Peter M. Lehrer has joined Los Angeles construction project and cost consultant Cumming as CEO of what the firm calls the Lehrer Cumming division based in New York City, following what is described as a "merger" with Lehrer LLC, a consulting firm based there, of which he was CEO. About 40 Lehrer staff join the new parent, which increases its workforce to about 700 in 31 offices, Cumming says. The firm's operations in Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami now are part of the new division.
Lehrer was a co-founder in 1979 of CM firm Lehrer McGovern Inc., which managed the renovation of the Statue of Liberty in the 1980s and was later partly acquired by U.K.-based contractor Bovis Ltd. Lehrer was named Bovis vice chairman and CEO of its U.S. operations. Bovis later became Bovis Lend Lease. Lehrer founded Lehrer LLC after leaving that company in the 1990s.
Lehrer's new firm served as owner adviser to Rockefeller University in its complex East River-based modular construction of a Manhattan campus in 2017.
Gavin Middleton, former COO of Lehrer LLC, and Derek Hutchison, Cumming executive vice president in New York City, now are EVPs of Lehrer Cumming. Finlay Cumming, founder and CEO of Cumming, remains in that role. The firm ranks at No. 20 on ENR's list of the Top 100 CM for fee firms with $135.9 million in 2017 revenue.
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Richard L. Stevens, a former Corps of Engineers deputy commander from 2014 to 2017, is set to join Washington, D.C., federal policy consulting firm Dawson & Associates in September as a senior vice president, the company says. A 36-year Army veteran, he also served in Kuwait and on the mathematics faculty at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and commanded the 11th Engineer Battalion at Fort Stewart, Ga.
Gary Wilkerson, former president of Orlando, Fla.-based design firm Sims Wilkerson Cartier Engineering (SWC), has joined engineer Salas O'Brien, Santa Ana, Calif., as principal, following the latter's acquisition of the former, which closed on July 31. Salas O'Brien ranks at No. 267 on ENR's list of the Top 500 Design Firms, reporting $53.4 million in buildings-related revenue last year. SWC is a mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire-protection engineer.
In a planned succession effective on Aug. 6, Newport News, Va.-based construction manager W. M. Jordan Co. has named President and CEO John R. Lawson II, 66, as executive chairman. Replacing him as president is Ronald J. Lauster Jr., a former company vice-president and project executive. The CEO role is not being filled, says a company spokeswoman. John J. Angle is named senior vice president of operations, and James C. Burnett becomes chief financial officer.
Following the purchase of Texas-based capital investment consultant Trillion Aviation, President Dan Benzon has joined Landrum & Brown, a commercial aviation design specialist, as executive vice president. The privately owned new parent, based in Cincinnati with a total of 23 global offices, ranks at No. 308 on ENR's list of The Top 500 Design Firms, with $44.9 million in 2017 revenue.
Pittsburgh bridge and transportation contractor American Bridge Co. has named Timothy Creson as president and CEO. He had been in those same roles since 2012 at Webber LLC, a Texas-based construction firm owned since 2005 by Spain-based contractor Ferrovial. Creson also served as senior vice president and operations head at Austin Bridge and Road, a subsidiary of Austin Industries. According to American Bridge, Creson began his career there "as a laborer on a road paving crew." American Bridge ranks at No. 278 on ENR's list of The Top 400 Contractors, reporting about $294 million in 2017 revenue.
David T. Ford, a globally recognized expert in hydrology, water hydraulics, flood risk analysis and related areas, has joined engineer HDR, with the asset acquisition of Sacramento-based David Ford Consulting Engineers, of which he was president. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ford now is an HDR vice president. He also has taught at the University of California-Davis and California State University.
