Juana Gomez, an associate and project manager with KSQ Architects, has been promoted to senior associate. Gomez joined the firm in 2009 and currently leads KSQ’s Oklahoma studio in Tulsa. There, she specializes in the project management of collegiate dining, health care and K-12 facilities. Gomez received her bachelor’s degree in architecture from Universidad del Zulia in Venezuela, and her master’s degree in architectural design from Florida International University.
Giroux Glass Inc., a glass, glazing and architectural metals contracting company, announced that on Jan. 1, Nataline Lomedico became chief executive officer, succeeding Anne-Merelie Murrell, who continues as chairman of the board. In her previous roles as treasurer, controller and chief financial officer, Lomedico has been directly responsible for all financial aspects of Giroux since 2000.
In December, Wilson Architects, a Boston-based architectural firm specializing in the design of academic buildings for top-ranked national institutions, named Chris Martin, AIA, LEED AP, president of the firm. Martin assumes the role from Bill Wilson, FAIA, who will become the firm’s chair and CEO. Martin has been with Wilson Architects since 1995.
Trustees of Campbell University, located in Buies Creek, N.C., have named J. Bradley Creed the university’s next president. Creed is currently provost and professor of religion at Samford University, prior to which he served as dean of the George W. Truett Seminary at Baylor University. Creed received a Bachelor of Arts in religion from Baylor University, graduating cum laude. He later earned a master’s degree in divinity and a Ph.D.
WDG Architecture of Washington has promoted Doug James, AIA, to associate principal. James serves as a project manager for design projects ranging from federal government headquarters to student housing, and offers experience that encompasses all phases of project delivery from initial concept design and programming through construction administration and final delivery. As a senior project architect, James is also a leader in WDG’s quality control and technical detailing group.
Geoffrey Doban, AIA, has joined award-winning, Brooklyn-based Doban Architecture as the firm’s new vice president. Doban brings with him nearly 30 years experience in program development, design, management and construction of large-scale and complex projects. Previously, he served as a partner at Gruzen Samton before the firm was acquired by IBI Group.
Louis E. Costanzo was recently promoted to president of Scranton, Ohio-based construction firm L.R. Costanzo Co. Inc. Costanzo received his master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Syracuse University.
The Council of Educational Facility Planners International (CEFPI) announced that Daniel R. Mader, AIA, CEFP, LEED AP, has been named the new chair of the organization’s board of directors. An architect with more than 35 years of experience in educational facility design, Mader is the chairman of the board of Fanning/Howey Associates.
BOKA Powell, a full-service architecture, planning and interior design firm with offices in Texas, including Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin, has hired Mark H. Dabney, AIA, to lead its growing Fort Worth practice. Dabney brings more than 25 years of architecture and interior design experience to his new role as associate principal, and most recently served as director of PBK’s Fort Worth office.
HGA Architects and Engineers has hired Celine Larkin, AIA, LEED AP, as associate vice president and senior planner in the Los Angeles office. Larkin will direct planning across HGA’s growing healthcare, higher education and public/corporate practice groups.
