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Lars Hillman is joining the FVB Energy office in Bahrain at the end of October. He will serve the firm’s clients in the Middle East as senior engineer. Hillman has 20 years’ experience in district energy, power generation and industrial processes, including work with power plants fueled with biomass, natural gas and coal; biogas treatment plants; compressor stations for fueling buses with biogas; and process piping. Prior to his new position, he was with Westinghouse, where managed a power plant upgrade; earlier, he worked for FVB and other district energy consulting firms in Sweden. He has a bachelor of science degree from Mälardalen University in Sweden.

Åsa Norås will join FVB Energy’s Bahrain office as mechanical engineer in January

2008. She will provide process and piping design for the firm’s clients in the Middle

East. She most recently served in FVB Energy’s office in Västerås, Sweden, where she designed district heating and cooling piping systems; performed pressure drop and pipe stress analyses; and prepared specifications and drawings for procurement of process systems, components and plants. Her work has included a report for the International Energy Agency on the optimization of thermal storage and cooling distribution. Hillman has a master of science degree in energy and environmental technique from Mälardalen University in Sweden.

Stanley Consultants, an engineering, environmental and construction services firm with headquarters in Muscatine, Iowa, announced that its board of directors elected Gayle Roberts

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as president and chief operating officer, effective Sept. 18.

Roberts becomes the nation’s only female president of a large international engineering firm. She has been with Stanley

Consultants for 25

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years. Gregs

Thomopolus, current president and CEO, was elected chairman and CEO of Stanley Consultants. Dick Stanley, current chairman, was elected chairman emeritus and continues to be a director of the company.

Stanley Consultants has been working on the leadership transition for the past five years; it will take another two years to complete the transition. In addition to running day-to-day ^{DICK STANLEY}operations, Roberts will be working with the management team and visiting the firm’s 15 domestic offices and 12 overseas project offices.

Tabreed has named Karl Marietta deputy chief executive officer, in addition to his current responsibilities as vice president of administration and finance. Marietta, who joined Tabreed as director of finance more than nine years ago, has more than 30 years’ experience in district energy and electric utility industries in the engineering, operations, management, marketing and finance departments. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MBA from the Metropolitan Campus, Minnesota State University.