Infrastructures Canada Champlain bridge, valued at between $2.5 billion and $4 billion, is set to open in 2018. Related Links: Public Works and Govt Services Canada-Integrity Regime-FAQs Canada's Globe and Mail editorial: The integrity framework is still too tough Facing an expected broad business backlash and potential impacts on completion of big federal infrastructure jobs, the Canadian government released a toned-down version of its “integrity guidelines” for federal contractors.The revision moderates penalties, that were set in 2014 for corruption infractions in the wake of unfolding bribe allegations against giant Montreal contractor SNC-Lavalin. The firm, which does much federal work, was
Steven Demetriou, now CEO of Cleveland-based aluminum producer, will be Jacobs chief in August. Related Links: Australia government opens door to funding controversial Metro Melbourne Rail Tunnel Jacobs Engineering Group website Linked Amec Foster Wheeler Now is $8 Billion Oil and Gas Sector Player After a nearly eight-month search inside and outside the company, Jacobs Engineering Group went outside the construction industry to name a veteran manufacturing executive as its next president and CEO.The California design-build and technology firm said July 13 that Steven J. Demetriou, chairman and CEO of Cleveland-based downstream aluminum producer Aleris Corp. will be its new
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
Related Links: Engineer Sets Foundation to Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) website Harvard University Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure InterAmerican Development Bank Infrastructure Project Sustainability Awards-2016 Viewpoint by Robert M. Beinstein: Why CEOs Say Sustainable Solutions are Good Business Two public-sector infrastructure owners with markedly different upgrades getting underway agree on one thing—that the projects have vastly improved thanks to the use of a new tool that allows participants to measure long-term sustainability and justify how and why investments will benefit users and communities.The Florida Dept. of Transportation has embraced use of the new Envision infrastructure sustainability
As part of a streamlining announced last December, Houston-based engineer-contractor KBR is selling its building construction unit to Illinois construction firm Pernix Group Inc. for $28 million, including $6 million in working capital, the firms said June 10. R
Related Links: Zack's: AECOM (ACM) Riding High on Contract Wins - Time to Buy? Connection Challenges Seen in AECOMs $6B Plan to Buy URS URS Agrees to Activist Investor Demand for Reshaped Board Working round the clock: Aecom-URS IT integration Challenges KoffelA growing trend of “aggressive risk transfer” to engineering and construction firms may hurt company valuations and the industry’s appeal in future investment, former URS Corp. Chairman and CEO Martin M. Koffel told E&C sector investors at a June 4 conference in New York City held by Credit Suisse.“Once there is risk-sharing, it’s hard to go back,” said Koffel.
Related Links: CH2M Hill Says It Will Restructure And Cut Staff by 1,200 HinmanEmployee-owned CH2M has reached past its workforce for needed investment to finance growth, agreeing to a minority stake by private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC that could reach $300 million—a move observers say will ease cash woes and lead to new purchases or even a public offering.In a May 27 announcement, Jacque Hinman, chairman and CEO of the $5.5-billion, Denver-based global giant that shortened its name in April, says the stake "will help us accelerate growth, provide additional liquidity to our shareholders and ... allow us
U. of Michigan Ponce de Leon founded an innovative digital and robotics focused architecture lab at the University of Michigan. Related Links: Deans List: Monica Ponce de Leon of University of Michigan's Taubman College Spinoff of Hertz Equipment Unit Faces Delay-2014 2014 Q&A with Lisa Farrar, SVP of Hertz Equipment Great expectations for new International IBEW President Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., has named Monica Ponce de Leon dean of its School of Architecture, effective in January. She replaces Alejandro Zaera-Polo, who resigned last October in a dispute with the university over plagiarism issues, says Architectural Record (AR), sister publication of
Robert L. "Bob" Nichols, an early proponent of environmental engineering in a 67-year career at Fort Worth, Texas-based water-wastewater design firm Freese and Nichols Inc., including serving as president and vice chairman, died on May 8 in Arlington, says the firm.
