MCDONALD Joan McDonald, a veteran public- and private-sector transportation official, was nominated on Jan. 14 by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to be commissioner of the state transportation department. She must be confirmed by the state Senate. McDonald is currently commissioner of the Connecticut Dept. of Economic and Community Development and has served as senior vice president of transportation for the New York City Economic Development Corp. She also is a former vice president of Jacobs Engineering Group and former deputy commissioner of the city Dept. of Transportation. Robert B. Leonard has been named administrator of the municipal agency
LEO William Leo has joined HDR, Omaha, as senior vice president. This follows the firm’s Jan. 4 acquisition of HydroQual Inc., the Mahwah, N.J., water consulting firm, where he was president. HDR is ranked 11th on ENR’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms. Kyle Tanger and Will Sarni have joined the sustainability services unit of Deloitte Consulting LLP, New York City, as directors, following its Dec. 13, 2010, acquisitions of ClearCarbon Consulting Inc. and DOMANI Sustainability Consulting LLC, of which they were CEOs, respectively. Clear Carbon is a carbon footprint and energy management consultant, while DOMANI is a sustainability
BELLAMAN The Associated Builders and Contractors has selected former Bovis Lend Lease executive Michael D. Bellaman to be its new president and CEO. Bellaman, 48 years old, who has been based in Chicago, starts his ABC job on Feb. 1, the association announced on Jan. 10. You can view ABC's announcement here. He succeeds M. Kirk Pickerel, who has been ABC's president and CEO since 2000. Pickerel announced last April that he would be retiring, effective March 31, 2011. Bellaman spent 23 years at Lend Lease Corp. Ltd., the Australia-based real estate, design and construction company, most recently as Bovis
SNYDER Charles H. Snyder has been named as president and CEO of Am-Quip Crane Rental LLP, Trevose, Pa., effective on Jan. 17. He had been executive vice president of fleet operations and a board member of Sunbelt Rentals Inc. Snyder also previously served as chief operating officer of NationsRent and as president of AMECO, a subsidiary of Fluor Corp. He replaces Frank Bardonaro, who left Am-Quip in August 2010 to join Terex Cranes as vice president and managing director in the Americas. Greg McGuire has joined Fairfax, Va.-based consulting firm ICF International as a principal following its Dec. 17, 2010,
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,
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