Davoren Moves up to Top Slot at Turner Corp.

The head of Turner Construction moves up to lead the U.S. parent corporation and will remain in New York. Also, Tishman announces several senior-level promotions and Lettiere joins Edwards and Kelcey.

NEW HIRES

Jack Lettiere, a former commissioner of the New Jersey State Department of Transportation, has been named a senior vice president in charge of the highways business unit at Edwards and Kelcey, an engineering, design, planning, and construction management firm based in Morristown, N.J.

Nicholas Catalano and Francine O'Brien have been hired as associates by Vollmer Associates, an engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, and planning firm based in New York.

Charles Brass has joined Atlantic Development Group, a real estate development firm in New York, as executive vice president.

Ian Street has been named president of Nautilus Consulting, a construction consulting and dispute resolution firm headquartered in Melville, N.Y.

Erik Ortmann has been named a senior associate at Goldberg & Connolly, a construction law firm based in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

Ron Jones has joined Skanska USA Building, a construction manager based in Parsippany, N.J., as a senior vice president and commercial director of the life sciences group.

Donald Hickey has been hired as senior vice president and director of operations at the cost management systems division of JLS, a New York-based construction consulting firm.

Jee Mee Kim and Amir Siddiqui have been named vice presidents at Sam Schwartz Engineering, a transportation engineering and planning services firm in New York.

David Cone-Gorham has been hired as New York regional director for Construction Recruiters, a Boston-based boutique executive search and consulting firm.

Walter Kraft has been hired as executive technical director at Eng-Wong, Taub & Associates, a transportation engineering and traffic planning firm in Newark, N.J.

PROMOTIONS

Peter Davoren will become chairman and CEO of Turner Corp., adding to his current positions as president of the corporation and CEO of New York-based Turner Construction. He is succeeding Thomas Leppert, who worked from Dallas. Davoren will remain in New York.

Ed Cettina, Bill Endres, Jeff Levy, and Bill Stanton have all been promoted to executive vice president at New York-based Tishman Construction. Cettina and Levy focus on construction, while Endres heads the estimating team and Stanton oversees the purchasing unit.

Jim Gray has been appointed managing director of construction at the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York in Albany, where he succeeds Doug Van Vleck, who retired.

Pablo Lopez has been promoted to associate at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, a foundation engineering firm based in New York.

Christopher Balbach has been promoted to mechanical engineer by the Thomas Group, a design and engineering firm based in Ithaca, N.Y.

Todd Korren has been promoted to senior vice president and director of commercial leasing and operations at Swig Equities, a commercial and residential real estate development and management firm based in New York.

Bill Cahill and Will Telesca both have been promoted to vice president positions at RCDolner, a general contracting and construction management firm in New York.

Peter DeMallie, has been named CEO of Design Professionals, an engineering and land surveying company based in South Windsor, Conn. In addition, Galen Semprebon has been promoted to principal, executive vice president, and COO, while Lawrence Geissler Jr. has been appointed director of surveying.

Pat Philipson, Marqus White, and Rachel Tiger have been promoted to manager at Sax Macy Fromm & Co., a construction accounting and consulting firm based in Clifton, N.J. The firm also promoted Jill Bizik and Heather Lorenzo to supervisor; Josh Chananie, Jason Garodnick, and Elizabeth Potoczak to senior associate; and Jason Borofsky, Jodi Brown, Nick Morrello, Krupa Naik, John Vacca, and Nick Scrivanich to associate.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Frederick Cohen, a partner at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner of New York, has been appointed chair of the construction law committee of the New York City Bar Association.

Aine Brazil, managing principal of New York-based Thornton Tomasetti, has been named Woman of the Year by WX-New York, Women Executives in Real Estate.

Robert Frankel, senior managing director at New York-based GVA Williams, has received the John M. Griffen Community Service Award from the Real Estate Board of New York.

Richard Hayden, managing partner of Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, a New York-based design firm, has received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations.

Merrie Frankel, a senior credit officer and vice president in the real estate finance group at Moody's Investors Service in New York, has been appointed to chair the Urban Land Institute's New York District Council.

Andrew Leung, a partner at Yu & Associates of Elmwood Park, N.J., has been named one of the 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business of 2006 by the Asian American Business Development Center.

Chuck Tabone, a principal of Newmark Knight Frank of New York, has been named Outstanding Business and Real Estate Leader by the Route 110 Redevelopment Corp.

Terrence O'Neal, president of the American Institute of Architects New York State and principal of Terrence O'Neal Architect of New York, has received the Architecture as Public Policy Citation from the AIA New York Chapter.

Frank Huber, senior technical specialist at Edwards and Kelcey of Morristown, N.J., has received the 2006 Utility Outstanding Achievement Award from the Federal Highway Administration.

John Sorrenti, principal of JRS Architect in Mineola, N.Y., has been named to the professional development committee of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

COMPANY NEWS

Milo Kleinberg Design Associates, a corporate space planning and interior design firm based in New York, has opened its first design office in Stamford, Conn.

KSS Architects, a Newark, N.J., design firm specializing in educational institutions, government facilities, industrial spaces, and corporate interiors, has been awarded the Smart Growth Award by New Jersey Future, a statewide research and policy group, in recognition of the firm's partnership with New Jersey City University in Jersey City.

Studley, a New York-based commercial real estate services firm specializing in tenant representation, recently acquired a substantial interest in AOS, a Paris-based tenant services provider. It will operate abroad as AOS/Studley.

The Morganti Group of Danbury, Conn., has acquired E & F Walsh Building of New York from its parent firm, Klewin Building of Norwich, Conn. The Walsh office will operate as Morganti New York and keep Stephen Walsh as regional operations manager for the unit.