Stantec appoints hospitality and retail leaders
Firm continues to diversify commercial portfolio, expertise, and focus Stantec, a global integrated design firm, has promoted two industry veterans to positions within the Commercial Sector leadership team. Duk Kim has been appointed to head the hospitality team and Jay Baptista will lead the retail team. As Stantec’s Global Hospitality Leader, Kim focuses on growing the firm’s hospitality portfolio by leveraging his experience and relationships with national and global hospitality cl...
Versatile Geospatial Program Director Shelly Carroll Joins Woolpert
Carroll’s topo-bathy lidar and hydrographic data experience with coastal restoration for agencies like USGS and NOAA will support the firm’s maritime market. DENVER — Woolpert has hired Shelly Carroll, PMP, CBAP, ACP, as a geospatial program director in the firm’s maritime market. Carroll has more than 24 years of experience developing and analyzing geospatial data and providing senior leadership in support of federal and state geospatial programs. Her areas of expertise include topographic...
Ted Axt Returns to WSP USA to Lead Transit and Rail in Northern California
Transportation veteran will manage planning and engineering projects in the Sacramento region. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 4, 2020 — Edward (Ted) Axt is returning to WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as the senior engineering manager for transit and rail in Sacramento. Axt, who began his career with the firm, will oversee transportation planning and engineering projects in the Sacramento region, including transit planning, light rail transit (LRT) and bus rapi...
Aron Kirsch Joins WSP USA to Integrate Transportation with Urban Development
Newly appointed vice president brings expertise in major multi-disciplinary projects to new U.S. leadership role at WSP USA. NEW YORK — Aron Kirsch has joined WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as vice president and national program manager for urban development. Kirsch will lead a multi-disciplinary team responsible for delivering development projects integrated with major transportation facilities. As an executive project manager for urban developm...
Miyamoto Announces 2020 Promotion
Mark Broughton, P.E. - Associate Principal Mark Broughton, P.E. Mark joined Miyamoto in 2010 and provide an essential role in the recovery of Haiti after the 7.0 M earthquake. He commuted to Haiti for the next 8 years and became an honorary Haitian. After the Palu earthquake in Indonesia in 2018, he designed and implemented an earthquake-damaged retrofit design program for 3,000 schools with the help of local engineers he recruited and trained in an incredibly challenging environment. Foll...
STV Hires National Director of Environmental Planning for Transportation and Infrastructure Division
CHICAGO – Ron Deverman, CEP, has joined STV as vice president and national director for environmental planning in the Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Division. Deverman will be responsible for helping to grow the firm’s environmental planning practice with an emphasis on new markets. He also will play a key role in the further development of the Chicago and Midwest planning practice. “Ron is a respected leader in environmental planning, with a 35-year career in transportation infrastruc...
WSP USA Announces Key Leadership Changes
Denise Turner Roth succeeds John Porcari as U.S. Advisory Services president; and veteran strategist Corey Dade joins firm as vice president of communications. NEW YORK — WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, announced three key changes to its leadership aimed at ensuring continuity in business growth and strengthening the company’s brand in emerging markets. John D. Porcari, who has served as president of U.S. Advisory Services since 2014, has accepte...
Why Sustainability and Resiliency Make Fiscal Sense: HDR’s Latest Experts Talk, with Pamela Yonkin
OMAHA, Neb. — With stiff competition for every dollar, transportation agencies need facts and data to make the best decisions for their communities. Sustainable, resilient projects last longer, can save money in the long term and can withstand unique shocks and hazards. Resiliency and sustainability planning makes good financial sense — just ask an economist. In HDR’s latest Experts Talk, economist Pamela Yonkin explains the difference between resiliency and sustainability, why it makes sense...
DFI Announces New Chair of Project Information Management Systems Committee
Hawthorne, N.J. : DFI announces that Jamey Rosen, P.Geo., a senior principal geoscientist at Geosyntec Consultants, is the new chair of its Project Information Management Systems Committee (PIMS). Rosen succeeds Massimo Mucci, director of R&D at Bencor Global, a Keller Company. Rosen has more than 20 years of experience focused on the management, visualization, modeling and analysis of construction, geotechnical and environmental data using database and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)...
Jacobs Announces New Leadership for People and Places Solutions Line of Business
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE:J) today announced new leadership roles for Ken Gilmartin and Patrick Hill, effective Aug. 1, 2020, within its People & Places Solutions (P&PS) line of business. Ken Gilmartin and Patrick Hill will both be promoted to executive vice president and jointly lead Jacobs' P&PS line of business. Gilmartin will have responsibility for the Americas, Federal and Environmental Solutions, and global Advanced Facilities businesses, and will continue to be based out of Philadelphia....
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