Bart Sweeney Joins HNTB as Senior Project Manager
ROCKY HILL, Conn. – Bart Sweeney, PE, joined HNTB Corporation as senior project manager and associate vice president. Based in the firm’s Rocky Hill office, Sweeney has 25 years of transportation infrastructure experience that includes project management, design, construction, maintenance and operations. “Bart is recognized throughout the state as a transportation leader with comprehensive knowledge of Connecticut’s bridges and highways,” said Jennifer Carrier, PE, HNTB Connecticut office lea...
Leading Design and Engineering Firm Stantec Consolidates Nearly 100 Team Members in Key Market of Portland
PORTLAND, OR (October 15, 2018) NYSE, TSX:STN: Stantec, a global engineering, consulting, and project management firm, is expanding its footprint in the Pacific Northwest by consolidating Portland-area employees from three area offices into one landmark location at 601 SW Second Ave. Team members from the firm’s Water, Buildings Engineering and Technology, Power, Environmental Services, and WaterPower & Dams sectors will occupy 20,008 square feet of the Moda Tower, the 10th largest office buildi...
Lauren Sajek Joins Stantec’s San Francisco Architecture Team
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., NYSE, TSX:STN: Lauren Sajek, AIA, LEED AP, has rejoined global architecture, engineering, consulting, and construction firm Stantec as an architect in the firm’s San Francisco office. She comes to Stantec via Chicago where she specialized in multi-family and mixed-use properties. Sajek’s hire represents Stantec’s continued commitment to growing its Buildings sector in Northern California and beyond. Sajek will collaborate with employees from the firm’s Chicago and San Fran...
Rutgers Alumnus Makes Largest Scholarship Gift Ever to University
Richard N. Weeks, a 1950 Rutgers graduate who grew his family’s small marine construction company into an industry leader, has made a commitment of $10 million to support undergraduate scholarships at the Rutgers School of Engineering. Weeks’s pledge is the largest gift to Rutgers for scholarships and the largest ever to the engineering school. The Richard N. Weeks Endowed Scholarship will help many more talented students obtain an outstanding engineering education at Rutgers. “Rutgers is at...
ACI Announces New Middle East Regional Director
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - The American Concrete Institute is pleased to announce Ahmad Mhanna as the Institute's Middle East Regional Director. In this new staff position, Mhanna will focus on ACI's comprehensive plan to increase knowledge-sharing throughout the Middle East. The great innovation occurring now in the region combined with ACI's one-hundred-plus years of consensus-based knowledge is a partnership that will accelerate the advancement of the concrete industry globally. Mhanna w...
Chinook Hires Patrick Troppe for New Product Management Role
ARLINGTON, Va. - Chinook Systems, Inc. (Chinook), a facilities engineering and commissioning services firm, announced today the addition of Patrick Troppe to its executive staff. Troppe will lead product management activities related to Quicx™, Chinook’s software platform for commissioning agents, facility managers, AEC firms and commercial real estate owners. The appointment comes in response to the increased demand for Commissioning Software, Facility Documentation and Project Delivery tools f...
Former NJDOT Assistant Commissioner David Lambert Joins WSP
NEW YORK, NY, — David Lambert, former assistant commissioner of capital program management and chief engineer for the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), has joined WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as a senior structural manager. Lambert will be based in WSP’s Lawrenceville, N.J. office and be responsible for managing, directing and leading transportation projects, including complex bridge engineering projects, as well as providin...
Thornton Tomasetti’s Mostafa Mobasher Invited to Participate in Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering & Math Symposium
(New York, New York) – Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that Mostafa Mobasher, Ph.D., a project engineer in the firm’s New York Wall Street office, has been invited by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to participate in the sixth Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine symposium. Held in partnership with and hosted by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, the symposium will be held at the Kuwait National Library in Kuwait...
Topcon Announces Speaking Presentations for Year in Infrastructure 2018
From left to right: Ray O’Connor, Ulrich Hermanski, Jason Hallett, Ron Oberlander LIVERMORE, Calif., U.S./ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, the Netherlands – Topcon Positioning Group announces its representatives’ participation in the Strategic Partner Panel and Alliance Partner Sessions during the upcoming Bentley Systems Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference in London. The Topcon speakers participating include Ray O’Connor, president and CEO of Topcon Positioning Group; Ulrich Hermanski, vice...
Oro Loma Sanitary District Appoints Longtime San Leandro Resident Robert H. Glaze to Board
SAN LORENZO, Calif. - At its October 2, 2018 public meeting, the Oro Loma Sanitary District Board voted to appoint Robert H. Glaze to fill the Board vacancy generated by the retirement of Director Roland J. Dias. Glaze, a longtime San Leandro resident and Marina High School and Chabot College graduate, worked for the City of Oakland for 40 years, retiring as Chief Information Officer in the Department of Information Technology. He has been active in local politics for many years, having served o...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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