Philip B. Rogers will become CEO of a still unnamed engineering firm to be formed from the merger of two fire-protection and safety consultants, Baltimore-based Hughes Associates and The RJA Group, Chicago, the companies said on June 2.Rogers is an operating partner of private equity firm Huron Capital Partners LLC, which has owned Hughes since 2011. A Hughes board member since then, he also is former president and COO of Consolidated Engineering Services, a Washington, D.C., building-technology services firm, according to two online biographies. Rogers also was president of EMCOR Government Services Inc.The firms say the transaction and renaming will
Following completion of an acquisition announced May 14 by POWER Engineers Inc. of Burns and Roe Enterprises (BRE), the power and energy engineering unit of Burns and Roe Group, the corporation's CEO Keith Roe will have a dual role as chairman and as Roestrategic executive advisor to POWER Engineers, Hailey, Idaho, as an employee, says a Burns and Roe spokeswoman.
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Related Links: Read about other execs moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector AMEC, London, has named Jeff Reilly group president of strategy and business development. Based in Houston, he was chief procurement officer of oil company Phillips 66, also based there. AMEC ranks at No. 5 on ENR's list of the Top 150 Global Design Firms.Ram Madugula is named president of Power Engineers Collaborative LLC, the engineering services unit of Pipestone, Minn., alternative-energy developer Juhl Energy Inc. He was a vice president and 30-year veteran of power-sector design firm Sargent & Lundy LLC, Chicago. Madugula, based in
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector The New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, has named Moshe Kam dean of its Newark College of Engineering, effective Sept. 1. He heads the electrical and computer engineering department at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and is a former CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest professional technical association, with about 400,000 members.KAMKam is a director of the engineering accreditation agency ABET Inc. and of the United Engineering Foundation. The college has about 2,500 undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students.Larry Mufson
Related Links: Former Columbia University Dean to Head NYC Dept of Design and Construction (expanded) See Who Else is Moving Up, or Moving On, in the AEC Sector Feniosky Peña-Mora, a civil-environmental engineering professor at Columbia Peña-MoraUniversity, New York City, is named commissioner of the city's Dept. of Design and Construction, Mayor Bill De Blasio said on April 7. He will run the city's capital construction project-management agency, which its website says has about 1,200 employees and a $10-billion project portfolio. Peña-Mora will take a leave of absence from Columbia, which he joined in 2009 as its Fu Foundation School
Related Links: DRBC's Outgoing Director Says Delaware River Basin Needs Strong Regulator Natural Gas Now website blog: DRBC Gets New Leader, Can He Turn It Around? See Who Else is Moving Up, on Moving On, in the AEC sector Steven J. Tambini, vice president of utility Pennsylvania American Water, is named executive director of the Delaware River Basin Commission, an interstate-federal water resource management agency, as of Aug. 1. He will succeed Carol R. Collier, now a Tambinisenior adviser to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Commission chief administrative officer Richard C. Gore is interim head. Tambini is a
CrawfordConnie Crawford has been elevated to lead the global rail and transit design practice of Berger Group Holdings Inc. (Louis Berger), Morristown, N.J. A senior vice president, she formerly led its U.S. transportation engineering division. Crawford is a former senior vice president and chief engineer at the New York City Transit Authority.Stephen M. Seeger and Michael C. Zisa have joined New York City-based construction, surety and contracts law firm Peckar & Abramson P.C. as partners, in Washington, D.C. Both were partners at D.C.-based Seeger P.C., which dissolved. Five other Seeger attorneys now are P&A associates.James R. Brown has joined Sam
Related Links: See who else is moving up, and moving on in the AEC sector Globe and Mail: Genivar Fuelled by Insatiable Appetite for Growth Arranged Marriages: Two Recent Deals Point to Growing Number of Mergers and Acquisitions Among Design Firms N.J. Turnpike Interchange 6-9 Widening David Ackert will join Montreal-based engineer WSP Global Inc. as CEO of its WSP Canada Inc. unit when the parent firm completes its stock and cash purchase of Focus Group Holding Inc., a 1,700-person design and geomatics company in Edmonton, Alberta. The $366-million deal, announced on March 12, is set to close within one
Related Links: SNC-Lavalin Ethics and Compliance See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector Major Gen. Theresa C. Carter, U.S. Air Force civil engineer, will become special assistant to the commander of the Air Force Materiel Command. She will relocate from the Pentagon to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. CARTERBrig. Gen. Timothy S. Green, director of installations and mission support for the Air Combat Command, located at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, succeeds her in the renamed role of director of civil engineering. Other staff and organizational changes in the service's engineering and construction operations
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