Georgia DOT’s McMurry Named Chair for AASHTO’s Council on Highways and Streets
Russell McMurry (seen above), commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation, has been appointed to a two-year term as chair of the American Association of Stater Highway and Transportation Officials Council on Highways and Streets. McMurry – appointed to be Georgia DOT’s commissioner by a unanimous vote of the State Transportation Board in January 2015 – began his career with the age...
Gannett Fleming Names 13 Senior Associates
(Harrisburg, Pa.) Gannett Fleming, a global infrastructure and engineering firm, recently appointed 13 new senior associates. These thought leaders will continue to drive strategic growth in their respective business lines with a focus on employee and client relations, innovation, and upholding the firm’s corporate values. Martin Benzaquen, PE, ENV SP, is a vice president and Florida construction services director based out of Miami. Benzaquen’s 20-year career spans many successful design-bui...
43 New Transportation Project Professionals Earn ANSI-Accredited Safety Credential
(WASHINGTON) - Forty three professionals from 13 companies or agencies representing nine states and the District of Columbia have earned the “Safety Certification for Transportation Project Professionals™” (SCTPP) credential over the past two months, helping push the number of safety certificants over the 300 mark, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation said today. Since its launch in late 2016, 301 individuals from 79 companies representing 36 states an...
Woolpert Senior Strategic Consultant Selected to Serve on Board of NIBS Facilities Committee
DAYTON, Ohio — Woolpert Senior Consultant Emily Herndon, LEED AP, has been selected to serve on the board for the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), Facility Maintenance and Operations Committee (FMOC). NIBS is a group of industry, government and agency experts who identify and solve issues that would otherwise hamper the construction of safe, affordable structures throughout the U.S. The FMOC works to improve the performance and longevity of buildings through effective maintenance...
Reiner Named WYDOT Director
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (KIFI/KIDK) - The Wyoming Department of Transportation has an experienced new leader. Governor Mark Gordon has appointed Major General Luke Reiner as director of the Wyoming Department of Transportation. Reiner was one of three nominees recommended by the Wyoming Transportation Commission. Gordon said Reiner's 36 years of military service would bring strong management skills to the post. "I thank Governor Gordon and the Transportation Com...
HNTB Implements New Leadership Structure
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Responding to ongoing growth and a robust U.S. transportation market, HNTB Corporation added a new region, a new operating division and named these presidents to its leadership structure: • Michael Inabinet, PE, Central Region, United States, a newly created region • John Friel, PE, Western Region, United States • James Thomson, PE, Northwest Division, a newly created division • Keith Hinkebein, PE, Design Build, providing alternative delivery services nationally “...
Jeffrey Keirn Joins HNTB as Principal Engineer in Chicago
CHICAGO – HNTB Corporation is proud to welcome Jeffrey Keirn, PE, to its Chicago office as principal engineer. Keirn brings more than 32 years of statewide experience planning, designing, building and maintaining Illinois’ network of highways, roads and bridges. His decades of service to the Illinois Department of Transportation; leadership of critical projects, such as the I-270 bridge over the Chain of Rocks Canal; and relationships built across the industry will help HNTB clients and colleagu...
Ed Wasserman Named Recipient of 2019 Richard S. Fountain Award
Pictured from left to right: Chris Garrell, National Steel Bridge Alliance Ed Wasserman, Modjeski and Masters (former Chairman, AASHTO T-14 Technical Committee for Structural Steel Design) Ronnie Medlock, High Steel Structures (Chairman of the Steel Bridge Task Force Oversight Council) Tom Macioce, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (current Chairman, AASHTO T-14 Technical Committee for Structural Steel Design) WASHINGTON, DC — The Steel Bridge Task Force of the Stee...
Mac Bell recognized with NCPPP Excellence in Private Sector Leadership Award; LAX ConRAC named finalist for Outstanding Emerging Project Award
TORONTO- Fengate Asset Management (Fengate) is pleased to announce two recent United States public-private partnership (P3) industry awards recognizing, respectively, Mac Bell, Director and Head of P3 Investments, and a P3 project that Fengate is proud to be a part of. Mac Bell has been recognized with the 2019 National Coalition for Public-Private Partnerships (NCPPP) Excellence in Private Sector Leadership Award for his innovative and visionary leadership in the North American P3 sector....
Ohio DOT’s Gilmore Named Vice Chair of AASHTO’s CRUO Committee
Drew Gilmore, administrator of the Office of Real Estate within the Ohio Department of Transportation, was recently appointed vice chair of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Committee on Right-of-Way, Utilities, and Outdoor Advertising Controls or CRUO. It is a committee tasked with reviewing and recommends changes to laws, rules, regulations, and procedures affecting right of way, utility, and outdoor advertising issues, as well as maintaining three AASH...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
