GUNKEL

Tom Gunkel has been elevated to CEO of Mortenson Construction Co., Minneapolis. He remains president. Gunkel had been chief operating officer and is a 25-year Mortenson veteran. Gunkel is only the second non-family member to be president. Beginning as a project estimator, he rose through company ranks to lead the 2,700-person contractor into communication, advanced technology and alternative-energy construction markets.

Harriman, an Auburn, Me., engineer-architect, will expand its leadership as of April 14, when Clifton Greim becomes president and CEO. Former head of Harriman’s mechanical engineering department, he replaces Ed Cormier in those roles. Cormier becomes chief operating officer. Patrick Costin, former health-care studio leader, becomes company chairman. Erik Greven will continue as Harriman’s CFO.

Opus North Corp. has elevated Daniel Queenan to executive vice president. He was vice president and general manager of real estate and construction operations in metro Chicago. Opus West Corp. has named Greg Wattson vice president of retail development for a six-state region based in Irvine, Calif. He was senior vice president of retail for Trammel Crow. The two Opus firms are units of developer The Opus Group, Minneapolis.

The LPA Group Inc., a Columbia, S.C., engineer, has named two new vice presidents. Amir Fouladgar, in McLean, Va., was senior vice president and national transportation director for TRC Co. Harold E. Linnenkohl, in Kennesaw, Ga., was Georgia Dept. of Transportation commissioner and president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in 2006.

Paul A. Butsavage has been promoted to chief operations officer of QORE Property Sciences, a Nashville consulting firm with 20 offices. He had been the firm’s regional manager in Georgia.

Johnson Mirmiran & Thompson, a Sparks, Md., engineer, has named three new senior vice presidents. Joseph Kavanagh, who leads its environmental and facilities engineering division, had been vice president. Michael Hild, also a former vice president, had been a director of engineering for the Maryland Port Administration. Bill Smith will lead the firm’s information technology and geospatial services. He joins JMT from a previous position as vice president at the Excelergy Corp., a business management software provider.

WATSON

Craig Watson has been named to lead the joint design studio formed recently by Chicago-based engineer-architect SmithGroup and JJR, a landscape architect and planner. The studio is based in Washington, D.C. Watson formerly was director

HAKS, a New York City-based construction management and engineer-architect has hired three new vice presidents. Howard R. Kronland is also chief architect and formerly was an associate in the building technology group at Thornton Tomasetti Inc. Paul M. Pearson, based in Middletown, Conn., will lead facilities design work in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.He had been an executive at Michael Baker Corp. Rafik Moawad will strengthen the firm’s infrastructure department and had been a senior resident engineer at URS Corp.

Lisa Lefkovitz has joined Denver engineering firm ARCADIS as senior scientist in its waterfront group, based in Beverly, Mass. She formerly served as Battelle program manager for an environmental services contract with the Army Corps of Engineers New England District. Lefkovitz specializes in dredged material assessment and management.

Obituaries

JENNY

Robert J. Jenny, founder and CEO of Jenny Engineering Corp., a tunneling and underground specialist in Springfield, N.J., died Feb. 23 of lung cancer. He was 76. Jenny pioneered U.S. use of innovative tunneling techniques, including the first fully encapsulated epoxy-resin ground-support dowels. His firm, which he began in 1965, was responsible for design, geotechnical engineering and construction management of parts of mega-projects such as the Washington, D.C., Metro, New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, the English Channel Tunnel and the Shanxi Wanjiazhai Yellow River Diversion project in China.

GILL

Richard F. Gill, 64, executive vice president of The Shaw Group Inc., Baton Rouge, La., and president of its power group, died March 20 in that city of an undisclosed illness. He joined the contractor in 1997, when it bought Merit Industrial Constructors Inc., of which he was founder and president. Gill was also chairman of Shaw’s executive committee. Successors have not yet been named for those posts. Gill was also active in industry groups and at his alma mater, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.