FOX

CDM has announced that Richard D. Fox will become chairman and CEO of the Cambridge, Mass., engineering and construction firm on Jan. 1, 2009. In the roles, he replaces Thomas D. Furman, who will retire in December. Fox retains his title as president, a position he has held since 2001. He is a 33-year firm veteran. Furman, chairman since 1999 and CEO since 1998, joined CDM in 1974 as a vice president following a merger.

David Beers has joined architect Perkins Eastman, New York City, as design principal. He was a founding partner at Brennan Beer Gorman Architects and Brennan Beer Gorman Monk/Interiors. Janet R. White is named principal and director of its architecture studio and federal services group in Washington, D.C. She was embassy construction design manager at KBR and is former president of her own St. Louis-based practice.

FURMAN

Ball Construction L.P., New York City, has promoted Lloyd F. Good to president from general manager. He joined the firm in 2006 from a previous role as senior vice president at Plaza Construction, New York City.

Colin Reid has joined the construction and design practice group of law firm Sherman & Howard LLC., Denver. He was vice president and general counsel of TIC Holdings, a construction firm based in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Obituaries

ALTEMOSE

J. Leon Altemose, a Philadelphia-area building contractor who fought to work open shop in the shadow of the city’s union labor stronghold, died April 11 in his Malvern, Pa., home at 69. The cause was complications of multiple sclerosis. Altemose became a national figure in “right-to- work” contractors’ battle to win competitive market share in the 1970s and 1980s, as he and his projects faced union violence. His fight to use both union and nonunion workers led to the U.S. Supreme Court, and earned him recognition as ENR's 1972 Man of the Year. “We just thought that this was the U.S. and we should have the right to build as an open shop contractor,” says firm executive and Altemose’s cousin Roger Altemose. “We didn’t set out to make labor law.”