PACK Michael R. Pack has joined Chester Engineers Inc., a Pittsburgh-based water-wastewater engineering firm, as senior vice president and chief business development officer. He had been a vice president with HDR Engineering, Omaha. Pack, based in Atlanta, will serve as Chester’s aviation market leader. He had headed the city’s Dept. of Public Works and served as interim general manager for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Oglethorpe Power Corp., an Atlanta power supply cooperative, has named Keith Russell senior vice president of construction, a new position. He had been general manager of construction services for Southern Cos. Generation, a unit of Atlanta-based utility
JOHNSON Wiley V.“Bif” Johnson III has been named president and CEO of Hurt & Proffitt, a Lynchburg, Va.-based engineer-surveyor. A 21-year company veteran, he had been chief operations officer. Troy D. Williams has been named vice president and a company board member. Doug Audiffred has been named chief financial officer of St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. He was vice president of finance and has been a member of the company’s executive committee since 2007. Todd McLeod has joined Harrington Engineering, Rocky Hill, Conn., as president of its newly formed energy services group. He previously served as manager of global
BURTON Michael J. Burton has joined The LiRo Group, a Syosset, N.Y.-based engineer and construction manager, as senior vice president and national operations manager. He was national operations manager at URS Corp. LiRo is a joint venture member of teams now managing transit projects in New York City. Burton, based in Manhattan, will also assist LiRo’s move into national markets. Burton received ENR’s Award of Excellence in 2002 for managing restoration of Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack. He has chaired two committees of the New York Building Congress. San Francisco contractor Dome Construction promoted Robert Lynch
GRAPHIA Gary P. Graphia has been promoted to chief operating officer of The Shaw Group Inc., a Baton Rouge, La., contractor. He had been executive vice president of corporate development and strategy and has been with the firm since 1999, when he joined as corporate secretary and general counsel. Joining Shaw is Cornelius “Con” Murphy, former CEO of Fluor Hanford Inc. He becomes senior vice president of the federal division of Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Group. In addition, Shawn W. Hughes has been named a vice president in the nuclear division of Shaw’s power group, and consortium project director for
Two top executives of R.T. Dooley Construction LLC, Charlotte, N.C., have new titles following the firm’s Feb. 23 acquisition by Balfour Beatty Construction U.S., the Dallas-based unit of Balfour Beatty plc, London. Dooley Chairman Robert T. Dooley III becomes chief operating officer of Dooley, now a unit of Balfour Beatty’s Charlotte-based southeast division. David Dooley, formerly vice chairman, is now the unit’s CEO. Dooley President Tim Garrison remains in that role with the firm under its new ownership. SMITH Dikita Enterprises, a Dallas engineer and project management firm, has named Ron Smith, senior vice president of operations. He had been
MOODY Raymond L. Moody has assumed the added post of CEO of Batson-Cook Co., a West Point, Ga., contractor and construction manager. In that role, Moody replaces the retiring Edmund C. Glover, but remains president and chief operating officer. Moody joined Batson-Cook in 1963 as a project engineer. The firm is ranked 150th on ENR’s list of the Top 400 Contractors, with $465 million in 2007 revenue. Dave Zimmerman has joined The Greenway Group, a Norcross, Ga., construction industry management and economic consultant, as consulting principal. He was director of finance for mergers and acquisitions and chief financial officer at
MCNALLY Skanska AB, Stockholm, has named Michael McNally executive vice president and president of Skanska USA Inc., the Parsippany, N.J.-based holding company for its two U.S. construction units, Skanska USA Building and Skanska USA Civil. Replacing him in his former role as president of Skanska USA Building is Bill Flemming, a 22-year firm veteran. That unit also elevated three executives located in Seattle. Curt Burks becomes corporate senior vice president of technical services, which includes pre-construction services, project controls, virtual design and construction and building information modeling. Eric Temp is named vice president of preconstruction and Alan Dunbar becomes senior
NOLAN Rebecca Nolan has been named senior vice president and managing principal of St. Louis architect HOK. She succeeds Vice Chairman Clark Davis, who is taking on new duties in its worldwide practice. Nolan was senior vice president at engineer-architect SmithGroup Cos. Inc. and managing director of its Minneapolis office. Also joining HOK as vice president and director of interior design in St. Louis is Michael Nolan. He was a vice president and workplace studio leader at SmithGroup. Michel Jichlinski has joined Greenway Enterprises Inc., a Helena, Mont., contractor and construction-management firm, as director of operations. He is the former
STONE Donald E. Stone Jr. has joined Dewberry, a Fairfax, Va., engineer-architect, as chief operating officer. In this role, he replaces Ronald L. Ewing, who became CEO of the firm in 2005. Stone had been COO at engineering firm O’Brien & Gere Ltd. and president of its Total Water Solutions division. In that position, he spearheaded creation of a special-purpose entity to finance the firm’s design-build-own-operate water and wastewater projects. PSA-Dewberry, the firm’s building services affiliate, also named Mike Tatalovich practice segment leader for federal architecture. He had been director of business pursuits for the government and infrastructure division of
Frank R. Finch, president of engineering consultant Greenhorne & O’Mara Inc., Greenbelt, Md., has been promoted to the added position of CEO. In that role he replaces John Healey, who remains board chairman. Finch, president since 2007, had been director of U.S. Army Environmental Programs and the Army Corps of Engineers district engineer in Baltimore and Chicago. He also is former executive director of the South Florida Water Management District. Geospatial Holdings Inc., the Pittsburgh-based holding company for underground pipeline GIS technology firm Geospatial Mapping Systems Inc., has named David Vosbein executive vice president for worldwide strategic initiatives. He was
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