Apr 03, 2018

NWCCA

Mehrer

Yalowicki

Brown

Bagnell

Box

Holberg

Kahler

The Northwest Wall & Ceiling Contractors Association elected its 2018 officers, including James Kahler of Northwest Partitions as board president. Other officers are vice president Martin Holberg of Expert Drywall and secretary-treasurer Michael Box of Western Partitions. Directors are Doug Bagnell of Olympic Interiors, Josh Brown of Gordon Brown Associates, Cory Yalowicki of Superior Stucco Services, and immediate past president Kurt Mehrer of Mehrer Drywall. NWCCA members consist of signatory wall and ceiling contractors.

ABC of Western Washington

Two local member companies of the ABC of Western Washington won national honors at ABC's recent convention in Long Beach, California. The National Excellence in Construction Eagle Award for Community/Public Service went to Synergy Construction for its Sebastian Place Veterans Housing project in Lynnwood. SME Inc. of Seattle won the Diversity Excellence Award in the subcontractor category.

Mar 27, 2018

Graham Construction & Management

Burke

Polis

Clerf

Williams

Dover

Amaya

Joshi

Rountree

Awasthi

Ripkin

Weibel

McKinstry

Colley

Johnson

In its Seattle office, Graham Construction & Management hired operations manager Troy Johnson; project managers Chris Colley, Rob McKinstry, Josh Colborne, Rudy Weibel and Justin Ripkin; project engineers Akshay Awasthi, Jeff Rountree and Ayush Joshi; superintendents Nick Amaya, Doug Simmering, Stephen Dover, Gary Church and Tyler Williams; senior administrative assistant Sarah Clerf; regional health safety and environment manager Brian Polis; and senior health safety and environment coordinator Hunter Burke. Awasthi, Amaya and Simmering are working on the Ballard Blocks mixed-use project. Colley and Dover are managing the Olympia Transit Center project. Rountree is working on Graham's Costco account. McKinstry and Church are overseeing the multifamily Alexan Central Park project. Johnson, Colborne, Weibel, Ripkin, Joshi, Williams and Clerf are on the 1200 Stewart towers team.

The Walsh Group

Karrer

Durston

The Walsh Group hired Caitlin Durston as project engineer and Mary Karrer as site safety manager. Durston recently earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Iowa State University, and served two internships with Walsh in Chicago and Seattle. She is working with the estimating/preconstruction team on a private development in Seattle. Karrer has 15 years of experience as a safety professional. She previously worked on several projects at JBLM, and spent a year in Afghanistan as a construction assurances officer and safety specialist.