WARE Lloyd G. Ware has joined design firm The Switzer Group, New York City, as president of its newly formed health-care division. He had been senior architect in the worldwide engineering and real estate group of pharmaceuticals manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and was also the first African-American partner at architect Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Foster Wheeler AG, Zug, Switzerland, has named Robert C. Flexon president and CEO of Foster Wheeler USA Corp., its engineering and construction group unit in Houston. He succeeds W. Troy Roder, who becomes chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., Reading, England. Flexon, an
CIANCHETTE Ival R. “Bud” Cianchette, a founder and former top executive of Pittsfield, Maine-based The Cianbro Cos., one of the state’s largest general contractors, died on Nov. 5 at age 83 in Falmouth, Maine. Cianchette had contracted cancer, according to local reports. Cianchette and three of his brothers, sons of Italian immigrants, founded their company in 1949. Bud Cianchette served as its president, chairman and chairman emeritus from 1962 until his death. Cianbro, which ranks 149 on ENR’s list of The Top 400 Contractors, reported $478 million in 2008 revenue, split among general building, industrial and transportation markets. The firm
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, responded to a series of questions about the Corps� changing construction management style and performance by e-mail on October 31. He describes a military construction program that has just completed one of its biggest years ever, and presents metrics to support his contention that efficiency is improving. + Image Photo: USACE Comparison of Metrics for Projects Completed in FY05 and FY09 Related Links: Military Construction Is in High Gear As Big Jobs Hit Their Stride Major Boom in Army Construction Changes Base Appearances GEN. VAN ANTWERP
The U.S. Army is making changes at top levels of the Corps of Engineers, announcing on Oct. 16 that Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. “Bo” Temple will become deputy chief of engineers, the Corps’ No. 2 position. Temple has been the Corps’ deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations since 2008. Related Links: Army Names Temple, Dorko to Senior Corps Posts Effective in January 2010, Temple will succeed Maj. Gen. Don T. Riley, who will be retiring, says a Corps spokesman. Riley has been the deputy chief of the Corps since April 2008. Before becoming head of Corps civil works
The Army is making changes in the top ranks of the Corps of Engineers. Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. (Bo) Temple will become deputy chief of engineers, the Corps' number-two position, the Army announced on Oct. 16. Temple has been the Corps' Deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations since 2008. Temple will succeed Maj. Gen. Don T. Riley, who will be retiring effective in January 2010, a Corps spokesman says. Riley has been the deputy chief of the Corps since April 2008. Taking Temple's place is Maj. Gen. William T. Grisoli, who has been in the office of the
DULANEY Daryl D. Dulaney is named president and CEO of New York City-based Siemens Industry Inc., a newly formed entity in the U.S. operations of German technology firm Siemens AG. The new unit combines its former U.S.-based building technology, transportation systems, energy and other businesses. Dulaney, who had been president and CEO of the building technology unit since 2005, joined Siemens in 1979. O’Brien & Gere, East Syracuse, N.Y., has promoted Executive Vice President R. Leland “Lee” Davis to president and chief operating officer. Prior to joining O’Brien & Gere in 2007, he was chairman, president and CEO of Galson
THOMOPULOS Gregs G. Thomopulos , chairman and CEO of Stanley Consultants, Muscatine, Iowa, was elected president of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, Geneva, Switzerland, last month at its conference in London. FIDIC represents over 1 million professional engineers in 81 countries. He is only the third U.S. engineer to lead the group in 97 years. Bill Caretsky, senior vice president and operations manager for New York City-based Syska Hennessy Group’s national health-care and health-sciences practice, has been named managing principal of its New England region. He will be based in Cambridge, Mass. James Baumgardner is named CEO of American
Michael Horman, associate professor of architectural engineering at Pennsylvania State University, State College, who also specialized in research on building efficiency and use of lean construction in green buildings, died Sept. 15 while teaching a graduate course, says the school. He was 38 and suffered a fatal heart attack, according to published reports. HORMAN Horman was director of the university's Lean and Green Research Initiative, a research effort focused on high-performance and sustainable building design and construction, and co-editor of its Journal of Green Building. He also served as assistant specialty editor for the American Society of Civil Engineers' Journal
Foster Wheeler AG, Zug, Switzerland, has elevated W. Troy Roder to be chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., based in Reading, England, and the largest subsidiary in the corporation’s global engineering and construction group. Currently president and CEO of another corporate unit, Houston-based Foster Wheeler USA Corp., he will replace Michael Beaumont, who is set to retire. Roder, who joined Foster Wheeler in 1989, has been in his current role since 2004. Beaumont has been with the company since 1973. GALIOTO Carl Galioto, formerly partner-in-charge of the technical group at New York City-based architecture firm Skidmore Owings &
SCHMIDT Richard L. “Dick” Schmidt Sr., who rose from apprentice mason to third generation family leadership of CG Schmidt Inc., Milwaukee’s largest building contractor, died Sept. 10 in West Bend, Wis. at age 77. Cause of death was not disclosed. Schmidt was chairman of the contractor, which ranks 288th on ENR’s list of The Top 400 Contractors, with $256 million in 2008 revenue. He had previously served as its president and CEO, a post now held by his son, Richard L. “Rick” Schmidt Jr. CG Schmidt, founded in 1920, is noted for construction of projects that include an addition to
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