HNTB’s Atlanta Office Names Tim Kassa as Transportation Planning Department Manager
ATLANTA – Recognized for outstanding service, Tim Kassa has been named HNTB Corporation’s transportation planning department manager based in the firm’s Atlanta office. He oversees delivery of innovative solutions for transportation projects across the region and leads a group of 20 talented and diverse professionals. Kassa has been with HNTB since 2015 and has more than 16 years of technical and leadership experience in the infrastructure industry. His most recent roles with HNTB include se...
DLR Group Appoints Two Managing Principals
DLR Group Managing Principal & CEO Griff Davenport, FAIA, announced today that Steve McKay, RIBA, LEED AP, and John Fuller, LEED AP have each been appointed a DLR Group Managing Principal. McKay is the firm’s global design leader and Fuller is chief marketing officer for DLR Group. Both are members of the firm’s Executive Leadership Team which manages the operations for DLR Group’s 1,200 design professionals and 30 global locations. McKay and Fuller also will join the DLR Group Board of Direc...
Infrastructure Advancement Institute Appoints Mikhaylova of RINKER Materials™ to Board
HOUSTON – The Infrastructure Advancement Institute (IAI) recently named Alena Mikhaylova, Technical Promotions Engineer with Rinker Materials™ to its Board of Directors. Mikhalova joins 11 other industry leaders on the Board fostering IAI’s mission of collaboration between contractors, engineers and owners on public and private infrastructure construction, operation, and maintenance projects. Responsible for the oversight of Rinker Materials™ on stormwater management systems using concrete pi...
Michael Baker International Names Jake Watson, S.E., Senior Vice President of Federal Operations
Pittsburgh - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced today the promotion of Jake K. Watson, S.E., to Senior Vice President of Federal Operations. In this new position within Michael Baker’s Growth Organization, Mr. Watson will work in conjunction with the firm’s Operations team and its Federal Centers of Excellence – a coast-to-coast network of offices that are characterized by their employees’ deep Federal experience and credentia...
Anna Barry, former Connecticut Department of Transportation deputy commissioner, joins HNTB in Boston
Barry brings extensive executive leadership and program management experience with rail and bus transit as well as infrastructure asset management BOSTON – Anna Barry joined HNTB Corporation as program manager and vice president, based in the firm’s Massachusetts office, located in Boston. She is responsible for leading transportation programs for HNTB’ s clients including the MBTA and MassDOT. “Anna is a highly regarded leader with extensive knowledge of rail and bus transit progr...
Woolpert’s Qassim Abdullah Selected for NOAA’s Hydrographic Services Review Panel
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Woolpert Chief Scientist and Senior Associate Qassim Abdullah, Ph.D., CP, PLS, has been named to a four-year term on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hydrographic Services Review Panel (HSRP). The HSRP was created to provide NOAA with independent advice on hydrographic operations, research and development, as well as the acquisition and dissemination of data and information pertaining to hydrographic surveying, shoreline surveying, nautical ch...
Martin Engelmann Joins Stantec’s California Transportation Practice
Walnut Creek, CA, NYSE, TSX:STN- Martin Engelmann, PE, has joined Stantec—a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm—as a senior transportation planning manager in the firm’s Walnut Creek, California, office. Engelmann has 35-plus years of transportation planning, engineering, policy and programming experience in California. At Stantec, he will serve as part of the leadership team for the Pacific Region Transportation Group focusing on growing the local transportation market and ser...
The UP Companies Adds Three New Members to Team
St. Louis, MO - The UP Companies (UPCO) announces three new hires to its staff: Michael Robinson as Preconstruction Director, Karen Lamberg as Assistant Controller and Kyle Renaud as Senior Estimator. Michael Robinson – Preconstruction Director As Preconstruction Director, Michael Robinson of Lake St. Louis, Missouri, will perform estimating, review policies and procedures, and develop new business and initiatives. He has 43 years of industry experience, having previously worked as an e...
2019 Ross Newlin Achievement Award Recipient Announced
Paul Smith, wind plant manager at Puget Sound Energy has been awarded the 2019 Ross Newlin Achievement Award, given by the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) for his ongoing contributions in leading advancement efforts of the technical and operations sectors of the renewable energy industry. Named for wind industry pioneer Ross Newlin, the award was presented during ESIG’s annual Fall Operations and Maintenance Users Group meeting recently held in Palm Springs, Calif. “Ross Newlin hel...
CDOT Names Steve Harelson as Chief Engineer
Steve Harelson will serve as the Colorado Department of Transportation’s next chief engineer, effective immediately. Steve has been part of CDOT since 2002, and has served as the West Program Engineer in the Denver metro region since 2013. His breadth of experience ranges from hydraulic engineering, planning and design work on both the US 285 and I-70 Mountain Corridors, work on the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel and fire suppression system. He has also worked extensively on landslides—lea...
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