Stephen Kline, MBA, P.E., was promoted to associate principal in GZA’s Manhattan office. He specializes in environ- mental site investigation, site remediation and waste management consulting for development and infra- structure projects. He received a B.S. in environmental engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from St. John’s University. Kline is a registered professional engineer in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and is a member of ASCE and ACEC. Brian Morrill, CHMM, was promoted to associate principal in the Norwood, Mass., office. His areas of specialization include environmental health and safety reg- ulatory compliance and auditing, regulatory enforcement support, and ha z a rdous wa s t e /ma t e r i a l s management. He received a B.S. in biology from the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth and an environmental and regulatory management certificate from Northeastern University. Morrill is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM); Certified Environ-mental, Safety and Health Trainer (CET); Certified Third- Party Underground Storage Tank Inspector; and Certified Class A/B Underground Storage Tank Operator. He is on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Chemistry and Technology Alliance and the New England Chapter of the Academy of Hazardous Materials Managers. Martin Rodick, P.E., was promoted to associate principal in the Norwood, Mass., office. His areas of specialization include geotechnical and environmental engineer- ing. He received a B.S. degree in environmental engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his M.S. degree in geotechnical engineering from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Rodick has more than 23 years of industry experience, is a professional engineer in Massachusetts, and is a member of ASCE and Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES). Tony Amis joined GI Energy (GIE) as senior vice president of sales in the Chicago headquarters. He spent more than 15 years in the U.K. developing a variety of heating and cooling systems, as well as multirenewable energy solutions for projects at offices, retail complexes, hospitals, universities and public sites. He has served in a variety of positions for construction and engineering companies in the U.K., Hong Kong and Singapore, including technical sales, business development, engineering, construction management and operations. Amis received an M.S. degree in construction project management from the University of Greenwich, has published numerous articles on the effective use of building foundations for heating and cooling purposes, and is the current co-chair of the DFI Energy Foundations Working Group. ALLU has opened a new facility in New Jersey, USA, and a new distributor in Colombia. The new location at 25 Kimberly Road in East Brunswick, N.J., creates additional warehouse capacity for aftermarket parts and factory space to increase product inventory by local assembly. The move will allow ALLU’s North American subsidiary to offer remanufacture and recertification of preowned buckets. The new facility also provides expanded office and service training space. FRC Ingener ia i s ALLU’s new distributor throughout Colombia. The company supplies a comprehensive range of ALLU transformer attachments, and provides full aftermarket care, spare parts and dedicated customer service. ProFound Drill is producing crowns for adapting sacrificial (lost) drill bits to drilling apparatus. Standard designs will match ProFound’s standard line of drill bits, which includes diameters of 300, 450, 560 and 680 mm. The material for the crowns is high strength and wear resistant 42CrMo4 (4140) steel, which has excellent corrosion resistance. Liebherr USA, opened a new sales and service facility at 880 South Beckman Road, Lodi, Calif. The new location serves as the sales, service and repair facility for Liebherr USA’s mobile and crawler cranes and the foundation equipment divisions in the western region. At an opening event, guests had an opportunity to tour the facility, operate the crane simulator, participate in the human power crane obstacle and view a variety of machines and components. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technol- ogy Lausanne (EPFL) is organizing a three- day short-course entitled “Energy Geo- structures Analysis and Design,” on March 20-22, 2018, at the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland. The course will provide an under- standing of innovative technol- ogy for the heating and cooling of buildings and infrastruc- tures from energy, structural and geotechnical perspectives. For more information, visit www.formation-continue- unil-epfl.ch. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • NOV/DEC 2017 • 127
