Dec 05, 1995

WSU

Washington State University civil engineering professor Roy Pellerin has been named Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory director. He succeeds Tom Maloney. Pellerin has been on the teaching faculty at WSU since 1985 and specializes in non-destructive testing and structural properties of wood. He is co-inventor of 12 patented systems for grading wood, testing beams, tensile measurement, axial load testing and evaluating the mechanical properties of composite materials.

Burke Concrete Accessories

Dywidag Systems International USA Inc. has designated Burke Concrete Accessories as its distributor of Dywidag form tie systems for medium and heavy concrete forming applications in Washington, Oregon, northern California and northern Nevada. Burke, a concrete construction equipment distributor, has offices locally in Kent, Everett and Portland.

ASHRAE

Claire Barrett has been named manager of technical services of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. She will coordinate the society's technical committee activities and answer a wide range of technical inquiries from the public. Barrett was formerly a mechanical/process engineer for Bechtel. She holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University.

CSI exam

An application deadline of Dec. 15 has been announced for the Construction Specification Institute's Certified Construction Product Representative examination. The exam will be given March 30, 1996, in more than 80 cities in the United States. The exam and related program are open to all construction product representatives who have passed CSI's Construction Documents Technology exam, have at least one year experience representing one construction product line, and have assisted in preparing technical specifications sections. CSI has also announced a Dec. 15 application deadline for its Certified Construction Specifier examination, which will given March 30, 1996. The exam and related program are open to anyone in the construction industry who has at least five years of experience in a construction design discipline, who has prepared or supervised the preparation of construction documents, and who has passed CSI's Construction Documents Technology examination. For further information, or to request an application, contact CSI at (800) 689-2900, or write: CSI, 601 Madison St., Alexandria, VA 22314-1791.

Environmental cost accounting seminar

A live, interactive satellite seminar entitled "Environmental Cost Accounting and Capital Budgeting for Small and Midsize Manufacturers" will be held on Dec. 13 from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Design for the Environment group, the seminar will focus on the connection between environmental cost accounting and investment decision-making, and will introduce total cost assessment as an improved approach to conventional accounting practices. Two case studies will be presented, including Precision Circuits of Lynnwood, which recently completed a collaborative project with the Pollution Prevention Research Center and the University of Washington to test the usefulness of total cost assessment as a cost-assessment tool. The small manufacturer of printed circuit boards assessed the purchase of plastic coated racks to eliminate a nitric acid strip bath and a chemistry change in the waste treatment process to minimize waste generation. A video about the company's experience will be shown, and a representative will participate in the interactive portion of the seminar. For information about downlink locations or arranging a downlink site, contact Blaine Howerton at National Technological University at (970) 495-6423. Contact Jason Omenn at PPRC at (206) 223-1151 for details about the downlink location in Seattle.

Foster Wheeler gets $14 million contract

CLINTON, N.J. (BW) -- Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp. has been awarded a Technology Management Support (TMS) contract with Battelle Memorial Institute's Pacific Northwest Laboratories (PNL) in Richland. The potential $14 million, two-year, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract is designed to provide PNL with support in assessing, developing, demonstrating, and deploying technologies to solve environmental, energy, and national security problems at Department of Energy (DOE) and other federal agency facilities under Battelle's prime contract with DOE. Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp. is an international environmental consulting, engineering, and construction firm employing over 1,800 people in a range of environmental sciences and engineering disciplines.

Dec 01, 1995

Parallel Communications

Parallel Communications, a marketing communications firm based in Redmond, has hired four new employees. Ken Ray joins Parallel as online development manager. He spent five years with DDB Needham in Los Angeles managing the agency's computer systems, and developed expertise in project management and applications development while working in the software industry. Larry Roy, software engineer, formerly was with Integrated Technologies in Bothell, working as a programmer and software engineer on data acquisition and control systems. At Parallel Communications, he designs and writes Internet program applications to support client and agency Web sites. Mark Pace has been hired as multimedia director. Previously, Pace helped set up print production for Murdoch Magazines in New York. He also has done work as a freelance multimedia developer for a variety of Seattle-area multimedia companies. Shi Lee is the agency's newest graphic designer. Lee was hired after an internship with the company this summer.

Real estate course offered

South Seattle Community College will offer "Successful home buying and selling" real estate course this winter quarter. It is a three-part series designed to cover all aspects of the home buying and selling process. The courses will be held Feb. 29, Mar. 7 and 14, 6:00 -9:30 p.m., $45. For registration information contact the Continuing Education Division at (206) 764-5339.