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Brad Phillips has been named district manager of Beck's Atlanta office. Phillips, a 24-year Beck veteran, most recently served as chief technology officer in the firm's Dallas headquarters. He is a member of Beck's leadership group overseeing the firm's mission, organization and strategy.

Additionally, Fred Perpall was named the new director of architecture for Beck's Atlanta office. He has been with Beck for five years.

The firm also promoted Sara Faris from receptionist to marketing coordinator; and David Theisen from field engineer to senior field engineer. Also, the following employees were promoted from project administrator to project manager: Craig Daniel, Kevin Voss, Jeff Wheeler, Jared Rice and Maureen Smith.

The following employees were promoted from project engineer to senior project engineer: Eric Williams, Damian Hamlin, Jeremy Meats and Mike Monce.

Joseph P. Riley Jr., mayor of Charleston, S.C., and honorary ASLA, will receive the American Society of Landscape Architecture's Olmsted Medal, recognizing his environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship. The medal is named for Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of the American landscape architecture profession and an early steward of the environment. In nearly 30 years in office, Mayor Riley has earned national acclaim for revitalizing the city's downtown area. As president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he created the Mayor's Institute for City Design, recognizing that a city's mayor is really its chief arbiter of planning and design. Since its founding, the Mayor's Institute has provided basic design education for hundreds of mayors. The award will be presented at ASLA's annual meeting, to be held Nov. 1 in Salt Lake City.

Matt Breen has been promoted to senior vice president in Skanska USA Building's Orlando office. In this capacity, he will oversee the Orlando office operations. He previously served as vice president.

Steven C. Hood has been named senior vice president/principal-in-charge of Bovis Lend Lease's Miami operations. Hood previously served as vice president overseeing the Four Seasons Hotel and Tower project in Miami. Rod Creach has also been named principal-in-charge. In his new role, Creach will manage all health-care operations from the firm's Orlando office.

Brent Leiter has been promoted to executive vice president in Hunt Construction Group's Tampa office.

C. Scott Evers was recently named senior vice president and general manager of Batson-Cook Co.'s Tampa office. He most recently served as vice president of construction management. He has 40 years of construction experience, and is an eight-year veteran of Batson-Cook.

L. Dean Banks has been named territory general manager at ACI, a construction services firm headquartered in Tampa. Banks has more than 25 years of construction management experience.

Scott Carr has joined Rodgers Builders of Charlotte as a senior project manager. Carr has more than 20 years experience in the construction industry. Also, Brent Lyons has joined the firm as a senior estimator in preconstruction services. He has over 14 years experience in the construction industry.

Nora Powers joined the Atlanta office at Greenberg Farrow Architecture as a civil project engineer. Also, Adam Bailey has joined the firm as a site-development site planner. Greenberg Farrow is a national architecture, engineering and development consulting firm.

Edie Morgan was recently hired as project manager for The Dana B. Kenyon Co. of Jacksonville, Fla. She has nearly 10 years of experience in the construction industry.

Holly Magruder King has been appointed vice president in Cannon Design's Jacksonville, Fla., office. King is working as a project manager.

Timothy Shaw has been hired as a sales representative for Harmon, Inc.'s Lithia Springs, Ga., office. He will serve the exterior glazing needs of the company's customers in Atlanta and throughout Georgia. Shaw joins Harmon from Nelson-Brantley Glass Contractors in Birmingham, Ala., where he worked as vice president.

Dale E. Scott, vice president of Keene Construction Co., Maitland, Fla., was recently inducted into the national Retail Hall of Fame in Atlanta on May 12. Presented by Retail Construction magazine, the award honors individuals who have demonstrated leadership within the retail construction, design and development industries. A longtime national retail construction veteran, Scott also received the Trustees' Distinguished Service Award in 2002 from the 48,000-member International Council of Shopping Centers. He was the first general contracting representative and only the 69th member overall to receive the award in the association's 47-year history.

David Pearson has been hired to lead the newly created interior-design division of the Naples, Fla.-based architecture and planning firm Erickson Associates. Pearson previously was the owner of David Pearson Design, Inc.

Shannon Corcoran has joined the Lakeland headquarters office of ASC Geosciences Inc. as business development manager, specializing in surface transportation and education. She has more than eight years of marketing, management and business development experience.

Thomas Helgeson, water director for HDR's Orlando office, has been named to a one-year term as president of the Florida Water Environment Association, a professional organization dedicated to protecting Florida's clean water environment.

Kathy Evans has joined General Electric-Modular Space's Tampa office as construction services manager for the Southeast region, including Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Joe Latoff has joined the Orlando office of Carter & Burgess. He serves as senior project manager in traffic operations. Latoff has 12 years of experience and comes to Carter & Burgess from TEI Engineers and Planners, where he was a project manager.

Gipsy T. Santos-Alborna recently joined the Miami office of the architecture, engineering and design firm Leo A. Daly Inc. as director of business development. She joins the firm with nearly 20 years experience in sales, marketing and finance within the architecture and design industries in Florida.

HuntonBrady Architects, an Orlando-based planning, architecture and interior design firm, recently hired Drew Krecicki as a senior project manager, focusing on healthcare project, and Susan Pendergraft as a project architect, focusing on education and commercial projects.

Daniel W. Sharpe has joined DeBartolo Development of Tampa as senior vice president of development and construction. He is a 26-year construction and real estate veteran. The company also named Mitchell Davis as senior vice president, responsible for new business development for the firm's single tenant build-to-suit and acquisition division.

John Mauldin has joined the Sarasota office of IBA Consultants Inc. as a senior consultant. In this position, Mauldin will review architectural plans for new structures and forensic investigations of existing structures. IBA Consultants is a Miami-based exterior wall, roofing and waterproofing specialist offering review, inspection and testing to architects, developers, owners and construction managers in the high-rise construction industry.

Stuart H. Sobel, a shareholder with the Coral Gables, Fla.-based law firm Siegfried, Rivera, Lerner, De La Torre & Sobel, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Construction Lawyers. Sobel focuses his practice on construction-related issues. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association's Panel of Construction Arbitrators and the American Bar Association's Forum on Construction Industry.