Reuter Joins PB Americas

Former head of N.Y.C. Transit joins PB's New York office. Also, Skanska hires new health and safety director.

NEW HIRES

Lawrence Reuter, who most recently was president of New York City Transit, has been named a senior vice president of PB Americas, an infrastructure consulting, engineering, planning, and construction management organization. In addition, PB has also named Bernard McNeilly as regional business manager for the Princeton and Philadelphia offices, where he will oversee the New Jersey market.

Ted Xenakis has been appointed to the position of director of claims for Bovis Lend Lease, a construction management and contracting firm based in New York.

Hendrick van Brenk has been named corporate senior vice president of health, safety, and environmental programs for Skanska USA Building, a construction consulting and contracting firm based in Parsippany, N.J.

Jeffrey Rosenstein has joined the New York office of Winston & Strawn, a commercial law firm, as a partner focused on construction law, while Kenneth O'Reilly has joined as an associate on construction law matters.

Simeon Seigel has been hired as an associate at New York-based Turett Collaborative Architects.

Robert DeGiorgio has joined Dvirka and Bartilucci Consulting Engineers of Woodbury, N.Y., as senior project director. In addition, Thomas Kelleher was hired as senior environmental engineer, Karen Magnuson as senior environmental scientist, and Jeff Carter and Meredith Walsh as environmental scientists. Other new hires at the firm include Steven Patak as engineer; Ruben Berrios as environmental engineer; Richard Crimmins as project engineer; and Scott Nelson and Jessica Levinson as engineers in the wastewater division.

David Althaver has joined Chas H. Sells Inc., a design firm based in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., as project engineer and manager of the firm's new office in Newark.

PROMOTIONS

Wing-Pin "Winnie" Kwan, Onur Gulec, and Adrian Parkinson all have been promoted to senior associate at Leslie E. Robertson Associates, a New York-based engineering firm. In addition, Murat Baykal and Matthew Melrose have been promoted to associate and Minshasa Peterson has been promoted to marketing director.

David Jaffoni of SBLM Architects, an architectural firm based in New York, has been promoted to associate.

Michael Marchand, Daniel Sullivan, Harold Ferrer, Blaise Ferrara, Vance DiGiovanni, and Anthony Tigri have been promoted to principal at Americon Construction, a New York-based construction manager.

Nadia Biski and Paul Greenwood have been made partners, and Khoon-Ying Tay promoted to associate, at Brennan Beer Gorman Monk Interiors, an architecture and interior design firm based in New York. In addition, Don Lasker, Eric Ohr, and Guy Thornton have been promoted to senior associate, and Scott Barton and Eric Seymour promoted to associate, at the affiliated Brennan Beer Gorman Architects.

David Carpenter has been promoted to associate principal and director of development for Meltzer/Mandl Architects, an architecture firm based in New York. In addition, David Stuart was promoted to associate at the firm.

Christopher Daddi, James Floystrop III, Thomas Fredricks, Miquel Gavino, and Dennis Reip have all been promoted to associate in various regional offices at Dewberry, an engineering firm based in Fairfax, Va. Daddi is in New Haven; Floystrop in Parsippany, N.J.; Fredricks in New York; and Gavino in Bloomfield, N.J.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Joseph Sitt, a New York developer, and New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. have received the New York Inner City Economic Leadership Award, presented by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, for their work promoting economic revitalization in New York City's low-income communities.

Louis Coletti, president of the Building Trades Employers' Association, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of Construction Skills 2000.

Blake Middleton, partner at New York-based Handel Architects, was inducted to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, which honors significant contributions to the profession. The designation elevates members with AIA status to FAIA.

Maureen Henegan, CEO of New York's Henegan Construction, was honored by Girls Inc. at its New York Celebration Luncheon for inspiring young girls to achieve their goals through her daily example.

COMPANY NEWS

Jacobs Engineering Group of Pasadena, Calif., has announced it plans to acquire Edwards and Kelcey of Morristown, N.J., a transportation and civil engineering firm.

Collins Engineering, a civil and structural engineering firm based in Chicago, has opened a new office in Rochester.

Cooper Electric Supply of Tinton Falls, N.J., will be opening a new regional distribution center for electrical products and wire cutting in Canarsie, N.Y., to service the five boroughs of New York City as well as Long Island and Upstate New York.

The Breckstone Group, an architectural firm based in Wilmington, Del., has merged with Vollmer Associates, an engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and survey firm based in New York.

Westminster Communities, a diversified homebuilder based in Florham Park, N.J., won three Fabulous Achievements in Marketing Excellence awards from the Shore Builders Association of Central New Jersey. The properties honored were the Landings at HarborSide in Perth Amboy, Waterford at East Brunswick, and Wesley Grove at Asbury Park.

Richter + Ratner, a construction manager, has relocated to Midtown Manhattan after 46 years in the Maspeth area of Queens.