PEOPLE & COMPANIES Scott S. Whitaker died on June 27, 2019, at the age of 79. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and resided in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Valparaiso, Indiana; and Sumter County, Florida. Whitaker graduated from Drexel Institute of Technology and N.C. State. He taught at Drexel for three years before taking a position with Bethlehem Steel Corporation as a marketing engineer in construction sales, where he worked for 35 years. He was a member of DFI from 2002 through 2019. He is survived by his wife, Alma, two children, three grandchildren, and his sister, Elizabeth. The Beavers announced that Daniel N. Adams, president and CEO of McMillen Jacobs Asso- ciates, will be presented Andres M. Baquerizo, MSE, P.E., vice president of HJ Foundation Com- pany, received the 2019 Roebling Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award was presented at the 2019 ASCE Annual Convention in Miami on October 13, 2019. Baquerizo began his career in Bogota, Colombia, in the 1990s, working at his family’s consulting and construction company. He joined Keller in 2002 as an assistant project manager and is now vice president for HJ Foundation. He is also the leader of the Keller global product team for continuous flight auger piles. Ron Brylski was ap- pointed vice president of Boh Bros. Construction in New Orleans. He has been with Boh Bros. for more than 28 years and is the manager of the piling and marine department. Champion Equipment Sales (CES) continues to expand its sales and service team to support the growing line of foundation and civil engineering drilling equipment it represents. Paul Turner has joined CES as a micro-drilling specialist and will oversee Champion’s efforts with Soilmec micropile/tieback drill rigs as well as with Marini QG. Turner spent the past few years on jobsites across the U.S. managing micropile projects for multiple applications and has worked hands on with numerous micro-drilling solutions, so he can provide real-world support to drillers of all sizes looking for equipment and tooling solutions for micropile and tieback projects. CZM Foundation Equipment announced the groundbreaking of its new U.S. corporate and factory headquarters in Ellabell, Georgia. The new facility will include a 40,000 sq ft (3,720 sq m) manufacturing shop and will create 25 new jobs, taking the company to around 75 total employees over the next three years. The expansion will give CZM the ability to double the quantity of machines it currently makes. On hand for the event were (pictured left to right): Noah Covington, director of operations at Pembroke Advanced Communications; Repre- sentative Ron Stephens, District 164, chair of the Economic Development and Tourism committee; Giuliano Clo, president of CZM; Marcello Clo, CFO, CZM; Marcos Clo, vice president, sales and marketing, CZM; and David Camden, executive vice president of commercial banking, SunTrust. Award at the Beavers’ 65 Annual Awards Dinner on January 17, 2020, at the J. W. Marriott at LA Live in Los Angeles. After earning his B.S. and M.S. degrees (geotechnical concentration) in civil engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Adams joined Haley & Aldrich in 1988. He then joined Jacobs Associates in 1995, where he was sent to Melbourne, Australia, to serve as the senior tunnel design engineer for the Melbourne CityLink project. Prior to being named president of the firm, Adams worked over a decade almost exclusively as project manager or principal engineer for the design of megaprojects in the water, wastewater, transit and transportation sectors. He led the firm’s merger in 2014 with McMillen. with The Engineering th Lobo-Guerrero, Gerressen, Miller Casagrande will be collaborating with fielddata.io, a provider of construction data management platforms, to provide digitalization of construction processes in special foundation engineering. The data captured by the sensors on Casagrande’s machines will be processed in the future within the fielddata.io platform CONNECT. The fielddata.io software also enables any transformation of the data into a uniform picture, which means that the use of interfaces can be reduced in the long term and data formats are harmonized. This translates to significant savings in costs and t ime, among other things, at the construction site. Both partners are united in their objective of establishing an industry standard for the capturing of production data in special foundation engineering in the long term via an open, digital platform. On October 5-6, ALLU Group joined dozens of construction companies, equipment dealers, equipment manufac- turers and construction associations as a sponsor of the Dozer Days K.C. event at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Missouri. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • NOV/DEC 2019 • 113
