Photo Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon's year-old innovation institute links engineering, design and business. Related Links: Carnegie Mellon University Integrated Innovation Institute Website CMU Integrated Innovation Institute's MSA Bypass Shuttle website Video Demonstration of MSA's Bypass Shuttle LUV Portable Water Purification Project Video Applying its own innovative thinking, Carnegie Mellon University decided last year to unite graduate programs in engineering, fine arts design and business in what it calls "an unprecedented market-focused center designed to speed the pace of innovation."As it passes its first anniversary, the Pittsburgh school's Integrated Innovation Institute offers or plans to offer degree programs
Philip B. Rogers will become CEO of a still unnamed engineering firm to be formed from the merger of two fire-protection and safety consultants, Baltimore-based Hughes Associates and The RJA Group, Chicago, the companies said on June 2.Rogers is an operating partner of private equity firm Huron Capital Partners LLC, which has owned Hughes since 2011. A Hughes board member since then, he also is former president and COO of Consolidated Engineering Services, a Washington, D.C., building-technology services firm, according to two online biographies. Rogers also was president of EMCOR Government Services Inc.The firms say the transaction and renaming will
Following completion of an acquisition announced May 14 by POWER Engineers Inc. of Burns and Roe Enterprises (BRE), the power and energy engineering unit of Burns and Roe Group, the corporation's CEO Keith Roe will have a dual role as chairman and as Roestrategic executive advisor to POWER Engineers, Hailey, Idaho, as an employee, says a Burns and Roe spokeswoman.
Related Links: As Global Construction Race Heats Up, So Do Challenges of Managing Risk, Workforce and Project Finance, ENR Summit Experts Say Industry Learning Goes Borderless ENR: Design Firms Eke Out Profit Even as Global Markets Gyrate EFCG Website As industry firms balance management of global talent and bottom-line costs, human resource managers are gaining more visibility in design and construction executive suites, along with their growing workforce challenges.According to a new survey and a May 15 gathering in New York City of industry HR professionals, managers are seeking new strategies to cope with everything from compensation for CEOs to
Related Links: Link to full ARCADIS-CEBR Global Built Asset Index Built assets in 30 countries generated $27.1 trillion in global income to the world's gross domestic product, according to a study released May 14, which says the nations studied make up 82% of global GDP.The research—which tracked income generated by buildings, infrastructure and other fixed assets—notes that the dollar total amounted to 40% of GDP, on average, in the countries studied, which are both developed and emerging economies.The Global Built Asset Performance Index was developed by Netherlands-based consulting company ARCADIS in partnership with the Centre for Economics and Business Research
New competition, digitization and compliance issues are reshaping the $6.8-trillion global construction market, forcing engineers to learn quickly how to pick and deliver projects of ever-increasing complexity.
Related Links: Read about other execs moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector AMEC, London, has named Jeff Reilly group president of strategy and business development. Based in Houston, he was chief procurement officer of oil company Phillips 66, also based there. AMEC ranks at No. 5 on ENR's list of the Top 150 Global Design Firms.Ram Madugula is named president of Power Engineers Collaborative LLC, the engineering services unit of Pipestone, Minn., alternative-energy developer Juhl Energy Inc. He was a vice president and 30-year veteran of power-sector design firm Sargent & Lundy LLC, Chicago. Madugula, based in
Completion in 2013 of the 1,250-MW Al Khairat powerplant, the largest to be built in Iraq, not only will boost electricity output in the war-ravaged nation by 20%, but marks a key social milestone for 5 million citizens who had only intermittent power access.
Related Links: SNC-Lavalin Enters Into Agreement to Sell Equity Stake in AltaLink Reject AltaLink sale, NDP's Mason urges province In a $2.9-billion deal that seems to work for both participants for different reasons, Canadian engineer SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. said on May 1 that it will sell its 100% stake in AltaLink, Alberta's largest regulated electricity transmission firm, to Berkshire Hathaway Energy, a unit of the firm run by investor Warren Buffett.Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin aims to use the cash to boost its core design-and-construction business, while the Des Moines, Iowa-based buyer gains a power-sector foothold in Canada and added revenue growth.Under the
Related Links: Contractor Balfour Beatty and Professional Services Firm Parsons Brinckerhoff Seek Sweet Spot As Linked Companies Andrew McNaughton To Succeed Ian Tyler as Balfour Beatty CEO 01/14/2013 Client Dislike of 'one stop shop' Model at Heart of Balfour Beatty decision to sell PB-New Civil Engineer Balfour Beatty Suspends Managers in U.K. Gas Subcontracting Probe London-based Balfour Beatty plc. is considering selling Parsons Brinckerhoff some five years after buying the New York City-based design and management firm for the equivalent of $626 million.Balfour Beatty CEO Andrew McNaughton also announced he is leaving the firm, effective immediately. McNaughton had only replaced
