Joseph Shea has been named senior vice president of Woodard & Curran, a Dedham, Mass., engineering firm. A 16-year company veteran, he leads its sanitary wastewater service line. The firm also promoted the following to vice president: project managers Kelley Begin and Rebecca Corbin; Shannon Daigle, technical leader in its Providence, R.I., office; and Tedd Gifford, service line manager for electrical instrumentation and controls. SHEA div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Neil Lucey has joined Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York City, as a senior vice president and area manager in New York. He was a senior vice president for HDR, overseeing

Chester Engineers, a Pittsburgh environmental engineering firm, has hired William Sukenik as senior vice president and national wet-weather practice leader. He had been a vice president at MWH Americas Inc., based in Atlanta. Chester Engineers ranks 268th on ENR’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms. SUKENIK Greg Huston has been promoted to president of Slayden Construction Group, Stayton, Ore. An 18-year firm veteran, he was vice president of operations. Slayden also elevated general counsel Chuck Schrader to executive vice president and named vice presidents Scott Austin, Larry Gescher, Jeremy Lawson, Roger Silbernagel and Jeff Wall to the company’s board.

Leslie Butterfield has joined Hill International, the Marlton, N.J.-based global project management and claims firm, as senior vice president and head of Australia operations. The role follows Hill’s acquisition of McLachlan Lister Pty. Ltd., a Sydney project management consultant of which she had been CEO since 2002. The firm has a staff of 50. Butterfield, an associate fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, is a former strategic development committee chairwoman of the federal government’s Industry Research & Development Board. BUTTERFIELD Trow Global, a Brampton, Ontario, engineer, has named Anthony Brown as senior vice president. He was senior vice president

McNAMARA Robert S. McNamara has joined developer-builder Lend Lease, Sydney, Australia, as CEO of its New York City-based Americas division. Lend Lease is the parent of Bovis Lend Lease and Actus Lend Lease, both with U.S. units. Since 2006, McNamara was president and CEO of LVI Services Inc., a New York City abatement and demolition firm. LVI is a key subcontractor to Bovis on demolition of the Deutsche Bank building in Manhattan, damaged on Sept. 11, 2001. McNamara, also a former Fluor Corp. senior group president, now directs Lend Lease Americas units involved in development, project management, construction, public-private partnerships

WUESTNECK John Wuestneck has been promoted to the new position of chief operating officer of engineering firm Birdsall Services Group, Sea Girt, N.J. Formerly president, he has been with the firm since 1987 and is based in its Lakewood, N.J., office. Alain Bentéjac and Jacques Gaillard have been named co-chairmen of ARTELIA, a new engineering firm formed by the merger of Paris-based Coteba and Sogreah, based in Grenoble, France. Bentéjac had been chairman of Coteba, and Gaillard was in the same role at Sogreah. The merger creates a design and project management firm with about $378 million in total 2009

THOMAS David B. Thomas has joined engineer-architect Gannett Fleming, Harrisburg, Pa., as a senior vice president and national director of transit and rail. Now based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., he was executive vice president and director of infrastructure operations and client development for ARCADIS. Granite Construction Inc., Watsonville, Calif., announced on May 17 a planned leadership transition, as of Sept. 1. James H. Roberts, executive vice president and chief operating officer since last September, has been named as president and CEO. He replaces William G. Dorey, who retires Aug. 31 after four years in the positions and 42 with the

Stephen T. Ayers, acting chief of the office of the Architect of the Capitol for the past three years, has been confirmed for a full, 10-year term as the Capitol Architect. Related Links: Bio of Stephen T. Ayers Ayers' Senate confirmation came on May 12 by unanimous consent. President Obama had sent his nomination to the Senate on Feb. 24. The "AOC" is in charge of maintaining and operating the Capitol building, Library of Congress, Supreme Court and other federal facilities on Capitol Hill. Ayers, a licensed architect, joined the AOC's office in 1997 and has been its acting head

MARTIN James W. “Jay” Martin has been elected president of ASFE/The Geoprofessional Business Association, a national group of geo-professional firms which provide geotechnical, geologic, environmental, construction-materials engineering and testing as well as related services. He is also a Nashville-based vice president and principal of AMEC’s earth and environmental division and leads the firm’s rail-services and levee groups. John L. Heffron has joined the construction solutions group of financial adviser FTI Consulting Inc., Baltimore, as senior managing director in New York and Philadelphia of capital program advisory services. He was national director of construction advisory services at Ernst & Young. ENRIQUE

SIMONELLI Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., Oak Brook, Ill., has named David E. Simonelli to the new position of president of dredging operations. He had been senior vice president of operations. The promotion comes as part of a restructuring at the company. As a result, Great Lakes has eliminated the position of chief operating officer, held by Richard M. Lowry since 1991. Lowry has left the company, which says it is the largest U.S. dredging contractor. Simonelli joined Great Lakes in 1978. John G. Voeller , senior vice president of the federal division at Black & Veatch, Overland Park,

HAGERTY Oates Associates, an engineer-architect in Collinsville, Ill., has named new officers. Joe Hagerty, formerly vice president, is now CEO. Bruce Schopp, previously chief structural engineer, has been promoted to president and chief operating officer. Founder David Oates was appointed chairman. Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment, a global alliance of the construction equipment businesses of Doosan Infracore Co. Ltd. and its affiliates, has appointed Anthony C. Helsham as CEO. Helsham joins the Seoul-based manufacturer after 30 years with the Volvo Group, where he was CEO of its construction equipment unit from 2000 to 2008 and head of its Korean operations from