Apr 05, 2023

Coughlin Porter Lundeen

Ternes

Ayling

Dixon

Frizzell

Sempel

Coughlin Porter Lundeen announced the following promotions; Jackie Sempel, Ben Frizzell, Eric Dixon and Andrew Ayling have been promoted to associate principal; Marie Ternes and Jason Whitney are now structural associates; Bart Balko has been promoted to senior civil project manager; Nick Jacoby is now a structural project manager; and Ryan Goodwin is now a civil project manager.

Goodwin

Jacoby

Balko

Whitney

Sempel is recognized by project teams, both internally and externally, for her leadership skills. She has been very involved in development and training and has been a central figure at the firm's civil group's Wednesday Lunch and Learn sessions to the highest level of engagement witnessed in years. She's is also a driving force behind the Employee Engagement Task Group.

Frizzell was an intern at Coughlin Porter Lundeen while attending Seattle University. Today, he specializes in education and multi-unit residential projects. Recent successes include Enumclaw High School, the new Bethel High School, Hobson Place, and three projects in the Esterra Park Development. He's also been involved in renovation projects including Queen Anne Exchange and PaliHotel Seattle. He has developed great relationships with affordable housing providers Mercy Housing Northwest, Community Roots Housing, and others, and volunteers with the Housing Development Consortium.

Dixon has a broad portfolio of office, multi-unit residential, research laboratories, as well as PreK-12 and higher education projects. He was raised in Eastern Washington and graduated from Washington State University before joining Coughlin Porter Lundeen 16 years ago. He serves as a leader in the structural design of the Microsoft Campus Modernization project. Internally, he's also helped integrate processes and programs into the workflow of the structural group.

Outside the office, he is a champion of NAIOP's annual Community Enhancement event.

Ayling has led the design of some of Coughlin Porter Lundeen's largest projects, including the massive Microsoft Campus Modernization project, and others in the office and multi-unit residential markets. He's a project manager, an advocate for mentorship and continued learning, and the firm's in-house master of concrete design and code.

Leading Coughlin Porter Lundeen's internal concrete training program, Ayling has implemented a more formal approach to continuous learning. Last year, he coordinated 27 biweekly sessions, and empowered other staff members to teach sessions.

Ternes is a project manager and gives much time and talent to helping shape the future landscape of the firm and local AEC. She helped found Coughlin Porter Lundeen's Women's Leadership Group four years ago, and then the Employee Engagement Task Group. Outside the office, she co-chairs ULI Northwest's Young Leaders Group and has participated on multiple panels with CREW Seattle and NAIOP. Most recently, she helped establish the Why Not More Women series with GLY Construction.

Whitney joined Coughlin Porter Lundeen an intern and has built his career here. Today, he's a project manager, mentor, and details expert. He's currently responsible for several large, complicated projects. His knowledge extends to various structural systems and materials, including mass timber. He's achieved recognition as a thought leader in that growing community and serves as a valuable resource for clients and partners, as mass timber projects gain momentum in the Northwest.

Balko has compiled an impressive list of project successes in his 20-year tenure at Coughlin Porter Lundeen. He began his career at Coughlin Porter Lundeen after graduating from Washington State University with his master's degree. Today, he manages the firm's two large Meta-Facebook projects in Redmond as well as a Microsoft campus expansion project.

Jacoby's portfolio includes multifamily, healthcare, and higher education projects. He's known for an unwavering positive attitude, and keeping a level head under pressure and adversity.

Goodwin has been a key player in some of Coughlin Porter Lundeen's most complex and sensitive projects. Projects like Cougar Mountain Middle School in Issaquah, Bellevue 600, West Main, and many others. He has also established a standout relationship with City of Bellevue officials, especially as they drafted and implemented new code.

Hargis

Susorova

Bloedel

Anton

Lynn

Hargis Engineers announced the promotion of two professionals into their leadership team, and the recognition of two new associates. Levi Lynn and Suje Anton have been promoted to senior associate. Bradley Bloedel (mechanical) and Irina Susorova (energy services), join the associate team.

Lynn, a security and telecommunications specialist, has contributed program leadership to support Hargis' international retail fulfillment and high-technology clients. Leading enterprise security programs throughout North America. Anton brings forth continuity to Fortune 100 and 500 operations. Bloedel, a 2015 Hargis intern, provides project leadership across public and privately developed projects. Susorova, a resident architect, leads enclosure commissioning and energy conservation projects for Fortune 100, 500 and public visionaries.

Parametrix

Young

Elisa Young, JD, CDE has joined Parametrix as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has over 15 years of experience specializing in organizational transformation through strategic planning, policy development, supplier diversity, and workforce development.

Young comes to Parametrix from the City of Seattle where she served as director of equity and policy, providing high-level policy and operational direction on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and programs impacting over 600 employees.

She holds a Juris Doctorate degree from The Ohio State University and is a certified diversity executive.

At Parametrix, she joins the Enterprise Leadership Team, providing vision, leadership, and counsel in the creation of a welcoming and respectful environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, and promotes workplace excellence.

Mar 29, 2023

Public47 Architects

Laurencelle

Kwon

Jackson

Cox

Buckbee

Public47 Architects has announced a new associate group which will include Hayley Buckbee, Martha Cox, Steven Jackson, Jon Kwon, and Mike Laurencelle. This associate group will provide additional leadership as the firm moves forward into its second decade.

Raised and educated in the Pacific Northwest, Buckbee is a graduate of Portland State University and received her Master of Architecture degree from University of Washington. She has worked on various project sizes and types ranging from residential remodels to urban mixed-use. In addition to her work with Public, she co-runs a site-specific art installation collaborative and has taught architectural studio at UW.

Cox is a licensed architect with ten years of experience on a wide range of projects with a growing expertise in mass timber. She is deeply involved in ULI Northwest, serving on the local multi-family product council as well as co-chairing the ULI Northwest Young Leaders Group Board. She was recently awarded the ULI Prologis Achievement Award. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Rice University.

Jackson, a graduate of the University of Colorado and University of Washington's Master of Architecture program, is a licensed architect with a background in furniture design and fabrication. Many of his projects have dealt with challenging sites and complex zoning issues.

Kwon is a licensed architect with over 30 years of experience on a wide range of projects from police precincts to downtown towers to single-family homes. He is detail-oriented and brings technical expertise to the team while serving as a mentor to the younger staff.

An east-coast transplant and University of Washington graduate, Laurencelle has worked on a variety of project types including urban mixed-use, adaptive reuse, and multifamily housing exploring high-performance building technologies and mass timber construction. He is also a certified Construction Document Technologist.

RMC

Williard

Cuthrell

RMC Architects has hired Ellie Cuthrell as a design professional. Cuthrell received a Bachelor of Architecture in 2022 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She also minored in Computer Science.

She is currently working on State Street Creamery in Bellingham. The project is a multifamily/commercial site capacity study for 98 units of housing with ground floor commercial space. She is also working on the Skagit Valley College Learning Commons project in Mount Vernon, WA. Using her considerable graphic and CAD rendering skills, Cuthrell will assist RMC with visualizing design concepts for a variety of building types.

RMC has also promoted Jason Williard AIA, LEED AP to principal. As part of the firm's strategic plan to ensure a successful future, this promotion recognizes the importance of ushering in a new generation of leadership.

Williard joined RMC in 2006. He has worked on some of RMC's most notable projects, including Peoples Bank in the Barkley Financial District, the Rocket Building in the Fairhaven Historic District, Spring Street Landing on the Friday Harbor Waterfront, and Bellingham Public Schools District Office Building, currently in progress.

Cushing Terrell

Stewart

Kevin Stewart has joined Cushing Terrell as food and beverage design studio director. Stewart will lead new business pursuits, strategic partnership development, and client relationship management for the firm's food and beverage work.

Stewart brings more than 20 years of experience to the Cushing Terrell team, ranging from hospitality, food and beverage, and cultural projects to commercial office, mixed-use, multi-family, and single-family residential projects.

Stewart will support Cushing Terrell's strategic goal to expand its food and beverage work for clients across the United States. This will involve increasing awareness of the firm's project experience and multidisciplinary capabilities, continuing to grow the food and beverage team, and identifying opportunities to support current and new clients with their project needs.

Prior to joining Cushing Terrell, Stewart was the principal and founder of his own architecture firm, Design Hound, based in Austin, Texas. Earlier, he worked for several architecture firms in Texas and Arizona, serving in the roles of project manager and project architect, as well as leading marketing, client relations, and staff management and development. He has experience in all aspects of the design process, from conceptual design and production to construction documents and contractor team management. He is a registered architect in the states of Arizona, Idaho, and Texas.

ZGF Architects

Griffes

Grey

Rabe

Brennan

Strong

ZGF has promoted the following team members to pricipal; Kendall Strong, Marty Brennan, Justin Rabe, Flavia Grey and Chris Griffes.

Strong is an architect with nearly 20 years of experience working on complex healthcare projects, from outpatient facilities to a major children's hospital expansion. She advocates for the integration of sustainable design features whenever possible.

As a project manager, Strong is actively involved in all aspects of day-to-day project operations from programming through construction.

Brennan, AIA, WELL APA, is an architect, sustainability leader, and light health researcher with 15 years of experience. In addition to supporting project teams, he has helped developed multiple open-source tools for carbon reduction and daylighting analysis, co-authored applied research papers, and spoken on international stages about various sustainability and public health topics. He was also a light concept advisor for the WELL Building Institute.

Rabe, PE, is an architect and technical designer with extensive background in healthcare and higher education projects. His two decades of combined architecture and engineering expertise allows him to engage in all project phases, from developing design and phasing strategies, to ensuring the chosen building systems are compatible with the project goals, to leading construction documentation and administration efforts.

Grey, PhD, leads ZGF's firm-wide data strategy and research development efforts, championing the use of data-driven solutions to aid in design development, decision making, and performance evaluation across all project typologies and phases. As a Stanford University researcher, Grey has authored a variety of peer-reviewed studies examining the connections between building design, sustainability, occupant wellbeing and productivity. She regularly speaks and guest-lectures on these topics.

Griffes, RA, CDT, LEED AP, brings over four decades of experience as an architect and project manager, specializing in the technical components of projects and refinement of the documentation process. Today he spends most of his time staffing and hiring, ensuring that project teams have the right talent and staff are working on projects aligned with their goals and skillsets.