Business


Larry Walker Associates (Davis, Calif.) promoted Ashli Cooper Desai to the position of vice president. Desai, who has spent 10 years at the company, has managed collaborative programs to develop total maximum daily loads for nutrients, historic pesticides, and toxicity and metals in the Calleguas Creek Watershed. She also has managed development of site-specific water quality objectives for copper and ammonia in the Los Angeles region. In her new role, she will continue to manage the company’s offices in Santa Monica and Ventura, Calif., and will serve as a primary contact for clients in Southern California.

Kennedy/Jenks Consultants (San Francisco) received an Honor Award from the Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California (Sacramento) for the Integrated Utility Planning in the Yosemite Valley project. The company was the prime consultant to the U.S. National Park Service in developing the Sanitary Sewer Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and Integrated Utilities Master Plan for Yosemite Valley. The CIP offered time-phased recommendations to rehabilitate or replace existing wastewater pipes to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows while conserving the park’s unique scenery and resources.

David Smith has joined consulting, engineering, and management services firm ARCADIS (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) at its West Palm Beach, Fla., office as principal hydrogeologist. Smith will be responsible for providing water supply, deep injection well, and groundwater recharge expertise to clients. He has been actively managing alternative water supply projects that are using aquifer storage recovery wells and direct supply wells from the Floridian aquifer.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced that its Thermo Scientific Asset Management Services capabilities have expanded in Europe. Managed by a newly appointed European team, the U.K.-based European headquarters will work closely with existing and new customers to service the specific needs of the European market. Headquartered in Altrincham, England, the new operation will focus on companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia.

Mozambique’s national power company, Electricidade de Moçambique, awarded Black & Veatch (Kansas City, Mo.) a contract funded under a U.S. Trade and Development Agency grant to study the feasibility of using the lower Lurio River in northern Mozambique as a hydropower source. Black & Veatch has started work on the project and is currently evaluating three schemes to optimize the utilization of the river in the generation of power. Only 5% to 10% of the rural population of Mozambique has access to electricity.

Dan Meckes was elected by the board of directors of the engineering and project management firm Crawford, Murphy & Tilly Inc. (Springfield, Ill.) as the firm’s new president. Meckes will succeed Brian Whiston, who will continue to serve as chief executive officer and chairman of the board. Meckes began his engineering career at the Naval Sea System Command before joining the firm in 1983.

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