Todd Henry

Todd Henry has been named vice president and engineering services manager at Alliance Inc. of Shreveport.

Henry will manage the engineering services department, which includes design, drafting and surveying. His experience includes design and construction project management, new business and product development, production management, design analysis on a variety of civil related projects, and experience with local, state and national building codes.

Frank Schambach

Frank Schambach, president of Total Building Concepts of Metairie, recently received a Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. In addition, Waring Green, a Fellow ASHRAE Life Member in Metairie, received the Distinguished 50-Year Award.

The awards were presented during ASHRAE's 2003 Annual Meeting in Kansas City, Mo.

The Distinguished Service Award "salutes members of any grade for giving freely of their time and talent to the society," and the Distinguished 50-Year Member Award "is given to persons who have been a member of the society for 50 years and have performed outstanding service to the society."

ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of 55,000 persons. Its sole objective is to advance through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve the evolving needs of the public.

Tom Kyritz, John Zbiegien

At its spring committee meetings held in Chicago, Ill., the Scaffolding, Shoring and Forming Institute (SSFI) elected a new slate of officers for the upcoming 2003-2004 term.

Tom Kyritz of Patent Construction Systems was elected president, and John Zbiegien of Universal Manufacturing was elected vice president.

The outgoing president, Jeff Ott of bil-jax, served five terms while the outgoing vice president, Liz Callahan, served the previous three-year term.

The Scaffolding, Shoring and Forming Institute is a non-profit trade association committed to the technical advancement, promotion and understanding of scaffolding, shoring, forming and suspended scaffolding. The institute concentrates its efforts on the manufacturing, engineering and safe use aspects of its products.

SSFI continues to lead the industry by developing a series of test standards for rating scaffolding and shoring products in order to foster a consistent method of evaluation for the products.