Related Links: Turner Construction Co. has elevated Mark Breslin to CEO of Sahara Turner—the contractor's new partnership with Indian developer Sahara Prime City Ltd. and Acropolis Capital Group, a financial investment firm—to oversee an estimated $2.5 billionin construction in India over the next five years. He had been vice president and general manager of Turner's New York North region. Breslin, who joined the firm as a superintendent in 1995, will be based in Mumbai. Turner promoted Rich Homan to executive vice president. Formerly senior vice president, he now adds supervision of the firm's multistate Southeast region to his duties. Homan

Jens-Peter Saul has joined Copenhagen-based engineering firm Ramboll A/S as CEO. Most recently, he had been CEO of Siemens Wind Power, a unit of the German conglomerate. Saul also served as managing director of Siemens Energy in the U.K. and northern and western Europe. As Ramboll CEO, Saul succeeds Flemming Pederson, who becomes a consultant to the company, the largest engineering firm in the northern Europe region. It ranks at No. 26 on ENR's list of the Top 200 International Design Firms, with $701 million in 2010 revenue. Pedersen had been CEO of Ramboll since 1992.Charles D. Linn has been

Photo courtesy of Naval Facilities Engineering Command Gregory, a 1982 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was promoted to rear admiral in 2010. Her career has included tours of duty in Japan, the Mediterranean, Iraq, Haiti and several U.S. assignments. Related Links: Gregory bio Rear Adm. Katherine L. Gregory has been named the new commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the Navy’s chief of civil engineers, the Dept. of Defense announced on June 18. Gregory will be the first woman to lead NAVFAC in its long history, which it traces to the formation of the Bureau of Navy Yards and

Gerald Buckrell has joined engineer Hatch Mott McDonald as principal project manager in Thunder Bay, Ontario, the firm tells ENR. The role follows Millburn, N.J.-based HMM's May 29 purchase of Engineering Northwest Ltd., of which he was president. Sixty employees joined HMM.Judy L. Hricak has been promoted to the newly created position of chief marketing officer at Gannett Fleming, a Harrisburg, Pa., design and construction management firm. A 23-year company veteran, she also is a vice president.  PressleyHill International, the Marlton, N.J., risk consulting and construction management firm, has elevated Shawn L. Pressley to senior vice president and chief information

Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Nancy Hamilton has joined design firm HOK as global director of its engineering services. Based in Chicago, she also is a senior vice president, the firm confirms. Hamilton had been principal and aviation business leader at Arup and was at that firm since 1987. She now leads HOK's firm-wide mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) and structural engineering group. HOK also has elected Carl Gallioto to its executive committee. With the firm since 2009, he is managing principal of its New York City office. HOK Chairman and CEO Patrick MacLeamy also was elected to

  MUNIZLydia Muniz has been promoted to director of the U.S. State Dept.'s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, which oversees design and construction of U.S. embassy facilities around the world. She succeeds Adam E. Namm, who was confirmed by the Senate on April 26 as ambassador to Ecuador. Muniz, who has been acting in the role for several months, had been principal deputy director since 2009.Maj. Gen. Michael R. Eyre has been named to command the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Trans-Atlantic division in Winchester, Va. He had been serving as deputy commanding general for military and international operations and

  KHANPOURAbdy Khanpour has joined U.K.-based engineer and project manager AMEC as vice president and U.S. nuclear lead. He is based in Atlanta. Khanpour was vice president of engineering and projects at Florida Power and Light Co., a unit of NextEra Energy Inc., where he led engineering strategic direction and technical services for five nuclear plants. He also held management roles at Excel Energy and Bechtel Power Group.HNTB, Kansas City, has named Joseph Lawton, a senior vice president and national construction management practice leader. Formerly a senior vice president at AECOM, he now leads the CM practice across HNTB's infrastructure

Courtesy of AFL-CIO McGarvey, BCTD secretary-treasurer since 2005, was Governing Board of Presidents' unanimous choice as new president. Related Links: BCTD announcement of Sean McGarvey's election as president ENR obituary for Mark Ayers The AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Dept. has elected Sean McGarvey, its secretary-treasurer, as its new president. The BCTD said the April 16 vote of its Governing Board of Presidents was unanimous.McGarvey, who is about 50, succeeds Mark Ayers, who died suddenly on April 8 at age 63. Ayers had led the building trades group since 2007. The organization’s board also voted unanimously to give Ayers the

  ORIENTMark Orient has joined Tishman Construction Corp. as senior vice president, based in Washington, D.C. He formerly held the same title at Tompkins Builders Inc., a Washington-based unit of Turner Construction Corp. Tishman, acquired by AECOM in 2010, also promoted Steve Dimond and Ken Harris to first vice president and Vince Giganti to vice president of mechanical-electrical-plumbing services.CNH Global N.V., a Netherlands-based global construction and agricultural equipment manufacturer and distributor, has enamed Mario Gasparri to be president of its U.S. construction equipment unit in Burr Ridge, Ill., effective April 1. He replaces James McCullough, who retires March 31. Gasparri