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Two Join Gilbane
Boston - Neil MacKenzie has joined Gilbane Building Co. as senior preconstruction executive to grow the company’s institutional, healthcare, and residential preconstruction expertise in the commonwealth. MacKenzie Prior to joining Gilbane, MacKenzie served as chief estimator at Walsh Brothers for five years where he was involved with many healthcare projects for various hospitals and health centers in the area. His institutional experience includes projects throughout the region for numerous colleges and universities.
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Prior to Walsh Brothers, MacKenzie was with Suffolk Construction Company for 10 years. Joseph R. Gallagher also has joined Gilbane as Mass. district business development manager. Gallagher Gallagher recently served as president for his own business, the Gallagher Company, which provided consulting services to the commercial real estate and commercial construction industry. Before starting his own company, Gallagher worked for Suffolk Construction Company where he served as vice president of business development.
Four Promotions
Boston Margulies Perruzzi Architects announced the promotions of Monica Moreira, LEED AP and Dianne A. Dunnell, IIDA, LEED AP to the position of senior associate, and Cynthia Gibson Murphy and Marnie Glover, LEED AP to the position of associate within the firm. Moreira has over 17 years of industry experience. She joined MPA in 1998 and has been project manager and detail designer for many projects. Her most recent include the 335,000sf office building campus at 175-185 Wyman Street in Waltham for Hobbs Brook Management, as well as the recently completed 190,000sf corporate headquarters for Forrester Research in Cambridge. Dunnell is an NCIDQ certified interior designer with over 17 years of design experience. Since joining MPA in 1999, her roles include project de-
signer and manager. Clients she has worked with include Fallon Clinic, Covidien, and Harvard University, and she is currently primary interior designer for Philips North America, a 40,000sf interior tenant fit-up. Murphy is a project manager at MPA. Since joining MPA in 2003, her project experience includes work for the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, Real Estate Capital Partners, Edgewood Retirement Community, Silicon Valley Bank, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mass. Glover is an interior designer with 17 years of professional experience working with corporate and commercial clients. Since joining MPA in 2004, she has worked on such projects as Liberty Mutual, ManuLife Financial, and Middlesex Savings Bank.
PCA Personnel Announcements
Cambridge, MA - Prellwitz Chilinski Associates Inc. (PCA) has promoted two associates to the role of senior associate, one team member to associate, and added four new employees to the design team. The new senior associates are Karen Dubrovsky, RA, LEED AP and Laura Homich, AIA, LEED AP. Dubrovsky joined the firm in 2000 as a designer. Her recent projects have included the Mass Maritime Academy and Westfield State dormitory renovations, various Healthworks health club renovations, and the South Cape Village retail center. Homich joined PCA in 2005 and has spearheaded such notable projects as Legacy Place in Dedham and Rumford Center in Providence, R.I. Jason Cohen, AIA, LEED AP was promoted to associate. He has been a designer at PCA for five years and has over 15 years in the architectural design industry. He is currently the project architect for the Ames Shovel Works historic resto-
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ration reuse project in North Easton and was the project architect for the Wilber Apartments in Sharon, and Fitchburg State College dormitory upgrades. New hires to the design team inHomich clude Jessica Friend, Jillian D’Amato, Nathan Stolarz, and Michael Roper.
GDG Hires Hebert
Boston - Grossman Develoption planning. ment Group (GDG) announced that Hebert comes to GDG Mark Hebert has joined the company from W/S Development as vice president of development. where he was a project deHis responsibilities will include the velopment manager. At W/S, full service oversight of the due he oversaw the five-year acdiligence, design, development, and quisition, development, and construction for all real estate venconstruction of Legacy Place tures from conception to tenant dein Dedham. livery. Prior to joining W/S Hebert Hebert, an 18-year commercial Development in 2002, Hebert real estate and retail veteran, has exspent nearly 10 years at BJ’s perience in all aspects of the business from Wholesale Club starting as a store planner engineering to planning, construction, de- and becoming a site development manager sign, development, leasing, and transporta- in 2000.
Elaine Construction Appoints Falla
Newton, MA - Elaine Conrelationship and visibility buildstruction announced that Jacqueing, technical writing, and client line Falla joined the company service. as director of client services. In Falla brings more than 17 this role, she will be responsible years’ experience in the A/E/C for developing strategic growth industry, specifically in the areas plans, in close collaboration with of marketing, communications, the Elaine leadership team, in the and business development. areas of corporate, institutional, Prior to joining Elaine and nonprofit sectors. She will she served as director of busiFalla manage the full complement of ness development for Shawmut business development activities Design and Construction’s acafor Elaine, bringing to bear her skills in demic division.
Calnan Promotes Trull
J. Calnan & Associates, Inc. announced that Scott Trull has been promoted from director of special projects to project executive. As director of special projects, he successfully directed over 200 corporate office projects of all sizes. In his new role Trull is responsible for the overall man-
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agement and coordination of the project from preliminary planning through completion and occupancy. His responsibilities include the supervision of staff and subcontractors, trade coordination, logistics, safety planning, requisition review and approval, financial status, budget reports, punch lists, and quality control.
Meridian Welcomes Thoma
Westborough, MA - Meridian Associates, Inc. in Westborough announced the addition of Senior Associate Jeffrey A. Thoma, a registered landscape architect. He was hired to lead the expansion of the company’s landscape architecture division. In addition to 17+ years of professional experience, Thoma has recently been recognized for his work on the 2010 project that received the BSLA’s honor award for institutional design.
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Dembitzki Joins Marr Scaffolding
Boston - Marr Scaffolding Company announced that Robert Dembitzki has joined the company as general sales manager of the Scaffold and Shoring Divisions. He brings 25 years of experience to Marr. Dembitzki began his career in 1986 in the design and engineering of scaffold and shoring systems, and embarked on a sales career in 1996, culminating in the management of sales territories up and down the
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eastern seaboard. His vast project experience involves a variety of construction markets including low-rise and large highrise building projects, bridge and highway infrastructure projects, wastewater treatment facilities, industrial plants, and energy producers. He brings solid planning and management skills to Marr.