Tomasetti Group elects new chairman.The Board of Directors of Thornton-Tomasetti Group is pleased to announce that Richard L. Tomasetti, previously co-chairman, has been elected Chairman effective Jan. 1, 2005. Dr. Charles H. Thornton, who previously shared the co-chairmanship with Mr. Tomasetti, will continue to be actively involved with the firm and its clients as Founding Principal, consulting on projects and professional activities. In addition he will spend time with his family's management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects firm, Charles H. Thornton and Company. Mr. Tomasetti, along with President Daniel A. Cuoco, Executive Vice President Robert P. DeScenza and the firm's Managing Principals, will continue to lead the firm in providing excellence in engineering and design services to its clients. Earlier this year, Mr. Tomasetti received the highest professional distinction accorded to an engineer when he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE nae adv. Scots 1. No. 2. Not. ) as a leading expert in the design of complex, innovative structural engineering systems for high-rise buildings and long-span structures. His projects range from the World Financial Center and the restoration of the entire Empire State Building facade in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to Plaza 66 in Shanghai, the tallest concrete building in China. Thornton-Tomasetti Group is the consulting structural engineer for the tallest buildings in the world--Petronas Towers in Malaysia and Taipei 101 in Taiwan as well as Soldier Field • • [ in Chicago and the design of the NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City Sports and Convention Center. In addition, Mr. Tomasetti and his firm directed the engineering support efforts for New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on all of the search, rescue, clean-up and building assessments after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. With almost 40 years of experience, Mr. Tomasetti is a driving force in growing Thornton-Tomasetti Group. He is an active author and lecturer, and advisor at numerous universities and is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. . His most recent publication is Chapter 22: Protective Design of Structures in Building Security; Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design, published by McGraw Hill, 2004. His numerous awards include Engineer of the Year from the American Council of Engineering Companies, the Concrete Industry Board "Leader of Industry Award," and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from his alma mater Manhattan College. |
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