The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) newly elected officers will be installed to its Board of Directors on Oct. 30 during the business meeting at ASCE’s Annual Civil Engineering Conference in Kansas City, Mo. The new board members include:

President: Blaine D. Leonard, a research program manager for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) in Salt Lake City. Leonard will hold the organization’s highest elected office until fall 2010.

At UDOT, Leonard is responsible for balancing needs, priorities and resources in the Research Division, as well as managing a wide variety of geotechnical, structural, seismic, environmental and traffic safety research efforts.

Previously he served as vice president and principal civil/geotechnical engineer for Van Boerum & Frank Associates.

President-elect: Kathy J. Caldwell, president of Caldwell Cook and Associates. Caldwell will assume the role of society president in fall 2010.

Caldwell joined Caldwell Cook and Associates in May 2008 after retiring as president of JEA Construction Engineering Services Inc.

Caldwell’s career at JEA spanned almost two decades, during which time she served as a design engineer, project manager and senior construction resident engineer for a variety of public works clients before becoming division manager and vice president.

At-Large Director: Kevin C. Womack, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Utah State University Utah Transportation Center.

Region 4 Director: Sandra N. Knight, , a county engineer with the Bradley County, Tennessee, government. Knight will represent members from sections and branches in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

ASCE also elected new regional governors who will serve three-year terms, providing leadership for their geographic regions.

These include:

Region 4: J.P. Mohsen, chair of the University of Louisville Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Aaron K. Robinson, a senior project manager/engineer with Bond Consulting Engineers, will represent members in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

Region 5: Fraser K. Howe Jr., a senior associate with T.Y. Lin International, will represent members in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.

Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 146,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America’s oldest national engineering society.

Alabama

After 35 years as a practicing architect specializing in master planning and design for corporate and healthcare organizations, Bob Gower has retired from Gresham Smith and Partners of Birmingham, Ala.

Gower has joined Hoar Program Management where he will utilize his experience to assist organizations and client management teams in developing capital programs. Bob’s experience will allow Hoar to assist clients with their strategic planning processes and programming for capital expenditure programs.

“We are thrilled to have Bob join our program management team and look forward to the value he will add to the services we provide our clients,” said Mike Lanier, vice president of Hoar Program Management.

Hoar Program Management, a division of Birmingham-based Hoar Construction, provides outsourced project and construction management skills to a variety of clients.

Louisiana

The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance Inc. (GBRIA), a trade association made up of more than 60 petrochemical, energy, paper, non-ferrous metals and liquid storage terminal companies, announced the election of two new members to its Board of Directors: Thomas Yura, vice president and general manager, BASF, and David Brignac, refinery manager, Motiva Enterprises.

Yura and Brignac are completing the unexpired terms of retired BASF Vice President and General Manager Mike Cohen and Joey Hagmann, refinery manager with Placid Refining Co.

GBRIA companies work to improve industrial safety, workforce education andcommunity awareness of industry and its careers.

Mark C. Taylor has joined Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects of New Orleans as a project manager. He is currently providing technical assistance to the design team for the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff’s Office campus kitchen/warehouse/central plant project.

Taylor has extensive experience in design management and construction administration of education, healthcare, hospitality, justice, commercial and municipal architectural projects primarily in Arizona and Nevada. Prior to joining STBA, Taylor worked for the Scottsdale, Ariz., firm of Allen+Philp Architecture, Interiors.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture, he became a licensed architect in 1984.

His design philosophy emphasizes social and artistic significance, and Taylor believes that commissions are an opportunity for improving and refining his commitment to sustainable, uplifting architecture.

Taylor is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a LEED accredited professional.

Landis Construction Co. LLC recently announced the promotion of Maro T. Hihar to the role of lead estimator. Following the completion of his degree in construction management from Louisiana State University in 2004, Hihar joined the Landis team as an estimator. He then served in the role of assistant project manager on the Southern Yacht Club project.

Tennessee

Roadtec Inc of Chattanooga, Tenn., recently added Vince Egan to its international sales force. An experienced member of the road building industry, Egan will work primarily in south and southeast Asia and Oceana, including China, India and Australia.

Home base for Egan will to be in Colorado, with a satellite office at Astec Australia in Brisbane.

Roadtec manufacturers road building equipment including pavers, cold planers, material transfer vehicles and soil stabilizers.

Regional

ADSC: The International Association of Foundation Drilling recently announced that Michael Moore was appointed as CEO after long time ADSC Executive Director S. Scot Litke stepped down. Moore joined ADSC in 2005, initially serving as the association’s education and membership administrator. He was promoted to the position of assistant executive director in 2006.

Litke had informed the ADSC Board that he planned to leave his post at the end of 2009 and recommended that Moore be appointed to take the staff leadership role.

Moore’s plans include providing assistance to the association’s eight regional chapters, working with its 20 technical and operations committees, coordinating the workings of the ADSC board of directors, and continuing to enhance ADSC’s successful education and unique training programs.

Moore feels it is important to maintain and extend the association’s long standing industry liaison activities, such as those with federal and state agencies as well as other sister organizations in the geo-industry.