Albert Joseph Appointed Raba-Kistner Vice President, Houston

Carielo appointed M.J. Boyle vice president of finance and administration and Noble of HKS selected for election by the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

Albert A. Joseph has joined Raba-Kistner Consultants Inc. as vice president of the firm's Houston region. Joseph provides executive leadership in project planning and management, as well as extensive engineering experience on major projects. He will lead business initiatives in the Houston and Gulf Coast area.

Raba-Kistner, headquartered in San Antonio with offices in Houston and five other Texas markets, was founded in 1968 and numbers over 300 employees providing geotechnical engineering, construction testing and observation, environmental consulting, and facilities engineering and consulting services.

Joseph earned his bachelor's in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India and master's degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville.

He brings a 30-year record of client-focused technical experience. He has been associated with projects in Texas, Louisiana, Nevada and California, including petrochemical plants, transportation, high- rise structures and airport projects.

Julissa Carielo has been appointed vice president of finance and administration for M.J. Boyle General Contractor Inc. She previously served as controller for the company.

Carielo's responsibilities will include directing and coordinating the financial administration activities, managing the human resource functions, formulating and administering organizational policies and developing long range goals and objectives to improve the company's current financial operations.

Carielo is a leader in the general construction accounting world, serving as the president and member of the board of directors of the Construction Financial Management Association. She also actively participates in the AGC Texas Building Branch Legislative Committee and is a member on the Basics Advisory Council for Small, Minority and Women Owned Business Enterprise Program.

Carielo graduated from St. Mary's University in 1995 with a bachelor's of business degree in business administration and accounting.

Dan H. Noble, principal at HKS Inc., has been selected for election by the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. The College of Fellows, the highest order of recognition within the AIA, is accorded for notable contribution to the advancement of the profession of architecture.

Noble, FAIA, FACHA, a 22-year veteran of the design industry, has been involved in master planning, program development, functional planning and conceptual design of projects totaling more than $1 billion in construction cost.

Of a membership of more than 74,000, less than 2,500 AIA members are distinguished with the honor of fellowship. Recipients must be in the architecture field for more than 10 years and serve as significant architectural contributors on a national level.

Paul Studebaker has been appointed to the newly created post of vice president of marketing for Westwood Contractors Inc. This was a key addition to its management team, and the appointment of a senior member to an important committee assignment with a national trade association.

Studebaker brings to Westwood a consistent record of success in marketing and sales at a national level. Prior to joining Westwood, he served in various progressive Marketing and Sales roles in the North American headquarters of both Cadbury Schweppes and Nokia.

In his new position, Studebaker will be responsible for helping Westwood achieve its vision of becoming the nation's premier provider of retail construction services.

David Bloxom, president of Speed Fab-Crete, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Texas chapter of the Design-Build Institute of America.

The Design-Build Institute of America is a national organization created in 1993 to promote the increasingly popular use of the design-build project delivery method for construction of buildings.

Bloxom has played prominent roles in management of Speed Fab-Crete for 30 years. He and four other department directors bought the 54-year-old company in 1998.

Mike McBride, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Westwood Contractors Inc., has been named by the Retail Construction Association's board of directors to serve as its scholarship committee representative for the South Central Region.

McBride will have specific responsibility for RCA's relationships with Colorado State University, Oklahoma University, and Texas A&M University. He also will be involved in the formulation of policy and direction for the committee.

Anne Goodson has been added as a project engineer for DPR Construction Inc.

Goodson has several years experience, primarily in the institutional and K-12 markets. For DPR she is working on a financial services firm's national expansion program.

She has a bachelor's of science in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Chris Maier is also a new addition as a project engineer for DPR Construction Inc. Maier is a recent graduate of Texas A&M University, where he earned a bachelor's of science in construction science. Prior to graduating, Maier had a six-month internship working on the construction of the Cancer Prevention Building on M.D. Anderson's Houston campus.

He is currently working on commercial office renovations in Round Rock and Plano.

Brandon Cash has been promoted to a project engineer for DPR Construction Inc. Cash recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's of science in architectural engineering. He is currently working on the South Austin Hospital Expansion and Renovation project and on a financial service firm's national expansion program.

Joe Garza has been added as a safety professional for DPR Construction Inc.

Garza has more than eight years experience in construction as a safety coordinator, consultant and trainer. He is OSHA 500 authorized, and will act as lead trainer for DPR's in-house courses including OSHA 10- and 30-hour, first aid/CPR, basic EMT and equipment-operator training. Garza comes to DPR from Engineering Safety Consultants in San Antonio, where he was a consultant.

Deborah Lloyd Forrest, FASID, was awarded the 2004 American Society Interior Designers Designer of Distinction award.

A world-renowned, award-winning hospitality interior designer specializing in historic preservation of landmark hotels, her projects have included the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., the Hermitage in Nashville, Tenn. and the Alluvian in Greenwood, Miss.

Forrest and her partner, Stephen Perkins, founded ForrestPerkins in 1998 and currently maintain offices in Dallas and Washington, D.C.

Forrest received her undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of North Texas in Denton and is an honorary alumnus of Oklahoma State University, where she serves on the advisory board of the School of Hotel and Restaurant Administration.