APWA Members Affirm Selection of President-Elect and Three New Board Members
Kansas City, Mo. – The American Public Works Association membership has affirmed the selection of the 2022-2023 President-Elect and three new Board members. Gary Losier, P.Eng., PWLF, will serve as President-Elect and will join the APWA Executive Committee; Jeffery P. Brown, P.E., will serve as Director of Region III; and Robert Garland, P.E., PG, DBIA, ENV SP, PWLF, will serve as Director of Region IV. With the membership affirmation of Gary Losier as President-Elect, the APWA Board of Director...
Valerie Henshaw Named as Vice President of Marketing for Profile® Products
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (June 15, 2022) — Profile® Products is pleased to announce the hiring of Valerie (Val) Henshaw as the new vice president of marketing. In this role, Henshaw will lead the company’s marketing strategy for all of Profile’s businesses, including horticulture, erosion and vegetative solutions, sports fields, golf, landscape and animal health. She will bring new concepts, tools and methods to the Profile team that will elevate the company’s approaches to marketing, research and de...
Larissa James to lead WSP USA Asset Management & Business Advisory
Advisory service group helps clients achieve maximum value from their assets from strategic planning through to capital delivery and operations and maintenance. NEW YORK, June 14, 2022 — Larissa James has been selected to lead the Asset Management and Business Advisory (AMBA) group at WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, further enhancing the firm’s essential Advisory services offered across all market sectors. James, who has been managing the Northeas...
Gary Hamilton to Lead National Healthcare Practice at WSP USA
Previously led East Coast healthcare for Property and Buildings at WSP where he has designed and managed some of the firm’s highest profile health and hospital projects. NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 — Gary Hamilton has been promoted to national healthcare practice leader for Property and Buildings at WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy. Hamilton, who joined the firm in 2017, is a senior vice president at WSP and previously led the healthcare practice for t...
Bentley Systems’ Angela Curry Named In-house Lawyer of the Year
Recognized by Chambers and Partners at the 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Awards for Broadening the Scope of Bentley’s Hiring Initiatives EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced that Angela Curry, Bentley’s vice president and chief compliance officer, was named In-house Lawyer of the Year in the Chambers and Partners Diversity and Inclusion Awards: North America 2022. These awards celebrate the fantastic ac...
HDR’s Andre Lauzier Appointed to Chair of American Council of Engineering Companies Transportation Committee
OMAHA, Neb. — HDR’s Andre “Andy” Lauzier has been appointed to serve as the American Council of Engineering Companies Transportation Committee chairman for the 2022-23 term. Lauzier, HDR’s transportation planning and design director, was selected by the ACEC leadership and announced at the annual ACEC convention. Lauzier will bring his vast transportation expertise to this influential committee, which promotes ACEC’s transportation legislative work. As the committee chair, he will help sha...
CFSEI Names Jay Larson as Recipient of the 2022 John P. Matsen Award for Distinguished Service
Photo: AISI Managing Director of Construction Technical Program Jay W. Larson, P.E., F.ASCE (right) receives the John P. Matsen Award for Distinguished Service from AISI Vice President of Construction Robert J. Wills, P.E. WASHINGTON, D.C. —The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) has announced that Jay W. Larson, P.E., F.ASCE, managing director of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Construction Technical Program, is the recipient of the 2022 CFSEI John P. Matsen Award...
Lanez appoints Sass Peress as CEO
Lanez, an Israeli-based company formed to provide smart cities with predictive mobility analytics, using machine learning AI tools, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Sass Peress as CEO of the global group. "We are excited to take Lanez to the next stage of expansion and feel confident that Sass is the absolute perfect fit. Cities across North America and the rest of the world are struggling to find cost-efficient and effective ways to prevent crashes and save lives. With Lanez’s s...
Don Del Nero Named WSP USA Senior Director for Tunnel Engineering
Will serve as a leader for the firm’s national underground engineering business, furthering WSP’s commitment to bring best-value, best-in-class projects to fruition. ATLANTA, June 9, 2022 — Don Del Nero has been named vice president and senior director of tunnel engineering at WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy. In his role at WSP, Del Nero will integrate his expertise and creativity into tunnel infrastructure of all types, while embracing the firm’s...
Dr. José García Villamil Joins Miyamoto Puerto Rico
Miyamoto International is delighted to welcome Dr. José Garcia Villamil to the Miyamoto team. Dr. García is a specialist in earthquake-resilient design and has joined Miyamoto International’s growing Puerto Rico office. Providing Damage Assessment and Mitigation Engineering Expertise Across Puerto Rico On January 7, 2020, Puerto Rico was hit by one of the strongest seismic events it has experienced in over a century. Categorized as a magnitude 6.4, it displaced over 8,000 Puerto Ricans an...