BURTON Michael J. Burton has joined The LiRo Group, a Syosset, N.Y.-based engineer and construction manager, as senior vice president and national operations manager. He was national operations manager at URS Corp. LiRo is a joint venture member of teams now managing transit projects in New York City. Burton, based in Manhattan, will also assist LiRo’s move into national markets. Burton received ENR’s Award of Excellence in 2002 for managing restoration of Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack. He has chaired two committees of the New York Building Congress. San Francisco contractor Dome Construction promoted Robert Lynch

HERZOG William E. “Bill” Herzog, founder of Herzog Contracting Corp. a major rail and transit construction firm in St. Joseph, Mo., that ranked 194 among ENR’s Top 400 contractors last year, died on March 6 in Platt City, Mo., at age 88. Herzog founded the firm in 1969 after a 22-year career in the public and private sectors. It had $385 million in 2008 revenue. Herzog also held numerous patents in materials and equipment techniques, and is a former president of the Associated General Contractors of Missouri. LORE H. Edgar Lore, a former contractor executive recognized by ENR in 1979

Evan Thomas and Max Gold were two of Bernard Amadei’s earliest disciples in Engineers Without Borders-USA as undergrads at the University of Col­­orado-Boulder. Now they are taking their EWB-USA site experiences and soon-to-be-earned graduate engineering degrees in a new direction to build sustainability and long-term earning power in developing communities that once could only hope for philanthropy. Photo: Manna Energy Foundation Manna’s Gold (above) with Rwanda site colleagues; Thomas and client (below) Photo: EWB-USA Related Links: 2008 Award Of Excellence Winner: Bernard Amade Engineers Go Global Looking for a Home Depot in Veron, Dominican Republic Thomas and Gold are leveraging

Alejandra Deza, a junior aerospace engineering major on her first Engineers Without Borders project trip abroad, was scouting storefronts in Veron, Dominican Republic, for a “ferreteria,” the local version of a Home Depot.

Bernard Amadei had a decision to make in 2002 after visiting a Costa Rica hydroelectric project on which he was asked to consult.

GRAPHIA Gary P. Graphia has been promoted to chief operating officer of The Shaw Group Inc., a Baton Rouge, La., contractor. He had been executive vice president of corporate development and strategy and has been with the firm since 1999, when he joined as corporate secretary and general counsel. Joining Shaw is Cornelius “Con” Murphy, former CEO of Fluor Hanford Inc. He becomes senior vice president of the federal division of Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure Group. In addition, Shawn W. Hughes has been named a vice president in the nuclear division of Shaw’s power group, and consortium project director for

Two top executives of R.T. Dooley Construction LLC, Charlotte, N.C., have new titles following the firm’s Feb. 23 acquisition by Balfour Beatty Construction U.S., the Dallas-based unit of Balfour Beatty plc, London. Dooley Chairman Robert T. Dooley III becomes chief operating officer of Dooley, now a unit of Balfour Beatty’s Charlotte-based southeast division. David Dooley, formerly vice chairman, is now the unit’s CEO. Dooley President Tim Garrison remains in that role with the firm under its new ownership. SMITH Dikita Enterprises, a Dallas engineer and project management firm, has named Ron Smith, senior vice president of operations. He had been

BOND J. Max Bond Jr., one of the most prominent African-American architects in the U.S. and partner in Davis Brody Bond Aedas, New York City, died on Feb. 18 in Manhattan at age 73. Bond, a former Fulbright Scholar and university architecture instructor and dean in the U.S. and Ghana, was also partner-in-charge for design of the National Sept. 11 Memorial underground museum under way at Ground Zero. He cofounded Bond Ryder & Associates, a New York firm that merged with Davis Brody, and was a city planning commissioner. “ To have met Max, was to know instantly why his

GARVEY Daniel S. Garvey, chief engineer of the New York State Thruway Authority who supervised the expedited repair and investigation of the major roadway after the 1987 collapse of its Schoharie Creek overpass, an event that killed 10, died on Dec. 7, 2008, of heart failure in Queens, N.Y. He was 81. Garvey was named to that post in the 1970s after serving as a deputy commissioner in the New York City highway department, where he directed closure of 25 movable city bridges left in the open position during a strike by bridge operators. He also was the first chief

MOODY Raymond L. Moody has assumed the added post of CEO of Batson-Cook Co., a West Point, Ga., contractor and construction manager. In that role, Moody replaces the retiring Edmund C. Glover, but remains president and chief operating officer. Moody joined Batson-Cook in 1963 as a project engineer. The firm is ranked 150th on ENR’s list of the Top 400 Contractors, with $465 million in 2007 revenue. Dave Zimmerman has joined The Greenway Group, a Norcross, Ga., construction industry management and economic consultant, as consulting principal. He was director of finance for mergers and acquisitions and chief financial officer at