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The St. Joe Co. of Jacksonville, Fla., promoted Britt Greene to chief operating officer and Chris Corr to chief strategy officer. Greene was previously the president of St. Joe Towns & Resorts and president of St. Joe Commercial, while Corr had been JOE's senior vice president of strategic planning.

Greene has more than two decades of experience in real estate development, finance and management. Corr has served as senior vice president of strategic planning since 2004. He joined St. Joe in 1998 as vice president of public affairs.

Steven G. Laux was named area general manager for Skanska USA Building in Atlanta. Laux previously served as vice president and regional manager of operations for Gilbane Building Co. in Columbus, Ohio.

C. Howard Nye was elected president and chief operating officer of Martin Marietta Materials of Raleigh, N.C. Nye, who was executive vice president of Hanson Aggregates North America for the past three years, will have responsibility for the company's operating units and operations services functions.

Nye has 13 years of experience in the aggregates industry.

Kathy S. Babb was hired by Bovis Lend Lease of Charlotte as vice president and senior business developer for health care in the Carolinas. In this role, Babb will oversee the pursuit and acquisition of health-care work for the company's Carolina offices in Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C.

Bill Hogan has been promoted to vice president, aviation, at Reynolds, Smith and Hills in Jacksonville, Fla. He will lead the aviation program's national marketing and business development efforts. RS&H also hired Joe Abbas as transit service group leader in the firm's transportation program.

Additionally, Brian Reed, senior vice president of aviation, was named to the firm's board of directors.

Rebecca Ashby and Bradley Lunz were promoted to associates in the Tampa office of Baker Barrios Architects.

Both Ashby and Lunz are project architects, and both joined the firm in 2005.

HuntonBrady Architects of Orlando promoted Steve Belflower to principal and Paul Macheske to associate principal. Belflower has worked as an associate principal with the firm for three years.

Macheske is the director of health-care architecture at HuntonBrady.

Carolina Cubides, James Wright and Michelle Lightbourne have joined consulting firm Miller Legg of Pembroke Pines, Fla., as project engineers. Cubides and Wright will work in the land development sector of the firm's civil engineering department. Lightbourne will work in the traffic and transportation sector.

Jeremy M. DiPiazza has joined Hoar Construction, Orlando, as vice president of finance. He was formerly executive vice president and regional credit director with Regions Financial Corp.

John T. Suskey has been named controller at Roger B. Kennedy Inc. of Altamonte Springs. He has 21 years of financial management experience, including 13 years with construction companies.

GreenbergFarrow, an Atlanta-based architecture, engineering and development services firm, announced the opening of a new office in St. Petersburg, Fla. Daniel W. Sharpe will head up operations, serving as regional manager and senior associate.

Sharpe was previously senior vice president of site development and construction for DeBartolo Development in the company's Scottsdale, Ariz., Cleveland and Tampa offices.

Other staff at the new office includes Daniel Waguespack, who serves as senior site development coordinator; and Cindy K. Tobin, who is senior site planner.

HNTB Corp. announced changes and promotions within the Southeast division's corporate leadership team.

Scott Butzen succeeds Jim Anglin in the role of division president. He will maintain two office locations within the Southeast, in Atlanta and Lake Mary, Fla.

Anglin was named director of special projects.

In other division news, Dennis Gowins was named structures department manager and lead for the firm's bridge and tunnel service line. Gowins comes to the Lake Mary office from the firm's Baton Rouge office, where he served as the structures department manager.

Also in Lake Mary, the firm hired Timothy Vavra as a senior drainage engineer in the highway design group.

Bill Dumas and Dack Vaught have joined Clancy and Theys Construction Co. of Orlando as project managers. Dumas has 16 years of commercial construction experience, and Vaught has nine years of experience.

The company also appointed Mike Bell as general superintendent, Gary Jerkins as superintendent, Garth McIntosh as assistant superintendent and Anthony Harmon as project coordinator.

PSI hired John Clary as a project specialist and Ronald Cooperwoood as a staff specialist in its Orlando operations office.

Richard Haffner was named branch manager for PSI's Lake Buena Vista special project office.

Bill Shelton was named service manager at the Clearwater office of Orlando-based Mechanical Services Inc.

In Orlando, MSI appointed Todd Wagman as field operations supervisor.

McMahon Associates, a transportation engineering and planning firm, hired Adam K. Maze as senior project manager/design section leader in its Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., offices. In the firm's Miami offices, Juan Carlos Villalba was named senior project manager, and Sunil Chandra Doddapaneni was hired as a project engineer.

Dan Weisser was named senior process analyst for Woolbright Development in Boca Raton, Fla.

G. S. "Steve" Arnold was promoted to executive vice president of design/construction services for Flagler|Codina Development, Jacksonville, Fla. Flagler|Codina is the commercial real estate operation of Florida East Coast Industries.

Previously vice president of design and construction for Flagler Development Co., Arnold will now be responsible for the management of the design/construction team on all projects across all Flagler|Codina markets.

John Stull has joined United Forming in Austell, Ga., as operations manager of the company's newly formed specialty systems division, which will specialize in tunnel-forming projects. Stull previously worked with Total Concrete Structures of Atlanta.

Adrian B. Share has joined the Orlando office of Wilbur Smith Associates as senior vice president and regional manager of the Florida and Caribbean region. Share has more than 24 years experience in transportation consulting. Prior to joining WSA, he served as chief operating officer of Nodarse and Associates.

Chip Bullock was promoted to principal and managing director for CUH2A's Atlanta office. Bullock has more than 20 years experience planning and designing research facilities for academic and government institutions.

Timothy A. Hulton has joined Ustler Development in Orlando as senior vice president and chief operating officer. His responsibilities will include senior project management and growth of various Ustler Development entities.

Teresa Townsend has joined Carter & Burgess as a senior transportation planner in the Orlando transportation programs unit. She has more than 12 years of project management and supervisory experience in the planning and social sciences fields.

Lee J. Poechmann has been appointed associate at Cannon Design in Jacksonville, Fla. He first joined the firm in 2003.

Suria Yaffar has been named a principal at Miami-based architecture firm Zyscovich, where she serves as director of design.

David B. Twedell was named vice president of ep3, an environmental engineering firm in Winter Park, Fla. Twedell, a founder of the firm, has more than 26 years of experience in the environmental industry.

Fernando Tienzo and Ray Vista have joined The Scott Partnership Architecture and Interiors , Orlando, as project coordinators in the firm's residential high-rise team.

Danny Rogers was promoted to senior associate at Foster Conant & Associates, an Orlando-based landscape architecture firm.

Dave Maxam has joined Ellis & Associates of Jacksonville, Fla., as senior geologist. He has more than 18 years of experience conducting environmental assessments, compliance inspections and remedial activities.

Larry Silber was named president of Ingersoll Rand's utility equipment division in Davidson, N.C. He will also maintain his current responsibility for sales to the rental industry for the company's construction technologies and compact vehicle technologies sectors.

Phillip A. Smith has joined Charlotte-based Crosland as vice president-development manager in the company's Tampa office. He will be responsible for the development, design and construction of Crosland's multifamily rental communities.

Frank Sanchez was named president and chief executive officer of Renaissance Steel, Tampa, a provider of structural light gauge steel building systems. Prior to this appointment, Sanchez was with CM Partners, an international business consulting firm.

Joseph Clark was named general superintendent at Tecbuild of Altamonte Springs.

Tecbuild, formerly known as Rosewood Development Corp., is a licensed general contracting company and wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson International.

Barbara A. Harris was named director, emergency planning services at Orlando-based Beck Disaster Recovery, a program management firm specializing in disaster preparedness, emergency operations, recovery and redevelopment planning.

Jairo A. Quintero has joined architecture firm Borges + Associates of Miami as an associate and construction administrator. He has 25 years of construction experience.

Sean M. Parks was named operations manager of the new Orlando office of Environmental Services Inc., an environmental consulting firm.

He has more than 11 years of experience related to ecology, planning and landscape architecture.