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WardChristopher O. Ward has joined AECOM as senior vice president and CEO of design and consulting services in its metro New York region, five months after leaving a top executive role he held since 2011 at Dragados USA, a unit of the Spain-based contractor and concessions firm.Ward left the Dragados role as executive vice president for major projects at the end of 2014, telling Crain's NY Business that the expected public-private-partnership construction market "was not as large as it had been." The firm was part of a design-build team that had been short-listed for the $4-billion Tappan Zee replacement bridge
Office of the Mayor of Chicago Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduces industry aviation veteran Ginger Evans as the city's new airports commissioner on May 5 Related Links: EvansGinger S. Evans will become aviation commissioner in Chicago on June 1, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on May 10. She has been vice president of engineering for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority since early 2014, overseeing construction at Reagan National and Dulles International airports and on the Silver Line Metrorail project. In her new role, Evans replaces Rosemarie Andolino, who became aviation vice president at Jacobs Engineering in December.Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray
Related Links: SNC-Lavalin Wins Big Canada Bridge, Rail Jobs, As Its Infrastructure Chief is Named Golder CEO Trustees' Executive Committee approves establishing School of Engineering Hisham Mahmoud on April 25 joined Calgary, Alberta-based global engineer Golder Associates Corp. as president and CEO, the 8,000-person firm says. He had been senior executive vice president and group president of infrastructure at Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., a newly created position he held since late 2013. Mahmoud, now based in Atlanta, succeeds Brian Conlin as Golder's first CEO from outside its executive ranks. In the roles since 2009, Conlin moves to a senior-level business
美国工程师艾奕康科技已任命卡洛斯玉米饼CEO for its Africa-based business, effective in August, according to a report in UK industry publication Building. He was country managing director in the United Arab Emirates for ABB and also had been that firm's CEO for southern Africa. Pone will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa.Holland-based design consultant ARCADIS named Lance Josal as CEO of a corporate group that combines its RTKL and its Callison architecture practices. The latter was acquired last year. Josal was CEO of the RTKL unit, purchased in 2007. Randy Pace, formerly CFO of RTKL, will take
Rendering courtesy of Infrastructures Canada Replacement span across St. Lawrence River, valued at up to $4 billion, is set to open in December 2018. Related Links: Engineering News-Record Architectural Record Even as it copes with continuing fallout from alleged bribes by former executives that have led to federal fraud charges against the firm, SNC-Lavalin was buoyed by its selection, announced by federal infrastructure officials on April 15, as preferred bidder for a coveted public-private contract to rebuild a key bridge crossing in Montreal.Some observers speculated that the government award to the SNC-Lavalin-led team signals a vote of confidence by the
Related Links: Publicly Held Sterling Construction Eyes Transportation Boost To Reverse Results Slide VarelloSterling Construction has named as its permanent CEO, Paul J. Varello, who had been acting in the role since early February and has resigned as chairman. The firm, based in The Woodlands, said on March 9 that under Varello’s multi-year employment agreement, the one-time Fluor Corp. process sector president would receive an annual salary of $1 and 600,000 shares of restricted common stock. Varello, a Sterling board member since early 2014 and former chairman of oil-and-gas sector firm Commonwealth Engineering & Construction, replaces Peter MacKenna, who
Related Links: Engineering News-Record Architectural Record The Associated Builders and Contractors has hired Gregory E. Sizemore as vice president of environment, health, safety and workforce development for the 21,000-member national open-shop group. He was senior manager of craft development at Zachry Industrial. Gregory E. SizemoreGregory L. Sizemore, no relation, remains executive vice president of the Construction Users Roundtable, a Cincinnati-based owners group.Michael A. Shamma has joined engineer HAKS, New York City, as president. He was chief engineer of the New York State Thruway Authority/Canal Corp. and a regional state transportation director.AECOM has named Jess Yoder vice president in San Francisco
RTD前丹佛运输经理现在将运行这个rd-largest US system. Related Links: ENR Newsmaker citiation: Reaching Higher, Reaching Out on FasTracks Program Former MTA chief expected to be named head of Metrolink commuter rail Phillip A. Washington, general manager of Denver’s Regional Transportation District since 2009, will leave the agency to become CEO of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the third-largest public transit system in the U.S., the L.A. agency said March 12. Washington has garnered national attention for taking over in 2009 what had been the district’s originally troubled $5.3-billion FasTracks transit construction program,
GreenTech Lead Non-compete restriction with firm Shaw buyer CB&I expires after two years. Related Links: Wood Group warns of further cuts over low oil price Former Shaw Group executives spearhead new $45M pipe fabrication facility Contractor Structure Tone Agrees to Pay $55 Million in Fraud Plea Global oil-and-gas services giant Wood Group plc has elevated Michele McNichol to CEO of its Houston engineering unit Wood Group Mustang Inc. Formerly executive vice president and president of its upstream business unit, she succeeds Steve Knowles, who will retire April 1, says the firm. Wood Group Mustang ranks at No. 17 on ENR’s
Della RoccaMichael Della Rocca has joined consultant McKinsey & Co. as a partner in its global infrastructure practice. Based in Philadelphia, he leads its megaprojects service line, the firm confirms to ENR.Della Rocca had been Americas CEO for AECOM and also was regional managing director in North America for U.K.-based Halcrow.Tutor Perini Corp., Sylmar, Calif., has elevated James A. "Jack" Frost to president and chief operating officer. He was executive vice president and CEO of the contractor's civil group since 2008. As president and a corporate director, Frost succeeds Robert Band, who becomes executive vice president for Perini management services.Burns