David Gaffney

David Gaffney was recently named vice president, business development, at Ford, Bacon, Davis LLC of Baton Rouge.

Ford, Bacon, Davis is an engineering, procurement and construction firm. Gaffney was most recently area sales manager with Harmony LLC of Baton Rouge.

Brice Building Company

Brice Building Company announces promotions and management changes in its New Orleans Division. Patrick N. Descant and William R. Doyle, senior project managers, have been named vice presidents.

Vice President Martin R. Scheve II has taken on additional responsibilities as director of estimating. Karen D. Boyd, office manager and estimating assistant since 1999, has been promoted to executive assistant and office manager.

Descant, a native of Bunkie, has been employed by Brice for nine years. Before joining Brice Building in 1995, he was employed by M.D. Descant Inc. in Bunkie. He earned a bachelor's degree in construction management at Louisiana State University in 1995.

Doyle is a native of Galesburg, Ill., and earned a bachelor's degree at Cornell University in 1972. Before joining Brice in 1991, he served as project manager for the International River Center and as vice president and project manager for Historic Restoration Inc. in New Orleans.

Scheve is a native of Baton Rouge and earned a bachelor's degree in building construction in 1974 at Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe. He joined Brice in 1974. He is president for life of the Construction Industry of America, New Orleans Chapter. In addition to his role as director of estimating, Scheve has overall responsibility for Brice's Ochsner Clinic Foundation projects.

Boyd has been employed by Brice Building since 1999 and worked in the construction industry for 17 years. Formerly she was a project manager assistant at Carl E. Woodward LLC in New Orleans.

Brice's has had an office in New Orleans since 1952 and currently employs 150 people in the New Orleans area.

Founded in 1931 and headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., the company is a leading regional contractor and construction management company. Engineering News Record (ENR) ranks Brice among the top 100 contractors nationwide by new contracts with $390 million awarded in 2002.

In addition to New Orleans, Brice has offices in Shreveport, Birmingham, Dallas, Orlando and Deerfield Beach, Florida.

Myles McKemie

During its recent 31st Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., the membership of the Asphalt Emulsion Manufacturers Association (AEMA) re-elected Myles McKemie as president for the 2003-2004 term.

McKemie has been involved in the manufacture of pavement application emulsions for more than 30 years. He is a supporter of AEMA and the emulsion manufacturing industry and previously held the offices of vice president and secretary/treasurer of the association, as well as serving as an elected director.

In addition to serving as program co-chairman for the meeting, McKemie has long been an active speaker on emulsion topics, significantly advancing the interests of the emulsion manufacturing industry while educating literally thousands about he chemistry and technology of pavement emulsions and their applications.

Charles F. Potts

Charles F. Potts, CEO, Heritage Construction & Materials of Indianapolis, Ind., has been elected chairman of the National Asphalt Pavement Association for 2004. Potts was installed at NAPA's 49th Annual Convention in Phoenix, Arizona.

Other national officers for 2004 include Richard C. Moore Jr., Lehman-Roberts Co., Memphis, Tenn., first vice chairman; James H. Roberts, Granite Construction Inc., Watsonville, Calif., second vice chairman; Ronald M. White, Superior Paving Corp., Gainesville, Va., third vice chairman; Thomas W. Hill, Oldcastle Materials Group, Washington, D. C., treasurer; and G.M. "Mac" Badgett, III, Vulcan Materials Co., Birmingham, Ala., secretary.

Potts' NAPA activities have included serving on the Executive Committee since 1995. He was chairman of the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) in 1996 and has served on NCAT's Board of Trustees since 1986. He served as vice chairman of the Committee for Asphalt Research and Technology from 1998 to 2002.

He received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from The Citadel in 1966 and a master's degree in civil engineering from West Virginia University in 1967. He is also a graduate of Harvard's Advanced Management Program.

Potts is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). He is on the Board of Directors for the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) and the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT).

Roberta L. Marstellar

Roberta L. Marstellar was recently named vice president of certification for the American Institute of Steel Construction Inc. Previously, she was director of the Steel Solutions Center, a customer-focused subsidiary of AISC that both provides cost and scheduling information about steel projects and answers technical questions on steel design and construction.

Her new responsibilities will include development of certification standards, the promotion of certification to fabricators, erectors, and the marketplace, and the day-to-day management of the Quality Management Company, the firm that conducts audits of certified fabricators and erectors.

"Bobbi will be instrumental in AISC's efforts to educate the marketplace on the value of certification," said H. Louis Gurthet, president of AISC. "We will be able to develop certification standards and new programs more completely and at a more responsive rate."

Marstellar is a licensed professional engineer who joined AISC in 2000 after working as a project engineer at Halvorson Kaye in Chicago and as an associate structural engineer for Fluor Daniel in Greenville, S. C. She holds a master's degree in building construction from the University of Florida and a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

"AISC's Certification Program plays an important role in the advancement of steel design and construction and I'm excited to be part of that effort," Marstellar said. "As an engineer I know how important the program is to the design community, and my involvement with the Steel Solutions Center has given insight into its importance to the construction industry."

The American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, is a not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry.