Peter Zipf, former chief engineer of The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and a 30-year agency veteran, joined Omaha design firm HDR on Oct. 5 as vice president and northeast region transportation director based in New York City, ENR confirms.
Jason F. McLennan, founder of the nonprofit that created the world's most stringent program for the certification of green buildings, is leaving his post as CEO of the International Living Future Institute to practice architecture.
Robert Halvorson has joined WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff as executive vice president, following its Sept. 1 purchase of Halvorson and Partners, of which he was founding principal.
Analysts speculated earlier in August that Timothy A. Ford could be heir apparent to Ronald DeFeo as CEO of crane and construction equipment giant Terex Corp., but the president of the Westport, Conn., company's cranes unit has departed in the wake of a top-level executive reshuffling made public on Aug. 19.
Arthur Hadnett has joined HNTB Corp. as president of the firm’s Los Angeles-based western division covering nine states and as a corporate senior vice president.
Gilbane Building Co. Firm President Michael McKelvy will take added chief's role in January, succeeding Tom Gilbane. Related Links: Crains: Forest City Ratner will keep modular factory in Brooklyn, names construction exec to run it Gilbane Building Co., the Providence, R.I.-based global builder, has elevated President Michael McKelvy to the additional role of CEO, effective on Jan. 1, the firm said on July 6. Now chief operating officer, he will succeed Thomas F. Gilbane Jr. in that role, which he has occupied since 2008. Gilbane remains chairman of the building company and CEO of Gilbane Inc., a holding company for
Related Links: How Andrew Buckley Is Shaping the Future of Australian Engineer Cardno Cardno FY15 guidance and market update Richard Wankmuller, a veteran American engineering executive, started his tenure on June 29 as CEO of Australia's Cardno Ltd. as the Brisbane-based professional services firm copes with falling profits, market gyrations and a possible takeover by a private equity firm.Wankmuller, the former president of rival Australian firm GHD Group Pty Ltd.'s North American operations who was named by Cardno's board as CEO and managing director in late May after a search, has relocated to Brisbane and now is visiting its Asia-Pacific,
Harvard University Doyle formerly headed an engineering department and major research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Related Links: Incoming Dean, Rising School Timely' Gift Will Lend SEAS Momentum in Era of Transition John A. Paulson School of Applied Science and Engineering at Harvard University Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., has named Francis J. "Frank" Doyle as dean of its John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), effective in July. He had been associate dean for research at the University of California, Santa Barbara College of Engineering, launching a major push into bioengineering, according to Harvard.Doyle will