FCA Celebrates 2025 With Key Leadership Promotions
Strategic Elevations Emphasize the Firm’s Commitment to Uplifting Team Members PHILADELPHIA, PA — FCA, a full-service architecture, planning and design firm, ushers in the new year with a series of pivotal promotions, including three seasoned team members to Principal. This period of internal growth highlights FCA’s commitment to supporting the next generation of industry leaders. These advancements further embody the firm’s collaborative spirit and underscore its mission to change lives...
Matern Professional Engineering Promotes Mechanical Engineer Dorian Maness to Senior Project Manager
Matern Professional Engineering is proud to announce the promotion of mechanical engineer Dorian Maness to Senior Project Manager. Maness has over seven years of project experience in K-12 and higher education mechanical systems design, as well as municipal, healthcare, and other commercial project experience. He is currently working in the company’s Education Division. Maness is a certified Green Globes Professional and is intimately familiar with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Desig...
J. Kenneth Charles From Steel Joist Institute To Be Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award
Award to be presented during NASCC: The Steel Conference in April Florence, S.C. — The Steel Joist Institute is pleased to share the news that SJI Managing Director J. Kenneth Charles will be one of six recipients of AISC’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The Award will be presented at 2025 NASCC: The Steel Conference during the opening session on April 2, 2025, in Louisville, KY. The award recognizes living individuals who have made a significant impact on the success of the AISC and the st...
Jon Markt Promoted to HDR’s Transportation Safety Program Manager
Jon Markt, P.E., RSP1, has been named manager of HDR’s transportation safety program, underscoring the firm’s commitment to helping communities reduce fatalities and serious injuries on roads. Markt has 14 years of industry experience developing innovative traffic solutions and taking a leading role in helping communities align their transportation priorities with safety goals. Based in Omaha, Markt has provided traffic engineering and transportation planning on projects throughout the Midwes...
DFI Educational Trust Elects New Members to the Board of Trustees
Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, has elected four new board members. John M. Allen, P.E. John M. Allen, P.E., foundation engineering manager, Master Builders Solutions, has more than 20 years of experience managing sales to mining, waste and energy industries related to geotechnical, containment and remediation projects as well as more than 10 years of geotechnical and geosynthetics laboratory testing experience. He is t...
DFI Educational Trust Awards Scholarships From Four Funds
Manhattan University students and their advisors. Left to right: Emanuel Lala, Mark Markic, Caitlan Haiduk, Alexandra Castellano, Anirban De (advisor), Meddi Omdivar (advisor), Annas Alokush, Konstantine Mendrinos, Brady Flood and Samuel Guzman Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) Educational Trust, the charitable arm of DFI, recently awarded scholarships from the Menard Carnegie Mellon University Scholarship, Stanley Merjan City College of New York (CCNY) Civil Engineering Scholarship F...
Siplast Promotes Herman Lopez to Business Development Manager
In This Role, He Will Leverage His Extensive Sales Experience to Drive Customer Engagement ADDISON, TX —January 23, 2025—Siplast, a Standard Industries company and leader in high-performance roofing and waterproofing solutions, is excited to announce that Herman Lopez has been promoted from Building Enclosure Sales Manager to Building Enclosure Business Development Manager. After two years of supporting the sales team at Siplast, Lopez will now lead the U.S. and Canadian branches to help driv...
O’Melveny Welcomes Esteemed Dallas Real Estate Lawyer Kyle Davis
DALLAS—January 23, 2025—O’Melveny announced today that esteemed real estate lawyer Kyle Davis has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in the Project Development & Real Estate Practice Group. Her arrival further strengthens O’Melveny’s nationwide real estate finance and development capabilities at a time when client demand for sophisticated real estate counsel has never been higher. Davis brings nearly 15 years of experience and a broad-based practice to O’Melveny. She advises banks,...
JCJ Architecture Appoints Mary Faria as Eastern Managing Director
Faria Will Focus on Resource Management and Interoffice Collaboration Across the Firm’s East Coast Projects BOSTON — January 22, 2025 — JCJ Architecture (JCJ), a forward-thinking and nationally ranked planning, architecture, and interior design firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mary Faria, AIA, LEED AP, to the role of Eastern Managing Director. With over 34 years of design firm operational expertise, Mary will work across regions and markets to provide support on existing c...
Plastics Pipe Institute Establishes, Fills Sustainability & Advocacy Director Position
Donnie Johnson, director of sustainability & advocacy, the Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. IRVING, TX - January 22, 2025 - The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) announced today that Donnie Johnson has joined the association as its new Director of Sustainability & Advocacy. The position was created as a result of the growing membership’s desire to increase PPI’s contributions to public policy and legislative initiatives with a focus on sustainability and resiliency plus government advoca...