PEOPLE & COMPANIES Stanley Merjan, P.E., D.GE, (1928- 2019) died at his home in Sands Point, N.Y., on February 7, 2019, at the age of 91. Merjan was a charter member of DFI and served on its Board of Trustees. In 2001, he was the recipient of the DFI Distin- guished Service Award. In 2010, the DFI Educational Trust estab- lished the Stanley Merjan City College of New York (CCNY) Civil Engineering Scholarship in honor of Merjan, an inspiration and mentor to young engineers throughout the construction industry. A graduate of CCNY and a U.S. Army veteran, Merjan spent most of his career with Underpinning and Foundation Skanska. Merjan was a civil engineer with 19 U.S. patents related to deep foundations. He revolutionized pile driving in the New York area in the 1970s with his patented TPT (Tapered Pile Tip) system. Merjan’s work laid the foundations for many buildings and projects across the New York metro region, including the John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Yankee Stadium. He was predeceased by his wife, Florence, and is survived by his children, Barbara Merjan, David Merjan, Alice Hirsch and four grandchildren. The family asks that memorial donations be made to the Stanley Merjan City College of New York Civil Engineering Scholarship. Thank you to those who have already contributed. Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers (MRCE) announced mul t iple staff promotions. Sitotaw Y. Fantaye, P.E., was promoted to partner; Andrew Pontecorvo, P.E., and Renzo D. Verastegui, P.E., were promoted to senior associate; Fathey N. Elsaid, Ph.D., P.E., Colleen Liddy, P.E., Dimitrios Iliadelis, P.E., and Adam M. Dyer, P.E., were promoted to associate. Fantaye is a structural engineer and joined MRCE in 2005. He specializes in the design of foundations, underpinning, support of deep excavations and waterfront facilities. As partner in charge or tech- nical director, he leads teams of geotechnical and structural foundation engineers for these projects. He has authored numerous papers published by ASCE and DFI and has presented at a number of their conferences. Pontecorvo joined MRCE in 1995 as a structural engineer and has served as the structural staff supervisor of MRCE’s engineering staff from 2013 through 2017. He also serves on the New York City Building Codes Committee as a member of the Special Inspections & Temporary Structures Committee. Verastegui is a structural engineer who joined MRCE in 2003 and specializes in the design of drilled and driven deep foundations, mat foundations, flexible and rigid excavation support systems, groundwater cutoff systems, ground improvement solutions, foundation anchoring systems, underpinning of buildings and tunnels, and rehabilitation of waterfront marine structures. He manages the design and construction of numerous projects and leads teams of geotechnical and structural engineers. Elsaid is a geotechnical engineer and has 30 years of experience in multiple disciplines of geotechnical and foundation engineering. Prior to joining MRCE in 2002, he was an assistant professor in the civil engineering department of Manhattan College. His areas of exper- tise include soil and rock behavior and computa- tional geomechanics of underground structures, ground improvement systems, geotechnical site characterizations, and earth retaining structures. Elsaid has written multiple peer-reviewed technical papers and serves on the ASCE Geo- Institute’s Soil Improvement Committee. Liddy is a geotechnical engineer who joined MRCE in 1999 and has 20 years of experience in multiple disciplines of geotechnical engineering. She manages teams of design and field engineers for public and private util- ity, transportation, water- front, green space and private development projects. She currently serves as secretary of the ASCE Metropolitan Section Chapter of the Geo-Institute. Iliadelis is a structural engineer who joined MRCE in 2006. His areas of expertise include soil-structure interaction for urban excavations, tunne l ing pro j e c t s , retaining structures and deep foundations. He has been the lead design engineer for projects requiring the design of slurry walls, secant pile walls, sheet-pile cofferdams, pile foundations and underpinning. In addition, he has been involved in the construction support phase for projects, which includes installation of retaining walls, drilled caissons and underpinning. Dyer is a geotechnical engineer who joined MRCE in 2008 and his areas of expertise include complex subsur- face investigations, re- development of brown- field sites, sequenced construction in dense urban environments, deep foundations, underpinning and DEEP FOUNDATIONS • MAR/APR 2019 • 113