Minneapolis-based Ellerbe Becket has selected Karim Khemakhem to establish and lead its new Middle East Interiors Practice.

Teknion Corporation has announced that Maxine Mann has joined the company as president of its US operations.

HGA Architects and Engineers has hired Andy O'Hare, AIA, as a healthcare designer and associate in the firm's Rochester, Minn. office. Andy will apply his background in construction document, project management and construction administration to enhance HGA's growing healthcare client base in southern Minnesota.

Dual-Lite, a Hubbell Lighting, Inc. brand, announces the appointment of Brad Kies to the position of director of central lighting inverters.
 
Royal Dutch Textile Mills J.A. Raymakers & Co BV, Helmond, The Netherlands have reached an agreement to acquire the business and certain assets of Pile Fabric Dyers Ltd., Rochdale, United Kingdom and will relocate their activity to its production site in Helmond.

Lou Jurkowski, CEO of BJAC has announced that Jennifer Amster, director of higher education projects, has been named a partner with the firm.  In this role, Amster will participate in formulating the strategic direction for the firm and carrying the firm's vision forward.

The Trendway Board of Directors has named William W. Bundy as CEO.

Klaus Grohe, son of the founder of Hansgrohe and the company's leader for more than three decades, recently announced that he was stepping away from day-to-day operational management of the 107-year-old manufacturer of bath and kitchen faucets, showers and accessories. The new Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer is Grohe's colleague, Siegfried Gansslen, a 14-year veteran with Hansgrohe AG, based in Schiltach, Germany.

Authentic Enduratex/China General Plastics Corporation of America (CGPC), has brought on Spradling Originals as their representatives in the Southwest region, which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, parts of Missouri and select Southern States (Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama) according to Jeff Post, vice president and general manager of CGPC.

Cooper Carry, a national design firm, has announced that Dana Pomeroy, AIA, a former managing partner of architecture at Ai and principal at Perkins+Will, has joined Cooper Carry’s Alexandria, Va., office as director of science & technology.