NELSON Worldwide Appoints Todd Chitester as Senior Vice President of Global Solutions
Todd Chitester will help synchronize teams from planning to post-occupancy CHARLOTTE, NC — NELSON Worldwide, an award-winning architecture, design, and strategy firm, expands its leadership with Todd Chitester as Senior Vice President of Global Solutions. Based in Charlotte, Todd will strengthen and develop trust-based partnerships with clients globally and equip them with flexible solutions that respond to their evolving real estate needs. “Todd brings a unique fusion of leadership,...
Nevada State Transportation Contracts Approved This Month Will Support Nearly 450 Jobs
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – State transportation contracts approved during today’s Nevada Transportation Board of Directors meeting are projected to support nearly 450 jobs while helping provide a transportation system to keep Nevada safe and connected. A projected 446 jobs will be supported for one year by the highway contracts and agreements reviewed as part of the Sept. 13 state transportation board meeting. More than 4,200 job years have been supported by state transportation contracts and agreemen...
Dana Lowell to Lead Zero Emissions for Transit and Rail at WSP USA
Lowell brings to national leadership role a quarter century of experience finding practical solutions for transit agencies and large fleet operators to reduce and eliminate emissions. BOSTON — Furthering its commitment to help U.S. transportation clients achieve and surpass their emissions and sustainability goals, WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, welcomes Dana Lowell to the firm as its zero emission (ZE) senior technical advisor. “Striving t...
Garney Construction Advances Its P3 Offering by Adding Financing Expertise
Garney’s public-private partnership (P3) business strategy continues to advance with the addition of David Bird as vice president of project finance and development. David will focus on growing Garney’s existing development pipeline of P3 water projects in North America. Now with project finance and development capabilities, Garney can offer clients the entire spectrum of P3 capabilities through its own resources and those of its strategic partners to deliver water projects—from development t...
National Design-Build Firm Clayco Hires Seasoned Strategist Ryan Spies as Inaugural Vice President of Sustainability
[CHICAGO, IL] – [September 14, 2021] – Clayco, a full-service turnkey real estate, architecture, engineering, design-build and construction firm, has hired Ryan Spies as the company’s first vice president of sustainability. In this newly formed role, Spies will develop a holistic strategy to reduce Clayco’s overall carbon footprint, identify sustainable business opportunities for leadership, and oversee sustainability practices and training for the enterprise. “I’m honored to be selected for...
Stan Brown, P.E., PWLF, Assumes Presidency of APWA
Kansas City, Mo. – The American Public Works Association (APWA) is honored to announce that Stan Brown, P.E., PWLF, Member Services Consultant, Georgia Municipal Association, Atlanta, Ga., has been sworn in as President of APWA effective September 1, 2021. Affirmed by APWA’s more than 30,000 members, President Brown will lead the organization for the 2021-2022 term. President Brown succeeds APWA President Mary Joyce Ivers, CPFP, PWLF. Stan Brown has worked in local government for more than 34...
Sofia Berger to Lead U.S. Transportation Business at WSP USA
Third-generation engineer with extensive international transportation experience and leader of New York’s Penn Station master plan will succeed Joseph Pulicare, who is retiring. NEW YORK — Sofia Berger has been named executive leader of the Transportation national business line at WSP USA, one of the nation’s largest engineering and professional services consultancies. Berger, who currently is deputy director of the Advisory national business line, will assume her new role leading the c...
Two New Directors Join AASHTO’s Management Team
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently appointed a new director of communications and marketing while hiring a new director of technology and digital strategy. Maggie Kasperski Maggie Kasperski, AASHTO’s new director of communications and marketing, joined the organization in 2011 and held multiple positions during her tenure – interrupted briefly between 2014 and 2016 when she worked as a consumer issues media manager at the National Association of Rea...
Connections Researcher Amit Kanvinde Wins 2022 Higgins Lectureship Award
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded its 2022 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to Amit Kanvinde, PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the College of Engineering at University of California, Davis. Kanvinde will present "Column Base Connections: Research, Design, and a Look to the Future" as a keynote speaker during NASCC: The Steel Conference, which will take place March 23-25, 2022 in Denver. Kanvinde will share his findings from 15 years of re...
Russelectric Announces Jeff Phelan as New Director of Field Service
Industry veteran brings expertise to help grow company’s service organization Hingham, MA – Russelectric, A Siemens Business, announces Jeff Phelan as the new Director of Field Service. Jeff brings over 30 years of experience leading service businesses that support some of the most critical applications in the electrical industry. He also worked for a Rep in Russelectric’s electrical space which provided additional insight for supporting our critical customers. For the last 18 ye...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
