Industry publication, December 2001

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Raymond J. Milchovich has been named Pasadena, Calif.-based Parsons Corp. Samuel D. Palmer has joined Terra­ president, CEO and chairman of the has named Mike Neumann as vice presi- con, a consultant engineer based in board of directors of Foster Wheeler dent and office manag- Lenexa, Kan., as vice president-division Ltd., the Hamilton, Bermuda-based par- er for Parsons Engi- manager to lead the company’s new ent of Foster Wheeler Corp., with opera- neering Science Inc. ’s southwest division. Based in Las Vegas, tional headquarters in Clinton, N.J. The environmental-engi- Palmer will be responsible for operations firm offers design, engineering, con- neering division. He in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and struction, manufacturing as well as pro- will manage the daily California. Most recently. Palmer served ject development and management ser- operations for the St. as regional manager at Kleinfelder in Las vices. He succeeds Richard J. Swift, who Louis office in addition Vegas. ■i has retired. Previously, Milchovich to federal business de- Neumann served as chairman, president and CEO velopment with respon- HNTB Corp., an international architec­ of Kaiser Aluminum Corp. sibilities nationally and for the Midwest ture, engineering and planning firm region. Before joining Parsons, he was op- headquarted in Kansas Paul H. Lemley has f"' erations manager forJacobs federal oper- City, Mo., has named joined St. Louis-based ! - \ ! ations’ central region. Hugh P. Caspe as asso- J.S. Alberici Construe- j a i ciate vice president, tion Inc. as senior vice • 5 ; Alexander “Sandy” Ardwin has been national director of tun- president and general i ; promoted to chief operating officer of nel services. He will manager of the Great i I A.P. Construction Co., the Stamford, work out of the Boston Lakes Region office. “ Conn.-based construction management office. Caspe had been Hr He previously worked and general contracting division of The principal and owner of CASPE for Arcadis Giffels, an lemley Ashforth Co. He had been senior vice Caspe Consulting Co. architectural firm, serv- ' president for operations. Prior to that he Inc. for the past three years, and before ing as senior vice president of their busi- served as project director and manager of that led the national tunnels practice for ness unit focused on the tier automotive construction services for O&G Industries Sverdrup Corp. He also is a member of and aerospace suppliers. The firm has in Torrington, Conn. The Moles, a group of individuals en- also announced that Robert “Bob” Fritz gaged in underground construction. has assumed the role of vice president of Emcor Group Inc., a Norwalk, Conn.- labor relations. Formerly assistant vice based firm providing planning, consult- HDR Inc., an engineer, architect and president of labor relations, he replaces ing, mechanical and electrical engineer- project developer based in Omaha, has Jack Barnett, who has retired. Gregory ing and facilities services, has named announced the following executive pro- J. Kozicz has been named president of Gene Martin senior vice president of motions. Wayne Moody has been named RYCO-Alberici Ltd., a Canada-based sub- EMCOR Energy Services Division. Most vice president in the Raleigh, N.C., office. sidiary of the parent company. He had recently, he served as president of Previously, he was transportation section been president of BEC Industrial, a Cana­ Keyspan Energy Management Inc., manager. Melford J. Placflla, a national dian multitrade industrial contractor. Melville, N.Y director of HDR’s design-build transpor­ tation section, has been promoted to vice president He will be based in the Orange, Calif., office. Also, Glenn D. Pearson Obituary moves up to vice president in the Dallas engineering office. He previously partici­ BE&K’S BOLVIG DIES AT AGE 72 pated in the planning, design and con­ struction of engineering projects.

C. PETER BOLVIG, BE&K is headquartered. Starting with James E. Wendle has been promoted the “B” in engi­ just three employees, BE&K now is to a principal at Process Plus, an engi- neering and con­ ranked 25th among ENR’s Top 400 con- neering and design firm based in Cincin- struction giant tractors, with $1.4 biUion in construe- nati, Ohio, that works in chemical, phar- BE&K, has died at tion revenue in 2000. maceutical and food industries He was age 72 following a “In the early days, we pretty much di- project manager. Before that, he was a short illness. vided up ourselves into various areas,” partner with Peoria, lU.-based River City Inl972,Bolvig, says Kennedy. Bolvig handled market- Construction Inc. In his new position, Bill Edmonds and ing, Edmonds engineering and Ken- Wendle will focus on project manage- Ted Kennedy nedy construction. “Peter was very good ment, construction management and formed BE&K to peter bolvig (L) at it,” says Kennedy, now the firm’s business development He is a member of tap what they cor- ~ chairman. “He had nothing to market the Design Build Institute of America. rectly perceived was going to be a except an idea.” booming nonunion industrial con- Bolvig retired as vice president in ----------------------------------------------- struction market At the time, all three 1982, but was the source of “the feeling were vice presidents at Rust Engineer- of care ^d concern for employees Nathaniel. These also can be e-maiied to her ing Co. in Birmingham, Ala., where that continues today, says Kennedy. at [email protected]. Please include col­ or photographs where possible.

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