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Doug Widenmann Appointed Senior Vice President and President of Daikin North America LLC
HOUSTON
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Daikin North America LLC, part of Daikin Industries, Ltd., appointed Doug Widenmann as senior vice president and president of Daikin North America LLC. It was previously announced that executive vice president and president of Daikin Business Unit, Takayuki “Taka” Inoue, will assume a new role as executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer, Goodman/Daikin North America, leading the operational efforts for all company brands, Daikin, Goodman®, Amana®, and Quietflex®.
“I am delighted to have Doug as my successor and continue to work with him in this capacity,” Inoue said. “Doug has excelled at strategic leadership and execution and is well positioned to lead Daikin North America in its next stage of growth. He has a strong track record of customer development and engagement. I can’t see anyone better than him to continue fostering our relationships in North America.”
Widenmann has amassed 34 years of experience in the industry in various sales and marketing leadership roles with three major HVAC product manufacturers. As Daikin continues its growth in North America toward its goals for Fusion 25, Doug will be instrumental in leading the Daikin premium strategy, supported by Daikin’s core values of absolute credibility, enterprising management, and harmonious personal relations.
Brown and Caldwell Names Heather Dodson its Pittsburgh Leader
PITTSBURGH
Environmental engineering and construction firm Brown and Caldwell is pleased to welcome Heather Dodson as its new Pittsburgh leader. The strategic hire highlights the firm’s continued expansion to better serve clients in the Northeast’s municipal and private water, wastewater, and stormwater sector.
With 17 years of extensive experience in water, wastewater, and stormwater management design and permitting, land development, and municipal engineering, Dodson brings a wealth of knowledge and technical expertise to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Northeast’s most complex water and environmental challenges.
As Pittsburgh leader, Dodson is responsible for operations management, providing exceptional client service and expanding Brown and Caldwell’s regional presence and talent pool to meet market and customer needs. She will provide marketing and technical leadership during the procurement and quality delivery of impactful water, wastewater, and stormwater projects the firm is renowned for in the environmental market.
SmithGroup Appoints Carla Hill Director of Business Development for its Detroit and Pittsburgh Offices
DETROIT
SmithGroup, one of the nation’s leading integrated design firms, has hired Carla Hill to serve as director of business development for its Detroit and Pittsburgh offices. As a regional resource, Hill will support the company’s higher education and health practices, expanding the firm’s opportunity pipeline and connecting clients in need of planning, design, and strategy expertise with SmithGroup specialists in these markets.
Hill possesses more than 27 years of experience in the design and construction industry. She will lead efforts to grow the firm’s already significant national portfolio of college, university, and health care projects, with a focus on broadening SmithGroup’s presence in Indiana, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania.
“Carla understands the complex challenges impacting institutions across the Midwest and is passionate about partnering with clients to create solutions that position them for future success,” said Jeff Hausman, AIA, director of SmithGroup’s Detroit and Pittsburgh offices. “She will build strategic connections that enable organizations to remain resilient in their evolving markets.”
Jacobs Acquires The Buffalo Group
DALLAS
Jacobs announces it has acquired The Buffalo Group, a cyber and intelligence solutions provider, further strengthening Jacobs’ portfolio of national priority mission-focused, government solutions in the cyber domain and the intelligence community (IC). The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Based in Reston, Virginia, The Buffalo Group brings high-impact analytical and technology capabilities to the U.S. IC for key missions across multi-domains including cyber, ground, sea, airborne, and space.
"Defending our nation against adversarial threats is growing in complexity,” said Steve Demetriou, chair and CEO, Jacobs. “The Buffalo Group's leading cyber and intelligence capabilities further strengthens our suite of national priority solutions across integrated multi-domain environments. Like Jacobs, The Buffalo Group has a proven track record of winning multibillion dollar full and open enterprise contracts. Under the leadership of Caesar Nieves as head of our new cyber and intelligence business, the combination of Jacobs and The Buffalo Group will provide additional opportunities across the intelligence community, combatant commands, and the U.S. Army.”
The Buffalo Group's advanced, mission critical solutions solve complex national priorities and security challenges in the areas of advanced analytics, advanced targeting, cybersecurity, cloud mitigation, DevSecOps (development, security, and operations), identity intelligence and biometrics, human intelligence, open-source and social media analysis, geospatial intelligence, cyber threat intelligence, and artificial intelligence/machine learning.
ASHRAE Publishes Alternative Care Site Guidebook to Alleviate the Need for Hospital Beds During COVID-19
ATLANTA
As many communities are setting up alternative care sites (ACS) in response to spikes in COVID-19, the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force announced the availability of the Alternate Care Site HVAC Guidebook, which was developed by the ASHRAE Alternate Care Sites Task Force.
The task force was convened upon at the request to the ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide engineering recommendations, solutions, and guidance to address the HVAC systems for ACS.
ASHRAE Epidemic Task Force health care team member, David Eldridge, P.E., BEAP, BEMP, HBDP, GGA, LEED AP, and Alexander Zhivov, Ph.D., FASHRAE, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineer Research and Development Center, co-chaired the ASHRAE Alternate Care Sites Task Force.
“Our work over several months has resulted in a guidebook that will be useful in current and future efforts to address the demand for additional hospital beds in combatting COVID-19,” said Eldridge. “This has been a collaborative initiative from the start, and we want to thank the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as well as military and private engineering experts who came together to develop this timely resource.”
Belimo, Facilio form a Strategic Partnership
HINWIL, Switzerland
