Construction Practice Arm Launched at New York Firm.

Duane Morris LLP adds 19 lawyers to new construction group. Also, new COO at CetraRuddy.

NEW HIRES:

Jeffrey Kaye has joined New York real estate firm the Gotham Organization as vice president of development.

Engineering firm WSP Flack + Kurtz New York has rehired Daniel Nall as senior vice president and director of Sustainability.

Michael Wadman has joined Phipps Houses, an affordable housing developer in New York, as vice president of Real Estate Development.

Paul Gratzel has been hired as chief operating officer for New York-based architecture and interiors firm, CetraRuddy.

Butler Rogers Baskett Architects of New York has hired Al D’Elia as partner.

Jeffrey Kaye	Al D’Elia

PROMOTIONS

Eugene Flotteron

Turner Construction Company in New York has elevated Michael Deane to vice president and chief sustainability officer.

Eugene Flotteron has been promoted to senior vice president of project development at New York real estate firm Swig Equities, LLC.

Louis Hedgecock has been promoted to managing partner in New York at BBG-BBGM, an international architectural and interior design firm.

Jason Paszkewicz has been elevated to senior operations manager at R. Baker & Son All Industrial Services, a rigging and demolition contractor in Red Bank, N.J.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Steven Pressler, executive vice president and area general manager of Skanska USA Building Inc. in New York has won the ORT America Community Achievement Award.

Ronald Wilkinson

Thomas Misciagna, assistant business manager for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 164 and president of the Bergen County Building & Construction Trades Council, was honored by the Boys & Girls Club of Paterson and Passaic in New Jersey with a Service to Youth Award.

COMPANY NEWS

The Spector Group, a New York architecture and design firm, received 2008 ARCHI Awards for three of its projects—the Bucharest Medical Center in Romania, Mason Capital Management in New York City and its own Woodbury, Long Island office.

H2M, an architectural, engineering, planning and laboratory analysis firm, has received the American Institute of Architecture Long Island Chapter’s 2008 ARCHI Award for Excellence in Architecture Design for work on the New Jericho Fire Department Headquarters.

Duane Morris LLP has recently added a 19-lawyer construction practice to its New York office.

Jarro Building Industries Corp. has received two awards from the Long Island Builders Institute for work on the Willow Pet Hotel in Deer Park, N.Y. and a private residence in Commack, N.Y.