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Suffolk Construction Co. of West Palm Beach recently announced numerous staff promotions and appointments. The contractor promoted 10-year company veteran Chris Kennedy to vice president and director of operations of the company’s Florida division. Also, Philip Linton, a 13-year construction veteran, was named chief estimator.

Kurt Langford was promoted to project executive for the special projects group, which handles fast-tracked projects under $10 million.

Gary Armstrong was promoted to general superintendent, and John Planz was promoted to senior project manager.

Suffolk also named its first division controller, Mark Webel. Webel will manage the day-to-day accounting, financial and administrative activities of the Florida division.

Edward V. McNeill was recently promoted to senior vice president of operations for Turner Construction Co. McNeill is based in the company’s Orlando offices. Turner also promoted David S. Reaves to vice president and operations manager. Reaves also works in the Orlando office.

Hardin Construction Co. of Atlanta has promoted both Pat Dean and Ken Wesley in its Orlando offices to the position of construction manager. Both are 10-year veterans of the company.

In Atlanta, the company promoted Mike Macon to senior project manager, Dennis Evans to superintendent and Alf Watlington to estimator II.

In Tampa, the company promoted Hank Foster to manager of pre-construction services.

Mike G. Hood was promoted to chief operating officer of Batson-Cook Development Co. in Atlanta. Hood formerly served as chief financial officer.

Batson-Cook Development Co. is a commercial real estate company and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Batson-Cook Co.

Nick Benedico has joined HNTB’s Orlando office as an associate vice president and the manager of its transportation design department. He has more than 14 years of experience, most recently with a local consulting firm where he served as the vice president in charge of the expressway design department.

The company’s Orlando office also named Rhett C. Leary as vice president. Leary was previously the construction services director for HNTB Florida and is the officer-in-charge of the Florida construction services team. He currently serves as the program manager for the Western Beltway SR 429 project west of Orlando.

Greg Bankhurst was named senior project manager by WCI Communities for the developer’s 30-story, 210-unit BellaMaré luxury condominium tower currently under construction in Williams Island. The 20-year veteran of construction and development recently served as president of Carey Construction, a construction management and development firm.

The company also named Michael Patrizio as project manager for its One Bal Harbour residential and hotel condominium in Bal Harbour. The 26-story tower will feature 185 residential units and incorporate a 17-story hotel component.

Scott Head, sales manager for Coreslab Structures of Atlanta, was recently named vice president. A 27-year veteran of the precast concrete industry, he will be responsible for estimating, sales and marketing for the Atlanta operation.

Curtis Becker, project manager and MEP specialist, has joined the Orlando office of The Robins & Morton Group. Also, Randy Longshore has joined as a superintendent, and Grant Carlson was named on-site safety director for the company’s Arnold Palmer Hospital project in Orlando.

Peninsula Engineering of Orlando recently named Dennis Barger, David Burger and Donald Stewart as principals and Eamon Nagle as associate principal.

The company also promoted Rich King to the position of project manager, and named Joe Trusty as a mechanical project engineer.

Brett Kratzerhas joined Dorsky Hodgson + Partners as a principal in the firm’s commercial studio.In addition to his national duties, he will be also working part-time in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale offices.

Harvard Jolly, an architecture firm based in Maitland, Fla., recently hired Gina Buendia as project coordinator and Arbadella Bryant as administrative assistant. Buendia will coordinate educational and governmental projects, while Bryant will lead the Orlando office’s administration department.

In its Fort Lauderdale office, the firm hired John Rhodes as construction/project coordinator and Renee Stonom as administrative assistant. A 23-year industry veteran, Rhodes will lead Harvard Jolly’s construction administration efforts in South Florida. Stonom will lead the Fort Lauderdale office’s administration department.

Steve Berry, president of West Palm Beach-based Paver Systems LLC, was recently named chairman of the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute.

Patrick M. DeWitt was recently named manager of Thompson Pump & Manufacturing’s service center in Savannah, Ga. He will oversee support, delivery and office personnel, as well as manage service and pump system installation efforts of the branch.

Bill Mitchellhas been named director of business development for DooleyMack Constructors of Sarasota, Fla. Mitchell, a 23-year veteran of business development, had previously worked for Coldwell Banker’s central Florida real estate division in Orlando, will be responsible for opening new markets for DooleyMack from Key West to the Florida Panhandle.

Don Winsetthas been named president of Stiles Landscape Co., Fort Lauderdale. The company is the landscape division of commercial real-estate firm Stiles Corp. He will be responsible for the operations and growth of the company, which provides comprehensive landscape renovation and landscape maintenance services for major commercial projects, institutions and luxury residential properties throughout Florida.

TLC Engineering for Architecture of Orlando, has named three new principals: Angel Lorenzo, director of the Miami division; Jorge Reyes, mechanical project engineer in the Miami division; and Mark Kramer, electrical project engineer in the Ft. Myers division.

Justin Cunningham has joined Palmer Electric as the company’s new multi-family division manager. In this capacity, Cunningham will oversee the firm’s apartment, timeshare and condominium projects.

Jerry Fitch was recently named Southeast territory manager BOMAG Americas Inc. In this position, Fitch will be responsible for the sale of Bomag and Hypac products in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Scott A. Jacobs has been appointed to the position of staff engineer in the Tampa office of Ardaman & Associates, a geotechnical engineering firm based in Orlando.