STOUT

William M. Stout has been elevated to chairman and CEO of Gannett Fleming, a Harrisburg, Pa.-based engineering and construction management firm. A 35-year company veteran, he had been president of its valuation and rate division and is former director of its administrative division.

Catherine Santee has been named chief financial officer and executive vice president of CH2M Hill Cos., Denver. She replaces Sam Iapalucci, who is retiring. Santee had been senior vice president of finance for the firm’s former energy, environment and systems business group. She joined CH2M Hill in 1995 and is also a member of its board of directors.

MACTEC Engineering & Consulting, Alpharetta,Ga., has promoted Deborah Barsotti to vice president of its mid-Atlantic region. She was operations manager, responsible for technical consulting and project management of toxicology- and risk-assessment projects. Barsotti is former toxicology program coordinator at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.

WALSH

Michael M. Walsh has been elevated to president of Parsons Commercial Technology Group, a unit of Parsons Corp., Pasadena, Calif. He had been executive vice president and global business development manager. Walsh is formerly president and founder of MW Consultants, a Cork, Ireland-based firm acquired by Parsons in 2004. Replacing him is Daniel Mariani, former head of the group’s life sciences division and former president and CEO of Process Facilities Inc., also acquired by Parsons in 2004.

Atlanta-based Opus South Corp., a design-build construction and real estate development firm, has named Hunter Barrier president and CEO. He had been president of McShane Corp., an Illinois development firm, and vice president of development for CarrAmerica. Opus South, a regional unit of The Opus Group, also is moving its headquarters to Tampa.

Edward M. Smith is named president of ULLICO Inc., a Washington, D.C., insurance and financial services company owned by organized labor. He had been executive vice president as well as vice president of the Laborers International Union of North America. Smith assumes his new role May 1 upon retiring from his union position.

DAVIS

John S. Clark Co. LLC, a Mt. Airy, N.C., building contractor, has named Gay Davis business development manager for the firm’s commercial division. She had been director of leasing for Starmount Co., a commercial real-estate developer in Greensboro, N.C. She is a former chapter president of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.

Strategy LLC, a Miami construction, environmental and financial consulting firm, has named Wayne Kalayjian vice president, to be based in Los Angeles. He had been director of financial advisory services at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He is a former project manager at Sverdrup Corp. and Raytheon Corp.

Thornton Tomasetti, the New York City-based engineering and technology firm, has promoted three executives as part of a management transition. Thomas Z. Scarangello, managing principal, is named chairman, replacing Richard L. Tomasetti in that role. Daniel A. Cuoco, president since 2002, also assumes the role of CEO, also replacing Tomasetti in the position. Robert P. DeScenza, executive vice president, is named chief operating officer.

BERNSTEIN

Steven Bernstein has joined Edmonton, Alberta-based Stantec as a principal, based in Wellesley, Mass. He now leads the firm’s civil-engineering and land-development team in its planning and landscape architecture practice in New England. Bernstein is former president and chief operating officer at Daylor Consulting Group and is a board member of the South Shore, Mass., chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

WEINBAUER

Earth Tech Inc., based in Long Beach, Calif., has named Jim Weinbauer as vice president and strategic services director, a new position. Located in Stevens Point, Wisc., Weinbauer is formerly senior vice president and environment director at Stora Enso, a pulp and paper manufacturer based in London. He had managed its sustainability program.

Patrick S. Sullivan has been elevated to senior vice president of SCS Engineers. He is based in Long Beach, Calif. and is a former board member of the Air and Waste Management Association and the Solid Waste Association of North America.

Obituary

DURHAM

Charles Durham, co-founder of engineer HDR and who helped build the Omaha-based firm into a diversified, global giant, died on April 5 in Omaha. He was 90. He planned to be an attorney, but Durham earned three engineering degrees and became president of Henningson, Durham & Richardson in 1950. He led the firm for three decades until its sale to French contractor Bouygues, in 1983. HDR was later bought back by its employees. Durham was a major contributor to local institutions, including the University of Nebraska-Omaha. It received a $23-million gift for an architectural engineering-construction school that bears his name. “HDR’s employee-ownership culture is based on the values and principles Chuck taught us,” says HDR Chairman and CEO Richard R. Bell.