Pelli Reorganizes and Names New Principals

The global architecture practice based in New Haven adds six new principals. Also, Frank McArdle leaves the General Contractors Association and is named to a national transportation panel.

NEW HIRES

Bradley Bowman has been hired as vice president of project management at Cappelli Enterprises, a real estate developer and general contracting company based in Valhalla, N.Y.

Andrew Kapp has joined PMA Consultants, a project management consulting firm based in Detroit, as a senior principal in its New York and New Jersey office locations.

Alan Gershowitz has joined Thacher Associates, a New York-based risk management, construction fraud prevention, and business intelligence firm, as chief operating officer and executive managing director.

Stephen Gauthier has joined the Rochester, N.Y., office of Dewberry, a management and planning firm based in Fairfax, Va., as manager of the structures department.

Andrew Weglinski has joined the design team of M.J. Macaluso & Associates Architects in New York.

Meredith Berman Lovejoy has been appointed marketing director at Inspection Valuation International, a construction consultant firm based in White Plains, N.Y.

Peter Belden Trieb has been hired as a project manager focusing on close-range photogrammetry and geomatic services in the federal market division of TVGA Consultants, an engineering firm based in Elma, N.Y.

LeAnn Shelton has joined New York-based Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects as an associate principal.

The Thomas Group, an engineering and architectural firm based in Ithaca, N.Y., has hired: Frederick Blee as electrical designer; James Green as an HVAC mechanical engineer; James Stephenson as a landscape architect; Jackie Beebe as general secretary; and Jamie Corts as an intern architect.

PROMOTIONS

William Butler, Mitchell Hirsch, Gregg Jones, Mariko Masuoka, Lawrence Ng, and Mark Shoemaker have been appointed principals at the recently renamed Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, which is based in New Haven, Conn. The firm was formerly known as Cesar Pelli & Associates.

David Ball has succeeded firm founder Robert Landino as president of BL Cos., an architectural, engineering, and planning firm based in Meriden, Conn. Landino will remain CEO and chairman of the board.

Pamela Gibbons-Mahler has been promoted to senior associate in the Albany office of Cannon Design, an architectural and planning firm based in Buffalo, N.Y. Robert March and Dennis Rigosu have been promoted to associate.

S/L/A/M Collaborative, an architectural, engineering, and planning firm based in Glastonbury, Conn., has promoted Roderick Bouchard, Jr., Daniel Granniss, Peter Griem, Frederick Saehrig, Jr., and William Stelten to associate.

Lou Tortora has been promoted to Northeast district manager for Earth Tech, a Long Beach, Calif., firm that provides consulting, engineering, and construction services.

Michael Quinn has been promoted to safety director of Slattery Skanska, a New York-based contractor. Claire Hyde has assumed Quinn's previous post as safety director of Gottlieb Skanska, an affiliate also based in New York.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Frank McArdle has been appointed by the U.S. House of Representatives to serve on the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, which will determine the nation's future transportation needs. He left his post as managing director of the General Contractors Association of New York in November.

Edward Johnston III, a broker at Brown Harris Stevens, a New York-based real estate company, has been named Most Promising Rookie Salesperson for residential real estate for 2005 by the Real Estate Board of New York.

William Goldstein, president and CEO of the New York City School Construction Authority, and Michael Gabbay, senior vice president of Plaza Construction, a New York-based general contractor, have received the Good Scout Award from Camp Builders, a program established by New York contractors to send children from the New York City Scouts organization to attend summer camp.

Howard Blitman, president of Blitman Building, a commercial building company based in Mount Kisco, N.Y., was named an adjunct member of the board of trustees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., from which he graduated in 1950.