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HDR recently announced several appointments. The firm named Chuck Sinclair senior vice president at its Miami office. With HDR since 1991, Sinclair is a regional business director in HDR’s environmental and resource management business group.

The company also named Bob Cone and Steve Keyes vice presidents at its Orlando office. A program management director, Cone has 30 years of industry experience. With HDR for more than 12 years, Keyes is a marketing manager with more than 15 years of industry experience. 

Also, the firm has named Jack Miller vice president at its Charlotte office. With HDR since 1984, Miller is a senior project manager with more than 25 years of industry experience, primarily with water and wastewater facilities.

The company also named Dave Kinnear the Eastern regional technical director for wastewater processes in the Charlotte office. Kinnear assists wastewater treatment facilities with process engineering design, operations, troubleshooting and optimization projects.

Lamar Nash has joined Barton Malow Co.’s Atlanta office as director of business development for the Southern region. His responsibilities include business development, strategic planning, business plan development, marketing, public relations, industry promotion, proposal development and sales performance. He will focus his efforts on the education and sports markets.

Nash most recently served as corporate marketing officer of The Haskell Co., Jacksonville, Fla.

Alan Forgea has been named project manager for The Related Group of Florida’s Las Olas Beach Club project, a 29-story condominium to be built on the Fort Lauderdale oceanfront.

Tindall Corp., a producer of precast concrete based in Spartanburg, S.C., recently announced several appointments. Greg Force has been promoted to president and chief operating officer for the entire organization.

Also, Mike Branz recently joined the firm’s South Carolina division as vice president and general manager, and Todd Davidson was promoted to vice president and general manager for Tindall’s corrections division. Charles Rivenbark was promoted to the position of plant manager for the company’s corrections division in Conley, Ga.

David J. Ziegman recently rejoined Woolpert LLP of Atlanta as a senior project manager and planner for the firm’s facilities planning and design group. He will be responsible for managing the firm’s local government planning projects in the Southeast.

Ralph Poole Jr. has been promoted to director of projects at PSA Constructors, Orlando. Poole previously worked as a senior project manager for PSA.

Greenberg Farrow Architecture, a national architecture, engineering, and development consulting firm, recently announced that Jeremy Anderson and Michael Toothaker have joined its Atlanta office. Anderson has joined as an architectural intern, while Toothaker will be on the site-development team as a site planner.

Lynn Rutan has joined the construction management firm of Christiano Construction Co. in Clearwater as director of marketing. Rutan will be responsible for overseeing the marketing department and all business development, focusing on churches, educational, retail, office and medical facilities.

Bora Erbilen has been named an associate at Burton Braswell Middlebrooks Associates Consulting Structural Engineers, Orlando and Boca Raton. Erbilen has over 12 years experience as a structural project manager in Florida, Europe and Asia.

David Byrd, the Florida Department of Transportation’s former District 2 director of production and planning, has joined HNTB’s Jacksonville, Fla., office as the head of its transportation planning department. He will also support statewide efforts in transportation planning.

Byrd has more than 30 years of experience in transportation planning and design, having spent the majority of his career with FDOT.

Terry Davis has been promoted to general superintendent at Hardin Construction Co.’s Tampa office. Davis joined Hardin in 1982 as a field engineer.

T. Craig Campbell has been promoted to vice president at DooleyMack Constructors of Sarasota, Fla. He will have direct responsibility for the company’s business development and marketing efforts for its Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale and Nashville offices.

Campbell has worked for DooleyMack for three years – two years as a senior project manager and one year as director of business development.

Leo A. Daly, the architecture, planning, engineering and interior design firm, recently named two new executives to its Miami office. Guido Conegliano was named managing principal, and Agustin J. Barrera director of operations.

As managing principal, Conegliano is responsible for overseeing business and client services in the Miami office. As director of operations, Barrera is responsible for the daily operations including staffing, project controls and overall personnel performance.

Vincent J. Novello Jr. was named project manager for Palmer Electric’s commercial division in Winter Park, Fla. Novello has roughly 35 years of experience as an electrician and manager.

Autobuilders General Contracting Services of West Palm Beach announced the hiring of John Roeser as senior project manager and Dan Gleason as project manager.

Ernest A. Cox III has been promoted to vice president at Ardaman & Associates, a geotechnical engineering firm headquartered in Orlando. Cox has been with Ardaman since 1991.

Timothy Whalen has been named vice president of operations for Treadway Industries LLC, based in Leesburg, Fla. Whalen has been with the company since 1992. Treadway Industries manufactures architectural elements made of hard-coated foam.