Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector. Hunt Steven Hunt is elevated to the newly created role of president and CEO of COWI North America, a unit of Danish engineer COWI that includes five design firms operating in the U.S. and Canada. He was CEO of one, Vancouver-based Buckland & Taylor. The others are Ben C. Gerwick Inc., COWI North America Energy, Jenny Engineering Corp. and  Ocean and Coastal Consultants Inc. Darryl Matson succeeds Hunt at Buckland & Taylor, and is named senior vice president for bridges in the parent firm. COWI

ENR File Photo McGrath (right) chats with a field engineer at a California dam project site in 1966. Related Links: Obituary for David McGrath in The Newark Star Ledger David J. "Dave" McGrath, who served as the publisher of ENR for 23 years and was one of the first American business-publishing executives to link to the China marketplace, died on Sept. 26 in Palm City, Fla. He was 86.McGrath, ENR publisher from 1965 until 1988, was also a McGraw-Hill Cos. senior vice president. Working for the firm for 38 years, McGrath began his company career in advertising sales and later

Related Links: Gates Still Needed for Lake, Ex-Corps Head Says: Times-Picayune Letter to the Editor, June 2007 Corps Culpable for Flooding? Answers to the Accusations 2006 National Public Radio report: Why Did the 17th Street Canal Levee Fail? Dawson & Associates website tribute HeibergLt. Gen. Elvin R. "Vald" Heiberg III, who became, in 1984, the youngest U.S. Army officer to lead the Corps of Engineers since the 19th century but who also expressed some post-Hurricane Katrina regret over his role in the agency's earlier actions and decisions in construction of regional defenses, died on Sept. 27 in Arlington, Va., at

Related Links: Website of California State University, Chico Online obituary for Willard Warzyn WarzynWillard Warzyn, 95, a heavy-structural engineer who, in 1953, founded Warzyn Engineering Inc. to advance the emerging field of soil engineering, died on Sept. 19 in Madison, Wis.He consulted on numerous projects in Wisconsin and Illinois and made cost-saving innovations in bridge and marina design, says Clifford Lawson, the firm's former chief geotechnical engineer. "He was always noted for the energy he put into his work," says Lawson.Warzyn also was state chapter president of two engineers' groups. His firm, which ranked among the Top 500 Design Firms

Related Links: Innovation Is Key to Swinerton Longevity Seismic Upgrade of San Franciscos Water System See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector CeribelliPeter A. Ceribelli has joined water-resources and environmental engineer Apex Cos. LLC as CEO. He was chief operating officer of Weston Solutions since 2009. Also joining the firm, as principal, is Andrew R. Contrael, former principal of Management and Technical Resources Inc., a Pittsburgh consultant that Apex acquired on Sept. 17. Apex ranks at No. 77 on ENR's list of the Top 200 Environmental Firms, with $101.2 million in 2012 revenue.The board

Photo courtesy of ACCE Morley Builders Mark Benjamin (far left), with other former ACCE presidents at an undated association event, was a strong supporter of industry education. Related Links: Link to Tribute Info for Mark & Luke Benjamin on Morley Builders Website Mark Benjamin Speaks on Undergrad Construction Education Santa Monica Plane Crash Victim Remembered as Generous Community Supporter Morley Builders has named Charles Muttillo, a 28-year veteran of the Santa Monica, Calif., building firm and vice president of general contracting operations, as president to succeed President and CEO Mark Benjamin, who died Sept. 29 in the crash of his

Related Links: Jimmie W. Hinze Graduate Scholarship in Construction Safety - Univ. of Florida M.E. Rinker School of Building Construction Jimmie W. Hinze, 67, a well-known construction safety researcher and champion, died on Sept. 12 in College Station, Texas, of cancer. He served, most recently, as director of the Fluor Program for Construction Safety at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and previously led its M.E. Rinker School of Building Construction.HINZIEHinze's research "was groundbreaking and unprecedented and provided the technical foundation for significant aspects of contemporary approaches to construction safety," says Robert Ries, the current Rinker school director.In August, Hinze presented

Related Links: NAVFAC Facebook page (See Sept. 20 and Sept. 16 posts) A Naval Facilities Engineering Command employee and a NAVFAC contract security guard were among the 12 people killed in the Sept. 16 shootings at the Washington Navy Yard, according to NAVFAC statements on its Facebook page. Kenneth "Kenny" Proctor, 46, of Waldorf, Md., a NAVFAC utilities plant supervisor, was working in the central heating plant behind the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters (NAVSEA) and was shot in the alley between those buildings, NAVFAC said in a Sept. 17 Facebook posting.Proctor joined NAVFAC's Washington. D.C. region in 2003 as an

Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector William Varley is named northeast division senior vice president of American Water Works Co. Inc., Voorhees, N.J., and president of its New Jersey American Water Works  unit effective Sept. 16. He succeeds David Baker, who will retire in February but remains with the firm until then, the firm says. Varley also remains president of New York American Water, another corporate unit. The company says he led a 2012 acquisition that doubled New York unit operations to serve about 370,000 customers. The New Jersey unit serves

Jonathan E. "Jon" Pettit, a Seattle-based managing principal of architect-engineer DLR Group, Omaha, and a 36-year industry veteran, died on Aug. 19 of cancer, the company announced on Sept. 3. He was 61. PETTITPettit led Seattle operations and provided strategic direction for DLR's growth into a regional design leader in the corporate, justice and education sectors, says the firm.He also was key in building its retail and workplace practice nationally and, in the 1980s, led the firm's acquisition of architect John Graham & Associates.DLR ranks at No. 101 on ENR's list of Top 500 Design Firms, with $116.3 million in