Clough, Harbour & Associates LLP,, an Albany, N.Y.-based engineering firm, has elevated Raymond J. Kinley Jr. to CEO. He succeeds William A. Harbour who has stepped down after 40 years of service, the last 20 of which he served as managing partner and CEO. Harbour will remain an active member of CHA's executive committee playing a key role in guiding its financial and operation direction. Previously, Kinley was director of project development, a position he has held for the last 22 years.

Cahal Stephens has been named president and CEO of Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture and Engineering P.C. He has been with the Albany, N.Y.-based firm for eight years. Prior to his promotion, he served as managing principal of the firm's Boston operations, where he led the rapid growth of that office from a staff of three in 1996 to over 70 today.

Beers Construction Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Skanska USA, has promoted Joey Hatch to executive vice president in charge of operations in Nashville. The position was created as a result of combining Beers' Nashville and Brentwood operations. In addition to his new responsibilities, he will continue to manage the office's core clients.

Steven J. Donohoe has been named president of Washington, D.C.-based general contractor Donohoe Construction Co. He is a great grandson of John F. Donohoe, the founder of Donohoe Companies, the parent company of the firm. Donohoe joined the company in 1978 as a field laborer and had been senior vice president of operations. He has worked on several major projects, including 4000 Wisconsin Avenue N.W., a mixed-use and residential project totaling nearly 1 million sq ft in Washington, D.C. Also, Dennis Barry, a 25-year firm veteran, has moved up to executive vice president from senior vice president of operations. He has overseen the development of the $25-million renovation of 1111 Pennsylvania Ave.

Gannett Fleming, an international consulting, engineering and construction management firm with headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa., has named Alice N Bravo as a vice president in Miami, Fla. She is the director of transportation engineering there. Bravo is responsible for the planning, design and management of transportation facilities projects.

OBITUARY

Malcolm R. Meurer, co-founder of Meurer Serafini and Meurer Inc. Consulting Engineers, died. He was 83. He was a 1949 civil engineering graduate from what is now known as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. As president of Denver-based MSM, he was involved with projects throughout Colorado, including the development of the Columbine Freeway Study in 1969. Meurer served as national president of the American Consulting Engineers Council from 1974 to 1975. He also was a Fellow of ACEC Colorado and the fourth recipient of its Orley O. Phillips Award, in 1983, that honored his contributions to the consulting engineering profession and ACEC Colorado. He led ACEC's effort to reform political financing after a series of scandals related to the bidding of public works projects in the 1970s.

Daniel M. Lazar, cofounder of Cayuga Construction Corp. and several affiliated companies, died on Dec. 27. He was 94 years old. In 1929 he graduated from Cornell University with a degree in civil engineering. His company performed heavy civil work on such projects as New York City's World Trade Center and Battery Park City. In 1946, Lazar was elected to The Moles, a national honorary society for the heavy construction industry. He served as president of that organization and received its Member-Man-of- the-Year Award in 1972.