Jan 16, 1996

Washington Industry receives grant

OLYMPIA -- Key Technology, Inc. of Walla Walla will receive a federal matching grant of $153,000 to demonstrate a new technology designed to save energy and water and reduce waste, said Judith Merchant, Washington State Energy office director. Key Technology manufactures process automation and electro-optical inspection systems for the food processing industry. In this particular project, the company will demonstrate a new blanching system that captures and recirculates unused steam, reducing water use, energy consumption and wastewater generation. The grant will demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology for many applications in the food processing industry. "We feel the potential for energy savings is tremendous," said Tom Madsen, president of Key Technology. The U.S. Department of Energy and the EPA funded the grant through a program entitled National Industrial Competitiveness through Energy and Economics. In order to receive funding, projects must demonstrate new technologies which reduce initial energy use, reduce waste generated by industrial processes, and improve process economics.

SCS announces new hire

BELLEVUE -- SCS Engineers of Bellevue recently hired Clyde N. Moore, P.E. as manager of the company's landfill/landfill gas group. He brings to the firm more than 20 years of experience in planning, design construction administration and management of civil engineering projects. His areas or expertise include landfill siting, capacity evaluation, design, operations and closure plans, gas control systems, leachate collection systems and sewer and leachate pump stations. Prior to joining SCS, Moore spent 10 years with a local environmental consulting firm where he served as manager of the hazardous waste group and 11 years with King County solid Waste Division where he served both as a supervising engineer and solid waste supervisor. SCS Engineers is a $40 million environmental consulting firm specializing in solid waste and hazardous substances management.

Court lets owl ruling stand

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court today left standing the designation of some 6.8 million acres of federal land in Oregon, Washington and California as protected "critical habitat" for the northern spotted owl. The justices, without comment, rejected an Oregon county's arguments aimed at setting aside the critical-habitat designation Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt made in 1992 under the Endangered Species Act. In the spotted owl case, lawyers for Douglas County, Ore., contended that Babbitt violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to file the required environmental impact statements before making the designation. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, however, that no such impact statements are required when the secretary makes critical-habitat decisions. "Congress intended that the (Endangered Species Act) critical-habitat procedures displace the NEPA requirements," the appeals court ruled last year. The spotted owl was designated a threatened species in 1990, and Interior subsequently identified areas essential to its conservation that may require special management consideration or protection. Douglas County, located in heavily forested southwestern Oregon, owns more than 4,000 acres contiguous to or within national forest land. About two-thirds of the county's annual operating budget is derived from federal timber sale receipts, and much of its property tax base is tied to the timber industry. The county sued Babbitt and two environmental groups -- Headwaters and Umpqua Valley Audubon Society -- after learning that Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not plan to file an environmental impact statement in compliance with NEPA.

Jan 12, 1996

imagio

The Seattle-based advertising, design and marketing firm imagio has hired Sarah Makar as director of client services and Nellie Sanger as production manager. Makar comes to imagio from Wunderman Cato Johnson in Newport Beach, Calif., where she managed the on-site marketing programs for Taco Bell including strategic planning, budget forecasting and creative development. Prior to that, she was with Janzen & Associates in Seattle. Sanger has spent time studying abroad, fine-tuning both her language skills and fine-arts technique.

Sorensen receives SIOR

Kurt Sorensen, associate broker at Kidder, Mathews & Segner, Inc., has been awarded the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) designation. The designation is awarded to professionals who have a minimum of seven years industrial or office real estate experience, have maintained a very high level of transaction and sales volume, and successfully completed specified courses and exams. Only 28 commercial real estate agents in the state hold the SIOR designation.

Windermere

Judy Cook, Cathy Boorman, and Mary Ann Arnold have joined Windermere Real Estate's Kirkland office as associates. Cook, associate broker, has 10 years of real estate experience, working with Prudential Preferred Properties and Coldwell Banker. Boorman joins Windermere as a sales associate, with nine years of real estate experience, most recently with Prudential Preferred Properties. Arnold, sales associate, has been in the industry for nine years, and has also worked with Prudential Preferred Properties. Joan and Darrel Whittaker have been named to the ownership of Windermere Real Estate's Northeast office in Kirkland. Joan will be handling the day-to-day sales and office management while Darrell will focus on business support and development. Windermere Real Estate's Northwest and Oak Harbor offices recently relocated to two new custom-designed buildings. The Northwest office, located at 125th and Greenwood in North Seattle's Broadview neighborhood, now occupies most of the first floor of a three-story, mixed-use building. The office currently has 35 sales associates with the ability to expand to 42. The Oak Harbor office on Whidbey Island, will be the anchor tenant of the new 10,000 square foot Windermere Building. Christopher Holden has joined the Federal Way office as a sales associate. Holden has been practicing real estate for one year with All-American Homes and Century 21. Kimberly Stohr and Dalton Wong have joined the Bellevue Commons office and Jennifer Raby will begin her real estate career with the Redmond office as a sales associate.

Jan 10, 1996

Enterprise

Enterprise, an information technology staffing company serving the Seattle area and other markets nationwide, has changed its name to 1-800-NETWORK. Parent company MacTemps Inc., an international supplier of Macintosh and PC/Windows experts for short and long-term assignments, has renamed the unit to reflect more clearly its focus on providing contract staffing for computer networking. Contractors supplied by 1-800-NETWORK include network administrators, analysts, architects and managers experienced in such areas as Novell Netware, Windows NT, UNIX and TCP/IP.

The Regional Transit Authority

King County Executive Gary Locke has appointed Kirkland City Councilmember and former Mayor Dave Russell and new King County Councilmember Rob McKenna to fill two King County vacancies on the board of the Regional Transit Authority. The two fill the unexpired terms of Bellevue Mayor Don Davidson and King County Councilmember Bruce Laing, both of whom chose not to seek reelection. Both appointments must be confirmed by the King County Council. Russell is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Washington. He just stepped down on Jan. 1 after four years as Mayor of Kirkland. McKenna has been an attorney in corporate practice and is a former member of the Bellevue Alliance for Transportation Solutions. He was elected in November to succeed Laing as King County Councilmember representing District 6.

Entranco

Entranco has announced the names of seven new shareholders. They include Ed Murray and Ralph Nelson, both of the Bellevue office. Others are Jay Van Echo of the Tucson office and Jack Allen, Steve Boschen, Don Manthe and Laurie Roden of the Phoenix office. With 20 years of excperience in the environmentla sciences, Murray recently completed an environmnetal impct statement review for the City of Issaquah's Comprehensive Plan. He is leading a multi-disciplinary team in envirionmental studies for the Allen Street Bridge in Kelso. Nelson who works in the environmental sciences and engineering fields, is now serving as project manager for the Ruddell Road Stormwater Treatment facility in Lacey and for the design of a regional infiltration basin in Pierce County.

LMN

Rex Allen has joined the staff of Loschky Marquardt & Nesholm (LMN) Architects. His project experience includes the Anchorage Fifth Avenue Mall, the South Towne Center Mall in Sandy, Utah, the Lakewood Mall in Tacoma and Bellvue Place. At LMN, he will serve as project manager for Gresham Station and Redmond Town Center.

Mayor/Reed

Mayor/Reed of Portland has added several employees to the staff. Paul Sorenson will be responsible for the groups mass transportaitn projects, for Tri-Met and the Portland International Airport. Glen Marcusen, a graphic designer, is working on print, exhibit and signing projects for the Oregon Symphony, the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center and Porltand Community College. Christina Laliberte has also joined the visul communications group as a graphic designer. She is working on signage for the Wahsington County justice Complex. David Taylor is a CAD draftsman, responsible for technical documents production. Martha Koerner, a landscape planner, has joined Rayer/Reed's landscape architecture group. She is working on site planning for a housing project and a community center.

CivilTech

Julie Huang is now president of CivilTech. Formerly with ABKJ, her experience includes structural design for bridges, buildings, utilities and marine structures. Daniel W. Symonds who has spent five years as senior technical advisor in the structural group at HNTB and eight years technical direcor and associate at KPFF, is now a senior structural engineer fo CivilTech. James Su is the principal of CivilTech. He holds a doctorate in geotechnical engineering from Wahsington State University and a degree in structural engineeinrg from Tongji University in Shanghsi, China. He recently worked for Dames & Moore for ove three years.

ASID

Donna Koziol has been elected the new president of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Washington State Chapter for 1995-1996. She has been principal if Inside Dimensions of Bellvue and taught in the Bellevue Community College Interior Design Program. She has also been corporate interior designer for Safeco Insurance, Co.