BANNISTER David Bannister has joined Halcrow Yolles, the Toronto structural engineering firm, as senior principal. He is formerly a partner and vice president of structural engineering at MMM Group Ltd. and had been a partner with Carruthers and Wallace Ltd. Also joining Halcrow Yolles, in the role of senior associate, is Ken Sissalkis. He had been project engineer at Halsall Associates Ltd. Lord, Aeck & Sargent, an Atlanta architecture firm, has promoted Benjamin W. Elliott to principal in its science studio, which specializes in the planning and design of scientific facilities, including academic, government and corporate research laboratories. Balfour Beatty
In late November, the owner of a planned $11-billion, 1,200-kilometer freight and passenger rail complex across the United Arab Emirates announced with fanfare design and program management awards to three major international firms. But Abu Dhabi-based Union Railway Co. now is mum about why it suddenly dismissed the winners without any apparent explanation to the firms. Union Railway last month terminated a joint venture of Parsons Corp., Pasadena, Calif., and Paris-based SYSTRA, awarded the project’s PM contract, as well as Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York City, which won the preliminary engineering contract for the project’s first two stages. The values of
In late November, the owner of a planned $11-billion freight and passenger rail complex across the United Arab Emirates announced major design and management awards to three international firms. Rail line would link Emirates to other Gulf states. Abu Dhabi-based Union Railway Co. has now quietly dismissed the winners without disclosing the reasons, according to executives involved in the project. Union Railway terminated in early January a joint venture of Parsons Corp., Pasadena, Calif., and Paris-based SYSTRA, which was awarded the project’s program management contract in November. Also terminated was Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York City, which won the preliminary engineering
Len C. Rodman has been chairman, president and CEO of Black & Veatch, the Overland Park, Kan.-based international engineer-constructor that specializes in power and water infrastructure, since 2000. He has worked for the employee-owned firm since 1971. B&V ranks 14th on ENR’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms and 34th on its list of the Top 400 Construction Firms. On Jan. 12, he sat down with ENR editors in New York City. ENR: How is the economic recovery going? Rodman: I’m between cautiously optimistic and bullish. But Washington needs an energy policy in place. Clients are dubious. High costs
Dean McClure didn’t have to be asked by Tuscaloosa, Ala., city school officials to help them improve elementary students’ chronically-low reading scores.
Joseph E. Gott, chief engineer and capital improvement director for the U.S. Navy’s Naval FacilitiesEngineering Command, is a trained fire protection engineer.
The Deutsche Bank fire trials have been postponed, ENR has learned. Photo: AP The 2007 fire at Deutsche Bank’s lower Manhattan demolition site killed two New York City firefighters. Related Links: Defendants in Fatal Ground Zero Fire Face Manslaughter Trial in January The trial of three former contractor employees indicted in connection with a fatal 2007 fire at the vacant Ground Zero high-rise was originally set to begin Jan. 18, but that no longer is the case, says a spokeswoman for one of the defense attorneys. No new date has yet been set. Parties in the case are set to
Tutor Perini Corp., Sylmar, Calif., has purchased Fisk Electric Co. for $105 million in cash and an undetermined amount based on future results. Privately held Fisk reported 2010 revenue of about $305 million and a $190-million project backlog, although both dropped this year. The firm has worked with Tutor Perini on several projects, including the $8.5-billion CityCenter in Las Vegas. Based in Houston, Fisk will operate as a wholly owned Tutor Perini unit, with existing senior managers remaining in place. Publicly owned Tutor Perini had $2.51 billion in revenue for the first nine months of 2010, down 38.3% from $4.07
