Thornton Tomasetti, Wins ACEC Platinum Award

Firm received award for work on Prudential Center. Also, S/L/A/M expands.

NEW HIRES

Mark Rhoades and Wojciech Harabasz have joined the S/L/A/M Collaborative an architecture firm in Connecticut, Atlanta, Boston and Chicago as architects. Monika Avery and Abi Subramaniam have also been hired as interior designers.

Jessica Jakyung Huh has joined KSS Architects in New Jersey as a junior designer.

Dan Jacoby has been hired by FXFOWLE Architects in New York as design director in the Interiors Studio.

PROMOTIONS

Johnson Controls, a building efficiency and power solutions company in New York, has named Scott Brady as general manager of Systems, Bill Antczak as branch operations manager and Dave Morse and Chris Lambert as branch account managers.

Leslie E. Robertson Associates, a consulting engineering firm in Stamford, Connecticut, has promoted Elias Matar to partner, Nayan Trivedi to associate partner and Seung-Je Lee and Jason Stone to associates.

Richard Bracco, Robert Celata, Russell Cyr, Derek Kohl and Lindsey Siragusa have been named principals at BL Companies, an architectural, engineering and planning firm in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

James Muskopf and Timothy Ward of H2M, an engineering and architectural firm in New York, have completed the National Association of Coating Engineers Coating Inspector Program, Level 1.

The late Gilbert Rivera, founder and former president of Park Avenue Building & Roofing Supplies, LLC in New York, is the recipient of the Subcontractors Trade Association’s Michael Mazzucca Lifetime Achievement Award.

Simon Zamarin and Matt Walsman, members of construction consulting firm GREYHAWK in New York, are now Certified Cost Technicians through the Association of Advancement of Cost Engineering International.

COMPANY NEWS

Thornton Tomasetti, an engineering and design firm, has received the American Council of Engineering Companies New York Platinum Award for Structural Systems for its work on The Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

Shawmut Design and Construction, a national construction management firm, has opened an office in New Haven, Connecticut.

Allied Building Products Corp. of New Jersey, distributors of interior/exterior building materials, has earned the Forest Stewardship Council’s Chain-of-Custody certification through the Rainforest Alliance’s SmartWood program.

Levy, Tolman & Costello, LLP, a construction law firm with offices in Manhattan, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary.

Mossien Associates Architects, P.C. received the 2008 Outstanding Project award from the Rochester Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute for work on the New York State United Teachers Regional Office Building in Jamestown, New York.