Skanska USA Civil Names New Regional VPs

NEW HIRES

Steve Giordano PE, LEED AP, has joined Lilker Associates as associate principal, director of sustainable design in the Long Island office.

Top Left-Steve Giordano; Top Right-Erin Van Benthem and Above-Joseph Montalbano

Langan Engineering & Environmental Services of Elmwood Park, New Jersey has hired Brian Blum, CPG; Chris Cardany PE, LEED AP; Brian Conlon, PE; Mark Devaney; Paul Fisher, LS; Gerard Fitamant, PE; Tarek Khouri, CEM, PE; Eric Schwarz, PE, LEED AP; and Vincent Yarina, PG, CEM as their nine new associates.

Erin M. Van Benthem has been hired as Director of Client Relations in the New York City headquarters by The Paramount Painting Company.

Jennifer Freeman has joined Skanska USA Building Inc.’s New York office as Project Executive.

Joseph Montalbano, AIA, LEED AP, has been hired by Mancini-Duffy of New York City as a senior associate.

F.L. Andrew Padian has joined The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC), a non-profit affordable housing lender as vice president for energy inititatives.

Top Left-Andrew Padian; Top Right- Henry Abernathy and Above-Harold Kaye

Ammann & Whitney of New York City has hired Henry Abernathy as vice president and chief architect.

Harold Kaye has joined Crystal Window & Door Systems senior vice president of business development.

PROMOTIONS

Bruce Eisenberg and Paul Sacco have been promoted to vice president of STV, and Molly MacQueen has been promoted to vice president and national manager of environmental planning services in STV’s Transportation and Infrastructure Division.

KSS Architects of Princeton, New Jersey has promoted Merilee Meacock and Scot Murdoch to the position of principal, and Andrew Tucker to director of sustainable design.

Michael Cobelli has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Skanska USA Civil Northeast, Sal Taddeo has been promoted to Executive Vice President for Skanska USA Civil Southeast, and Ali Catik has been promoted to Executive Vice President for Skanska USA Civil West.

Mackenzie Keck Construction, Inc. has promoted John V. Sotir to senior vice president of operations.

Architecture firms BBG-BBGM has promoted Roderick A. Petschauer and Ronda McCrea to principal.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Michael Lantier and Nikolas C. Nemick, P.E of H2M have earned the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional (AP) status.

Left-Michael Lantier and Right-Nikolas C. Nemick

Danny Tanzi, Saverio J. Belfiore, and Eric W. Maisch of H2M have passed the New York Registered Architects exam and are now licensed architects.

Ashraf Abdulbaqi, Kevin Bowen, Justin Chan, Paul Cocuzza, Tom Driscoll, Frank Falciani, Aaron Gillespie, Amanda Gillespie, Mike Gross, Bradley Harris, Peter Hoer, Thomas Hyland, Michael Kalafut, Andy Keglovitz, Ed Kosinski, Joe Krizan, Jim Levey, Mike Marullo, Shane Messner, Mark Minchak, Angela Moulton, Stacy Nevins, Brent Nickles, Paul Nylund, Steve Potaki, William Rubio, Sean Savio, Robert Stone, Angelo Tsai, Maikell Vilanova and Al Weiss of Skanska USA Building Inc.’s New Jersey office became LEED Accredited Professionals.

Top Left-Merilee Meacock; Top Right-Scot Murdoch; Bottom Left-Andrew Tucker; and Bottom Right-Wolz

Michael Wolz of Del-Sano Contracting Corp. has earned a LEED Accreditation.

COMPANY NEWS

VHB Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture, P.C. of Hauppauge, New York recently announced the opening of its Manhattan office at 1040 Avenue of the Americas. The office will be staffed to provide the Port Authority with on-call services as part of VHB’s current assignments at Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Stewart International Airport. The Manhattan office will be managed by Peter Byrne.

Strong Man Building Products Corp. has recently moved to a new location at 240 West Parkway Pompton Plains, New Jersey.

Dagher Engineering, an engineering design firm based in New York City has received the American Council of Engineering Companies’ New York (ACEC-NY) Diamond Award, ACEC-NY’s top award for the category of Building and Technology Systems for engineering excellence for the design of a compressor-free geothermal cooling system at the e-House in upstate New York.