Larry East Jr.

The Shaw Group Inc. of Baton Rouge recently announced that Larry East Jr., general manager of Shaw's Stone & Webster Baton Rouge office, was appointed to the LSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's (CEE) External Advisory Board Council.

The CEE External Advisory Board Council advises the department in its future direction in education, research and service. It develops campaigns for enhancements of faculty, students, programs and facilities as well as promoting the needs of the department to the college, university and the professional community.

East has more than 20 years of experience in project management, construction management, civil/structural engineering, and steel fabrication in the specialty chemical, petrochemical, commercial, municipal and power industries.

He received his bachelor's degree from Mississippi State University and is a registered engineer in civil and environmental engineering. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the Louisiana Engineering Society.

Scott Phillips

Tensar Earth Technologies Inc. recently announced that Scott Phillips has been named regional manager for Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Phillips is a civil engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech University and holds an MBA from Mississippi College. He is a registered professional engineer and a registered professional land surveyor, and he joins Tensar after spending the last eight years as a consulting civil engineer. In addition to geotechnical engineering, Phillips has extensive experience in hydraulics, hydrology and roadway design.

He lives in Monroe.

Tensar, an international corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., is a full-service provider of specialty products and engineering services used in cost-effective development of commercial, residential, industrial and municipal sites.

Philip McAfee

Philip McAfee, founder of PM Construction, is the 2005 recipient of the Gulf Coast Trenchless Association and Underground Construction magazine's Most Valuable Professional Award. The ceremony was held in January at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

The MVP Award is given to an individual for outstanding contributions to the underground infrastructure industry, McAfee is a pioneer and leader in developing pipebursting technology in the Gulf Coast area. He conducted the first pipebursting project for Houston and because of that project's success, pipebursting became a key technology in the city's wastewater program.

These early successes have resulted in hundreds of miles of pipe installed via pipebursting in the Houston and Gulf Coast area.

PM Construction was acquired from the McAfee family in 2000 by RePipe Inc. McAfee served as a consultant to RePipe for two years and is now retired.

Bob Liebermann

Putzmeister America appointed Bob Liebermann as special products sales manager in November.

Liebermann brings more than 25 years of experience with the concrete pumping industry to his new role. He will concentrate on sales support for the company's technically based specialty products such as separate placing booms, high-pressure trailer pumps and underground pumping equipment.

Putzmeister America specializes in concrete and material placing equipment, with a complete line of truck-mounted concrete boom pumps and telescopic conveyors, separate placing booms and trailer-mounted concrete pumps.

Andrea Talley

The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute (CRSI) named Andrea Talley as marketing manager of transportation systems in its Schaumburg, Ill., office. Talley will promote design of steel-reinforced concrete pavements and transportation structures. She will visit and make presentations to state agencies, contractors, specifying agencies, engineers and any other interested parties.

Before joining CRSI, Talley was a technical communications and marketing manager for software and hardware, supporting utilities and telecommunications.