Related Links: Website of RWDI On line death notice of Walter Podolny Jr., memorial service details Online obituary- Henry C. Hines Website of The DiSalvo Engineering Group WilliamsColin J. Williams, 66, an expert in microclimate impacts on building performance and founding partner of Canadian design firm Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, died on Sept. 17 in Elora, Ontario. The cause of death was cancer, says the company. In a 40-year career at the Guelph, Ontario, firm, he helped grow it from a small regional company to a 400-person global consultancy, says CEO Michael Soligo. Williams “was a much published author

GloverAECOM confirms that David Glover, its London-based global CEO of building engineering, will depart at the end of October to become chief executive of Intelligent Engineering, a U.K.-based consulting firm.

Related Links: Balfour Beatty website: investors Financial Times: Balfour Beatty names Qinetiq head as chief executive Balfour Beatty: New chief exec speaks QuinnLeo Quinn, who began his career in 1979 as a civil engineer at now-struggling U.K. construction services giant Balfour Beatty, will return to the firm as CEO in January. The global contractor announced his appointment on Oct. 15, five months after the departure of Andrew McNaughton. Quinn, who will replace Executive Chairman Steve Marshall in the CEO role, joins the contractor after five profit warnings in the past two years and some analyst speculation over whether, before the

Related Links: Bob Pragada, Group Vice President of Jacobs, shares a quick vision of the pharma facility of tomorrow (2013 video clip). PragadaRobert V. Pragada has joined The Brock Group, Houston, one of the largest U.S. industrial services subcontractors, as president and CEO. In those roles he succeeds Jeff Davis, who continues as chairman. Pragada had been senior vice president of global sales at Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and also served as chief operating officer at Kinetics, an industrial-process design-build firm. Davis was named CEO in 2008. Brock Group ranks at No. 6 on ENR's list of the Top 600

Related Links: Structural Engineer Daniel A. Cuoco Remembered Thornton Tomasetti Structural engineer Daniel A. Cuoco, former president and CEO of Thornton-Tomasetti, died of cancer on Sept. 21. He was 68 years old.He joined the New York City-based firm in 1971, when it was named Lev Zetlin Associates. He became president in 2002 and president and CEO in 2008. He retired in 2011.CUOCOIn the mid-1980s, Cuoco formed LZA Technology, the firm's structural forensics arm. After the World Trade Center attacks, he identified this work as his most important job, say his colleagues. Beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, Cuoco led a team

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. has named as its interim CEO, Brian P. MacDonald, who now is chief of the rental company’s construction-equipment unit. He replaces Mark Frissora who it said resigned on Sept. 8 for “personal reasons.”The company had announced earlier this year that it would spin off Hertz Equipment Rental Corp. into a separate $2.5-billion public company by early 2015. However, accounting errors—acknowledged but not disclosed in detail by the company—that have held up reporting of its 2014 results “could definitely delay the spin-off,” says Nicholas Coppola, a senior equity analyst with Thompson Research Group.The divestiture was set to

Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector How health care and engineering went from Leidos' big play to its financial burden StevensMaj. Gen. Richard L. Stevens is named U.S. Army deputy chief of engineers and deputy commander of the Corps of Engineers, the Dept. of Defense said on Sept. 2. He will replace Maj. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, who will be deployed to Afghanistan for an as yet unannounced assignment, said the Army. Stevens was Corps deputy commander for military and international operations. No successor was announced. Semonite was deputy chief since

Related Links: John R. Forrester--Obituary notice Link to Photo of Rick Forrester With Brothers, Fellow Execs, at Forrester Construction ENR: D.C. Cuts Forrester Payment by $1M Over MBE Joint Venture ForresterJohn R. “Rick” Forrester, founder and principal of Forrester Construction Co. Inc., Rockville, Md., died on Aug. 29 in an undisclosed Virginia location. The cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, a spokesman for the state Medical Examiner confirmed to ENR. Forrester was 55.A memorial service for him is set for Friday, Oct. 10, at 4:00pm at River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Road, Bethesda,

Related Links: Holabird & Root obituary on Gerald Horn HornGerald A. Horn, 79, a prominent Chicago architect, died on Aug. 9 of cancer. He was a partner at architecture firm Holabird & Root from 1988 to 2004, managing numerous designs, including the Illinois Bell Telephone building, which won an American Institute of Architects national design award in 1974.Other noteworthy designs include those for the the Chicago Historical Society expansion, Federal Reserve Bank Building addition and Northwestern University Law School.Horn also was a longtime educator at the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture.He studied under mid-century modernist architect Craig Ellwood

Related Links: Diversification Drive Keeps Webcor Healthy American Society of Civil Engineers' website Seeking Alpha: Is McDermott A Good Investment Pick? VahdatShahram Vahdat has joined HNTB Corp., Kansas City, Mo., as vice president and group transportation director. He was a vice president and Los Angeles office manager at URS Corp. since 2008. Vahdat also is a former president of the American Council of Engineering Cos., Los Angeles County chapter. HNTB also has named David Tiberi a vice president and regional construction leader based in Santa Ana, Calif. He had been construction services practice manager and executive vice president of Athalye