president and CEO of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, an Orlando engineer, he assumes his new position following AECOM’s acquisition of “selected assets and operating liabilities” of his former firm. The transaction, announced Dec. 22, 2009, includes all 90 Glatting Jackson employees. Jackson joined the firm in 1986 and had been CEO since 2007. Mike Logan has joined HBE Corp., a St. Louis design-build firm specializing in health-care facilities, as senior vice president for hospital sales for the mid-Atlantic region. He

Rear Adm. Christopher J. Mossey was named commander of the U.S. Navy's Naval Facilities Engineering Command and chief of civil engineers, based in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Defense Dept. said Dec. 28, 2009. He will take over next May from Adm. Wayne "Greg" Shear, who is retiring after serving in those roles since 2006 and in the Navy since receiving his commission in 1979. Mossey, who does not need U.S. Senate confirmation for the post, is currently director of the Ashore Readiness Division in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and vice commander for the Navy Installations Command.

VAUGHAN Clive Vaughan has been named by Foster Wheeler Corp., Zug, Switzerland, to the newly created position of CEO of the upstream oil and gas group of its global engineering and construction unit. He was director of facilities engineering and new development for Endeavor International and, prior to that, a managing director for Granherne Ltd., a division of KBR. Stephen M. Johnson has been named CEO of J. Ray McDermott S.A., the Houston-based engineering and construction unit of McDermott International Inc. that will become the corporate operating unit, effective on Jan. 1. He had been president and chief operating officer

PIERSON George Pierson, president and chief operating officer of the Americas unit of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., New York City, has been named to the additional role of corporate CEO. He replaces Keith Hawksworth, a 33-year PB veteran, who becomes chairman. Hawksworth replaces former CEO James L. Lammie. PB became the 15,000-person professional services unit of U.K. contractor, Balfour Beatty LLC in an October acquisition. Effective Jan. 1, Jeffrey N. Lighthiser becomes president and CEO of Draper Aden Associates, a Blacksburg, Va., engineer. He replaces firm co-founder Bill Aden, who remains chairman. Lighthiser is executive vice president, director of marketing and

AECOM Technology Corp., Los Angeles, has named James F. Thompson as CEO of international government services. In this role, he will lead the firm’s programs and projects with international governments. He had been CEO of AECOM’s Southwest and Mountain region in the U.S., encompassing 15 states. Thompson joined the firm in 2005, when it acquired his former company, J. F. Thompson Inc. FLEW Nick Flew has been appointed managing director of the U.K. and European operations of Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York City. He had been director of Balfour Beatty Management, the professional services business of Balfour Beatty, the U.K.-based global

WARE Lloyd G. Ware has joined design firm The Switzer Group, New York City, as president of its newly formed health-care division. He had been senior architect in the worldwide engineering and real estate group of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and was also the first African-American partner at architect Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Foster Wheeler AG, Zug, Switzerland, has named Robert C. Flexon president and CEO of Foster Wheeler USA Corp., its engineering and construction group unit in Houston. He succeeds W. Troy Roder, who becomes chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., Reading, England. Flexon, an

The U.S. Army is making changes at top levels of the Corps of Engineers, announcing on Oct. 16 that Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. “Bo” Temple will become deputy chief of engineers, the Corps’ No. 2 position. Temple has been the Corps’ deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations since 2008. Related Links: Army Names Temple, Dorko to Senior Corps Posts Effective in January 2010, Temple will succeed Maj. Gen. Don T. Riley, who will be retiring, says a Corps spokesman. Riley has been the deputy chief of the Corps since April 2008. Before becoming head of Corps civil works

The Army is making changes in the top ranks of the Corps of Engineers. Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. (Bo) Temple will become deputy chief of engineers, the Corps' number-two position, the Army announced on Oct. 16. Temple has been the Corps' Deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations since 2008. Temple will succeed Maj. Gen. Don T. Riley, who will be retiring effective in January 2010, a Corps spokesman says. Riley has been the deputy chief of the Corps since April 2008. Taking Temple's place is Maj. Gen. William T. Grisoli, who has been in the office of the

DULANEY Daryl D. Dulaney is named president and CEO of New York City-based Siemens Industry Inc., a newly formed entity in the U.S. operations of German technology firm Siemens AG. The new unit combines its former U.S.-based building technology, transportation systems, energy and other businesses. Dulaney, who had been president and CEO of the building technology unit since 2005, joined Siemens in 1979. O’Brien & Gere, East Syracuse, N.Y., has promoted Executive Vice President R. Leland “Lee” Davis to president and chief operating officer. Prior to joining O’Brien & Gere in 2007, he was chairman, president and CEO of Galson