Jun 29, 2016

Runberg Architecture Group

Wechsler

Seattle-based Runberg Architecture Group promoted Melissa Wechsler to partner. She joins founder Brian Runberg and Michele Wang in that role. The firm said Wechsler's design vision and project management experience have helped it in designing high-performing mixed-use buildings. She is collaborating with Graphite Design Group on two residential towers above Google's future offices in South Lake Union. Previously, she was with Borrelli + Partners in Miami.

Weber Thompson

Rubio

Weber Thompson promoted Bernadette Rubio to interior design principal. Rubio will lead a team of ten interior designers, space planners and other professionals in the interior design studio, which works on residential, commercial, hospitality and retail projects. Carrie Smith stepped down as interior design principal at the firm, where she and Rubio built the interior design team. Rubio has 20 years of experience in interior and architectural design. Her work has included Pike Motorworks, a 259-unit mixed-use apartment project in Seattle.

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

dos Remedios

Li

McCay

Liss

Ludwig

Umana

At its Seattle headquarters, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol landscape architecture firm hired Ashley Ludwig and Katherine Liss as associates and Alex McCay as a designer, and promoted Laurel Li to designer and Cheryl dos Remedios to marketing and communications senior associate. The firm also hired Wolfgang Umana as administrator of its Washington, D.C. workspace. Ludwig practiced landscape architecture for several years New York. She is a project leader for the India Basin Shoreline Park and Long Beach Civic Center projects in California. Liss spent seven years in New York practicing landscape architecture. She is leading projects in the U.S. McCay holds a master's in landscape architecture from Pennsylvania State University. Umana holds a degree in environmental science and public policy from George Mason University.

Hewitt

Leverson

Miller

Stendal

In Seattle, Hewitt hired Tracy Stendal as a project architect, Rachel Miller as a landscape architect and Nathan Leverson to the architecture staff. Stendal has over 10 years of mid-rise and commercial architecture experience. She was a project architect with CallisonRTKL. Miller has nearly a decade of landscape architecture and urban design experience and was a landscape designer for Integrated Site Design. She is designing projects in South Lake Union. Leverson holds a bachelor's degree in architectural design from the University of Washington, and is on Hewitt’s architecture team. The firm provides architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.

FSi consulting engineers

Hallock

Kledzik

Bingham

Seattle-based FSi consulting engineers hired Daimian Bingham, Michael Kledzik and Chris Hallock as mechanical engineers. Bingham specializes in energy modeling, life cycle cost analysis and HVAC airside design, and is working on projects for King County and Boeing. Kledzik is an energy manager with 10 years of experience in energy audits and upgrades. He is working on Washington State Ferries' Mukilteo and Colman Dock Ferry Terminal replacement projects. Hallock specializes in cooling, sound attenuation, and plumbing systems for projects that range from department stores to data centers. He is doing work at Sea-Tac airport. FSi provides mechanical engineering.

Stantec

Bettcher

Adam Bettcher of Stantec earned his Washington architectural license. He is an acoustician in the Lynnwood office. Stantec provides engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management and project economics.

Frontier Communications

Frontier Communications appointed Craig L. Collins to senior vice president, commercial sales and operations for the West Region: California, Oregon and Washington. He will be based in Southern California. Collins has over 24 years of senior leadership experience in communications and technology with Time Warner Cable, XO Communications, Intermedia, Bell Atlantic and AT&T.

Puget Sound Bank

Puget Sound Bank said Simon Bai has joined the company as vice president, financial reporting and analysis. Bai is a certified public accountant and holds an MBA from the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.