Related Links: See Who Else in the Industry Has Moved Up, or Moved On   HopkinsJohn L. Hopkins, Fluor Corp. group executive for corporate development and new ventures, will retire in March to become CEO of NuScale Power, a Portland, Ore.-based nuclear-power R&D startup firm in which the contractor is the majority investor. He replaces Paul G. Lorenzini, also NuScale Power's co-founder, who will become a firm consultant.Hopkins, also formerly president of Fluor's government group, joined Fluor in 1984. NuScale Power is developing a technology for a small modular reactor (SMR). Lorenzini has led the firm since 2007, when it

Courtesy of O Empreiteiro Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, dead at 104, created the modern city of Brasilia and other iconic buildings around the world. Courtesy of government of Brazil As in this 1950s-era cathedral in Brasilia, Niemeyer's emphasis on curves pushed Brazilian engineers to new levels of innovation to accommodate the untested designs. Related Links: Architectural Record slideshow of Oscar Niemeyer's well known buildings Homepage (in English) of Brazil Construction Publication O Empreiteiro The idea of moving Brazil's capital to the undeveloped interior dated to 1789, but it took until 1957 for work to begin. Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, along

Joseph Skinner, president and CEO of engineering firm Greenhorne & O'Mara, Laurel, Md., will join Edmonton, Alberta-based consulting giant Stantec as a practice managing leader as of Dec. 31, the firms tell ENR.

Related Links: 100 Years of Coal Age   WilkinsonJoseph F. Wilkinson, a former managing editor of ENR in the 1960s and 1970s and an award-winning journalist, died on Nov. 28 in Brooklyn, N.Y., of cardiac arrest at age 87.Wilkinson joined ENR in the 1950s and was managing editor from 1969 to 1976."Joe was the first ENR staffer to be a Vietnam war correspondent," says ENR Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Arthur J. Fox. "At his own initiative, he also was the first and only ENR editor to visit Antarctica and report on activities there."Adds Fox, "Joe's writing was 'splendid,' a favorite word of

Related Links: Contractors Association of Greater New York "Walking Steel": 2004 Video Tribute to John Cavanagh UPDATE: A public memorial for John A. Cavanagh will be held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan on Jan. 24 at 3 p.m. CavanaghJohn A. Cavanagh admitted he was "scared to death" scaling high-rises as a young field engineer for a New York City contractor, but he ended up climbing to the heights of the city's tough construction business some 50 years later as a top company executive, the founder of a leading contractor bargaining group and an industry activist for union construction.Cavanagh died

Related Links: See Who Else Is Moving Up, or Moving On in AEC Firms $3-Billion Buyout of Shaw Would Boost CB&I's Energy Capabilities Frederick G. "Bud" Wright, former chief operating officer of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, will be the new executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), effective on Feb. 1. He will succeed John Horsley, who is retiring from the position after 14 years. Wright, COO at FHWA from 2001 to 2008, is now an Alexandria, Va.-based transportation consultant who has been examining performance-based management approaches for the federal-aid highway program.  WRIGHTFurther,

The Beavers, a national heavy-construction group based in Los Altos, Calif., has named four executives to receive 2013 Golden Beaver awards on Jan. 18 in Los Angeles.

Related Links: alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1950/PDFs/RSH%20Work%20History1.pdf Richard Holmgren career oral history for MIT   HOLMGRENRichard S. Holmgren, who led the firm that was a key corporate precursor of engineering giant MWH Global, Broomfield, Colo., died on Oct. 31 in Santa Ana, Calif., at age 84.Holmgren, an MIT-educated civil engineer, joined James M. Montgomery Consulting Engineers Inc. (JMM) in 1958 as a sluice-gate designer on a California water treatment plant and went on to serve as its chief operating officer, president, CEO and chairman, retiring in 1993.While he was CEO in the late 1980s, the firm passed the $100-million mark in revenue.JMM merged with

Related Links: See who else in engineering and construction has moved up, or moved on! John Rinard has joined Denver-based CH2M Hill Cos. as a senior vice president and director of international infrastructure development, the company confirms to ENR. Most recently, he was a senior vice president and director of major programs at AECOM, where he also served as project director of that firm's Australia Pty. Ltd. unit and as chief operating officer of its AECOM Libya unit.  RINARDCH2M Hill also has hired Susan Martinovich, former director of the Nevada Dept. of Transportation, as vice president and director of its

Related Links: See who else has moved up, or moved on! Andrew Ball has joined Suffolk Construction Co., Boston, as president of its San Francisco-based western region. He is formerly president and CEO of Webcor Builders, a San Francisco contractor in which Japan's Obayashi Corp. bought a 70% stake in 2007. According to published reports, Ball's five-year contract was not renewed. He was replaced in his former roles in August by Jes Pederson, who was the firm's executive vice president. Suffolk ranks at No. 40 on ENR's list of the Top 400 Contractors, with about $1.3 billion in 2011 revenue.