FRANKSANY America Inc., a Peachtree City, Ga.-based construction equipment manufacturer and distributor, has named Tim Frank as chairman. In this newly created position, Frank is responsible for the firm's products in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central America. He was, most recently, a consultant to the firm's parent, SANY Group Co. Ltd., based in China. Frank also had been senior vice president of operations strategy at Volvo Construction Equipment.Gina Coelho has joined engineering firm HDR Inc., Omaha, as principal professional associate and marine environmental practice leader. The new role follows the firm's Sept. 4 acquisition of Ecosystem Management &
FRIESAlexis Fries has joined global engineer Pöyry PLC, Vantaa, Finland, as president and CEO. He was CEO of EOS Holding SA, an energy company in Lausanne, Switzerland. In his new role, Fries succeeds Heikki Malinen, who stepped down in June. Chairman Henrik Ehrnrooth had been serving as interim president and CEO. Pöyry ranks at No. 34 on ENR's list of the Top 150 Global Design Firms, with $1.1 billion in 2011 engineering revenue. Fries has been a Pöyry board member since 2008. The firm says he will be based primarily in Zurich, Switzerland.Filiberto Ruiz has been elevated to deputy CEO
HICKOXGlobal engineer CDM Smith, Cambridge, Mass., has elevated Stephen J. Hickox to CEO, effective on Jan. 1, when he succeeds Richard D. Fox in the role. Fox remains chairman until a planned retirement in April. Hickox now is president of the firm's public-services group for North America East and Latin America. Executive Vice President Timothy B. Wall also was named COO, effective on Oct. 1. He had been president of the firm's federal-services group. As COO, Wall will replace John Manning, who retires from the firm, also as president, at the end of 2012. CDM Smith did not disclose
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Related Links: More People on the Move news items Obituaries of Industry Leaders and Innovators CH2M Hill Cos., Denver, has elevated Terry A. Ruhl to president of its transportation-design and program- management business group. A 19-year veteran, he had been corporate senior vice president and group director of consulting and international operations. Ruhl also led CH2M Hill's aviation market and is a former chairman of the Airport Consultants Council.Alonzo L. Fulgham has joined the firm's environmental-services business group as vice president for strategy and sustainable international development. The position is a newly created role, the firm tells ENR. Most recently,
Four senior executives of contractor Tutor-Perini Corp. (TPC), who left the firm's ailing Las Vegas-based building group late last month, have launched their own design-build firm there, which their former employer says won't compete.
MCDONALDJonathan H. McDonald has joined design firm Atkins as vice president and senior practice manager for transit and rail. Based in San Francisco, he had been West division rail systems director at HNTB. McDonald is chair of the American Public Transportation Association's research and technology committee, and he has been a U.S. delegate to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a forum for 21 Pacific Rim countries that promotes regional free trade.Parsons Corp. has named Ane Deister vice president of the firm's environmental division, which focuses on its western-region commercial environmental business. Based in Sacramento, she was vice president of
CONDABrinderson LP, a Costa Mesa, Calif., industrial and petroleum contractor, has named Russell Conda as CEO, the company confirmed to ENR. He succeeds Gary Brinderson, who becomes chairman. Conda, a 30-year construction veteran in the oil-and-gas sector, had been senior vice president and general manager for WorleyParsons' western operations, based in California. He served as vice president and director of onshore projects at ABB Lummus Global (now CB&I Lummus) and as senior vice president of operations at Aker Solutions. Brinderson ranks at No. 288 on ENR's list of the Top 400 Contractors, with $187 million in 2011 revenue.Kirk Morrison
Pea-Mora lost faculty vote of confidence and stepped down. Related Links: October 2011 letter to interim Columbia U. Provost John H. Coatsworth Pena-Mora resignation statement Even with strong support on campus and off in three years as dean of the Columbia University Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Feniosky Peña-Mora could not survive faculty dismay with his administration.The New York City-based university announced his resignation July 3 in an email to students and staff, and said faculty veteran Donald Goldfarb would become interim dean while a search for a permanent successor begins. He had been named several months
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