Effective on Jan. 1, Skanska AB will elevate Richard Cavallaro to corporate executive vice president, president and CEO of Skanska USA, the Sweden-based contractor’s U.S. construction operations, which includes its Skanska USA Building and Skanska USA Civil units, the firm said on Aug. 19. He will succeed Michael McNally, who is retiring. Cavallaro now is president and CEO of the civil construction company. Set to succeed him is Michael Cobelli, who now is the unit’s chief operating officer.McDermott International Inc. has hired Stuart Spence executive vice president and chief financial officer following the departure of Perry L. Elders, from the

FahoumKhaldoun Fahoum, a geotechnical engineer, soils and foundation expert and a vice president and U.A.E.-based Middle East regional manager for Langan Engineering, died on July 23 in Dubai, says the firm.The cause of death was cancer, it says. Fahoum was 51 years old, says Langan.He joined Langan in 2008 and was key to the firm’s involvement in several major projects, most notably Kingdom Tower and King Abdullah Financial District in Saudi Arabia.A 20-year industry veteran, Fahoum also was Middle East chairman of the Deep Foundations Institute and named a trustee in March.He had extensive experience in deep and raft foundations

ENR Archives Price was a key figure in Australia's Snowy Mountains Scheme, a billion-dollar hydropower construction program that lasted nearly 25 years. PriceDouglas G. Price, whose engineering career began as Australia's massive Snowy Mountains hydroelectric project got under way in 1950 and ended nearly four decades later when he was CEO of the global design firm spawned from what became the country's largest-ever infrastructure program, died on July 10 in Armidale, New South Wales. He was 87.Price was a key project leader on the 23-year, billion-dollar-plus project known as the Snowy Mountains Scheme. Located in Australia's southeast, it was one

CavallaroEffective on Jan. 1, Skanska AB has named Richard Cavallaro corporate executive vice president and president and CEO of Skanska USA, the Sweden-based contractor's U.S. construction operations, which includes its Skanska USA Building and Skanska USA Civil units. He will succeed Michael McNally, who is retiring from the company. Cavallaro currently is president and CEO of the civil construction company. Set to succeed him in those roles is Michael Cobelli, who now is the unit's chief operating officer. Wier & Associates, Arlington, Texas, has elevated Carlo Silvestri to president. A principal of the engineering firm since 2004, he joined in

Related Links: National Ready Mixed Concrete Association statement GaynorRichard D. Gaynor, a prominent researcher in the concrete industry since the 1950s and a former executive vice president of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, died in Maryland on July 16. He was 83.NRMCA said that Gaynor's wide-ranging achievements included work in developing standards for cement; strength and durability testing; reuse of returned concrete and wash water; characteristics of aggregates; mixing in truck mixers; and initiatives to improve ready-mix-concrete quality.The association said Gaynor was a prime mover in the revision, in 1985, of the American Society for Testing and Materials' C94

Related Links: Reuters: Candidates to Replace Perciasepe Unclear; Difficult Confirmation Process Anticipated PerciasepeRobert Perciasepe, deputy administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 2009, will start on Aug. 11 as president of The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a Washington, D.C., climate-change and energy policy think tank. A 21-year EPA management veteran, he also had been the Maryland secretary of the environment and chief operating officer of the National Audubon Society. Perciasepe succeeds Eileen Claussen, who founded the non-profit group in 1998. At ENR press time on Aug. 8, an EPA spokeswoman confirmed that Lisa Feldt, associate deputy administrator,

CarlsonDonald R. Carlson, 84, a project architect and construction manager who helped build Chicago’s original McCormick Place convention center in the 1950s, died of renal failure on June 26.Carlson designed projects for Chicago-based C.F. Murphy Associates, which later became Murphy/Jahn Architects. He worked on the original $35-million, 320,000-sq-ft McCormick Place that opened in 1960 but burned down in 1967. He also served as architectural production chief during the early 1970s on all terminals, gates and operational facilities for the 13 original airlines at O'Hare International Airport.Carlson later worked for Martin B. Schaffer & Associates, redoing the top four floors of

Courtesy of Odebrecht Norberto Odebrecht, pictured (sitting) with son Emilio in the 1990s, died on July 19 at age 93. Related Links: ENR: Odebrecht Sues State of Florida Over Anti-Cuba Law Odebrecht Blog Marking 30th Anniversary of Key Merger with Brazil Contractors CBPO ENR: 2008 Q&A with Marcelo Odebrecht, President of Construtora Norberto Odebrecht SA Bloomberg: Brazilian Builder Odebrecht Emerges as World Cup Winner Odebrecht Foundation website ENR: Brazil Places Its Bets on Hydroelectric Dams, Despite Protests ENR: Brazilians Say Government Deserves a Good, Swift Kick for Broken World Cup Promises Norberto Odebrecht, whose launch, in the 1940s, of a

Related Links: Georgia Institute of Technology Prominent structural engineer and professor Stanley D. Lindsey has been called a genius, an innovator and an inspiration. He died on July 12 of a massive heart attack on his horse farm in Bluffton, S.C. He was 75.Not long after starting his eponymous firm in Nashville, Tenn., in 1966, Lindsey became known as a pioneer in the use of computers for the analysis and design of structures. Stanley D. Lindsey and Associates Ltd., which for years wrote most of its own software, was one of the first engineers to integrate computer-aided design with drafting.Lindsey

Rod Garrett, design director of the Washington, D.C., office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, died suddenly on June 27 while in Chicago, attending the American Institute of Architects convention. Garrett would have turned 54 on Aug. 7.Garrett, who joined SOM in 1986, focused on public and institutional projects and was considered an expert in the public agency and review process."He was recognized that way," says Mark Regulinski, managing director of SOM's New York City and Washington, D.C., offices. "He got his AIA fellowship designation on the strength of his expertise," he adds.GarrettHis recent projects include the master plan and