Reflecting its growth and increasing global presence, New York-based architecture and interior design firm CetraRuddy named Ximena Rodriguez partner. As partner, Rodriguez will retain her roles as principal and director of interior design, overseeing the firm’s quality and technical excellence in an interior design group of more than 20 professionals. Rodriguez also serves as lead interior designer and project manager in the residential, hospitality and retail sectors.
The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) announced Kristine Harding, NCARB, AIA, LEED-GA, as its new president. An accomplished and effective leader in the architecture profession, Harding is an Alabama architect who has been long involved with architectural regulation on the state level, having served as a member of the Alabama Board for Registration of Architects since 2005.
Eric Christensen will manage the delivery of client enterprise sustainability services as the new general manager for the Sustainability and Energy (S&E) practice of the Environment sector of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services firm with offices in Boulder, Colo.
Meena Krenek, IIDA, LEED AP, an associate principal and interior designer formerly with the Atlanta office of Perkins+Will, recently joined the firm’s New York office. Krenek spent 10 years with the Atlanta office, earning global recognition for her work on transformational interiors projects such as the IMG College Building in Atlanta. Prior to joining Perkins+Will, Krenek worked with both Gensler and Niles Bolton Associates.
Edmund M. Einy, FAIA has joined Taylor Design, a solutions-oriented architecture, environments and strategies firm. Serving as firm-wide director of architecture based in the company’s Irvine, Calif., office, Einy brings more than three decades of design and leadership experience creating forward-thinking structures and collaborative partnerships in health care, academic, government and commercial industries.
David Bostwick, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, has been named HDR’s justice principal for the Central Region. As a 29-year veteran in the criminal justice field, his particular specialty is in providing consulting services to justice clients for jails, courthouses, law enforcement facilities and prisons.
Lewis Perkins has been appointed president of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute by the institute’s Board of Directors. Perkins had been serving as the organization’s interim president since October 2015. He first joined the institute as senior vice president in 2012, prior to which he was director of sustainable strategies for The Mohawk Group.
D. Stephenson Construction Inc., the largest African American-owned general contracting firm in Florida, announced the appointment of Joseph Sanches as the company’s new president. Sanches has been with the firm for almost three years, previously serving as executive vice president. Prior to joining the company, Sanches was chief of support operations for the Palm Beach County School District, where he oversaw more than $2 billion in capital improvements.
Nicholas Rich has been named a vice president in the Seattle buildings sector office of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services organization. In his new position, Rich will head the office’s electrical department, managing projects in Seattle and throughout the Northwest. Some of the firm’s recent clients in the region include the University of Washington and Amazon.
HDR appointed Burcin Moehring, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, a new education, science and technology principal at HDR’s Seattle architecture office, to the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories Emerald City Chapter’s board of directors. The chapter will bring awareness in the building sector for creating resource-effective and environmentally responsible research and development of facilities.
