Oct 18, 2023

HKS

Hampson

Global design firm HKS has welcomed Carl Hampson as a principal and regional design director based in the firm's new Seattle office. Hampson brings distinctive design influence to physical and mental health care, science and technology, higher education, and civic architecture. His work has earned numerous AIA design awards and industry accolades.

HKS opened its Seattle office at Rainier Square's 400 University office tower in the Central Business District.

PACE

Dodd

Foulk

Hill

Schouten

PACE welcomed several new employees during Q3.

Ryan Sheean joined the engineering firm as a senior project manager. He brings over 11 years of engineering experience. His expertise is in water resources and civil engineering. At PACE, Sheean will be responsible for delivering successful projects for the Water Resources team.

James Schouten III joined the PACE team as an engineer. Schouten III's background is in land development. This will be his first time joining a municipal team in Washington State. He brings an intense curiosity to learn more about practices in municipal engineering and effortless communication.

Tracy Hill joined PACE as a project accountant. She brings five years of experience. Hill has knowledge of Deltek Vision, experience with the engineering and architecture environment, and skills in accounting, contract management, and project planning. At PACE, she will be responsible for project billing and ensuring contracts and budgets are accurately entered into the firm's system.

Jared Foulk has joined PACE as an engineer. He has two years of experience. Foulk is a creative, critical thinker, organized, enjoys learning, and is skilled in problem-solving. At PACE, he will be responsible for stormwater design, reviews, and assisting the Land Development team.

Chip Dodd joined the team as a survey field technician. Dodd is new to the industry as he was a former community college geography instructor for 27 years. He will be responsible for topographical surveys, ALTA surveys, condominium surveys, horizontal and vertical control surveys, construction staking, boundary, and GPS Control surveys.

Also joining the PACE team are Jorge Garcia, survey field technician; Cole Smith, engineer; Alex Mathis, survey field technician; Eric Harmon, senior survey field technician; Marbella Coleman, engineering intern; Yekaterina Ionova, engineering intern; Jacob Keller, engineering intern.

Tarragon

Self

Waiss

Tarragon announced the promotions of Benjamin Waiss and Jake Self .

Waiss has been promoted to director of development. Waiss embarked on his Tarragon career in 2014 and has contributed to the development of the firm's industrial portfolio over the past nine years, notably on projects like Salmon Creek Corporate Park and SeaPORT Logistics Center in Sumner. Presently, he oversees all day-to-day operations at SeaPORT Logistics Center as well as Tarragon's other efforts throughout the Northwest. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts degree from Caroll College, where he specialized in Civil Engineering. Before transitioning to development, Waiss worked as a civil engineer at Huitt-Zollars. He is an active member of NAIOPWA and previously served as one of the Co-Chairs for NAIOPWA's South Sound Committee.

Self has been promoted to the position of development associate. Self started as an intern at Tarragon in 2023. He has become integral to the industrial team, contributing on projects in the Puget Sound region as well as Eastern Washington and Idaho. Before his time at Tarragon, he honed his skills at a brokerage firm, representing tenants and owners in the industrial sector. Self holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Washington State University.

Oct 11, 2023

Architects West

Lewis

Jacob Lewis has joined the team at Architects West as an intern architect. Lewis earned both his Bachelor's and Master of Architecture degrees from Washington State University. Current projects he is working on include the Inchelium School Modernization, Atlas Housing design, Salish & Kootenai Housing Authority designs, and the Silverwood Waterpark Expansion.

Cushing Terrell

Calla

Multidisciplinary design firm, Cushing Terrell, has promoted Tom Calla to the role of healthcare design director for the firm's healthcare group. Calla joins Tim Miller and Karl DeCock on the leadership team and will partner with DeCock to set the overall strategy and direction of the group with the goals of ensuring successful business pursuits; integrated, expert project teams; and superior client service.

Calla has 30 years of experience leading healthcare projects from conceptual design to final construction. Most recently, he served as director of the firm's architecture service sector and continues to serve as quality control manager for many of Cushing Terrell's large, complex healthcare projects.

He has been part of the firm's healthcare group for more than 20 years, serving as the lead architect on projects for BVA Healthcare, Humboldt General Hospital, and Saint Alphonsus, among many others. His experience ranges from hospital replacement projects and facility master planning to clinic remodels and everything in between.

DCI Engineers

Sibley

McCoy

Collins

Matkin

Klepin

Fox

McGrath

DCI Engineers announced the promotions of the following staff to associates and associate principals.

Mary Klepin, has been promoted to associate in the San Diego office. Klepin joined DCI nearly 10 years ago in 2014, immediately after she graduated from the University of California, San Diego with her Masters in structural engineering. At DCI, she has designed high-rise structures throughout southwest California with an emphasis on concrete design.

Stephen Matkin has been promoted to associate in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho office. After joining DCI in 2013, Matkin has worked on a variety of projects in the inland Northwest, including but not limited to commercial sites, healthcare, PK-12 schools and sports stadiums.

Chelsea Collins has been promoted to associate in DCI's Wilmington office. Collins has 20 years of valuable technical experience and communication skills. She carries a B.S. from the University of Virginia and a Master's in Structural Engineering from the University of California – Berkley. Her projects range in size from repairs and designing new elements for pre-existing structures to designing multi-story residential, commercial and educational projects.

Jordyn McCoy has been promoted to associate in the Seattle office. As the corporate marketing manager, McCoy has been integral in developing DCI's qualifications branding and managing the company's social media profiles. She has also spearheaded marketing initiatives for several DCI markets and works closely with the firm's Business Development and Communications teams. Since joining the firm in 2018, she has accelerated DCI's role as a thought leader through innovative story-telling and the introduction of new technologies used by her team and throughout the company.

Melissa Sibley has been promoted to associate principal in the Houston office. Sibley manages and leads DCI's Houston office and guides her team of engineers on a range of projects, including multi-family residential, affordable housing projects, healthcare, K-12 schools, mixed-use, and high-rises in the community and across the country.

Connor McGrath has been promoted to associate principal in the Wilmington office. McGrath attended the University of Delaware where he graduated in 2012 with a degree in structural engineering. He has been with the company for 10 years and in that time has designed projects of every size, market and material.

Sam Fox has been promoted to associate principal in the Bozeman, Montana office. Fox started at DCI in 2008 as an intern. Since then she has contributed to a variety of projects, specializing in the assessment and renovation of existing and historic structures, as well as heavy timber and log design. She is part of the Yellowstone National Park team and works to help restore the park's historic structures. Fox also provides full-service project management and construction support for a diverse range of other project types, such as single-family residences, K-12 and higher education buildings and adaptive reuse projects.

Weber Thompson

Meyer

Seattle-based architecture, interior design and landscape architecture firm, Weber Thompson, has promoted landscape architecture principal Rachael Meyer to director of sustainability.

In addition to her landscape architecture projects, Meyer will oversee the firm's sustainability initiatives with a focus on health and wellness, carbon reduction and stormwater management.

Meyer joined Weber Thompson in 2016 as the firm's landscape architecture principal. She has a background in the integrated design of highly sustainable urban developments. Meyer is the designer of Phase Two and Three of the award-winning Aurora Bioswales. She is also the designer of the public open space and green infrastructure at Northlake Commons.

In addition to her project work, Meyer is an accomplished speaker and author. She is the current co-chair of AIA Seattle's Honor Award Committee, and has served on boards for NAIOPWA, the UW Landscape Professional Advisory Committee, Architects without Borders and the Washington Association of Landscape Architects Executive Board.