Describing one participant in his pioneering construction leadership program, Brent Darnell says, "He was a very tough guy, a driver of results and a valuable employee, but he was leaving dead bodies in his wake."
Skanska USA, the New York City-based contractor, has named Denny L. Quinn executive vice president of its new Midwest region based in Evansville, Ind. The role follows the firm's Dec. 29 acquisition of Industrial Contractors Inc., also based there. Quinn had been president of ICI. Skanska says the firm, which specializes in industrial and energy markets, will be integrated into its Skanska USA Civil unit under the name Industrial Contractors Skanska. Alan Braun, ICI chairman and CEO, becomes chairman emeritus and an advisor to Skanska. He is a 48-year firm veteran. Skanska also acquired three ICI affiiliate firms: Professional Consultants
The CH2M Hill Cos.-led team that was shortlisted, but not chosen, for an estimated $2-billion contract to support U.S. Antarctica research, is protesting the selection process by the National Science Foundation.
Related Links: SOURCEBOOK: Firms Get Creative To Weather Economy ENR Top 400 Contractors 2011 Seeking to expand into new territory and market segments, Skanska USA, New York City, has acquired Evansville, Ind.-based Industrial Contractors Inc., a leading midwest industrial and energy contractor. The $135-million cash deal, announced Dec. 29, also includes three ICI-affiliated companies. Skanska will integrate the units into its Skanska Civil operation and intends to use the new base to expand its transportation services into the Midwest, says Richard Cavallaro, Skanska Civil president and CEO.ICI ranks at no. 173 on ENR's list of the Top 400 Contractors, with
Melinda B. Peters has been appointed by Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) to head the state highway administration. She is the first woman to run the agency, one of the state's largest with an annual budget of $1.1 billion and a staff of 3,100. A civil engineer who joined the agency in 1995, Peters had been, since 2006, project director of the $2.5-billion Intercounty Connector (ICC). The 18-mile, six-lane toll road, the largest single highway construction project in Maryland's history, opened in late November. Peters was named an ENR Newsmaker (ENR 1/17 p. 36) for her achievements on the project,
Courtesy Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd and NDA Dounreay site, once the core of U.K. nuclear-power research, will be decommissioned. AU.K.-U.S. team has begun final negotiations with British officials to assume ownership and cleanup management of a defunct nuclear research site in Scotland, which would be Britain's second-largest decommissioning project. The team, selected on Nov. 23, is set to take over the Dounreay site in April if it can show how at least $780 million and six years can be cut from the current cleanup effort, which now may cost $4 billion and last until 2038.On Nov. 23, the U.K. Nuclear
Related Links: Software Roundup: Make Way for App Builders in Construction Top 10 Construction Apps by ENR Readers Top Paid and Free Construction Apps The modeling software spin-off of engineer-construction manager MWH Global clearly loves its clients, and from the array of testimonials displayed on its website, they seem to love Innovyze right back. The firm has carved a lucrative niche as a leading developer of modeling, simulation and operating analysis software for "wet infrastructure"—water and wastewater treatment plants and systems—that has captivated utility executives and even their engineering consultants who may compete with Innovyze's parent in other arenas.Touting its
Photo by Michael Goodman for ENR Fraud trial of Derish Wolff, former CEO of design firm Louis Berger, is not likely to start until next spring. By Tudor Van Hampton for ENR Manslaughter trial of James Lomma, the owner of the collapsed tower crane, is delayed until February. Looming high-profile criminal trials involving two construction industry executives are facing new delays.In a Nov. 9 arraignment in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., regarding the federal fraud case against former Louis Berger Group CEO Derish Wolff, Judge Garrett E. Brown Jr. granted attorneys' requests for a 60-day continuance, until Jan. 9.
Seeing synergy in market focus and client approach, engineer and program manager Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Pasadena, Calif., acquired Philadelphia architect KlingStubbins on Nov. 1. The deal boosts the parent's design capabilities in life-science and mission-critical facilities and adds 500 U.S. and Asian employees. It also highlights the still sizzling merger-and-acquisition market for industry firms.KlingStubbins is at No. 111 on ENR's Top 500 Design Firms list, with $98 million in 2010 revenue. Jacobs ranks third on that list, with $4.7 billion in revenue. Jacobs also is at No. 10 on the Top 400 Contractors list. Terms were not disclosed. "While
WHITAKERCynthia Whitaker, 69, former preconstruction vice president at ISEC Inc., an Englewood, Colo., contractor, died on Oct. 15 of cancer, says the firm. She joined the firm in 1978, retiring in 2005. ISEC ranks at No. 45 on ENR's Top 600 Specialty Contractors list, with $252.5 million in revenue.