Kolluri Appointed to SDA

NJDOT Commissioner signs on as SDA CEO. Also, Stantec engineer recognized by Institute of Transportation Engineers.

NEW HIRES:

STV Inc., a planning, design and construction management firm, has hired Bruce Eisenberg as associate and director of the Buildings and Facilities’ New York Architecture Studio, and Thomas Anderson as senior vice president, manager of projects, in the eastern region.

Kenneth Petersen has joined the New York office of consulting engineering firm Pennoni Associates as a senior engineer in the MEP division.

Michael Keffer has been hired as department manager in the Civil Engineering Department at H2M, an engineering, architectural and laboratory analysis firm in New York and New Jersey.

Eric Fang has rejoined Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects as associate principal in the New York office.

Einhorn Yaffee Prescott, Architecture & Engineering, P.C. has hired Bradley Horst as its new corporate chief information officer.

PROMOTIONS

Chris Christoforou and Anjana Kadakia have been promoted to senior vice president/principal in the Newark, N.J. office of the international engineering and design firm Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.

Bernard McNeilly has been named general manager of the Northeast Region Transportation Division at Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global infrastructure, strategic consulting, engineering and program/construction management organization.

Eugene Flotteron has been promoted to senior vice president of Project Development at Swig Equities, LLC, a real estate development, investment and management firm based in New York.

HONORS/APPOINTMENTS

NJDOT Commissioner Kris Kolluri has been appointed as CEO of the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.

Peter Yu, president of YU & Associates, Inc, a New Jersey-based geotechnical, site/civil and environmental engineering firm, is the recipient of the 2008 New Jersey Chinese-American Chamber of Commerce’s Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship Award.

Peter Claman of SLCE Architects in New York, recently received the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award for his philanthropic support and community service.

Karl Rubenacker of New York firm Stantec has been recognized as a “Life Member” by the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

COMPANY NEWS

Interior contracting firm The Donaldson Organization in New York has launched a new website: www.donaldsonorganization.com.

Mackenzie Keck Construction, Inc., a general contracting, construction management and consulting services firm, has opened its new headquarters at 301 Round Hill Drive in Rockaway, N.J.

MBI Group, a general contracting and construction management firm in New York, has been certified as a Minority Owned Business Enterprise by the New York State Division of Minority and Women-Owned Business Development.

SMWM, an architecture, urban design and planning firm in New York, has merged with Perkins+Will, a global design firm with offices in New York.