Buckwalter Joins ASCE as Chief Operating and Strategy Officer
Gerald E. “Jerry” Buckwalter will join the ASCE staff in a new role, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer, effective June 4. Buckwalter will be responsible for helping to shape the Society’s strategic direction and operational effectiveness. Among his key early responsibilities will be continued oversight of ASCE’s new Future World Vision project. He will also oversee several areas of internal operations, including finance and administration, engineering and lifelong learning, and human resou...
R&R Engineers - Surveyors, Inc. Heralds in New Leadership, Company-Wide Cultural Shift & New Office
Denver, Colo. - R&R Engineers - Surveyors, Inc., a Denver-based land surveying and civil engineering firm operating primarily in the Rocky Mountain Region, announces that Tony Smith, PLS, is R&R's new President and Douglas Dunkin, PE, will continue to be the company's CEO. The leadership changes are effective immediately. As R&R's President, Smith will be guiding operations and day-to-day activities. Smith has been with R&R since 2012. By 2016, he was running the entire Survey Department a...
Charren Shepherd Named Marketing Director for HNTB’s Mid-Atlantic Division
ARLINGTON, VA. – Charren Shepherd was appointed director of marketing for HNTB Corporation’s Mid-Atlantic Division. She is based in Arlington. Shepherd will coordinate with division leaders to develop, execute and monitor overall marketing strategy and lead a department of more than a dozen marketing professionals supporting nine offices to provide comprehensive marketing communications services across the division. Shepherd brings nearly two decades of engineering and construction marketin...
HNTB’s Craig Denson Named CFO of the Year by EFCG
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Craig Denson, CPA, CFO HNTB Corporation, was named CFO of the Year by the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) during its 19th annual CFO conference in New York City on May 9. Denson, a senior vice president, has been with HNTB for 18 years in various roles, including corporate controller, corporate treasurer and corporate secretary. Appointed as CFO in 2018, he oversees approximately 60 professionals who support the corporate financial operation. EFCG’s CFO c...
HNTB’s Shahram Vahdat appointed president of American Council of Engineering Companies – Los Angeles County chapter
LOS ANGELES – Shahram Vahdat, PE, group transportation director and vice president for HNTB Corporation, has been appointed president of the board of directors of American Council of Engineering Companies – Los Angeles County chapter. He has been a member of the board of directors since 1999, holding numerous executive positions. This will be the second time Vahdat is serving as president. “I am honored to serve in a leadership capacity for our Los Angeles chapter, which is comprised of over...
AISC Remembers Ground-breaking Architect I.M. Pei
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction Friday remembered legendary architect I.M. Pei, who died early Thursday at the age of 102. "I.M. Pei leaves a physical and intellectual legacy of constant innovation, much of which featured steel as the structural medium," AISC President Charles J. Carter, SE, PE, PhD, said. "His many iconic structures will inspire generations of architects to push the boundaries and bring new ideas to life, and we look forward to being part of that celeb...
John Bailey, Former Prospect Steel President and AISC Board Member, Dies at 66
John William Bailey, president of Prospect Steel, a division of Lexicon, Inc., in Little Rock, Ark., and an AISC Board Member, passed away Sunday, May 19, at the age of 66 after a brief fight with cancer. John was born on November 15, 1952, in Jackson, Tenn., to parents William Hampton and Norreen M. Cassidy Bailey. He earned two degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville—a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1975 and a master's degree in structural engineering in 1977—before r...
ARTBA Foundation Announces Financial Assistance to 16 Children of Fallen Highway Workers
WASHINGTON) - Sixteen children of highway workers who were killed or permanently disabled on the job will receive post-high school financial assistance for the 2019-20 school year from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation’s (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship” fund. Now in its 20th year, the program was established with a gift from two Roanoke, Virginia, highway contracto...
U.S. Department of Transportation Highlights Transit Workforce Training for Innovative Technologies of the Future
THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Acting Administrator K. Jane Williams today joined SunLine Transit Agency officials and other local partners to highlight transit workforce training for innovative technologies of the future, including zero-emission transit buses. "Workforce development is a key priority for this Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation," said FTA Acting Administrator Williams. "The Administra...
ASCE Names Dr. Thomas Walski As Recipient of 2019 Julian Hinds Award
Exton, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced that Bentley colleague, Thomas Walski, Ph.D. P.E., F. ASCE, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Julian Hinds Award, by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The Julian Hinds Award recognizes the author or authors of a paper which makes the most important contribution...
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