Paul Dodsworth joins Wates from Bowmer & Kirkland, where he spent eight years as construction director overseeing projects in the North East and Scotland. Wates is currently building the £100m Central Square office development in Leeds and wants to grow its presence in new markets in Newcastle, Teesside, Sunderland and Durham. At Bowmer & Kirkland, Paul Dodsworth l...
Colm Lavery previously headed the Northern Ireland operations of rival firm EC Harris, where he was invovled in such projects as Titanic Belfast, the Lyric Theatre and Bangor Aurora Aquatic & Leisure Complex. Turner & Townsend clients in Northern Ireland include Belfast City Council, Queen’s University Belfast and NI Water. “I am very excited to be joining the Turn...
Mark Butler takes responsibility for business development at Toppesfield to help the firm continue its recent growth trajectory. Mr Butler was commercial director at EM Highways for 16 months until June 2014. His previous employers include Flowline, Atkins, Accord and Thames Water. He began his career as a trainee with Amey Construction where he graduated as a quanti...
The Coopersburg, Pennsylvania-based company, which confirmed the death, said he had been working with company engineers on a new product the night before he died. Spira, who patented an electronic light dimming device, developed the company into a worldwide distributor of motorized shades and lighting and temperature controls. He led the company for 54 years and most ...
While people say a picture says more than a thousand words, there are some writers out there that can do more than pictures ever can. Writers that, through their words, can shake not just the foundations of literature itself but also of society, politics and philosophy. And when looking back over the twentieth century, I’m sure few people will contradict me when saying t...
When you ask Brad Phillips when he first became interested in construction, his answer is straightforward: “I can’t remember when I haven’t been.” And when you look at Brad’s background, his answer makes perfect sense. Brad is part of the third generation that runs Phillips Companies, Beavercreek, Ohio. The company, which was started by his grandfather as a sand and gra...
That means it’s time for a serious talk and, fortunately, COY2it doesn’t happen too often. Such talks are reserved for the most blatant of safety violators at Thomas Construction, located in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and incorporated in 1985. The threat of “the red chairs” is far from the only safety measures in place at the company, but their status attests to the prof...
Each February, Gale Nitteberg, his wife Sandy and their grandchildren pack up and head south for about a month to escape the harsh South Dakota winter for the warm beaches of Florida. He says years ago he and his wife talked about leaving South Dakota and maybe moving somewhere warmer, but it was never something they were serious about. After all, Nitteberg was born an...
1) You are likely ahead of the majority of your customers when it comes to machine data. What are one or two things you hope the Innovations Lab will do to help close the gap? Some of the solutions I’d like to see coming out of this lab will help our dealers help our customers, so our customers don’t have to be tech-savvy and…know how to do all that. We’d like transpa...
1. You have been reported as saying Cat dealers need to better monetize their access to machine data by offering asset-management services to machine owners and managers. What two or three things need to be in place at a dealership in order for an equipment manager to partner with them? A couple of things we need from dealers are, we need talent in place. I’m often re...
Another in a series of byte-sized one-on-one visits with construction industry insiders. I talked with the very thoughtful Brubacher at the family-owned firm’s headquarters in Pennsylvania to check the pulse of a business that may be away from the headlines but firmly on the front lines. 1. How did the recession affect your company and is business back? Business is...
Another in a series of byte-sized one-on-one visits with construction industry insiders. In light of recent movements into North America by SDLG (via Volvo) and LonKing (through ICP), as well as comments about Chinese manufacturers by established heavyweights Caterpillar and Case, I talked to Rhoda, the American point man for a Chinese company, for his perspective on Chi...
Another in a series of byte-sized one-on-one visits with construction industry insiders. International Construction Products plans to sell heavy equipment through its website, ICPDirect.com. The brainchild of Tim Frank, former chairman/CEO of Sany America, ICP’s business model rests firmly on the Achilles Heel of import success: customer support and a broad dealer networ...
He takes over from Thomas Oury, who is moving on to DuPont Performance Polymers, as Regional Director EMEA. Palmen is a strategic growth leader who has gathered a wealth of experience within a number of divisions within the company since 1988, most recently as the Director of Sourcing & Logistics EMEA for DuPont de Nemours International SA. He has also worked as EMEA ...
The Michigan-based company elected Norman Davis, Jr. to serve as its new president and succeed Dr. Verne Brown, who held the position for 43 years until his passing. Davis brings a wealth of knowledge to this position with a background in executive management and business development, focused in the safety and instrument sensor technology market He has held a wide va...
Herbert Willerth, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President, Middle East & Asia at Borealis AG, Vienna, Austria, will retire at the end of 2014. Having served the Borealis Executive Board for 15 years, Herbert Willerth most recently oversaw the finalisation of the Borouge 3 expansion project in Abu Dhabi. No successor will be named to the Borealis ex...
The renowned Professor of Energy Economics, Praipol Koomsup from the Thammasat University in Bangkok, arrives in the evening – just as the colorful fishing port of Rayong is bustling with preparations for another night of fishing. He has agreed to help us with our documentary for Living Energy about distributed energy generation in Thailand, which turns out to be a strok...
Edith Clarke had a lot of "firsts" for women in engineering. She was the first woman to receive a degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, the first woman to present a paper to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the first woman to have full voting rights within that organization, the first person to publish a mathematical examination of power lines longer ...
DuPont, Wilmington, DE/USA, has appointed Edward D. Breen and James L. Gallogly as independent Directors to its Board, effective immediately. The appointments of Mr. Breen and Mr. Gallogly have been made in anticipation of two current DuPont directors, Curtis J. Crawford and Richard H. Brown, transitioning off of the DuPont Board to serve initially as consultants to T...
With this step, the management board of Reifenhäuser Group underlines again the complete integration of Kiefel acquired from Brückner Group in 2009. At the same time, the change in name marks the begin of a strategic change in the Business Unit that will be integrated more closely in the group’s work-sharing processes from now on. Reifenhäuser will invest over two mil...
The story describes how Dan Rosenthal, a retired engineer who had no machining experience, is learning to become a good machinist. He’s largely a hobby machinist working out of his garage, which is why this story is atypical for our magazine. However, he has one customer for whom he produces prototype parts. In fact, that customer is sending him increasingly difficult wo...
