The Worcester-Fitchburg Building Trades Council in Massachusetts has electedJorge Riverapresident. Currently director of organizing for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 35, he has worked with members across the region in apprentice and OSHA safety. The Worcester-Fitchburg council also electedDan Mulcahy, from Sheet Metal Workers Local 63, as vice president.

Hoffmann Architects has promotedTai Mahmutito senior engineer from project engineer in its New York City office, and he has accepted the firm’s offer to become one of 17 co-owners.

KI法律已经任命为dSocrates Xanthopoulosto partner at the real estate law firm, which has offices in New York and New Jersey. He was previously a commercial real estate attorney at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP.

Mount Laurel, N.J.-based construction management and consulting firm Greyhawk has promotedBarrett L. Richardsto executive consultant. He had been senior managing consultant.

Patricia Zugibe被评为霍尔特建设Corp .)的首席执行长construction management and general contracting firm headquartered in Pearl River, N.Y. She had been general counsel.

Engineering, planning, environmental and landscape architecture firm Barton & Loguidice DPC has made several promotions in its Rochester, N.Y., office.Nicole M. Clearynow is a senior project landscape architect,Darik M. Jordanis a senior project manager and大卫·R·汉妮（David R. Hanny）is a senior associate.

Sachin Gajwanihas joined environmental engineering and construction firm Brown and Caldwell as vice president and client service director in New York City. In previous roles for undisclosed companies, he managed multimillion-dollar projects in the municipal and private water market.

Joshua Zinder, founder of Princeton, N.J.-based architecture and design firm JZA+D, has become the 2021 president of the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He will serve a one-year term.

Arc Building Partners, a full-service construction management firm with offices in New York and New Jersey, has hiredJames Puleoto lead its Morristown, N.J., office as executive vice president and regional manager. He most recently worked at Los Angeles-based Cypress Equity Investments, where he ran and built its East Coast real estate development operations.

WSP USA has made two promotions in its New York City office.Lilian Rodriguez Fuis now the national lighting design practice leader; she had been a vice president in the San Francisco office.Anne Rainbow Savage, previously an associate, is now the New York City lighting design practice leader. The firm also hiredPeter Waldtas director of commercial planning and development, based in the city; he had been senior director of commercial planning and development for Amtrak.

VHB, an integrated consulting firm with offices in New Jersey and New York, has added several former Brinkerhoff Environmental Services executives after acquiring the New Jersey-based environmental sciences firm.Laura BrinkerhoffandJohn Checchioare now VHB principals.Laura Clifford,Jason Hooper,Yvonne Jamieson,Sergio Rojas,Amber SatterlyandThomas Smithare now VHB associates.

Stephanie Pollack, after serving six years as the Massachusetts transportation secretary, was selected by the Biden-Harris administration to serve as deputy administrator of the Federal Highway Administration.James Teslerreplaced Pollack as acting Massachusetts Dept. of Transportation secretary. Tesler was appointed as the acting head of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles during the agency’s records scandal in June 2019. Before that, he briefly served as chief of staff at Boston-based contractor Suffolk after a role as MassDOT chief operating officer.

James Harrisonjoined Schimenti Construction Co. as vice president of development in its New York City office. Before this role, he had been a director at the U.K.-based construction consultancy Mace Group.

New York-based architecture and design firm A+I has made three key appointments. ExecutivesSommer SchauerandPeter Knutsonhave been promoted to chief design officer and chief strategy officer, respectively.Natasha Markleyhas joined the firm as executive director of marketing and partnership. She had been a senior vice president at a media production company.

North Reading, Mass.-based construction manager Columbia promotedSam Dettoreto director of its corporate sector work. Previously a project executive, Dettore has managed many large projects for Columbia, including for clients such as Hobbs Brook Management, Boston Scientific, Ken’s Food and Blue Cross Blue Shield, according to the firm.

Andrew Brumbach, an architect at SmithGroup, has been tapped to lead the firm’s health care studio in Boston. An expert on issues of patient and staff safety in health care environments—in particular designing for infection control and prevention—he has helped health systems around the world plan for the future of health care delivery following the COVID-19 pandemic and to evaluate interventions to improve resilience, according to the company.

Gienapp Architects hiredLeno Filippias senior designer and project manager. Prior to joining Gienapp, Filippi provided design and project management services at several Boston-based architecture firms, including Arrowstreet and SBA Architects.

BHV Integrated Services P.C., an engineering firm with offices in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has promoted several employees, includingMichael Gannon,Adam GowerandMichael Palleschito associate principals;Daniel Morinto senior commissioning project manager;Daniel Cefaratti,Stephen PrusaczykandBryan Westto project managers; andKristina Chasseto computer systems specialist.

Obituary

Rudolph F. “Rudi” Besier,founder of GNCB Consulting Engineer PC, Old Saybrook, Conn., died on Jan. 25 in Old Lyme, Conn., at 91. As a civil engineering graduate in 1950, he worked for a Washington, D.C., design firm near the White House and “remembered tipping his hat to President Harry S. Truman, who, accompanied by a single secret service agent, passed by every morning as Rudi walked to work,” says an online obituary. Also a U.S. Navy Seabee, Besier served in Morocco and Cuba and was officer in charge of construction in Point Mugu, Calif. He founded GNCB in 1965 and retired in 1994. Besier and partner Kenneth Gibble “built a thriving structural engineering business ... and consulted on award-winning projects with many prominent architects of the day,” according to the online obituary.