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Hendrik Van Brenk has been named corporate senior vice president of health, safety and environmental at Skanska USA Building in Atlanta.
Van Brenk is responsible for leading the company’s national safety and environmental programs, including strategic planning and expansion of Skanska’s Injury-Free Environment initiative.
Most recently serving as a safety and environmental consultant for Skanska AB, Skanska USA Building’s parent company, van Brenk’s focus was on risk management and strengthening the company’s health and safety programs on an international basis.
Van Brenk has 25 years of experience in the field of health and safety.
Michael H. Maxwell, vice president and principal with WilsonMiller in southwest Florida, was promoted to corporate business unit leader of survey and mapping.
He previously served as Lower Southwest Florida regional manager of the business unit. Maxwell has spent his entire 27-year career with WilsonMiller.
The company made several other personnel announcements.
R. Adam Carnegie has joined the firm’s Tampa office as a senior project manager.
Carnegie is a member of WilsonMiller’s development planning and approvals business unit, which works with clients to obtain land use entitlements and development approvals.
Courtney M. Bush has joined WilsonMiller’s Tampa office as a land planner in the design business unit, which provides landscape architecture, planning and urban design services.
Bush previously served as a land planner for Ferris Engineering and Surveying and Ferris Land Design in Baton Rouge, La.
Richard “Rick” Whittington, who has 16 years of experience as a civil engineering designer and technician in three states, has joined WilsonMiller’s Tampa office as a senior engineering designer. He will be working in the firm’s development design business unit, which provides land development engineering services.
Howard Stein brings more than 30 years of experience to WilsonMiller in his new role as senior project manager in the transportation department.
Stein’s expertise includes managing multidisciplinary teams of professionals and making presentations to clients and at public hearings.
Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. has added John Smiley to its Southwest Florida operations as a superintendent. Smiley will be responsible for all aspects of job site project management, including scheduling, subcontractor consultation, on-site personnel supervision and site security.
HNTB Corp. has hired Sia Kusha as vice president and Southeast division Florida district leader.
Kusha joins HNTB after more than 20 years with a national engineering firm in roles that included national transportation service leader, vice president and senior project manager. His experience includes a variety of infrastructure projects, including corridor planning; planning, development and environmental studies; design; and program management.
The firm also announced that Angela Gittens, airport business services vice president, was chosen by the Central Florida Women’s Transportation Seminar as Woman of the Year.
Gittens was chosen based on her past accomplishments and commitment to the transportation industry and was presented the award at the Central Florida WTS 11th Annual Awards and Scholarship Banquet in Orlando.
She has more than 20 years of experience in airport management, operations and development. Prior to joining HNTB in 2005, she served as director of the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department.
Also, Malcolm Tomatani has joined HNTB as an ITS engineer in Tampa. He has more than 11 years of experience in transportation engineering, focusing on intelligent transportation and electronic toll collection systems. He will be providing engineering and construction services for most projects involving electronics as a component to civil engineering.
Michael Vermillion has joined as an engineer in the transportation department in HNTB’s Tampa office. Vermillion has more than four years of engineering experience, several years which were with the Florida Department of Community Affairs.
The Central Florida Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties elected its 2007 officers and board of directors, as follows: president and state board representative, Moses Salcido, senior development manager, Panattoni Development Co.; president-elect and state board representative, Terry Delahunty, partner, Foley & Lardner; vice president, Jeff K. McFadden, managing partner, Taurus Southern Investments; treasurer, John Tomlinson, senior vice president, Wells Fargo Bank; secretary, Mary Hurley, real estate and leasing manager, Pineloch Management Corp.; immediate past-president, Dan Woodward, senior vice president, Highwoods Properties.
Board members include: Scott Bell, senior vice president, Carter & Associates; Sandy Chace, vice president of leasing, Colonial Properties Trust; Alex Dobrev, attorney, Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed; Anthony Fiorillo, president, ECS-Florida; Doug Irmscher, senior vice president, Duke Realty Corp.; Greg Morrison, executive director, GVA Advantis; Craig Polejes, president, Florida Bank of Commerce; Charlie Sloan, executive vice president of business development, Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission; Ann Sonntag, publisher, Orlando Business Journal; Jeff Sweeney, president and managing director, Grubb & Ellis/Commercial Florida; Michael Wilde, attorney, Baker & Hostetler; and Sandy Winkler, director of marketing, HuntonBrady Architects.
Ex-officio board members are Mike Beale, senior vice president, Highwoods Properties, and David Patten, principal, Commercial Mortgage Advisors.
State board representatives include Arnold Gibbs, vice president of business development, Terracon Consultants; Rene Schneider, site development manager, Mactec Engineering & Consulting; and Alan Sheppard Jr. of counsel, Greenberg Traurig.
Jacques Combault, technical director at Finley Engineering Group in Tallahassee, Fla., was elected to head the International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineers. He will serve as president of the group from November 2007 through October 2010. The IABSE is a scientific/technical association with 3,900 members in 100 countries. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Russell Ash has joined Little’s Land Development Services Studio, allowing the Charlotte, N.C.-based firm to offer extended site development consulting services.
Ash has almost 20 years of experience and will assist clients with early evaluation of their real estate opportunities, including regulatory/code entitlements, physical and in some cases, market analysis of a property. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
GreenbergFarrow, a national architectural, engineering, planning and development consulting firm, has tapped Rodney E. Abney Jr. as associate principal.
Abney, who will be based in Atlanta, will play a leadership role and promote expansion of the firm’s civil engineering practice on the East Coast, overseeing the civil engineering practice in the New Jersey, Boston, New York and St. Petersburg, Fla., offices. He will also serve as GreenbergFarrow’s liaison with Wal-Mart.
Before joining GreenbergFarrow, Abney served as division leader for the eastern United States for a nationally prominent civil engineering design firm with more than 250 employees.
Consulting firm Stantec has hired land planner Vivian Roe to join its Sarasota, Fla., office. As part of the firm’s planning and landscape architecture division, Roe will serve as a senior planner involved in a variety of planning projects.
Roe comes to Stantec from Heidt & Associates in Sarasota, where she was a senior planner. She also worked for Sarasota County’s planning department for 10 years.
Nathan Butler, with C.T. Hsu + Associates of Orlando, was elected vice chairman of the Central Florida Builders Exchange.
The Central Florida Builders Exchange is a member-owned, nonprofit association whose purpose is to provide information, access to plans/specifications and services for the local construction industry.
Robert C. Mercer has joined Rodgers Builders in Charlotte, N.C., as a preconstruction project manager. He has more than 30 years of construction experience.
South Florida-based Altman Development Corp. has announced the appointment of Dwayne Walker as regional partner/C.O.O. of Altman Development Corp. of Central Florida.
The firm also appointed Kurt Kehoe as senior vice president of Altman Development Corp. of Central Florida.
Kehoe’s primary responsibility will be to create a business plan for Altman’s transition into affordable rental housing in Florida and other Gulf Coast states.
Palmer Electric Co. of Winter Park, Fla., has hired Robert E. Kissick as director of preconstruction services. Kissick joins Palmer’s commercial estimating and business development department. He has more than 24 years of experience in the areas of business development, estimating and sales for electrical contracting.
Carl R. Stephens was named environmental services manager for the Orlando branch of Ardaman & Associates, a geotechnical and environmental engineering practice. He has worked on environmental projects at Ardaman & Associates for more than 16 years.
Leggette, Brashears & Graham, a professional ground-water and environmental engineering services firm, has named Jeffrey Trommer as a senior associate.
Trommer operates out of LBG’s Tampa office. He has 20 years of experience in hydrogeologic investigations, specializing in water supply development, water use permitting, injection well permitting, ground-water modeling and regional ground-water resource evaluations and wastewater disposal evaluations.
Hoar Construction announced the appointment of Michael Parks to Florida division manager. He was previously in charge of Hoar’s health-care work in Florida.
He will now be responsible for the management and operations of Hoar’s entire Florida division.
Michael E. Long, Devin P. Yohe and Joshua W. Gazaway, all mechanical engineering students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have joined Newcomb & Boyd as co-ops in the Consulting Engineering Group.
Jeff Peal, president of Architecture 6400 of Fort Lauderdale announced that Christopher Miller has been named an associate of the firm.
Miller, who joined the Fort Lauderdale-based architecture and planning firm in 1996, was recently a project manager.
Robert Blakeslee has joined the interior design department of Baker Barrios Architects in Orlando as interior design studio director.
Rajendra N. Shah has joined Mainstream Construction Group of Altamonte Springs, Fla., in the newly created position of architectural design manager. Shah’s design career spans more than 25 years.
Shah will lead Mainstream Construction Group’s architectural department.
Jeffery T. Whitley has been hired as a project manager at Tecbuild Inc. of Altamonte Springs, Fla., a licensed general contracting company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Emerson International.
Whitley is responsible for the supervision and coordination of commercial construction field activities for Emerson Plaza Two and CenterPointe On The Park Three.
Newcomb & Boyd of Atlanta announced the following additions: Marlena A. Fontenot has joined the accounting department.
Also, Silas Khor has joined the consulting engineering group as an electrical engineer, and Donald L. Walker has joined the special technologies group as a communications engineer and an associate.
MSCW, an Orlando-based planning, design and civil engineering firm, has promoted Curtis Ostrodka to senior community planner.
In his new role, Ostrodka will be responsible for establishing development entitlements for both small and large-scale projects throughout central and northern Florida.
Don Owen has been promoted to vice president of operations and Joshua Feldman to director of project development at Roepnack Corp. of Pompano Beach, Fla.
Previously project manager, Owen joined Roepnack in 2005 and has more than 20 years experience in the commercial construction industry.
Before joining Roepnack, Feldman worked as president of Palm Beach Inspection and Construction Services.
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