RUDOLPH Frederick “Fritz” Rudolph Sr., cofounder and former president and chairman of Walbridge, Ohio, building contractor The Rudolph/Libbe Cos. Inc., died on Jan. 11. He was 79. The firm, founded in 1955 with Rudolph’s brother and cousin, reported $321 million in 2007 revenue. He retired in 2004 and was president of Associated General Contractors of Ohio.
Engineer Anthony M. DiGioia, Jr., 74, is co-founder and former owner of engineering firm GAI Consultants and co-owner of DiGioia Gray Associates, both based in Pittsburgh. DiGioia was at the forefront of the then-emerging area of geotechnical engineering in the 1960s and GAI was one of the founding practices of the Association of Soil and Foundation Engineers in 1969. He is also well known for his work on transmission line foundations, as well as the utilization of coal combustion waste products, such as fly ash. Anthony M. DiGioia Jr. Three DiGioia sons followed their father into his profession: Matthew, a
MCNALLY Skanska AB, Stockholm, has named Michael McNally executive vice president and president of Skanska USA Inc., the Parsippany, N.J.-based holding company for its two U.S. construction units, Skanska USA Building and Skanska USA Civil. Replacing him in his former role as president of Skanska USA Building is Bill Flemming, a 22-year firm veteran. That unit also elevated three executives located in Seattle. Curt Burks becomes corporate senior vice president of technical services, which includes pre-construction services, project controls, virtual design and construction and building information modeling. Eric Temp is named vice president of preconstruction and Alan Dunbar becomes senior
HENKELS Paul M. Henkels, chairman of Henkels & McCoy, a Blue Bell, Pa., utility contractor, died on Jan. 8 of complications from a brain tumor. He was 84. Henkels, who joined the family firm as a high school student, was chairman since 1985 and was named president in 1972. He was also first president of the Greater Philadelphia Utility Contractors Association and of the Atlantic Contractors Association. Henkels was a strong supporter of education causes, championing enactment of Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program and annually lecturing in ethics at Princeton University. Henkels & McCoy ranks seventh on ENR’s list
NOLAN Rebecca Nolan has been named senior vice president and managing principal of St. Louis architect HOK. She succeeds Vice Chairman Clark Davis, who is taking on new duties in its worldwide practice. Nolan was senior vice president at engineer-architect SmithGroup Cos. Inc. and managing director of its Minneapolis office. Also joining HOK as vice president and director of interior design in St. Louis is Michael Nolan. He was a vice president and workplace studio leader at SmithGroup. Michel Jichlinski has joined Greenway Enterprises Inc., a Helena, Mont., contractor and construction-management firm, as director of operations. He is the former
DUNLAP Robert W. Dunlap, 71, founder and former CEO of Remediation Technologies Inc. (ReTec), a successful Concord, Mass., environmental services company, died on Jan. 5 in Tucson of cancer-related complications. Dunlap was ReTec president and CEO from 1985 until 1998 when it became a unit of ThermoElectron Corp. It was spun off and acquired by AECOM in 2007. Dunlap had been serving as senior consultant at engineering management consultant EFCG Inc., New York City, since 2001 and as a liaison to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. He also was a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Many people, in many ways, serve the best interests of the construction industry. The editors of ENR have chosen the following individuals for innovations and achievements featured in our stories in 2008.
DOMINICK Peter H. Dominick Jr., founder, president and chairman of architecture firm 4240 Architecture, based in Denver and Chicago, died on Jan. 1 after suffering a heart attack while skiing in Aspen, Colo.. He was 67. Over a 40-year career, Dominick was best known for designing hotels for the Disney organization, revitalizing the Vail, Colo., ski resort and transforming old rail yards in Denver into the Riverfront Park neighborhood. Dominick’s “deep understanding of the landscape and building traditions of the Rocky Mountain region can be seen in his distinctive architecture,” says Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School
Since he was involved in the watershed $1.5-billion design-build widening of Interstate 15 and managed operations for the Utah Dept. of Transportation during the 2000 Olympics shortly thereafter, it is not surprising that Jim McMinimee has Olympian ambitions regarding construction.
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