SEATON David T. Seaton has been named CEO of Fluor Corp., Irving, Texas, in a planned succession. A 26-year veteran of the contractor, he will replace in that role Alan L. Boeckmann, who will retire but becomes the firm’s non-executive chairman. The executive changes take effect on Feb. 3. Seaton, formerly chief operating officer, also served as senior group president of three Fluor units: energy and chemicals, power and government. He is a former managing director of Fluor Arabia Ltd. Boeckmann, who has been chairman and CEO since 2002, joined Fluor in 1974. Stanton “Stan” Eckstut has been named principal

CHAMBERS Craig Chambers has been named president of engineer-planner BHC Consultants, Seattle. He is a founding member of the firm and previously served as director of engineering. Gary Bourne, former president, will remain with the company as a member of the executive committee. Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, Elmwood Park, N.J., has named Philip Tringale as director of its western region. The role follows its Nov. 1 acquisition of geotechnical and environmental engineer Treadwell & Rollo, San Francisco, of which he was president. The acquisition, the first by Langan, adds 70 employees to the firm’s staff of 500 in three

Jeffrey J. Zogg, a leader of New York state general contractors for more than two decades and an activist in the national Associated General Contractors group, died on Oct. 24 in Delmar, N.Y. The cause of death was sarcoma, a form of cancer, says the Associated General Contractors of New York State LLC. He was 61. ZOGG Zogg served as the group’s president and CEO since 2008, when it was formed in the merger of the General Building Contractors of New York State (GBC) and AGC’s New York State chapter, which represented heavy and highway construction firms. The combined chapter

LOOSE Michael K. “Mike” Loose, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and a former deputy chief of naval operations, has joined Parsons Corp., Pasadena, Calif., as senior vice president and manager of the installations and environment division in the engineer-contractor�s infrastructure and technology group. Loose, based in Washington, D.C., is a former chief of civil engineers and commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Parsons also named Alexander Kozlov as vice president. Based in Guam, he will support firm projects in the Pacific Rim. Kozlov, formerly a senior associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton, is a U.S. Army Reserve brigadier

TOWNES Michael Townes has joined engineer Wilbur Smith Associates, Columbia, S.C., as senior vice president and national transit services leader. He had been president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Transportation District Commission in Virginia. Townes is a board member of the Virginia High Speed Rail Development Committee and former chairman of the American Public Transportation Association Executive Committee as well as co-chairman of its reauthorization task force. He also was chairman of the Transportation Research Board’s executive committee.

ZOGG Jeffrey J. Zogg, a leader of New York state general contractors for more than two decades and an activist in the national Associated General Contractors organization, died Oct. 24 in Delmar, N.Y. The cause of death was sarcoma, a form of cancer, says the Associated General Contractors of New York State LLC. Zogg was 61. Zogg served as the group’s president and CEO since 2008, when it was formed following the merger of the General Building Contractors of New York State (GBC) and AGC’s New York State chapter, which represented heavy and highway construction firms. The combined chapter is

HOVER Kenneth C. Hover has assumed the presidency of the American Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, Mich., following the recent death of president Richard Stehly. Hover, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., had been vice president. RBF Consulting, an engineer-planner based in Irvine, Calif., has appointed Mike Giorgione as energy- services market leader and vice president in its San Diego office. Giorgione retired from the U.S. Navy as a rear admiral this past May; his positions included vice commander for NAVFAC Pacific Division, commanding officer at Camp David and executive officer of Public Works Center

PICARDI E. Alfred Picardi, the structural engineer for Chicago’s 1,136-ft-tall Aon Center, died on Aug. 14 in Virginia Beach, Va. He was 88. Picardi eventually became chief engineer at Chicago’s Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he had a hand in designing the city’s 1,128-ft-tall John Hancock Center. He left the firm in 1967 and went to Perkins & Will, where he designed Aon, the world’s fourth-tallest building when completed in 1973. Picardi developed a way to use the tubular structure’s V-shaped exterior columns as a container for its mechanical systems and adapted the oil firm’s cost and risk simulations to

Renowned structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond is leaving Arup, the U.K.-based engineering firm where he has worked for 42 years. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" “I’m stepping out to set up my own practice,” says Balmond, who is credited with making possible some of the most audacious structures, including the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and the Centre Pompidou in Metz, France, by Shigeru Ban. “I want to have more time to make some of the big art installations I’ve been doing for the past four or five years, and I want

ENR reporter Alex Padalka recently sat down with Michel Abboud, a principal at SOMA, to discuss the New York firm’s involvement in the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and prayer space proposed for Lower Manhattan. Renderings of the 15-story building—labeled the Ground Zero Mosque by its opponents—recently were released. Image: Courtesy Of Soma The Park51 Islamic center’s design was unveiled recently. Q: What can you tell me about your firm? A: We have offices in New York, Mexico and Beirut. With the economic crisis, we wanted to extend our projects in the Middle East, so the past couple of years