Obituary: Related Links: People Showcase Industry Job Postings James W. Cox, 79, senior vice president at Cox Design Associates, Chicago, died on July 7 in Evanston, Ill., the firm told ENR on Oct. 27. The cause of death was heart failure, says President Robert Cox, brother of James Cox. At his death, James Cox was active on several health care projects. "His attention to the human aspects of design work always included animated spaces that focused on bringing light and textures into the built environment," Robert Cox says.
Related Links: Superfund Project Manager Convicted in Bid-Rig Scheme Must Pay $4.36 Million Sevenson Environmental Services Inc., a Niagara Falls, N.Y., waste cleanup contractor, has agreed to repay more than $2.72 million to the U.S. government—under a federal laws that requires an employer to cover costs of alleged employee misdeeds.The firm claims it was unaware of the rogue project managers’ bid-rig and fraud schemes on two federal Superfund projects and is also a victim.The U.S. Justice Dept. said on Nov. 17 that the reimbursement was mandated under the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act, which can hold an employer liable
photo courtesy California Dept. of water resources California, facing historic drought, will build new dams, stormwater recovery and water storage projects with voter approval of a $7.5-billion bond initiative. MGM Corp. Rendering of planned $800-million casino resort in Springfield, Mass. approved by the state after voters rejected repeal of a 2011 expanded casino initiative. Related Links: State Voters Will Weigh Water, Transport Bond Measures Initiative and Referendum Institute, University of Southern California Association of California Water Agencies--Proposition 1 Water Bond California Drought and Climate Fears Spur Approval of Prop. 1 With voter approval of nearly all bond finance issues on
A London designer looking to transform polluted cities into enclosed environmental havens could have used the more proven geodesic dome as its technology.
Some large, publicly owned firms reported good news in their recent third-quarter results, but staff and cost cuts are also a part of the picture.Canada-based SNC-Lavalin announced on Nov. 6 much improved quarter revenue and earnings results from the same period in 2013, reporting a $61-million profit compared to a $64- million loss. But CEO Robert Card also said the firm would cut about 9% of its 45,000 global staff in the next 18 months, at an estimated cost of about $177 million. Most cuts would be outside Canada, the firm said. Canadian media also reported on Nov. 8 the
Related Links: B&W Announces Intention to Spin-off Its Power Generation Business Babcock & Wilcox Announces Third Quarter 2014 Results The Moles website FerlandThe Babcock & Wilcox Co., Charlotte, N.C., announced on Nov. 5 executive changes as part of its expected corporate split into two standalone companies to boost shareholder value, which will be completed next summer. Current B&W President and CEO E. James Ferland will take the same roles in one company, to be called Babcock & Wilcox, which will consist of the former firm’s power generation Bakerequipment and services business. He has been In his current role since
Related Links: Laing O'Rourke boosted by improvement down under AndrewsVeteran global executive Mark Andrews has joined U.K. construction firm Laing O'Rourke as managing director of its Middle East operations, primarily focused in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Most recently, he was chief operating officer of Arabtec Holding, a UAE-based construction services firm that ranks at No. 135 on ENR's list of The Top 250 Global Contractors, with more than $2 billion in 2013 revenue. Andrews also was formerly CEO of U.K.-based engineer NG Bailey and North American chief for global manufacturer Pirelli Power Systems and Cables, and held
Richard "Dick" Geary, who rose from a Kiewit Corp. highway project engineer in Oregon to president of the giant contractor's corporate unit that won and executed its signature I-15 design-build project in Utah in the 1990s, died on Oct. 19 in Lake Oswego, Ore.
Related Links: EFCG Website ENR 2014 Top 500 Design Firms Overview: A Recovery in Need of Speed ENR 2014 Top 225 International Design Firms: The growth in the global market for design services has stalled, spurring firms to broaden their search for work Growth and profitability appear to have dropped as top concerns in an annual survey of 214 global engineering CEOs, but the chiefs pushed mergers and acquisitions up the priority list in 2014, even as they debated the strategy's merits on Oct. 16 in New York City.At the conference held by industry broker and management firm EFCG, the
Along with new cost impacts that Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. announced on Oct. 22 from “deterioration” of an unidentified northeast U.S. oil and gas pipeline project that will require it to restate results, the contractor has reshuffled its top management.John T. McNabb II has been named CEO, immediately replacing Robert R. “Randy” Harl, who has expedited his retirement from Jan. 2. McNabb, who is vice chairman of investment firm Duff & Phelps, has been a Willbros director since 2006 and now also becomes chairman. Harl, CEO since 2006, had been chairman and CEO of Kellogg Brown & Root. Willbros also
