Morris Levy was named chairman of the board of Parson Brincerhoff Inc. A PB employee for 35 years, Levy is a senior vice president and New England district manager for Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas Inc., PB's U.S. infrastructure arm. He has been responsible for a number of the firm's larger projects, including the Central Artery/Tunnel and the North Station Transportation Improvement Project in Boston.

Robert MacPherson was elected to the governing committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry. With 6,000 members, the Forum is the largest organizaton of construction attorneys in the world. MacPherson has practiced construction law with Postner & Rubin of New York City and Holmdel, New Jersey since 1982. He is also an arbitrator and mediator of construction disputes and teaches alternative dispute resolution at Rutgers Law School in Newark, N.J.

Lloyd Good was named executive vice president and head of Plaza Construction Co.'s interior's division. He will join Plaza Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steven Fisher and President Richard Wood on the firm's management advisory committee. In a related move, Peter Hulbert was moved to managing director of the firm's sales and marketing division; he was formerly executive vice president of interiors.

Jack Kocsis of Pohatcong Township, N.J. was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the New Jersey Schools Construction Corp. by New Jersey Governor James McGreevey. Kocsis is executive director of the Building Contractors Association of New Jersey and a member of the New Jersey State Building and Construction Trades Labor Management Council. Under the state's Educational Facilities and Construction Financing Act, the SCC is responsible for construction and renovation projects in all the state's school districts that receive 55 percent or more in state funding for education. New Jersey is committed to investing $8.6 billion on schools construction over the next decade.

Michael Fleischer of East Greenbush, N.Y. was confirmed by the board of directors of the New York State Thruway Authority and Canal Corp. as executive director of the two agencies. Fleischer comes to the post after serving as first deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation, where he oversaw the department's $1.65 billion highway and bridge program. He takes over from John Platt, who resigned in early April.

Pamela Jerome, a senior associate with the New York City architectural firm of Wank Adams Slavin Associates LLP, was elected to the board of the U.S. committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites. The organization works to identify and monitor what it calls "World Heritage" sites all over the globe. Jerome also teaches at Columbia University' Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

There have been a number of recent promotions at STV Group Inc. David Miles Ziskind was named senior vice president of STV Inc, a subsidiary of STV Group. He will be responsible for the management and growth of the firm's Northeast Region. At the same time, Alfred Klein was also promoted to senior vice president and will be in charge of the technical and administrative management of the firm's New York City office's facilities department. Meanwhile, five senior associates have been moved up the to vice president level. They are: Donald Currie, Kishor Doshi, Thomas Mellett, Scott McIntyre and Joseph Lucca.

There have also been some big changes at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. Founding partners Hugh Hardy and Malcolm Holzman have been joined by three new partners: Douglas Moss, Stephen Johnson and Jean Marie Gath. Moss, who at 36 is the firm's youngest partner, has been leading the New York City office. The architecture, interior design and planning firm also added four new principals: William Murray, David Saviola, Sharon Lasoff and Stephen Epstein.

Schoor DePalma has also made a number of recent moves. Edward Sawicki has become a principal of the Manalapan, N.J.-based engineering firm. He will be responsible for preparing gas and electric utility construction plans and specifications. At the same time, Peter Nese joined the firm as executive vice president and director of Schoor DePalma's water resources division.