The Top 200 Environmental Firms managed to grow revenue in 2011 despite economic uncertainties around the world and tightening infrastructure budgets in the public sector, traditionally a mainstay for this group. But where one window closed, a door opened for providers of environmental services on the 2012 list. Overall revenue was up 5%, to $54.1 billion, a slower rise than the 6.2% of the previous year but buoyed by increases in non-U.S. work and private-sector activity, which each exceeded 20%.The domestic market still made up a major share of firms' revenue base, but completed projects and changing public-sector spending patterns
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Novatek Related Links: CB&I Announces Agreement to Acquire the Shaw Group Shaw Group Announces Agreement to be Acquired by CB&I CB&I Q3 2012 Results Discussion with Analysts--July 24, 2012 Shaw Group Q3 2012 Results Discussion with Analysts-July 10, 2012 Projecting a boom in global energy markets and the need for more capacity, Texas-based engineer-contractor CB&I announced the acquisition of The Shaw Group Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $3 billion. The companies say it will create one of the world’s largest firms competing in the sector.CB&I says it will use cash on CB&I's and Shaw's balance sheets to
Projecting a boom in many global energy markets, particularly in North America, Texas-based engineer-contractor CB&I has moved to add capacity by announcing July 30 that it would acquire The Shaw Group Inc. in a cash and stock deal valued at $3 billion.
The advanced age of the U.S. electricity grid, which has been retrofitted with technology over the years to balance supply and demand, poses the biggest cybersecurity threat to the power sector, a new report by the computer security firm McAfee warns.
Photo courtesy of McCarthy Building Cos. McCarthy Heart Hats volunteers, including Austin Nunez (left) and military veteran Ray LaTour, work to renovate the Veterans First property in Anaheim, Calif., as part of McCarthy' Building Co.'s many volunteer efforts in the community. Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record People Presidents remembered Bruce Woolpert, 61, president and CEO of Graniterock, a Watsonville, Calif., construction materials distributor, died June 24 in a boating accident on Lake Tahoe. Board member Mark Kaminski was named acting CEO. Don L. Short II, 60, a nationally known construction cost estimating consultant and the president of Tempest
Related Links: Company obituary of co-founder Bill Larson and links to related stories LARSONWilliam L. "Bill" Larson, who co-founded an architecture practice that grew in 45 years to become the 500-person design-engineering firm DLR Group, Overland Park, Kan., died on June 29 in Pinetop, Ariz. He was 88. The cause of death was complications from a series of falls, says a company spokesman.Larson was a vice president at architect Leo A Daly before founding his own firm in 1966, along with architect Irving R. Dana and engineer James P. Roubal. Dana Larson Roubal and Associates became DLR Group in
MCDONALDJonathan H. McDonald has joined design firm Atkins as vice president and senior practice manager for transit and rail. Based in San Francisco, he had been West division rail systems director at HNTB. McDonald is chair of the American Public Transportation Association's research and technology committee, and he has been a U.S. delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that promotes regional free trade.Parsons Corp. has named Ane Deister vice president of the firm's environmental division, which focuses on its western-region commercial environmental business. Based in Sacramento, she was vice president of
CONDABrinderson LP, a Costa Mesa, Calif., industrial and petroleum contractor, has named Russell Conda as CEO, the company confirmed to ENR. He succeeds Gary Brinderson, who becomes chairman. Conda, a 30-year construction veteran in the oil-and-gas sector, had been senior vice president and general manager for WorleyParsons' western operations, based in California. He served as vice president and director of onshore projects at ABB Lummus Global (now CB&I Lummus) and as senior vice president of operations at Aker Solutions. Brinderson ranks at No. 288 on ENR's list of the Top 400 Contractors, with $187 million in 2011 revenue.Kirk Morrison