Marsha Perry joins Vanir Construction Management Inc., as the firm’s senior education planner, where she will focus on clients in the K-12 and higher education markets. Based in Sacramento, Calif., Perry will be responsible for developing business through early planning and related services. She comes to the company with more than 20 years of operations, business development, and educational facilities planning and funding experience.
Ronald Benson, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, has been appointed as the new senior associate for HGA Architects and Engineers. Based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, Benson is a licensed senior project manager with more than 25 years of international and domestic experience.
John C. Furey has been promoted to account executive at Stalco Construction Inc., a construction management firm for K-12 and higher education facilities in the Northeastern region. In his new position, Furey is responsible for the company’s business development and marketing division.
Industry veteran architect, Don Bush, serves on board as the principal and leader of Lord, Aeck & Sargent’s science and technology practices. With nearly 20 years of expertise focused on science and technology project design and delivery, Bush has an act for working with higher education and government research facilities. Most recently, Bush was with Smith Carter Architects and Engineers, where served as market leader for higher education and civilian government.
Jason Morgan has been promoted to vice president of operations at Cadence McShane Construction Company. Based at the firm’s Houston office, Morgan will lead and supervise project management and field staff, ensuring all contract requirements and specifications are met, including safety practices.
Newly appointed South Florida project manager for Charles Perry Partners Inc. (CPPI), Brian J. Hayes will be based in the firm’s southern Florida office in Vero Beach. Hayes rejoined the company in 2009, having earlier served as project manager until 2003. Under his leadership, CPPI recently completed modifications to the Indian River School District Thermal Energy Storage Plants.
Peter Ellis will now lead partners Cannon Design and New Cities in expanding the firms’ urban planning and city design practices. Ellis worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) for 30 years prior to establishing New Cities.
Former University of Colorado architect Steve Thweatt, who was instrumental in building the ATLAS technology hub and the Wolf Law Building, as well as implementing the business school expansion, will return to the CU-Boulder campus as the executive director of facilities management. Thweatt currently serves as an associate vice president of planning, design and construction at Emory University.
Gainesville, Fla.-based Charles Perry Partners, Inc. has recently appointed regional manager Kenna Scragg. He will continue to partake in CPPI’s educational, commercial, and health care construction projects, including Georgia Southern University’s Sanford Hall renovation in Statesboro, Ga., and Crawford County Elementary School project in Roberta, Ga.
Bill Pearson, now the senior project manager, recently joined general contractor and construction manager Charles Perry Partners Inc. A 17-year construction veteran, Pearson has managed several projects including K-12 schools and university and health care buildings throughout Florida, as well as Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas. He formerly served as project manager for Trinity Fabricators since 2007 and was previously the vice president of M.M.
