Gilbane Building Co. in elevated Providence Heidi DeBenedetti to the director of operations. She is a staunch veteran of nine years. He also promoted Michael O’Brien to Senior Vice President and New England Division Leader and appointed Justin MacEachern vice president and leader of Massachusetts and northern New England. He was a construction manager at Boylston Properties. Adam R. Jelen he is now the general manager of the contractor.
The Moles, a group of heavy construction professionals based in New York City, appointed James C. Maxwell i Gary A. Almeraris its 2024 Achievement Award recipients. Maxwell, who is not a member, is president of Hub Foundation Co., a Chelmsford, Mass.-based company that does geotechnically complex drilling projects. Almeraris, Skanska USA Civil’s vice president of operations, is a 50-year tunneling veteran and former president of Moles. The awards were presented on February 8 in Manhattan.
Neil Cahalane is elevated to president of Ellenzweig, an architecture and planning firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He gets it Michael Lauber, a director who continues his project work. Cahalane joined the company in 1985.
LiRo Group, Syosset, New York, has hired as senior vice president, Michael Wallaceformer head of construction for the Port Authority of New York and NJ in its construction management division. Craig Ruyle he also joined the firm as vice president. He was regional director of the New York State Department of Transportation.
Holly Brown has joined Remington & Vernick Engineers, Cherry Hill, NJ, as vice president of human resources. She was executive director and chief people officer of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
The New York Building Congress named STV president and CEO Gregory A. Kelly as a chair In positions at the New York City-based company since 2020, he also served as president and CEO of WSP USA. The chair of the Fundació Edifici named is Elizabeth Velezpresident and director of Organization Velez.
Engineering firm Sanborn, Head & Associates, Bedford, NH, has been promoted to senior vice president Christopher Finnegan, Heather James, Seth com i Stephen Wright and appointed Michael Potter a vice president
HNTB Corp. elevated Phil Brake to the president of design and construction, based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He succeeds Keith Hinkebein, who retired. Brake was a division president.
Vineyard Offshore, a Boston unit of clean energy developer Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, named Alicia Barton as CEO. It leads the installation of the 800MW, 62-turbine Vineyard Wind offshore wind project, owned by the parent company and Avangrid. The first US commercial-scale project to be permitted, it began sending power to the grid in January. Barton was general manager of First Light Power, Northfield, Massachusetts. She has it Lars T. Pedersen.
Colleen Moore joins HDR as vice president in Boston following the recent purchase of program management firm City Point Partners, of which she was founder and president.
OBITUARY
Chien Chung “Didi” Pei, 77, a prominent architect and co-founder of what is now PEI Architects, died Dec. 12 in New York City. His major projects included the UCLA South Campus and the 1 million square foot Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and the Suzhou Museum in China. Pei also contributed to key projects of IM Pei & Partners, the firm founded by his father, IM Pei, in which he worked for 20 years.
