McGuire Joins AC Martin Team

SACRAMENTO-Los Angeles-based AC Martin Partners has named John McGuire as director of its Sacramento office.

AC Martin is campus architect for Sonoma State and Chico State universities, and has done work at UC Davis as well. The six-year-old Sacramento office will continue to pursue GSA contracts in addition to university, cultural, housing and corporate commissions.

Prior to joining AC Martin Partners, McGuire was a senior associate at KMD Architects in Portland and a principal of his own firm. He has presented at conferences and universities worldwide, was a tenured associate professor of architecture at Drury University, Hammons School of Architecture in Springfield, Mo., and an assistant professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene. McGuire was a visiting lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he received a Masters of Science degree in architectural conservation.

Aon Hires Callan for Bay Area Office

SAN FRANCISCO-Aon's Construction Services Group has hired financial services industry veteran John Callan as managing director of the firm's San Francisco office.

Callan will focus on risk management strategies and provide financial consultation for Chicago-based Aon's construction industry clients. In the risk management area, Callan will lead relationship management initiatives, serving as team leader for surety and construction risk solutions, as well as develop strategies for surety capacity and rate solutions. On the financial consultation side, Callan will provide comprehensive financial statement analysis, design balance sheet strategies and provide subcontractor risk management analysis, among other things.

Callan joins Aon after a 34-year run at KPMG, where he led the firm's national construction practice since 1987.

Callan is an active member of the Associated General Contractors of America and the Consulting Contractors Council of America. He serves as national director of the Construction Financial Management Association. He is also the co-editor of Aspen's Construction Accounting Deskbook and the author of several chapters.

Alhady Back With McCarthy

ROSEVILLE-Aaron Alhady has returned to McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. after a three-year stint with Folsom-based Meridian Project Systems, where he served as a national account manager.

Alhady will serve as director of business development for McCarthy's Northern Pacific Division/Roseville office. He is a 10-year McCarthy veteran.

Alhady previously worked in McCarthy's Irvine and Sacramento offices.

Touchstone Joins Bridge and Tunnel Division

PASADENA-Parsons has appointed Bradley C. Touchstone as bridge architect/bridge aesthetics manager of its Pasadena-based bridge and tunnel division. He will be based out of Parsons' Tallahassee, Fla., office.

Touchstone will manage Parsons' bridge architectural and aesthetics activities for conventional and complex bridge projects worldwide.

Touchstone received the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects Unbuilt Design Merit Award. Previously, as a sub-consultant to Parsons, Bradley was instrumental in achieving several design competition wins and accolades for the bridge and tunnel division.

Prior to joining Parsons, Touchstone was a bridge architect for the Figg Engineering Group in Tallahassee, Fla.

Roel Adds 3 to Project Management Team

SAN DIEGO-Roel Construction Co. has expanded its project management team.

Curt Favinger is a new project engineer. He recently graduated from the United States Marine Corp. and has eight years experience in the construction industry. Favinger previously worked for Roel as a project engineer on the Renaissance project in downtown San Diego.

Marlene Hickle has left Jacksonville, Fla.-based The Haskell Co. to join Roel's Irvine office as a project manager. She has 19 years of experience in the construction industry.

Celena Vandergrift has been hired to be a project facilitator. She is currently working on the Clarion Bayview Hotel renovation.

Cardon Named President of Residential Unit

SAN DIEGO-Building industry veteran Bill Cardon has joined San Diego-based Buie Communities LLC.

Cardon will serve as president of Buie Residential, a new division of the 20-year old company, and be responsible for the acquisition and development of all future residential properties.

Cardon previously served as regional general manager at Los Angeles-based KB Home. He has 31 years of experience in residential real estate development, 16 of those years at KB.

Cardon formed the San Diego division of KB Home. In 1999, he became regional general manager for KB Southern California.

Prior to joining KB Home, Cardon worked for eight years at San Diego-based McMillin Communities, where he served as vice president and was project manager for many of the developer's Scripps Ranch residential neighborhoods.

Cardon holds a master's degree in Economics from Troy (Alabama) University.

Founded in 1983, The Buie Group of Cos. has built about 5,000 residential units throughout the Southland.

New Managing Director Hired for Architecture Firm

SAN DIEGO-Austin Veum Robbins Partners, an architecture and interior design, planning and engineering firm, has hired Paul Thometz as managing director of its Los Angeles office.

Thometz spent 16 years in Los Angeles at Langdon Wilson and the past six years as the marketing/business development principal for the Los Angeles office of HOK. His portfolio includes a total of 5 million sq. ft. of mixed-use and office developments, corporate facilities, public and institutional projects, laboratory facilities, campus master plans and resort projects.

In separate moves, the San Diego office of AVRP has promoted Stephen Pomerenke and Tom Vorkoper to associate and hired San Diego architect John Hinkel as a senior designer.

As a lead designer at AVRP, Pomerenke's 15 years of experience includes architecture, landscape architecture and interior design of corporate, high-tech, biotechnology, residential and urban design projects.

Vorkoper has eight years of experience in designing a variety of program types including community centers, education, religious facilities, restaurant and office spaces

Hinkel joins AVRP from cross-town firm Carrier Johnson. He has 20 years of experience in urban design and specialty architecture.