Nov 30, 2022

Confluence Environmental Company

Potter

Love

Confluence Environmental Company has hired two staff members: Jenny Love as project biologist III and Sara Potter as project ecologist III.

Love has 17 years of experience in environmental assessment, habitat restoration project planning and design, and stormwater permitting and compliance. She conducts ecological restoration projects in wetland, stream, and upland forested habitat areas from the planning phase through design, permitting, construction, and monitoring. Love evaluates project permitting requirements and prepares documentation to meet local, state, and federal regulatory requirements. She also develops vegetation assessment and management plans, conducts wildlife surveys, and collects data to monitor habitat restoration projects.

Potter has eight years of experience providing permitting support for natural resources and land use projects, specializing in marine water quality and shoreline mitigation/restoration. Potter performs wetland studies, threatened and endangered species surveys, stream and nearshore surveys, marine mammal monitoring, and similar assessments. She has expertise in local, state, and federal environmental policies and regulations and she routinely conducts regulatory research and data synthesis and prepares documentation to meet local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.

Confluence Environmental Company is headquartered in Fremont and specializes in natural resource services; restoration/mitigation; and regulatory strategy, compliance, and permitting.

Johnston Architects

Johnson

Woll

Borsari

Baker

Johnston Architects has hired Lina Baker as an associate and interior designer, Sierra Borsari and Jake Woll as project architects, and Jay Johnson as an architect and project manager.

Baker, NCIDQ holds 15 years of experience in interior design with an emphasis on creative workplace, multi-family, mixed-use and senior housing projects. A graduate of Colorado State University with a BS in Interior Design, Baker's past projects include tenant improvements for Coffman Engineers, Verathon, and Microsoft; as well as interior design for Leeward, a mixed-use housing project in South Lake Union, and Murano Senior Living, a high-rise in First Hill. Joining JA as an associate, Baker is currently focusing on tenant improvements for civic clients, including renovations to the Sammamish City Hall and Edmonds Library.

Borsari, AIA earned her BS in Architecture from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as Masters Degrees in Architecture & Civil Engineering Construction Management from Washington University in Saint Louis. Borsari brings experience in multi-family developments, single-family houses, and hospitality projects, with a focus on sustainability. Her past projects include mid- and high-rise projects in Seattle's Downtown, Belltown and South Lake Union neighborhoods. A registered architect, Borsari is currently working as construction administration project architect for the new Redmond Senior & Community Center in Redmond, WA, a 56,000 SF facility being designed in collaboration with Opsis Architecture of Portland.

Woll, AIA joined JA as a student intern in 2021 before graduating with his Masters in Architecture from the University of Washington this year. Woll worked for nearly five years in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area on a diverse mix of project types after earning his BS in Architecture from the University of Minnesota. A recently licensed architect, at JA Woll is currently designing several single-family houses and supporting efforts on the Redmond Senior & Community Center. He is also applying his experience in visualization technology to streamline the firm's rendering process and give them a cohesive aesthetic across all project types.

Johnson, AIA, NCARB earned his Masters in Architecture from the University of Washington and has spent 18 years designing civic and community projects throughout the Puget Sound region, including the education, mass transit, and performing arts sectors. Some of his notable past projects include Rose Hill Middle School in Redmond, as well as multiple projects for the Sound Transit Link Light Rail extensions, including the Northgate, Rainier, Lynnwood City Center and University District Stations. Johnson is serving as the Project Manager for JA's Seattle Center On-Call Contract, which includes improvements to the Seattle Repertory Theater, Fisher Pavilion, Vera Project and Mercer Parking Garage buildings on the Seattle Center campus.

Makers Architecture and Urban Design

Aldape

LoRocco

Elliott

Makers Architecture and Urban Design LLP announced new staff recently hired in its Seattle and San Diego offices.

Gabriela Elliott has joined the firm as a facility planner based in the San Diego office, working with the federal facility planning team. She has two years of professional experience and a bachelor's degree in urban and environmental policy from Occidental College.

Joey LoRocco is a facility planner with a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Oregon. He is currently pursuing his architecture license and will be supporting Makers' federal facility planning team, which provides services for Department of Defense clients and other federal agencies.

Taylor Aldape is Makers' human resources specialist. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and eight years of experience in office administration and customer service. Prior to joining the firm, she was the HR and operations coordinator at a property management company of over 200 employees.

NAC Architecture

Bain

Brodie Bain, FAIA, AICP, LEED AP, has joined interdisciplinary design firm, NAC Architecture, as director of higher education planning. Her knowledge of physical planning for higher education will complement NAC's focus on the role of design in student live/learn success.

Bain's career as a registered architect and certified planner comes with a wealth of experience in campus planning, capital planning, programming, space utilization studies, land use, site planning, and pre-designs for a full range of campus building types. Her new role will be the impetus for exciting and innovative new perspectives from NAC's offices in Columbus, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Spokane.

Parametrix

Watson

Roché

Richard Roché, RG, LHG and Darby Watson, AICP have been promoted to senior vice president at Parametrix assuming overall leadership responsibility of their respective regions and serving on the company wide Operations Leadership Team.

Roché leads the Oregon and Southwest Washington region of the firm, which includes 120 staff with offices in Portland and Bend, Oregon and Vancouver. He has been with Parametrix since 2002 and has over 30 years of experience as an environmental consultant providing project and program management for industrial, data center, and public clients.

Watson leads the Puget Sound region of the firm, which includes 330 staff with offices in Seattle, Mukilteo, Bremerton, Puyallup, and Tacoma. She joined Parametrix in 2019 and has 26 years of experience overseeing transportation and urban planning programs.

Nov 23, 2022

Arcadis IBI Group

Fedorchenko

Hayes

Olt

Arcadis IBI Group announced the expansion of its Seattle architecture practice with the hiring of three new team members, Matthias Olt, Heather Hayes, and Melissa Fedorchenko. These new team members share expertise in the design of urban mixed-use and tall buildings. In addition, they specialize in design for complex inner-city projects, sustainability, and biophilia.

Olt joins the practice as an associate director – principal, architecture and will serve as the firm's Living+ lead, i.e., high-rise mixed-use, for the Seattle market. Olt brings more than 30 years of experience in architecture, design leadership, and sustainability. He has led the design of several high-profile mixed-use, residential, and commercial towers in the USA, Asia, MENA, and Europe. In 2022, he received an Innovation by Design Award from Fast Company for a use-neutral and adaptable building design. In 2017, under Arcadis CRTKL, he received an AIA Seattle Honors Award for the design of a conceptual mass timber tower in Seattle.

Olt is also an educator and architecture critic at Washington State University. In his new Living+ role with Arcadis IBI Group he will lead the design and implementation of residential, hospitality, and office mixed-use buildings.

Hayes is the firm's new regional leader of interior design and will provide strategic leadership for the company's interior design team across the US, with a special focus on Living+. In her nearly two decades as an interior designer, Hayes has worked on a diverse range of project types and scales, and she continues to serve on the Interior Design Advisory Board for Bellevue College. Her work includes award winning projects in hospitality, multi-family housing, and workplace.

Fedorchenko recently joined the team as an associate – interior design. She will be part of the interior design team, providing design leadership to projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. Fedorchenko brings with her over 15 years of design experience for a wide array of clients, most recently working within the multi-family housing sector in the Seattle area. She is also a professional mentor for local high school students.

Barghausen

French

Chesley

Ellis

Hale

Bruggman

Erolin

Deardorff

Reed

Barghausen Consulting Engineers, Inc., has welcomed five new employees and promoted three staff members internally since the start of September. The new hires include three survey team members, a new addition to the People and Culture team, and an architectural job captain. The promotions include a project engineer and two survey party chiefs. All the promoted and new employees are located out of the firm's Kent office.

New hire Kelsey Bruggman started at Barghausen on Sep. 26 as a talent acquisition specialist. Bruggman graduated from Washington State University with her bachelor's degree in human development with a minor in psychology, and a certificate in family studies. She previously worked as an HR specialist and a recruiter for a construction subcontractor. Her experience includes recruiting for positions across 12 branch locations.

Nicholas Hale joined Barghausen on Sept. 19 as a survey chainperson. Hale has previous experience in the survey field and has also worked as a construction worker for TD Construction, as well as working for the Union Pacific Railroad as a mechanical laborer. He graduated from Las Positas College with his associate of arts degree.

Stephen Ellis started at Barghausen on Sept. 12 as a survey chainperson. Ellis has previous experience working as a laborer and has a background in customer service. He also has a wide variety of knowledge with mechanical skills and trades.

Dustin Chesley joined the Barghausen team on Oct. 3, also as a survey chainperson. Chesley previously worked in both warehousing and manufacturing environments, as well as subcontracting with over 20 years of experience. He has several field certifications.

Harold French joined Barghausen on Oct. 31 as a job captain in the architecture department. French graduated from Green River college and has over 31 years of experience in a variety of different construction backgrounds, with his main passion being architecture.

The three promoted team members are Steven Reed, Yaughn Deardorff and Leo Erolin.

Reed joined the Barghausen team in 2020 and has developed into a well-rounded engineer, taking a leading role with some of the firm's biggest clients and most complex projects. He has technical excellence and has taken the lead on developing key management tools to ensure consistent quality control and task management.

Deardorff started at Barghausen in February of 2017. He has worked with several party chiefs over the years, proving himself to be knowledgeable and proficient in field survey work.

Erolin joined Barghausen in June of 2014 after starting his surveying journey in Hawaii. There, he worked alongside his father and uncle, both professional surveyors running their family's business. Over the last eight years Erolin has performed multiple roles at Barghausen, working both in the field and in the office.