New President for Lower Manhattan Development Corp.

The LMDC has a new top executive to replace Kevin Rampe. Meanwhile, Turner and Sciame announce several promotions of construction executives at offices in the New York region.

Stefan Pryor was appointed president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., replacing Kevin Rampe, the agency's former chief executive who resigned to join Ace Ltd., an insurance firm. Pryor was the first employee of the LMDC, created in November 2001, and was most recently senior vice president for policy and programs.

Emil Frankel, a former assistant secretary for transportation policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation and commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, has taken a post as a principal consultant with PB Consult, a unit of New York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff, an engineering and program management firm.

Maria Lehman has been hired as a vice president in the Buffalo, N.Y., office of San Francisco-based URS, a design and construction management firm, where she will serve as the head of regional, state, and local business lines.

Joel Ettinger has been selected as the new executive director for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council.

John Garofalo has taken a post in New York as national business development director for the dispute avoidance and resolution practice of PinnacleOne, a construction consulting company based in Phoenix.

Vincent DeNave and Richard Moody have joined T&M Associates of Middletown, N.J., a consulting and engineering firm. DeNave is manager of local government services and Moody is supervising engineer.

Richard De Marco has taken a post as a principal at Montroy Andersen, a New York architectural and interior design firm.

James Finnell has been hired as a senior project manager in the Rochester, N.Y., office of TVGA Consultants, an engineering, surveying, and environmental services firm based in Buffalo, N.Y.

John Abili has been hired as an associate in the construction practice group at Goldberg & Connolly, a law firm based in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

Elizabeth O'Rourke has been named marketing director of New York-based Warren & Panzer Engineers.

Cynthia Phifer Kracauer has joined New York-based Butler Rogers Baskett as a partner. The architectural firm also announced the promotions of Karen Anne Boyd to partner, Andon George, Barbara Zieve, and Chris McCagg to associate partner, and Danny Maghuyop, Tony Panza, Nick Polito, Thor Thors, Michael Tonra, and Ritu Vij to associate.

Turner Construction, a New York-based construction company, has promoted Charles Buuck to senior vice president overseeing Connecticut and Boston operations, Harvey "Rusty" Hirst to vice president and general manager in Connecticut, Charles Murphy to vice president and general manager in New York, and Thomas Reilly to vice president and general manager in New Jersey.

F.J. Sciame Construction, a New York-based construction manager, has promoted James Kilkenny, Joseph Mizzi, Michael Porcelli, and Ralph Thompson to executive vice president and Lawrence Best, Steven Colletta, Mark Gaccione, Michael Gordon, and Mark Panoff to project executive.

Jane Chmielinski has been promoted to chief operating officer of New York-based DMJM Harris, an architecture and engineering firm.

Jeffrey Drucker has been promoted to associate principal of New York-based Magnusson Architecture and Planning.

Neil MacDonald has been named a partner at William F. Collins, an architectural firm based in Setauket, N.Y.

Acting Gov. Richard Codey appointed Alfred Koeppe chairman of the board of the New Jersey School Construction Corp. and Lawrence Downes and R. Edwin Selover as new board members. Koeppe replaces Jack Kocsis, who remains on the board.

The Demonstrative Evidence Specialists Association has elected Ed Josiah of Greyhawk North America - a construction management company in Woodbury, N.Y. - as its president.

William Sandholm, a New York-based engineer, has been named the Alumnus of the Year by the Cooper Union Alumni Association.

Thomas O'Neill, the chairman and CEO of New York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff, has been named the 2005 recipient of the Marco Polo Award bestowed by the Chinese government to foreign business leaders who promote economic development in China. In addition, William Smith, president of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, was named the 2005 Black Engineer of the Year by the Career Communications Group at its annual awards conference in Baltimore.

Brock Barry of Haley & Aldrich, an environmental and engineering firm based in Rochester, N.Y., has won the Young Engineer of the Year award from the New York State Society of Professional Engineers.