PEOPLE & COMPANIES After a distinguished 27- year career, Heinrich Majewski retired from Malcolm Drilling Com- pany, Inc. Majewski was promoted to vice presi- dent of anchored systems in 1995 and became manager of Malcolm’s San Fran- cisco office. In 2007, he was named vice president of construction and engineering. Majewski’s pragmatism and his infectious passion for the foundation industry will be sorely missed. He will remain active as a consultant to Malcolm, and his new focus will be pursing his old passion — exploring the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Alps. Theresa Engler, execu- tive director of DFI, was named a board member of the Academy of Geo- Professionals (AGP), an elite group comprised of about 275 Diplomates, Geotechnical Engineering (D.GE). Engler (formerly Rappaport) has been the executive director of DFI since 2006 and served as the assistant director from 1998 to 2006. Engler will serve as the public member on the AGP Board – a position reserved for someone who represents the best interest of the general public but is not a diplomate. She succeeds Walt Marlowe and Scot Litke as former public members and is also the first female AGP board member. Schnabel Engineering, Inc., Glen Allen, Va., announced the promotion of Joan E. Bentel, P.E., to associate. Bentel started her career with Schnabel in the Gaithersburg, Md., office over 10 years ago as a senior staff engineer after receiving her B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois. Bentel’s design experience includes all foundation types, pavement, retaining walls, subdrainage, slope stability analysis and lateral pile analysis. She is a registered professional engineer and chairs the firm’s geotechnics committee in the Washington D.C. region. Mueser Rutledge Consul- ting Engineers promoted seven engineers effective January 1, 2015. Admit- ted to the partnership were David R. Good, P.E., and Walter E. Kaeck, P.E. Pro- moted to associate partner were Tony D. Canale, P.E., Jan Cermak, Ph.D., P.E., and Sitotaw Fantaye, P.E. Promoted to associate were Srinivas Yenamandra, P.E., and Aleksandr Krutovskiy, P.E. Advanced Construction Techniques announced that Douglas M. Heenan, P. Eng., was appointed president and CEO of the company’s worldwide operations. Heenan has been an officer and principal shareholder of ACT since 2001. He has 30 years of experience in the geotechnical consulting and contracting industry and was one of the inventors of the data collection system, IntelliGrout . ACT also announced Stephen Howe as vice president and CFO, Douglas Horvath as vice president operation, Peter Bowman as vice president, James Davies, P. Eng., as senior project manager and Michael Dubeau as senior project manager. patented real-time drilling and grouting ® Steven Scherer, former senior vice president of Hayward Baker, Inc., was appointed as the president of Nicholson Construc- tion. Scherer brings more than 35 years of civil and foundation engineering experience to his new position. He is active in several professional organi- zations, including DFI, ASCE and ADSC. Scherer holds a B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee and an M.S. degree from Northwestern University, both in civil engineering. Top row L-R: David Good, Walter Kaeck Tony Canale Bottom row L-R: Jan Cermak Sitotaw Fantaye Sub-sea pile driving specialist MENCK, an ACTEON company, is providing the largest and most powerful hydraulic hammer in the world to assist Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems with the installation of sub-sea foun- dations for Project Sandbank, a new 72 turbine wind farm in the North Sea. The MENCK MHU 3500S hydraulic hammer delivers 6.2 kJ per tonne of weight, with a pile sleeve that is 6.5 m (21 ft) in diameter. The Sandbank offshore wind farm project is due to be constructed in 2015, 90 km (56 mi) off the coast of the German island, Sylt, in the North Sea. Menck GmbH, is also pleased to announce the recent appointment of a new international mar- keting manager, Claas Denkmann. Denkmann brings to MENCK a wealth of experience in international marketing and communi- cations in the renewable energies and oil and gas market sectors. Atlas Copco Construc- tion Equipment hired Frank Lang as its busi- ness development mana- ger of national rental accounts. Lang will help expand Atlas Copco’s rental support network and will be responsible for developing relationships and sharing his DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAR/APR 2015 • 93
