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William Larrison has joined Tri-City Electrical Contractors as estimating manager in the company's Fort Myers division. A 31-year veteran in the electrical construction field, Larrison previously served as senior estimator in the Tampa division.

Wayne S. Baswell has joined the Atlanta office of Skanska USA Building as an account manager. He is responsible for overseeing all health-care work generated by the Atlanta office and developing new business opportunities.

Baswell previously was responsible for health-care sales and marketing in the Southeast for Turner Construction Co.'s Atlanta office.

Also, Robin Freiberger has joined the Orlando office of Skanska USA Building as a senior director of business development. Freiberger has 10 years of business development experience, and most recently served as director of business development for Centex Construction's health-care group.

Jim Callen has joined the Florida division of Clancy & Theys Construction Co. of Orlando as senior estimator. Callen has 23 years of commercial construction experience.

David Gwynn , a vice president, has assumed the role of division operations officer for the Southeast division of HNTB Corp. in Lake Mary, Fla. The division covers Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Succeeding Gwynn as the Lake Mary office leader will be Kent Black . Black is a vice president.

Vernice Atkins-Bradley of Turner Construction Co. , Orlando, has been recognized with the company's Peter J. Davoren award for Outstanding Service in Community Affairs for 2006. Atkins-Bradley, who serves as the director of community affairs and business development for the Orlando business unit, was presented this award at the company's annual management meeting.

Peter J. Davoren , who serves as Turner Construction's President and CEO, presents one community affairs award each year to the community affairs director who demonstrates excellence in community service, community leadership and relationship-building with community leaders.

In addition, the community affairs director that is selected for the award must initiate community affairs programs that have brought positive media publicity to the business unit as well as establish a successful youth program within the community and successfully compete the Turner School of Construction Management.

Tracey Curl , marketing director for Suffolk Construction Co. of West Palm Beach, was recently recognized with the company's top honor. The Core Value Award, given once a year, recognizes the employee who consistently epitomizes the company's four core values: passion, integrity, hard work and professionalism.

Curl joined Suffolk in 2001 as marketing coordinator and was quickly promoted to manage the marketing department for the Florida division.

Suffolk Construction Co. President and General Manager Rex B. Kirby said, "Tracey goes above and beyond to uphold the core values that we hold in high regard at Suffolk. She sets the bar for the entire staff and consistently gives 110 percent."

Bruce Craven has joined BE&K Engineering Co. 's bio-pharma group as director of validation for North Carolina. Based in Raleigh, N.C., Craven is charged with leading validation and commissioning efforts for the company's biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries projects in the Southeast. Birmingham-based BE&K currently provides engineering, construction management and consultation services to these markets.

Glenn Walters , a landscape architect, has rejoined Design Workshop of Asheville, N.C., as a principal. Walters recently graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a master's degree in landscape architecture.

Ellen J. Bisogno and Joseph Tote have joined Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. in Naples, Fla., as project managers. Bisogno has 20 years of experience in the construction industry, and Tote has 15 years of building industry experience.

The company also promoted Danny Trueblood and Matthew Hoffman from assistant superintendent to the position of superintendent. Trueblood has been employed by OAK since 1998, and had served as assistant superintendent since 2004.

Hoffman joined OAK this year as an assistant superintendent from a Fort Myers-based development company, where he was responsible for job site supervision of commercial structures.

Additionally, Sherry Schreier was promoted from manager of administrative services to vice president of administrative services and human relations. Jan Conrad was promoted from accounting assistant to supervisor of accounting services.

Comprehensive Energy Services of Altamonte Springs, Fla., has hired Donald Smeller as a project manager for the firm's mechanical construction group, and Jonathan Romberg and Michael Laney as account executives. Smeller has 25 years of mechanical contracting experience. Romberg will represent and market CES Facility Services to Central Florida's facility owners and managers. Laney will represent CES Facility Services to Orlando's commercial real estate owners and property management markets.

Don Stebbins has joined Palmer Electric Co. of Winter Park, Fla., as vice president-residential construction. Stebbins oversees the company's residential division, which services production builders of single-family residences and townhomes, as well as custom builders of larger homes.

Stebbins joined the company in 1992, and most recently served as residential division manager.

Gary Tenn has joined Carter & Burgess as a senior project manager for land development in the firm's Fort Lauderdale office.

Tenn has 27 years of experience in planning, design and project management of land development projects in South Florida.

Rodrigo Pigna has joined Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam of Miami as the director of engineering. In this role, Pigna will oversee the management and operation of LAN's professional planning and engineering practice in the South Florida region.

Pigna has more than 19 years of engineering experience.

LAN is a Leo A. Daly company, an international architecture, planning, engineering and interior design firm based in Omaha, Neb.

Norman D. Wagner has joined the Charlotte office of HDR as a senior transportation estimator. He will be responsible for all transportation estimating for HDR Design-Build, HDR's design-build operating company.

Wagner has more than 35 years of experience in the construction industry and an extensive background in construction engineering, estimating and management of heavy civil and transportation projects. He previously worked for Granite Construction Co.

Jason Emmons has joined the Fort Myers, Fla., office of Community Engineering Services as a CADD technician. He will be responsible for creating engineering plans for projects in Southwest Florida.

Also, Pete Kalka joined the Fort Myers office as business director.

Eleanor W. Taft has been named vice president and general counsel at Collier Enterprises in Naples, Fla. Taft will direct all legal affairs for the company, including corporate policies and procedures, risk management, records management and administration, and corporate entities. She comes to Collier Enterprises from The Ryland Group, Inc., where she served as regional real estate counsel for the Southeastern United States.

Naples-based Collier Enterprises is engaged in real estate investment and development, agribusiness and private equity.

Charles "Chip" Cogswell and Ethan Milley have been promoted to regional directors in the Atlanta office of Jones Lang LaSalle , the global real estate services and money management firm. Cogswell will lead the health-care specialty practice nationally for the firm's project and development services group

Milley will lead project management teams throughout the eastern U.S. for corporate clients.

Stephen H. Mauldin has joined real estate firm Crosland of Charlotte, N.C., as senior vice president of mixed/multi-use development.

In this new position, Mauldin is responsible for strategic planning of Crosland's mixed- and multi-use initiatives in the Charlotte region.