Tama Snow Joins Stantec to Lead Southern California Water Practice
San Diego, CA -mNYSE, TSX:STN: Tama Snow has joined Stantec—a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm—as a senior principal and water area manager in the firm’s San Diego, California, office. Snow will apply her nearly three decades of experience in water resources planning and infrastructure to the firm’s Southern California-based water practice. Snow is a professional engineer specializing in the planning, design, and construction of water-related facilities—water delivery, re...
Mike Patterson, former Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation, joins HNTB as transportation practice consultant in Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY – Mike Patterson joined HNTB Corporation as a national transportation practice consultant and vice president. He is based in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. Patterson serves as a strategic advisor to HNTB’s newly-named Oklahoma City office practice leader, Heidi Katz, PE. Together they will help drive growth and exceptional project delivery to highway and toll clients in the Central U.S. region. Patterson also supports HNTB’s national DOT and toll market teams in building...
Gannett Fleming Executive, Former California Department of Transportation Director, WSP USA & Two College Students Honored with ARTBA’s Women Leaders Awards
WASHINGTON - Two senior transportation industry executives, two Ph.D. candidates, and a global engineering professional services firm are the 2019 recipients of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s “Women Leaders in Transportation Design & Construction” awards. The awards were presented in three categories at a Sept. 23 luncheon held during ARTBA’s National Convention in Savannah, Ga. Ethel A. Birchland Lifetime Achievement Award ...
AASHTO Opens Nomination Window for 2020 Fellowships
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials is now accepting nominations from all of its member state DOTs for its 2020 Transportation Management Fellowship program. AASHTO’s 2019 fellows: L-to-R Marlon Spinks, Martin Krebs, and Chris Hall. This one-year fellowship provides mid-level transportation professionals with roughly eight to 15 years of experience with the opportunity to interact with engineers, policy-makers, and other transportation professionals from acro...
Accomplished Architect Joins HLW’s Growing Leadership Team in London as Principal
London, UK — Global architecture, design and planning firm HLW is pleased to announce the latest addition to its growing London team, Francesca Gernone as Principal. Gernone comes to HLW with a strong background in base building repositioning and impactful interiors work. Leveraging over two decades of industry experience across both architecture and design, Gernone’s award-winning academic and professional achievements uniquely qualify her to lead HLW’s dynamic London studio as the firm continu...
New Leadership at the Oregon Transportation Commission & ODOT
A new month signals a new era for the Oregon Transportation Commission and ODOT. The commission, which oversees the state’s transportation system and ODOT, has a new chair. Robert Van Brocklin, a lawyer with Oregon’s largest law firm, Stoel Rives LLP, has taken the gavel from Tammy Baney who served two terms on the commission and oversaw the passage of House Bill 2017, the state’s largest ever transportation investment. “I look forward to leading the commission,” said Van Brocklin. “It is crit...
ACI's New Post-Installed Concrete Anchor Installation Inspector Certification Program
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announces the launch of its Post-Installed Concrete Anchor Installation Inspector certification program. ACI will use the program to certify individuals who have demonstrated the knowledge required to properly inspect the installation of post-installed adhesive and mechanical anchors in concrete. This new program builds upon the ACI Adhesive Anchor Installation Inspector certification program, and includes inspection of post-ins...
Jim Ray, former USDOT senior adviser, joins HNTB as corporate president
Former U.S. DOT senior adviser to Secretary Elaine Chao and administrator for the Federal Highway Administration joins growing infrastructure solutions firm Kansas City, Mo. – Jim Ray joined HNTB Corporation as corporate president and executive vice president. He serves as an accomplished resource to both the firm and its clients. Ray previously served in leadership roles at the United States Department of Transportation, the White House, on Capitol Hill and in the private sector. “T...
Washburn University Students Named as Millennium Fellows (a U.N. Program), Making Washburn One of Only 69 Universities in 16 Nations Able to Claim this Honor
Topeka, Kan. – Eight Washburn University students have been chosen as 2019 Millennium Fellows from more than 7,000 applicants worldwide. Millennium Fellows are undergraduate students who illustrate exemplary leadership on sustainable development-related projects that advance the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their respective communities. These students are selected by the Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) annually as part of their joint...
Brown and Caldwell Welcomes Carey Allen as Integrated Project Delivery Leader
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, today announced Carey Allen has joined the firm as senior vice president and leader of its integrated project delivery (IPD) practice. Allen brings a 26-year track record of executive guidance and strategic focus in the environmental engineering and construction field. She has directed business growth efforts, initiated and managed key partner relationships, and led organizational change prog...