Related Links: Corps Resumes Rebid of Protested New Orleans Flood Project Nearly 18 months after bid protests, a court challenge and a forced reprocurement delayed the award of a massive permanent flood-control project in New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers said on Sept. 28 that a Kiewit Corp.-led team has won the $629.5-million design-build contract.The project was set to finish in 2014 but now won’t be done until mid-2016, says the Corps.Winning team PCCP Constructors, which includes Traylor Bros. and M.R. Pittman Group LLC, was one of two original bidders that protested the April 2011 award to CBY Design-Builders,
Related Links: Read more People on the Move MOTEC.D. "Dan" Mote, the former chairman of the University of California's mechanical engineering department who also served for 12 years as president of the 35,000-student University of Maryland, College Park, is set to become the next president of the National Academy of Engineering. NAE members are set to elect him, the group's only candidate for the position, in March. His six-year term would begin on July 1, when he will succeed Charles M. Vest. Under Mote, the University of Maryland boosted research funding by more than 150% and attained the fourth-highest graduation
Engineers and sustainability experts are testing some high-tech approaches to bring improved water and air quality to millions of people in remote parts of Africa and, eventually, elsewhere in the developing world.
CPP Inc. The researcher-practitioner, 89, whose innovative wind tunnel at Colorado State University attracted many visitors such as artist Andy Warhol (right) in 1971, pioneered wind-resistant design techniques that are standard today. Related Links: A Career Tribute to Jack E. Cermak by Wind Engineer Ahsan Kareem Colorado State University Slide Show on the Work of Jack E. Cermak Engineer Jack E. Cermak, who was dubbed the "father of wind engineering," and was a pioneer in the study and testing of the impact of extreme wind forces on engineered structures, died in his sleep on Aug. 21 in Fort Collins, Colo.,
Photo courtesy of AP Worldwide Some in the construction industry are waiting for more information on Romney's plans. Related Links: GOP Platform Romney Energy Plan Would Ramp Up Domestic Production News Analysis: A Mitt Romney administration would knock down regulatory hurdles that get in the way of contractors and depart from President Obama's policies on labor and taxes. But how much a Romney administration would cut transportation and water infrastructure spending remains something of an open question, several sources say."I don't think anybody knows. The truth of the matter is, there is not a specific plank in either candidate's platform"
Related Links: Ric Licata, 59, Founder-Principal of Reno Architect Licata Hansen Associates Website of J.F. White Contracting Co. Website of Garver LLC J.F. White Helps Build Worlds Largest Water Disinfection Plant in NYC Suburb W. Brock Johnson obituary Stephen J. Barlow obituary Three construction industry firms lost company leaders to cancer within the same week.Richard D. "Ric" Licata, principal and founder of Reno, Nev.-based Licata Hansen Associates Architecture, died there on Aug. 18 at age 59.Stephen J. Barlow, president and chief operating officer of Massachusetts design-build contractor J.F. White Contracting Co., died the next day, and W. Brock Johnson, CEO
Frank A. Lee, a chemical engineer who led publicly held Foster Wheeler Corp. during a decade of growth and innovation in the 1970s and fended off an acquisition attempt, died on Aug. 12 in Old Tappan, N.J. He was 88.LEELee was named president and CEO of the contractor-manufacturer in 1971, after difficulties in its boiler business had led to several years of revenue falloff. He noted the firm's "image problem in the market" in a 1974 Forbes magazine article.Lee helped expand the firm's global markets and presided over technical advances in fluidized-bed power-generation design and construction. But he opted not
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,
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,
