Steve Roth Joins HNTB as Group Director in Austin
AUSTIN – Steve Roth, PE, PMP, joined HNTB Corporation as group director – engineering, based in the firm’s Austin office. Roth will work with the firm’s transit clients in Central and South Texas, including Capital Metro in Austin and VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio. Roth has more than 20 years of experience in planning, design and construction of rail, transit, transportation and infrastructure projects. Throughout his career, he has served on a wide range of complex projects in T...
MDOT Names Tony Kratofil New COO and Chief Engineer
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has named longtime leader Tony Kratofil chief operations officer (COO) and chief engineer. He is succeeding Mark Van Port Fleet, who is now MDOT's senior chief deputy director. Kratofil has been with MDOT for 26 years, the last nine as head of MDOT's Metro Region in southeast Michigan, covering Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. "Tony is held in high regard by his colleagues at MDOT and by our industry partners," MDOT Director Kirk T. Steudle...
NSF International’s Marcos Bensoussan to Serve on IWA Water Safety Planning Committee
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The International Water Association (IWA) has selected Marcos Bensoussan, General Manager of Global Building Water Health at NSF International, to serve on a management committee charged with helping protect the world’s water supply systems. As a member of the Management Committee of IWA’s Specialist Group on Water Safety Planning, Bensoussan will help guide the group’s efforts to disseminate practical knowledge on water safety planning to stakeholders involved in deliverin...
Eric Jaffe is HDR’s New East Region Director, Architecture
Eric Jaffe, AIA, NCARB, managing principal of HDR’s Princeton architecture studio, has been named the East region director, Architecture. Jaffe joined HDR in early 2017 as the Princeton managing principal. His previous role was East region director for Science and Technology and office practice leader at CannonDesign. The majority of his career has taken place in research environments at top academic institutions including Duke, Princeton and Yale, as well as with corporate clients such as No...
DMR Architects Expands Services with New Three-Person Construction Administration Team
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ, April 4, 2018—In response to its extensive number of currently active education, healthcare, multi-family and corporate projects under construction, DMR Architects has expanded its Construction Administration Team with three new hires. DMR’s current project roster of more than $300 million over more than 40 construction projects in 2018 are highlighted by the Grande at Metro Park, a $50 million multi-family development and the 340,000-square-foot, $140 million Hudson Co...
Stantec announces planned retirement of CFO, Dan Lefaivre and names Theresa Jang as incoming CFO
Stantec announced today that following a successful 10-year tenure as the Company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), Dan Lefaivre will retire from the CFO role, effective December 31, 2018 as part of a planned executive leadership succession strategy. The firm also announced today that Theresa Jang will join Stantec on September 10, 2018 as executive vice president; she will take on the CFO role effective January 1, 2019. Jang will report to Gord Johnston, Stantec p...
Focus on Highway Safety Earns ITD's Stokes Lifetime Achievement Award from AAMVA
BOISE - Idaho Transportation Department Chief Deputy Scott Stokes has spent his entire career advocating for highway safety issues, and that focus earned him the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). Watch video tribute to Scott. AAMVA presented the award to Stokes during their annual conference, Aug. 23 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "While many people throughout Idaho deserve credit for all the great work they are doing, Scot...
Utility Engineering & Surveying Expert Scott Throm Joins Cardno's Denver Office
Lone Tree, CO - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Scott Throm, PLS, RLS, CFedS, has joined the firm as Branch Manager of the company’s Lone Tree, CO, USA office. Scott has more than 19 years of experience as a project surveyor and manager for large engineering firms, including as survey manager for the Colorado Department of Transportation. He has managed surveying, mapping, and utility projects for a number of sectors, including land development, transportation, utility, and civ...
Jill Connell Joins Stantec’s Growing Mechanical Team
Seattle, Wash., NYSE, TSX:STN: Jill Connell has joined global architecture, engineering, consulting, and construction firm Stantec as a senior health care project manager, joining the mechanical practice in the Seattle office. She comes to Stantec from Mazzetti + GBA where she was a senior mechanical project manager specializing in health care and critical environment system infrastructure. A mechanical engineer for more than 30 years, Jill has an established background in project management,...
Seyfarth Expands Construction Practice with P3 Lawyer in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the arrival of partner Charles E. “Chuck” Wall to the Public-Private Partnerships (P3) group and Construction practice in Washington, D.C. Wall joins from Troutman Sanders LLP, where he was a partner in Richmond, Virginia. Wall’s P3 practice focuses on advising project stakeholders in the financing, design, construction, operation and maintenance of large-scale public infrastructure development projects. These projects, many of which involv...