S/L/A/M Collaborative Names New Leadership

McManus stays as chairman. Also, Corzine appoints new Port Authority deputy director.

NEW HIRES

Robert Bornholdt has joined Sidney B. Browne & Son, an architectural, engineering, and surveying firm in Mineola, N.Y., as director of traffic and engineering. Bornholdt had previously served as director of traffic safety for the Suffolk County Department of Public Works.

Susan Bass Levin has been appointed deputy director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey by Gov. Jon Corzine of New Jersey. She most recently served as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.

Nisan Gertz has been named vice president at New York-based Jones Lang LaSalle in the project and development services group.

Paul Qvale has joined Gale Real Estate Services, a subsidiary of Mack-Cali Realty of Roseland, N.J., as vice president of development.

Jeffrey Stern has been hired as vice president of the high-rise division at New York-based IBEX Construction. The firm also hired Peter Ouellette as superintendent, where he oversees work on the reconstruction of the retail section of Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel. IBEX also promoted Anthony Calicchio to director of operations in New York.

Andreas Rothe has been named senior vice president at PB, a New York-based infrastructure consultant, engineer, and construction manager.

Marlene Lindhardt has joined Dewberry, a civil, structural, and construction engineering and inspection firm based in Fairfax, Va., as assistant business unit manager of the company’s Parsippany, N.J., office.

Michael Flaherty, Robert Dettore, and John McCullough have been hired as vice presidents of STV Inc.’s national construction management division in New York. Flaherty will serve as director of construction, Dettore as deputy project executive, and McCullough as northeast regional manager of the division. The firm also hired Beatrice Hunt as principal hydraulic engineer and promoted Robert Grimm to manager of STV’s Newark office.

Marea Parker has joined UrbanAmerica LP, a New York-based urban revitalization investment adviser, as assistant deputy counsel.

Peter Gross has been named a principal at New York-based Swanke Hayden Connell Architects. The firm also promoted John Jappen to principal.

Joan Gerner has been hired as executive vice president for design, construction, and capital planning by the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, which is building the World Trade Center memorial, museum, and pavilion in Manhattan in conjunction with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She replaces William Goldstein, who assumed the position in 2006.

Kelley Johnson has been named the new manager of business development for the Northeast region of Morrison Hershfield, an architectural and engineering consultant based in Toronto. Johnson, who is also a board member of the Connecticut Building Congress, will work out of a new office in Newton, Mass.

Robert Ballard has joined Alternity Power, a division of the Conti Group of South Plainfield, N.J., as general manager.

K. Brett Malak has been named director of lighting design for Cosentini Associates, an engineering consultant based in New York, where she will also serve as a liaison between the firm’s lighting design and M-E-P engineering teams.

PROMOTIONS

Robert Pulito has been named president and chair of the newly formed executive committee at S/L/A/M Collaborative, an architectural firm based in Glastonbury, Conn. Other members of the new committee are Steven Ansel, Richard Connell, William Karanian, and Mary Jo Olenick. James McManus, who had been CEO, will continue to serve as chairman of the board of directors.

Bob Eslinger, Michael Hawkins, and Steven Mikucki have been promoted to principal associate at New York-based Hardesty & Hanover, a consulting engineer. The firm also promoted Robert Drew, George Foerster, David Marcic, and Eddie Recio to associate.

Joan Saba has been promoted to partner of Seattle-based NBBJ in its New York office, where she is a leader of the firm’s health care practice.

Kenneth Garvin has been promoted to associate at JRS Architect of Mineola, N.Y.

Evan Schwartz, has been promoted to director of design at Meltzer/Mandl Architects, a New York-based residential and hotel architecture firm.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

Karl Rubenacker, a senior principal in the New York office of Stantec, formerly Vollmer Associates, received the 2007 Career Achievement Award from the Engineering School Alumni of the City College of New York.

Tai Wang, co-principal of W.A.C. Lighting, a lighting manufacturer based in Garden City, N.Y., recently received Rotary International’s 2007 Gift of Life International Humanitarian Award. 

Dickie Sykes, president of DGS Consulting LLC, a New York-based consultant for women with small businesses, was honored at Queens College’s 2007 commencement. 

William Lyons III, manager for engineered sales at Eastern Concrete Materials of Elmwood Park, N.J., and president of the Concrete Industry Board of New York, has been named a fellow in the American Concrete Institute.

COMPANY NEWS

RailWorks Corp. of New York has announced that it was acquired by Wind Point Partners, a private equity investment firm, in partnership with its management team.

Kismet Construction, a New York-based contracting company, has been granted certification as a woman-owned business enterprise by both the Empire State Development Corporation and the New York City Department of Small Business Services.

Skanska USA Building of Parsippany, N.J., received its second Voluntary Protection Program Star site award from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration for a construction project it is managing for Schering-Plough in Summit, N.J.

Boymelgreen Developers, a New York-based real estate development firm, was honored with an Excellence in Preservation award from the Preservation League of New York State for River Lofts, a condominium complex in Manhattan’s Tribeca district.

EMCOR Services-New England Mechanical was recently recognized by the municipal government of South Windsor, Conn., with the 2007 Public Works Business Partnership Award for its longtime service.