For the Week of January 3rd

Management Changes:

Pankow (Pasadena, Calif., construction firm) has hired Renate Schweiger Kofahl as director, marketing. Kofahl previously directed marketing and communications at Callison Architecture Inc. (Seattle).

W.A.C. Lighting (Garden City, N.Y.) has appointed Sherry Holmes marketing coordinator.

Do it Best Corp. (Fort Wayne, Ind., buying cooperative for home improvement retailers) has promoted Timothy Miller to retail marketing manager.

Business Briefs:

Giant Eagle Inc. (Cleveland) has become the nation's first grocer to operate a Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED)-certified supermarket. The certified store, in Brunswick, Ohio, incorporates the environmentally responsible features and systems required by LEED, a national green building-rating system administered by the U.S. Green Building Council. The 80,000-square-foot store's environmental features include wind-generated electricity, cabinetry made of recycled strawboard, and gypsum wallboard made of 100 percent recycled materials.

Payton Construction Corp. (Boston) served as general contractor on the following projects: The North Face's new store on Newbury Street, Boston; and the Ozone Restaurant and Ben & Jerry's location at Logan Airport, Boston. Payton also renovated a lobby at 101 Arch St., Boston, to accommodate a new Osushi restaurant.

JHP Design (London) has been appointed to work on the commercial master plan at Lyon Airport, near Paris. The firm will focus on reconfiguring and maximizing retail space in the airport's two terminal buildings.

Awards:

Transformit (Gorham, Maine, manufacturer of tension-fabric structures) won the following design awards: its Headfirst!, a three-story structure in the shape of a human head in the Healthspace Cleveland health museum, won a gold award in the environments category and a best of class award in The Galaxy Awards; The Dynamics, the company's proprietary system of stock components, won an IF Award for product design, along with gold and bronze Galaxy Awards; and the red fabric ribbon Transformit engineered and installed for Studio Gaia in the W Hotel, Chicago, won an outstanding achievement award in the 2004 IFAI International Achievement Awards.