Dive summary:

• The Construction Industry Round Table said its national chairman for the current year will be Steven T. Halverson, who is CEO of Haskell, the design-build firm with headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla.
• The group has approximately 110 members, who are CEOs of major design and construction companies, and weighs in on issues affecting the industry.
• Halverson succeeds Patrick MacLeamy, the CEO of HOK Group based in San Francisco, and he stays on the group's executive committee as immediate past chairman.

From the article:

"With this diverse background, CIRT will have the advantage of his keen understandings on policy issues that affect the entire design and construction industry along with his uncanny ability to zero-in on the key elements confronting us on any given matter." ...