Water Industry Veteran Heiner Markhoff Joins Board of Global Microbial Solutions Leader LuminUltra
FREDERICTON, New Brunswick - Veteran water treatment and waste management industry CEO Heiner Markhoff is now contributing his vast knowledge and experience to global microbial monitoring and solutions leader LuminUltra Technologies Ltd. as a newly-appointed member of the company's Board of Directors. Most recently, Markhoff served as CEO of SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions, a $3B provider of advanced methods of addressing water availability, formed through the combination of SUEZ Industri...
SmithGroup Adds Mobility and Urban Design Specialist Janet Attarian to Leadership Team
Detroit, Mich.- SmithGroup, one of the nation’s largest integrated design firms, has hired urban design and mobility specialist Janet Attarian, AIA, LEED AP BD+C at its Detroit office. A nationally recognized authority in transportation policy creation, neighborhood development, and sustainable infrastructure, Attarian will work closely with multi-disciplinary team members within the firm’s Urban Design Practice and across the U.S. to drive the creation of smart, sustainable urban environments a...
Acrow Bridge’s Paul Sullivan Appointed to EXIM’s Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee
Will advise on the implementation of EXIM’s policies and programs designed to support the Bank’s engagement in the region (Parsippany, New Jersey) – Paul Sullivan, President – International Business at Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, was recently appointed to the 2019 Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM), the official export credit agency of the United States. EXIM is an independent Exe...
Melisa Montemayor joins HNTB as group director – engineering in San Antonio, Austin and El Paso
SAN ANTONIO – Melisa Montemayor joined HNTB Corporation as group director and vice president, based in the firm’s San Antonio office. She is responsible for direction and supervision of HNTB’s roadway engineering group, which serves a variety of transportation clients throughout the region. Montemayor has nearly 25 years of transportation programming, design, environmental, planning, construction and maintenance experience. Previously, she spent her career serving the Texas Department of Tr...
Business Development Professional Franco Puentes Joins Cardno's Houston Office
Houston, TX - Cardno is pleased to announce that Franco Puentes has joined the firm as a Business Development Manager in the company’s Houston, TX, USA office. Franco has more than 16 years of experience delivering complex projects across the commercial, residential, healthcare, and oil & gas sectors. He has worked with public agencies, architects, commercial developers, and other engineering disciplines in the Houston, TX, market, including the Harris County Civil Justice Center building....
Brown and Caldwell Appoints New Health and Safety Exec
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, today announced Martha Bixby has joined the firm as vice president of health and safety. Bixby brings a 22-year track record of developing and directing global environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHSS) programs and best-practices across a wide range of sectors including energy, industrial electronics, building materials, and manufacturing. Her expertise includes environmental...
Highview Power Appoints Energy Executive Salvatore Minopoli as Vice President of Highview Power USA
NEW YORK CITY and LONDON – Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Salvatore Minopoli as Vice President of Highview Power USA where he will focus on driving the development of projects in the eastern U.S. market. Mr. Minopoli, most recently at Wärtsilä as the General Manager of Power Origination & Project Development, brings over 30 years of U.S. energy industry experience to the Highview Power executive tea...
Heidi Katz Named HNTB Oklahoma Practice Leader
OKLAHOMA CITY – Heidi Katz, PE, has been named HNTB Corporation’s Oklahoma practice leader. Katz has significant experience overseeing a variety of municipal, highway and tolling projects in Oklahoma. She is based in the firm’s Oklahoma City office. Katz’s role includes overseeing delivery of technical excellence and innovative solutions for projects; growing a talented and diverse workforce; and generating profitable growth for the firm. Katz leads HNTB’s multidisciplinary transportation...
Neste appoints Jeremy Baines President of Neste US
Jeremy Baines has been appointed as President of Neste US as of 1 September 2019. In his role, he is responsible for supporting and aligning regional business strategies to deliver the strategic growth targets, and he acts as Neste’s primary representative for the external community in the US. “The US presents important opportunities for our growth strategy and we want to strengthen our position in the country. I am very happy to appoint Jeremy Baines to lead the fast growing US organisation...
Costello Named CFO at DART
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) has named Joe Costello to the role of Chief Financial Officer. Costello will be responsible for providing the agency’s strategic and financial planning, budgeting, debt financing, treasury, funds management, revenue administration and collection, grants management, accounting and risk management. An employee since 2014, he came to DART from the Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois where he worked as Chief Financial Officer and then Ex...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
