FRIESAlexis Fries has joined global engineer Pöyry PLC, Vantaa, Finland, as president and CEO. He was CEO of EOS Holding SA, an energy company in Lausanne, Switzerland. In his new role, Fries succeeds Heikki Malinen, who stepped down in June. Chairman Henrik Ehrnrooth had been serving as interim president and CEO. Pöyry ranks at No. 34 on ENR's list of the Top 150 Global Design Firms, with $1.1 billion in 2011 engineering revenue. Fries has been a Pöyry board member since 2008. The firm says he will be based primarily in Zurich, Switzerland.Filiberto Ruiz has been elevated to deputy CEO
CPP Inc. The researcher-practitioner, 89, whose innovative wind tunnel at Colorado State University attracted many visitors such as artist Andy Warhol (right) in 1971, pioneered wind-resistant design techniques that are standard today. Related Links: A Career Tribute to Jack E. Cermak by Wind Engineer Ahsan Kareem Colorado State University Slide Show on the Work of Jack E. Cermak Engineer Jack E. Cermak, who was dubbed the "father of wind engineering," and was a pioneer in the study and testing of the impact of extreme wind forces on engineered structures, died in his sleep on Aug. 21 in Fort Collins, Colo.,
Related Links: Ric Licata, 59, Founder-Principal of Reno Architect Licata Hansen Associates Website of J.F. White Contracting Co. Website of Garver LLC J.F. White Helps Build Worlds Largest Water Disinfection Plant in NYC Suburb W. Brock Johnson obituary Stephen J. Barlow obituary Three construction industry firms lost company leaders to cancer within the same week.Richard D. "Ric" Licata, principal and founder of Reno, Nev.-based Licata Hansen Associates Architecture, died there on Aug. 18 at age 59.Stephen J. Barlow, president and chief operating officer of Massachusetts design-build contractor J.F. White Contracting Co., died the next day, and W. Brock Johnson, CEO
HICKOXGlobal engineer CDM Smith, Cambridge, Mass., has elevated Stephen J. Hickox to CEO, effective on Jan. 1, when he succeeds Richard D. Fox in the role. Fox remains chairman until a planned retirement in April. Hickox now is president of the firm's public-services group for North America East and Latin America. Executive Vice President Timothy B. Wall also was named COO, effective on Oct. 1. He had been president of the firm's federal-services group. As COO, Wall will replace John Manning, who retires from the firm, also as president, at the end of 2012. CDM Smith did not disclose
Frank A. Lee, a chemical engineer who led publicly held Foster Wheeler Corp. during a decade of growth and innovation in the 1970s and fended off an acquisition attempt, died on Aug. 12 in Old Tappan, N.J. He was 88.LEELee was named president and CEO of the contractor-manufacturer in 1971, after difficulties in its boiler business had led to several years of revenue falloff. He noted the firm's "image problem in the market" in a 1974 Forbes magazine article.Lee helped expand the firm's global markets and presided over technical advances in fluidized-bed power-generation design and construction. But he opted not
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Related Links: Company obituary of co-founder Bill Larson and links to related stories LARSONWilliam L. "Bill" Larson, who co-founded an architecture practice that grew in 45 years to become the 500-person design-engineering firm DLR Group, Overland Park, Kan., died on June 29 in Pinetop, Ariz. He was 88. The cause of death was complications from a series of falls, says a company spokesman.Larson was a vice president at architect Leo A Daly before founding his own firm in 1966, along with architect Irving R. Dana and engineer James P. Roubal. Dana Larson Roubal and Associates became DLR Group in
Four senior executives of contractor Tutor-Perini Corp. (TPC), who left the firm's ailing Las Vegas-based building group late last month, have launched their own design-build firm there, which their former employer says won't compete.