Related Links: See who else is in the AEC sector is moving up, or moving on Douglas Dunkelberger has joined consulting firm Terracon as a principal, based in West Palm Beach, Fla., the firm tells ENR. The new position follows Terracon's June 13 acquisition of West Palm Beach-based Dunkelberger Engineering and Testing Inc., of which he was founder and CEO. About 60 Dunkelberger employees have joined Terracon. Dunkelberger, which provides geotechnical engineering, environmental assessments and building inspection services, will currently retain its name as a Terracon unit. Terracon ranks at No. 38 on ENR's Top 500 Design Firms list.The Construction
Related Links: Engineering News-Record LABROSSEDHI Group, a Horsholm, Denmark, global water engineering firm, has announced a management succession as of July 1. Antoine Labrosse is elevated to CEO from chief operating officer. A 16-year company veteran, he will replace Asger Kej, who will retire after 17 years in the role and 39 years at the firm. Kej will remain as an adviser through December. Jacob Høst-Madsen becomes COO and managing director of DHI Denmark. DHI says it has 1,100 staff and about $140 million in revenue.Harley Lacy has joined MWH Global as business development and strategy executive for its environment-and-ecology
Related Links: Engineering News-Record PereiraRailworks Corp., a New York City-based provider of track and transit systems construction and maintenance services, has appointed two unit presidents. Mark Patterson has been elevated to president of its transit systems subsidiary, L.K. Comstock National Transit Inc. He had been vice president of operations. Nuno Pereira joins Railworks as president of its subsidiary PNR RailWorks Inc., an Abbotsford, British Columbia-based firm that provides track, communications and transit system services to the country's rail industry. Most recently, he was vice president of roads and bridges at SNC-Lavalin, Montreal. Railworks is ranked at No. 85 on ENR's
Related Links: See who else has moved up, or moved on, in the AEC sector LawsonDave Lawson has joined Foster Wheeler AG as president and global leader of metals and mining, a newly created role. He previously served as president of minerals and metals for Australia-based Ausenco Ltd. and also was in a similar role at Aker Solutions Ltd. He held other senior management positions at Aker Kvaerner Ltd. and Kvaerner Metals Ltd. Lawson now is based in Santiago, Chile.Hanson Professional Services Inc., Springfield, Ill., has named Jeff Bowen a vice president and senior transportation engineer in Jacksonville, Fla. He
Related Links: Engineering News-Record GrumskiJ.T. Grumski has joined TAS Energy, a Houston-based energy technology company, as president and CEO. He had been a senior vice president of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) as well as president of its Benham Cos. LLC unit and chairman of its R.W. Beck subsidiary.As CEO, he succeeds Craig Hurlbert, who will remain chairman. As president, he suceeds Mike Brady, who remains chief operating officer.NelsonURS Corp. has named Leisa Nelson as vice president and manager in Houston of its 200-employee infrastructure-and-environment division there.She had been national water-market director for KBR, focusing on the Southeast. Nelson also
Related Links: See who else has moved up, or moved on, in the AEC sector Balfour Beatty Construction Services US, Dallas, has promoted President Mark Layman to the added roles of chairman and CEO at the end of 2013, says the firm. He will succeed Robert Van Cleave, who has served in those positions since 2003; previously, Cleave was CEO of building firm Centex before its 1996 sale to Balfour Beatty. John Tarpey remains COO. Kurt R. Fraese was elected president of ASFE: The Geoprofessional Business Association, a Fraesegeotechnical professionals group. He is CEO of GeoEngineers Inc., a 300-person earth-science
Related Links: With Engineering Savvy, Abreu Pilots Airport Plan In a planned succession, Black & Veatch has elevated Steve L. Edwards to chairman, president and CEO, effective in January. Named immediately to what the firm tells ENR is a first-time company role as chief operating officer, he will succeed Leonard C. Rodman, who has been president and CEO since 1998 and chairman since 2000. Edwards, who had been executive vice president, also is executive director of global EPC for the Overland Park, Kan., firm's global energy business. Rodman, 64, who the company says will retire in 2014, is a 42-year
Related Links: See who else has already moved up, or moved on, in the AEC sector Kenneth E. Rigmaiden was unanimously elected general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, the 140,000-member union said on April 1. The former executive general vice president succeeds James A. Williams, who retires from the role he held since 2003. Williams has been a union member since 1968. RIGMAIDENRigmaiden, who joined IUPAT in 1977, is a former union local president, based in San Jose, Calif., and participated in the first regional collective-bargaining agreement for northern California, says IUPAT. He is co-chairman of
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector Marcos J. Pantaleón Prieto, founding principal of APIA XXI, a Santander, Spain, architect- engineer, has been named president of Louis Berger International's design center of excellence. The new role follows the March 14 purchase of the 400-employee Spanish firm by Morristown, N.J.-based global design firm Berger Group Holdings, parent of Berger International. COCHRANCB&I, the Woodlands, Texas, global infrastructure and government services firm, has named Robert Cochran as president of federal services in its government-solutions operating group. Cochran had been president and CEO of consultant CTG LLC
Related Links: See who else is moving up, or moving on, in the AEC sector William L. Robertson has been named president and CEO of Weston Solutions Inc., the West Chester, Pa., sustainability consultant, a spokeswoman told ENR on March 18. ROBERTSONHe replaces Patrick G. McCann, who was president and CEO since 2003 and chairman since 2008; McCann has left the firm. Weston provided no details on what triggered the change. Robertson was Weston CEO from 1997 to 2003 and chairman for six years.Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., Oak Brook. Ill., said on March 14 that President and Chief