DFI People and Companies Hayward Baker Inc. received the Keystone Award from the Associated General Contractors of America St. Louis. The award was presented to Hayward Baker in the Specialty Contractor/Subcontractor Project $100,000 to $1 million category for the company’s tie-down anchor work on the Locks 27 Lower Sill Project, on the Mississippi River near Granite City, Ill. The award was presented to (left to right) product support for all Atlas Copco store branches in the U.S. His Atlas Copco career began when he joined the company’s office in North Bay, Canada, in 2003. In 2007, he moved to Elko, Nev., for a technical sales and support position. In 2008, he became responsible for Exploration Equipment and Consumable Sales, and achieved record sales. Wolfe will be based out of his office in Salt Lake City, Utah. business development manager Jeffrey R. Hill, P.E. of Hayward Baker, Jay Fowler of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District (the project owner), and Marvin G. Iffert, project manager of Hayward Baker’s St. Louis area office, at AGC’s 2011 Construction Awards Gala late last year in downtown St. Louis. Call for papers for the Seventh Inter- national Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering and Symposium in honor of Clyde Baker. Engineers, geologists, scientists, teachers and other professionals worldwide are invited to contribute original and unpublished papers for publication in the proceedings and discussion. The deadline is April 15, 2012. For more information, visit the website, http://7icchge.mst.edu. John Wolfe is now a t e c h n i c a l s u p p o r t manager for Atlas Copco’s Geotechnical Drilling and Exploration business line. He now reports directly to Scott Slater, business line manager, Geotechnical Drilling & Exploration. Wolfe provides training, technical and Since August 2010 to January 2012, Atlas Copco AB was recognized by Newsweek, Thomson Reuters and Forbes for innovative and sustainable business practices. Newsweek’s “green” ranking, unveiled in October, listed Atlas Copco No. 161 among global companies, No. 15 among Capital Goods companies and third among companies with headquarters in Sweden. Thomson Reuters’ Top 100 Global Inno- vators is a new list of the world’s 100 most innovative companies, based on the intel- lectual property of all companies or organi- zations that have had 100 patents or more approved in the past three years. Forbes magazine in August named Atlas Copco AB No. 67 among the Top 100 most innovative companies in the world, and Atlas Copco will again be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 2011. William W. Edgerton, chairman of Jacobs Associates, received the 2012 Golden Beaver Award for Engineering at an awards dinner in Los Angeles. The Golden Beaver Award is one of the highest honors in the field of heavy engineering construction. Edgerton’s engineering career spans 41 years and includes 17 years working for contracting firms. Edgerton joined Jacobs Associates in 1987 and served as president from 1999 to 2011. In 2002, he received the American Underground Association’s “Outstanding Individual Award for the Underground Industry.” Jacobs Associates wel- comed Dean Brox, P.Eng., as a lead associate, based in the firm’s first Cana- dian branch office in Vancouver, B.C. Brox has 26 years of experience as a senior project and design manager for more than 600 km (372.8 mi) of major tunneling and underground infrastructure projects around the world, including water, highway, rail, utility, pedestrian and hydroelectric tunnels. He also has a thorough understanding of rock slope engineering for assessing stability and stabilization requirements for excavations in rock. Brox has conducted design and technical review services for projects in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Greenland, Panama and Peru. Shawn Paroline recently joined Jacobs Associates as a lead associate in the Claims Group. He is based in Southern Cali- fornia, working out of both the Pasadena and San Diego offices. He has 17 years of experience in construction management and program management for public works infra- structure, and has represented owners, contractors and design engineers. Paroline specializes in preparing contract phasing language for complex projects, turnaround of troubled projects, contemporaneous schedule review and monitoring, change management, claims avoidance, delay analysis, and developing Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling specifications. He has served as construction manager, chief schedule engineer, or claims analyst on several major California public works building and civil infrastructure programs each in excess of $2 billion. Brierley Associates, LLC announced that its Lyman Henn division will change its name to Brierley Associates as of January 1, 2012. Brierley Associates acquired Lyman DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAR/APR 2012 • 85
