WaterBriefs: Mandegari and Perisse join CDM

In other news below:
-- Chas. H. Sells announces promotion
-- CH2M HILL names Principal Management Consultant for Water Business Group
-- ABB names Ravi Uppal to Executive Committee
-- WQA Leadership Awards -- Call for nominations now open
-- BGCE moves Denver office
-- Atlantium Technologies welcomes Vice President/Sales for North America
-- Gary Moyer to assist Severn Trent Management Services with Florida CDDs
-- Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute receives NSF certification
-- Rain Bird establishes The Intelligent Use Of Water award
-- Eco-Tec launches new Spanish website

• Mandegari and Perisse join CDM
CAMBRIDGE, MA, June 14, 2007 -- CDM is pleased to announce that Shirin Mandegari and Laura L. Perisse have joined the firm's Industrial Services Group. Mandegari is a management consultant specialist based in the firm's Irvine, California office and will be responsible for the senior project management of CDM's private-sector contracts. Perisse is a client service manager based in the firm's Wayne, Pennsylvania office and will be responsible for leading CDM's services to industrial clients in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

Among other recent headlines:

• Chas. H. Sells announces promotion
BRIARCLIFF MANOR, NY, June 14, 2007 -- Chas. H. Sells Inc. (SELLS) announced that David J. Weiss, P.E. has been promoted to Department Manager, Municipal Engineering. Weiss has over 14 years of diverse transportation and municipal design service experience with SELLS. During this time he has held the position of Project Manager where he has progressed more than two-dozen locally administered federally funded projects for municipalities throughout the Hudson Valley. His expertise ranges from scoping to detailed design and construction management for various roadways, intersections, bridges, and water and sewer facilities. His engineering experience is further enhanced through his past assignments in bridge inspection, resident engineering and construction support services. Weiss received his BS in Civil Engineering in 1994 from Manhattan College and is licensed in New York and Connecticut.

• CH2M HILL names Principal Management Consultant for its Water Business Group
DENVER, CO, June 13, 2007 -- CH2M HILL, a global full-service engineering, construction and operations firm, has named Scott Haskins vice president and principal management consultant for the firm's Water Business Group...

• ABB names Ravi Uppal to Executive Committee
ZURICH, Switzerland, June 13, 2007 -- ABB has appointed Ravi Uppal, head of the company's Indian business and South Asia region, to its management board as head of Global Markets. Uppal will take up the position on the Executive Committee on July 1, 2007. He replaces Dinesh Paliwal who is leaving ABB this month to become chief executive of Harman International, a maker of audio and electronic equipment that is listed on the New York Stock Exchange...

• WQA Leadership Awards -- Call for nominations now open
June 12, 2007 -- Nominations are now open for the 2008 Water Quality Association (WQA) Leadership Award. To nominate someone who has made a significant contribution to the water quality industry, simply complete the nomination form in the Awards section of the WQA Web site. The eight awards, their respective criteria, and past recipients are also listed in the section. Nominations will be accepted through August 10, 2007...

• BGCE moves Denver office
DENVER, CO, June 12, 2007 -- Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers Inc. (BGCE) has announced its move to its new space in Denver West. The company's new address is: 1626 Cole Blvd., Suite 300, Building 7, Lakewood, CO, 80401. The phone numbers remain the same.

Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers, Inc. began providing mechanical, electrical, lighting, sustainable and technology engineering services in 1991 from offices in both Vail and Denver, Colorado. In 2002 the firm branched out with the opening of an office in Truckee, California, to better serve existing clients in the area and to offer its services to the developing communities in the region. In 2004 BGCE opened its fourth office in the heart of Fort Collins, Colorado. The firm, an early proponent of sustainable design, was selected to be the Mechanical/Electrical Engineer for the Aspen Sundeck Restaurant, one of the first 11 structures to be certified in the U.S. Green Building Council's pilot Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) Program. The firm gained invaluable experience and has continued to develop its reputation as a leader in the burgeoning fields of sustainable design, LEED™ consulting, and building commissioning.

• Atlantium Technologies welcomes Vice President/Sales for North America
HAR TUV, ISRAEL and CINCINNATI, OH, June 12, 2007 -- Atlantium, developers and suppliers of Hydro-Optic Disinfection (HOD) solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Travis Tashjian as Vice President of Sales in North America. Tashjian, formerly with Bioway Technologies, brings with him over 18 years of experience in both municipal and industrial segments of the water treatment industry.

Atlantium's HOD R-200 has been validated according to EPA protocols, the most stringent validation process in the world, by HydroQual Inc. at the EPA/NYSERTA Validation Center in Johnstown, NY. This process recognizes Atlantium's HOD as a world class water disinfection technology and assures that the highest standards of the drinking water community for safety and efficacy are met. This is especially important to industries in the United States who face increasing stringent regulatory control and need third party validation of their UV technologies.

• Gary Moyer to assist Severn Trent Management Services with Florida CDDs
-- Key architect of Florida's Chapter 190 to assist Severn Trent in establishing, developing and managing community development districts
FORT WASHINGTON, PA, June 11, 2007 -- Severn Trent Services has announced that Gary Moyer will work with Severn Trent Management Services in a full-time consulting capacity. In this role, Moyer will assist in reacquiring districts formerly managed by Severn Trent by leveraging relationships established over his three decades in the Florida community development district (CDD) market. In addition, he will share his extensive management experience with Severn Trent's district managers who currently serve more than 100 district clients throughout Florida. Moyer assumed his role effective June 1 and works from Severn Trent's Celebration, Fla. office...

• Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute receives NSF certification
CHATTANOOGA, TN, and ANN ARBOR, MI, June 5, 2007 -- NSF International today announced that The Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute (CISPI) member companies' soil pipe and fitting products have been certified. Cast iron soil pipe and fittings are used in building construction for sanitary and storm drain, waste and vent piping applications...

• Rain Bird establishes The Intelligent Use Of Water award
-- Opens call for 2007 award nominations
AZUSA, CA, June 4, 2007 -- Rain Bird Corporation, the leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services, announced the creation of The Intelligent Use of Water Award to bring greater recognition to outstanding contributions by individuals and/or organizations towards the advancement of landscape water conservation...

• Eco-Tec launches new Spanish website
PICKERING, Ontario, June 4, 2007 -- Eco-Tec has expanded its website to include a Spanish version to join its Chinese version as a means to better communicate with various markets. Represented globally, Eco-Tec is pleased to be able to expand its Internet communication in the Spanish language. Eco-Tec is active in over 52 countries and by expanding the language capability of customer communication, Eco-Tec strives for market growth in Mexico, Central America and South America.

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