PEOPLE & COMPANIES Hayward Baker Inc., announced that Richard K. Walsh, P.E., G.E., has joined the company as business development manager at the regional office located in San Diego, Calif. Walsh is responsible for forging and maintaining business relationships with owners, developers, engineers, prime contractors and suppliers involved in projects that require sophisticated ground modification, foundation and geotechnical services. His primary territory includes the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and Colorado. Walsh has expertise in various drilled foundation support technologies such as drilled shafts, underpinning and micropiles. His expertise also includes extensive experience in the evaluation and stabilization of slopes and landslides, earth retention technologies for temporary and permanent excavation supports, anchored pile walls, soil nail wall systems, permanent ground anchors, and secant pile walls and structures. Walsh also has experience working with various grouting technolo- gies and vibro improvement applications such as Vibro Piers™ (aggregate piers), vibro compaction and vibro replacement. Soilmec North America named Antonio (Tony) Marinucci, Ph.D., P.E., as the new director of sales and research for the American Equipment & Fabricating Corporation (AE&F), as of January 2014. His career in the geotechnical and foundation construction industry includes managing earth- retaining and micropile construction projects for Schnabel Foundation Company and conducting academic research in geotechnical and marine geomechanics for his advanced degrees. He was director of operations for ADSC: The International Association of Foundation Dri l l ing, where he directed the organization's research and development program. Marinucci holds a Ph.D. in 88 • DEEP FOUNDATIONS • JAN/FEB 2014 Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, a M.B.A. from the University of Rhode Island, a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. DBM Contractors, Inc. hired Dave Fernworn, P.E., as regional manager Oregon and SW Wash- ington. He will operate out of the new DBM office in Vancouver, Wash. Fernworn has more than 30 years of experience as a professional engineer. He most recently worked for J.S. Hill and Associates in the Fiji Islands as a construction manager. He began his career in Portland, Ore., working with KPFF Consulting Engineers, then worked with Schnabel Foundation Company in Walnut Creek, Calif., and had his own firm, Subterra Construction in Vancouver, Wash. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and did MBA coursework at Portland State University, in Portland, Ore. George Piscsalko, P.E., and Dean Cotton, with Pile Dynamics, Inc. (PDI), of Cleveland, and Gray Mullins, Ph.D., P.E., with the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla., received the prestigious 2013 NOVA Award from the Construction Innovation Forum (CIF). The engineers and researchers received the award for the Thermal Integrity Profiler (TIP), an instrument that uses the heat generated by curing concrete to reveal the shape of cast- in-place concrete foundations. The initial research for the TIP was conducted at the University of South Florida. PDI formed a joint venture with Foundation and Geotechnical Engineering (FGE), of Plant City, Fla., to design the instrument and take it to market. The Construction Innovation Forum (CIF) is an international, non-profit organization that encourages and recognizes construction innovations. The 2013 NOVA winners, selected from more than 700 nominations from 20-plus countries, were announced November 12 at the Annual Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) National Conference. CURT represents more than 100 of the United States top construction purchasers. After several months of successful testing on drilled shafts, the TIP is now being employed in the evaluation of augered cast- in-place piles, jet grouting columns, soil nails and micropiles. J a c o b s A s s o c i a t e s announced that Joel Kantola, P.E., a senior associate in the Boston office, and the late Bhaskar Thapa, Ph.D., P.E., a lead associate in the Walnut Creek office, as the 2013 recipients of the James Wilton Award. The award honors the memory of James Wilton, former principal and president of Jacobs Associates, and acknowledges the individual’s commitment to quality and excellence at the firm. A person receiving this award shares the traits that made James Wilton an “engineer’s engineer” — innovative, hardworking, practical and meticulous. Kantola has more than 20 years of civil engineering experience in design, analysis, claims and construction. As part of the DC Clean Rivers Project, he has been a project manager on the Anacostia River Tunnel and assistant project manager on the Blue Plains Tunnel. Thapa had more than14 years of experience in the design and construction of underground structures. He was an expert in the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM), and was the lead tunnel designer and the design representative during con- struction on the Caldecott Improvement Project. Thapa held a Ph.D. in Civil Engi- neering from the University of California at Berkeley, and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity. He passed away unexpectedly on June 19, 2013.
