IVY Robert A. Ivy, editor-in-chief of Architectural Record magazine since 1996, has been named executive vice president and CEO of the national American Institute of Architects (AIA), Washington, D.C. He assumes his new role on Feb. 1. The magazine, like ENR, is a unit of The McGraw-Hill Cos. and, until Dec. 31, 2010, is AIA’s official publication. In January, Architect magazine, published by Hanley Wood, assumes that role. Ivy permanently succeeds Christine McEntee, who resigned in July. He also is a vice president and editorial director of McGraw-Hill Construction Media, overseeing editorial quality of its print and online media, including
SHAW Robert L. Shaw Jr., a vice president and board member of Detroit-based engineer-architect SmithGroup and director of its Dallas office Smith Group/F&S, died on Dec. 2 of pancreatic cancer. He was 56. Shaw joined the firm in 2009 following its acquisition of Dallas-based F&S Partners, of which he had been president. Shaw assumed that role in 2008 after 30 years with the firm. He also was the former president of the American Institute of Architects’ Dallas Chapter in 1993 and served in leadership roles in the Texas Society of Architects and the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council for
LUDOVICI Joseph D. Ludovici has been elevated to director of the U.S. Defense Dept.’s Joint Guam Program Office (JGPO), which is supervising the estimated $11 billion -$15 billion construction effort to relocate more than 18,000 U.S. Marines, family members and others from the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam. Formerly deputy director, he succeeds David F. Bice , a retired Marine Corps general who is stepping down as JGPO executive director. Bice, in that role since 2007, is also a former Marine Corps inspector general and base commander in Hawaii and Camp Pendleton, Calif. Ludovici, who has been a JGPO
MORRISON Linda Morrison has joined Golder Associates Inc., Atlanta, as director of federal projects. She had been chief of operations in the Savannah, Ga.-based district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Morrison also previously directed the agency’s national regulatory wetlands program in Washington, D.C., which had a staff of 1,300 at the time. This year, Morrison received the Steel Order of the de Fleury medal from the Army Engineers Association for leadership and service to the Corps’ civil-works program. XL Insurance, the global insurance unit of XL Group plc, Dublin, has named David S. Hewett as executive vice president
FLOYD Harvey M. Floyd, senior vice president of KCI Technologies Inc., a Sparks, Md., engineer, has been promoted to transportation discipline manager for the firm. He was chief client services officer and headed KCI’s mid-Atlantic transportation market in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. S. Michael Tahan has joined Hill International Inc., Marlton, N.J., as senior vice president and head of the Southern California highway, bridge and water infrastructure practice for its project management group. The position follows Hill’s Nov. 10 acquisition of Ontario, Calif.-based TCM Group Inc., of which he had been vice president. Tahan continues to lead TCM,
WICKHAM George Wickham, the former principal of San Francisco tunnel and geotechnical engineer Jacobs Associates Inc. who was known for his cost-estimating expertise, died on Oct. 25 in Lake Wildwood, Calif. He was 89. Wickham joined the firm in 1957 after 10 years of work for a contractor. He co-authored a 1974 research paper that introduced rock-structure rating methodology to tunnel design, according to Jacobs. The approach quantifies and predicts the support required for a tunnel based on key geologic parameters. Says the company, “Others have built on this work to produce rock-mass classification systems” that are widely used in
CLAYBROOKE Phil Claybrooke has joined mechanical contractor TDIndustries, Dallas, as vice president of special projects in its north Texas region. He was most recently regional sales manager for the western U.S. for Johnson Controls and also served as a global account manager at Honeywell Inc. The company reports revenue of about $300 million. Predrag “Pete” Popovic, vice president and senior principal at engineer Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc., Northbrook, Ill., has been named president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) for three years. IABSE, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is a 4,000-member organization that works to advance
POPE Jerry G. Pope, former vice president, chief estimator and special projects manager at Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Greeley, Colo., and industry activist in the state and nationally, died in Greeley on Oct. 2 of complications of heart disease. He was 75. A recognized expert in masonry construction and estimating, Pope was a former president of the Colorado Mason Contractors Association and the Colorado Masonry Institute. A 14-year Hensel Phelps veteran, he also had been chairman of the construction management committee of the Associated General Contractors of Colorado and served on a similar committee for national AGC.
Susan Martinovich, director of the Nevada Dept. of Transportation since 2007, is the new American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials president. She is the first woman to head the standards-setting group in its 96 years. NDOT has 1,700 employees, a $700-million budget and 5,400 highway miles to oversee. Nevada currently is undertaking its largest-ever project, a $246.5-million design-build widening of Interstate 15 in Las Vegas. MARTINOVINCH ENR: What do you hope to accomplish as president? Martinovich: AASHTO presidents had focused on everything from safety to climate, but without secure funding individual focus areas are stalled. My focus is
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