Related Links: URS Cuts DOE Whistleblower Walter Tamosaitis, Citing Budget March 11 Senate subcommittee hearing website on Hanford site whistleblower retaliation with statements Hanford Challenge website New Finance Panel Chair Wyden Will Be Key Player on New Transportation Bill OSHA Releases Online Form For Workers to File Safety Complaints Donna Busche, another URS Corp. senior employee at the U.S. Energy Dept.’s Hanford nuclear waste cleanup site in Washington state, is tieing her termination from the company to safety concerns she has raised about the site’s troubled waste vitrification plant, whose design now is under review.Busche claims that her Feb. 18
Related Links: U.K. Officials Unhappy with URS-Led Cleanup of Sellafield Nuclear Waste Site URS Fills New COO Position Calgary Herald: U.S. firm pays $1.25B for Calgary-based Flint Energy Firms See Some Uncertainties in Hot Global Energy Market Blaming "execution issues" in its new oil-and-gas division, URS Corp. on Feb. 13 announced preliminary results for its fourth quarter and for its fiscal year that are worse than expected and said it was lowering its guidance for 2014.The firm also said that President and Chief Operating Officer William J. "Bill" Lingard had resigned on Feb. 10."We are extremely disappointed with the company's
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector In what it terms an "unplanned event," Bechtel Group Inc. said on Feb. 3 that President William N. "Bill" Dudley now takes on the added role of CEO, replacing Riley P. Bechtel, who remains chairman. DudleyThe company said Bechtel is vacating the CEO role he had assumed in mid-1990 "for health reasons."A company spokeswoman confirmed to ENR that Bechtel, 61, was diagnosed in December with early-stage Parkinson's disease and is undergoing treatment.Dudley, who is also 61 and has been corporate president and chief operating officer
David Goodyear Engineer Arvid Grant, 93, was an accomplished structural engineer and self-taught in surveying and mechanical engineering/HVAC, peers say. Photo by Arvid Grant Pasco-Kennewick concrete cable-stayed bridge in Washington State was the longest of its kind in North America when built in the 1970s. Related Links: NY Times: Modern Bridge Design Attacked As Too Vulnerable to Corrosion The Day, May 29, 1988: Safety of Sleek, Modern Bridges Fiercely Debated Arvid Grant, 93, a pioneer of modern concrete cable-stayed bridge engineering whose Columbia River span in Washington state was the longest such crossing in North America when it opened in
White House photo Michelle Obama launches White House-construction industry initiative for 100,000 military veteran hires in the next five years. Related Links: Joining Forces Construction Hiring Announcement Remarks of First Lady Michele Obama Remarks of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez White House Joining Forces Website The Obama administration and a coalition of construction groups and firms said on Feb. 10 that at least 100 industry firms have committed to hiring 100,000 U.S. military veterans over the next five years.The initiative, announced at a symposium in Washington, D.C., is being led by First Lady Michelle Obama, who said the number of firms
Related Links: Up Front: Industry Buzz August 2013 Lack of timely project decision-making can amount to big costs later, says Robert Prieto, senior vice president of Fluor Corp., in a new analysis for PM World Journal. While project delays and the resulting cost impacts are generally linked to changed scope, rework or productivity loss, "the cost of a lack of timely decision-making is seldom reflected in project governance processes," says Prieto.He says that for a contractor, delays are even more "deleterious" when they are of longer duration and at a later stage in the project. "A $4-billion project, not uncommon in
Related Links: Worldwide Workflow Is Growing As An Industry Project Norm ASTD Business Study Chart: The Global Workplace, Factors That Hinder Learning in Global Operations Design Firms Eke Out Profit Even as Global Markets Gyrate Chinese Contactors Grapple With Risks of Working Globally U.S. 'Zero Tolerance' Anti-Harassment Policies Need Global Tweaking Amer Soc for Training & Development: Global Workforce Challenges for Learning & Development Society for Human Resources Management: Global HR As engineering and construction firms have expanded their global footprints with new project sites and cross-border acquisitions, company "universities" are traveling along.The geographic reach has broadened firm expertise, and
Related Links: See what other executives are moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector What does 2014 hold for Siemens Water Technologies, under AEA control? Ex-Chicago CTO John Tolva joins engineering firm John Tolva blog Private equity firm AEA Investors LP has named Lukas Loeffler as CEO of Evoqua Water Technologies LLC, the renamed municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment assets it acquired on Jan. 15 from Siemens AG. He was CEO of Siemens Water Technologies, the unit created when the German conglomerate bought water company USFilter in 2004. According to Water World magazine, AEA paid $865
Carl Mack can't help attracting a following. As a mechanical engineer for the King County, Wash., wastewater utility, starting in the late 1980s, he stewed that minorities rarely won internships.
The U.S. is using up natural resources "as if it had five planets to work with," says engineer William A. Wallace, whose commitment to sustainable design and construction spans a 40-year career.