Stanley C. Gale's grandfather made waves by moving east from New York City and building summer homes along Long Island Sound. Nine decades later, his grandson is making even bigger waves by moving even farther east to create the world's largest private development.
Boston-based construction management firm Shawmut Design and Construction has elevated Les Hiscoe to chief operating officer and executive vice president. He was vice president of development in the firm's New York, New Jersey and Connecticut region and also oversaw its national retail and gaming group. Shawmut ranks at No. 80 on ENR's Top 400 Construction Firms list, with $558.1 million in 2010 revenue.AREVA Inc., the Bethesda, Md.-based North American unit of the French nuclear and alternative energy developer, has named two new senior vice presidents. Tom Franch joins its reactors and services business group, based in Charlotte, N.C., overseeing areas
Inspired by his studies in Paris, Ryan Gravel wrote his master's thesis at the Georgia Institute of Technology on his idea of converting Atlanta's abandoned 22-mile-long freight-rail corridor, which encircles the city's urban core, into a "belt line" that would reconnect the city's neighborhoods.
As the construction industry struggles to grow jobs, Matthew W. Wallace and his company, VRSim Inc., are blazing a new trail for how the industry recruits and trains young people.
Workers got to the finish line early for 80% of the "Reflecting Absence" plaza of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, just in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Maybe it's her training as a runner, but it is clear Susan Martinovich is a woman in a hurry—both as the chief, since 2007, of Nevada's $800-million-a-year transportation department and, in her role that ended in November, as the first female president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
Digby R. Christian plans to take a three-week vacation in his native England after his Sutter Medical Center, Castro Valley, team hands over its $320-million hospital in early July.
Describing one participant in his pioneering construction leadership program, Brent Darnell says, "He was a very tough guy, a driver of results and a valuable employee, but he was leaving dead bodies in his wake."
RSS
