Related Links: Estimated LNG capital spending in Western Canada to 2030 (Three Leading Projects) Gas-Fired Projects are Gaining Momentum North American LNG Market Booming, Thanks to Healthy Demand in Asia Canada's Largest LNG Plant Proposed Canada's labour shortage threatens $50B LNG plans As many observers expected, a joint venture of Fluor Corp. and Japan's JGC Corp. will proceed to the next stage of building what is seen as North America's largest liquefied-natural-gas project.The firms announced, on Jan. 13, a contract on the estimated $15-billion Kitimat LNG project in British Columbia that includes front-end design completion and next-stage engineering, procurement and
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector Lee Lennard has been elevated to president and CEO of Brown & Gay Engineers Inc., Houston. He succeeds Ronald Mullinax, who becomes chairman. Lennard, a 14-year company veteran, had been executive vice president; he also is immediate past president of the American Council of Engineering Companies in Houston.LENNARDAlso, Kerry R. Gilbert has joined Brown & Gay as director of land planning services, the firm tells ENR. The change follows the company's Jan. 8 acquisition of planning firm Kerry R. Gilbert & Associates, of which he
Related Links: AMEC Is Selling Off Its U.S. CM Offices Possible Offer for Foster Wheeler $3-Billion Buyout of Shaw Would Boost CB&I's Energy Capabilities UK-based global engineer AMEC says it reached agreement on Jan. 13 to acquire contractor Foster Wheeler AG in an estimated $3.2-billion stock-and-cash deal that would be the industry's largest since contractor CB&I moved in 2012 to purchase The Shaw Group Inc. That transaction was completed last year.The latest deal would be a culmination of both firms' hunt for a strategic partner to expand corporate reach geographically and deeper into the oil-and-gas sector.Foster Wheeler has been "in
Related Links: ENR: Where East Meets West-Chinese Equipment Firms Struggle in North American Market Fortune: Sany's Bold U.S. Move ENR: How Andrew Buckley Is Shaping the Future of Australian Engineer Cardno Ltd. Mike Rhoda has joined equipment manufacturer and distributor Sany America, Peachtree City, RhodaGa., as CEO. He replaces Tim Frank, who resigned in October as chairman of the firm, the North and Central America unit of China-based Sany Heavy Industry Co. Rhoda was chief technology officer at Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment and also was president and CEO of Volvo Construction Equipment's excavator line. Frank joined Sany America in 2012.
Related Links: Worker Dies at Texas A&M Kyle Field Redevelopment Project Texas A&M University Envisions 25,000 Engineering Students by 2025 The U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration on Dec. 19 cited two Texas contractors with eight serious violations and proposed $46,800 in fines, following the June collapse of a structure in an $80-million equestrian center under construction at Texas A&M University that injured four workers. The penalties come two weeks after a separate site accident on the College Station campus killed a 28-year-old worker employed by another contractor.OSHA cited project subcontractor Ramco Erectors Inc., Houston, with seven violations for flaws
Rendering Courtesy of Knesset Planned 4,650-sq-meter solar-panel array atop the 1960s-era Knesset building, seen in this rendering, is a major part of Israel's $2-million sustainability investment. Related Links: Rooftop Solar Set to Soar Stanford University Researchers Build Prototype of Passive Solar Cooler to Test Revolutionary Concept Israel has launched a two-year program to make its Jerusalem parliament building, known as the Knesset, the world's greenest with a host of new sustainability measures that include the installation of a 4,650-sq-meter rooftop solar-panel array.Samuel Chayen, a government spokesman, said in a press report that the solar field will be larger than the
Related Links: See Who's Moving Up, and Moving On, in the AEC Sector Javier Pérez-Fortea has been elevated to CEO of Globalvia, a Madrid-based infrastructure investment and operations firm half owned by contractor FCC, also Madrid-based. He had been corporate managing director and succeeds Juan Bejar, who continues as chairman. Before joining the firm in 2011, Pérez-Fortea was highways director for Spain, Europe and Chile for Cintra. Industry publication Public Works Financing says Globalvia is the world's second-largest transportation concessions manager. The firm said on Dec. 13 that it completed a $478-million capital fund-raising with three European pension funds.STORYVoorhees, N.J.-based
Related Links: In New York City, Alexander Hamilton Bridge Gets Complicated Rehabilitation Rival Bidder on New Jersey Highway Rehab Eyes Winner's China Tie China Construction America Inc. is building on its organic growth in the U.S market with the acquisition of Plaza Construction Corp., New York City.The U.S. arm of China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd., CCA has operated in its Jersey City, N.J. base for 20 years. This is its first U.S. acquisition.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but New York City-based Fisher Brothers, a family-owned real estate investment company that has owned Plaza since 1986, says the
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector DaaneJeffrey Daane has been elevated to president and CEO of Western States Fire Protection Co., a fire-protection systems specialty contractor that is part of APi Group Inc., New Brighton, Minn. Formerly executive vice president, he succeeds Gene Postma, who becomes chief operating officer. Western States is a $200-million-per-year unit of APi, which ranks at No. 5 on ENR's list of the Top 600 Specialty Contractors and reports nearly $1.6 billion in 2012 revenue.Walsh Construction Co., Portland, Ore., has named Matt Leeding as president. He was
Related Links: Announcement: Ontario Releases Long-Term Energy Plan Ontario will defer indefinitely construction of two new nuclear-power reactors at the Darlington and Bruce Power facilities, scale back plans to refurbish operating units at those sites and may order the shutdown of another six-unit plant before its scheduled 2020 closing date, according to a long-term energy plan the provincial government released earlier this month.The province said that advances in energy conservation, enhanced efficiency and a slowdown in electricity-demand growth prompted it to revise a 2010 energy plan that called for building the two new reactors at the Darlington powerplant site as