Michael Shewchuk to Manage Electrical Design Efforts in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Michael Shewchuk has been appointed a vice president in the San Francisco buildings office of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services organization. In his new position, Mr. Shewchuk will manage multi-disciplinary teams providing electrical designs for commercial building systems. He has more than 25 years of experience in operational management, business development as well as project management and project delivery. He will immediately a...
Dewberry Announces the Promotions of Bradley Hall and Carey Mayer
Dewberry is pleased to announce the promotions of Bradley Hall, AIA, to senior principal and Carey Mayer, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, to associate in the firm's Peoria, Illinois, office. Hall is a senior project manager with more than 40 years of experience in all phases of the architectural design process—from pre-design, schematic design, and design development to construction documents, bidding, and construction administration. He provides building code reviews and coordination of architectural dra...
Arcadis Appoints Mary Ann Hopkins as Executive Responsible for the Americas
Amsterdam - Arcadis (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the leading global Design & Consultancy firm for natural and built assets, today announced the appointment of Mary Ann Hopkins as Executive with responsibility for the North America and LATAM regions, and Global leadership of the company’s Water and Environment business lines, effective Sept. 26, 2016. Additionally, Arcadis’ Supervisory Board will propose Ms. Hopkins’ appointment as a member of the Executive Board at the next annual shareholder’s meeting on...
Manisha Patel to Join Environmental Policy Group
ST. LOUIS, MO – Manisha Patel has been appointed associate director of environmental policy at WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services organization. In her new position, Ms. Patel will focus on the traditional and sustainable energy sectors as well as sustainable buildings, helping to grow the firm’s environmental policy practice beyond transportation infrastructure. She will be based in the firm’s St. Louis office. Ms. Patel has over two decades of exper...
RAND and Lawrence Livermore National Lab Combine High Performance Computing and Public Policy Analysis for Demonstration of Water Resource Management
Researchers from the RAND Corporation and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have joined forces to combine high-performance computing with innovative public policy analysis to improve planning for particularly complex issues such as water resource management. Building on previous work conducted by RAND on the Colorado River Basin in 2012, RAND and the High Performance Computing Innovation Center at Lawrence Livermore National Lab hosted a joint workshop to employ high-performance...
Leading Lights in Sheffield Business and Universities Discuss Chinese investment into City
The first in a series of roundtable discussions on Chinese investment in the UK took place in Sheffield at Sheffield Hallam University. Atkins used the inaugural event to introduce Bill Huang; responsible for Chinese investor relations at the company. Huang, who is based in Shanghai, visited Sheffield to better understand the UK market for Chinese investors. The event also provided city business leaders and academics with an opportunity to understand Chinese interest in the UK. This follow...
Parsons Appoints Roell as Interim President of its Federal Business Unit
PASADENA, CA – Effective immediately, Parsons announces the appointment of Thomas L. “Tom” Roell as interim President of its Federal business unit (BU). In this role, he will be responsible for serving a variety of U.S. federal government agency customers in the defense, environmental, infrastructure, security, and intelligence services markets. In addition to his role as President of Parsons’ Federal BU, Mr. Roell will maintain his position as Vice Chairman, Chief Risk Advisor. “We are pleas...
Burns & McDonnell Continues Strong Growth in Chicago with Promotion of New Energy Leader
CHICAGO, Illinois — Patricia Scroggin has been promoted to lead an expanded power group for Burns & McDonnell out of its Chicago office. With a deep understanding of the issues affecting the rapidly evolving power industry, Scroggin will focus on bringing creative, innovative solutions to utilities and other power providers across North America. Before her promotion, she led power projects throughout the country from the Burns & McDonnell world headquarters in Kansas City. Scroggin will now foc...
Skanska Divests School in Linköping, Sweden, to Vacse for about SEK 200M
Skanska has divested Vallastadens school in Linköping, Sweden, for SEK 200M. The buyer is Vacse AB, pension funds formed by seven major Swedish companies; Atlas Copco, Pharmacy Company, Ericsson, Sandvik, Skanska, Stora Enso and Volvo. The transaction will be recorded by Skanska Commercial Property Development in the third quarter 2016. The transfer of the property to the buyer will take place in July 2017. Vallastadens school is an elementary school with a capacity for 600 students that Skan...
Stantec Joins Forces with UL Canada to Offer Field Evaluation Services for Gas-Fired Equipment in Alberta
Stantec and UL Canada announce an alliance to offer field evaluation services that will confirm gas-fired equipment is gas code B149.3 compliant. As an accredited Standards Council of Canada (SCC) Certification Body (CB) and Inspection Body (IB), UL Canada will work with Stantec to support industry owners and operators to help confirm gas-fired equipment compliant with Alberta regulatory requirements before the January 1, 2020 deadline. “UL Canada is very pleased to enter into this new partne...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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