Feb 02, 1999

Environmental engineering courses at UW

SEATTLE -- The University of Washington's Engineering Professional Programs is offering five environmental courses this spring. They are:

• March 17 and 18, Groundwater Monitoring for Water Purveyors;
• March 25 and 26, Alternative On-Site Stormwater Management Techniques;
• April 7 and 8, Stormwater Treatment by Media Filtration;
• April 15, 16 and 17, Quarternary and Engineering Geology of the Central and Southern Puget Sound Lowland; and
• May 12 and 13, Design and Retrofit of Culverts in the Northwest for Fish Passage.

Sellen Construction

Sellen Construction Co. recently hired two veteran project managers and promoted two existing employees to the role of project engineer. Al Bergman and Pat Burns are the company's new project managers. Bergman has 24 years of experience, including eight buildings and the Augusta project for Microsoft, Carillon Point in Kirkland and Sheraton hotels in Seattle and Monterey. Burns has 16 years of experience that has involved work on eight Nordstrom stores across the country, including the new flagship store in downtown Seattle. New project engineers at Sellen include Chris King and Ross Rosenow. King recently completed the Highline Community Hospital addition and Rosenow is working at Swedish Medical Center.

DLR Group

Erling Olsen of the DLR Group in Seattle has been elected a "fellow" to the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Olsen is a senior mechanical engineer and senior associate at DLR. He specializes in HVAC systems design, energy management controls and several other fields.

Ferguson Construction

Seattle-based Ferguson Construction recently won a 1998 National Construction Industry Safety Excellence Award from The Business Roundtable. Ferguson was one of two general contractors in the country to earn the award. The company was cited for its on-site safety while working with owners, architects and engineers to ensure an overall safe workplace. The Business Roundtable is an association of CEOs of leading U.S. corporations.

Feb 01, 1999

H2K Inc.

Gary Henderson, Wendy Kennedy and Garrett Kuhlman have formed H2K Inc. and have opened offices at 1904 Third Ave., Suite 102 in downtown Seattle. The design group will focus on private, multi-family residential and hospitality work.

Jan 29, 1999

Artifex

Artifex, a web development and graphic design company, has recently moved to downtown Tacoma.

The Foster Co.

The Foster Co. of Bellevue has created a new program offering temporary property management for apartment owners who have fallen behind on management tasks. The three-step program is designed to help owners of small- to medium-sized apartment houses avoid paying professional management companies on an ongoing basis. Paying for full-time management costs up to 5 percent of an apartment property's gross income, Foster officials say. During the temporary management period, Foster performs a feasibility study for the property. Calculated are the costs to make upgrades, how long it will take to recover the costs, the future rental income potential, expense breakdown and value evaluation based on cash flow. The Foster Co., which has been in business in the Puget Sound region for 24 years providing real estate brokerage and development services, is headed by Jim Foster. Joe Seppa, a commercial real estate agent and property manager, works with Foster.

Jan 27, 1999

LMN

LMN Architects has announced that James M. Brown, Mark Hinshaw, David Matthews, Sherrill Myers, Wendy Pautz, Dave Schneider, and David Van Galen have been promoted to principal. Brown has been instrumental in the design of more than 10 convention centers and as well as Benaroya Hall's main auditorium and the Dane County Exposition Center Expansion in Texas. Currently, he is working on the Memphis Performing Arts Auditorium and Convention Center and an addition to the fine arts building at Adams State College in Colorado. As an architect and urban planner, Hinshaw has provided urban design and community planning services to local governments, prepared master plans for public facilities, developed design guidelines for public agencies, and created comprehensive commercial district plans. His major recent projects at LMN include urban planning for the city of Flagstaff, Ariz., the Downtown Tacoma Plan and a comprehensive plan for Lenexa, Kan. He writes a regular column on architecture for The Seattle Times and his book, "Citistate Seattle," will be published in March of this year. As LMN's quality assurance coordinator, Matthews has been responsible for developing the firm's construction document and administration standards. He has established overall LMN policies and procedures. His recent projects include Redmond Town Center, Washington State Convention and Trade Center Expansion, and Seattle Children's Theater Technical Pavilion. Myers has 25 years of experience and a national reputation in the design of theaters, performing arts facilities and large scale urban design projects. He was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to author the "Theater Facility Impact Study," a comprehensive analysis of regional theater design and planning that received the NEA award for excellence. Currently, he is the project manager for the new Technical Pavilion wing of the Seattle Children's Theatre and Adams State College Performing Arts Theater in southern Colorado. Over the past three years, Pautz has been instrumental in the completion of several performing arts projects, including the Seattle Opera House Renovation Study and the Seafirst Performing Arts Center in Wenatchee. She is currently at work on the Museum of Flight expansion study. Schneider has over 14 years of experience in retail, commercial and education projects with a particular expertise in project management. Recently, he was involved in the planning, design and construction of over 20 buildings at Redmond Town Center. He is also currently the project manager for the Civica office complex in downtown Bellevue. Van Galen's recent work includes the Washington State Convention and Trade Center Expansion, project design for the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Headquarters, and design team leadership for the exterior of Benaroya Hall. Currently, he is leading design of the Electrical Engineering/Computer Science Engineering Building for the University of Washington. David Arnold, Shirley Chiu, Vern Cooley, Wayne Flood, Jane Hendricks, David Johnson, Richard Johnson, Patreese Martin, Bob Mohr, Pragnesh Parikh, Christine Scharrer and Charles Stadler have been promoted to associate at LMN. Recently joining LMN as associates are Robin Dalton, director of interior design, and Jim Gearhard, CAD manager. Dalton has 12 years of experience in a wide variety of architectural projects that have included commercial, hospitality, health care, restaurant, performing arts and residential work. She comes to LMN from Kaplan-McLaughlin-Diaz following nine years with NBBJ. Gearhard has over 14 years of architectural production experience with a focus on developing and refining the standards and techniques used in computer-aided drafting and design. Gearhard was recently the studio CAD lead for Callison Architecture's retail studio, where he developed many of that firm's current CAD production standards.

R.W. Beck

Khurram Khan has joined R.W. Beck, adding to the firm's expertise in telecommunications engineering. He was recently with Edmonton Power in Alberta, Canada, where he has involved in the design specification and commissioning of communication systems for operating several telecommunications technologies, managing capital projects and offering operating and maintenance advice.

Mulvanny

Peng Heng Teo has been promoted to principal-in-charge of the international division at Mulvanny Architects. He has been with the firm since 1990. The firm's large commercial clients include Costco, Nike, Sears, Fred Meyer, HomeBase and Office Max.

AHR

Ray Carden has joined AHR as staff scientist and manager of "direct push" field services, which include soil core sampling, discrete point groundwater sampling, soil gas sampling and small diameter well installation. He was previously with Vironex Environmental Field Services.

CG Engineering

Jeff Haynes has joined CG Engineering of Edmonds as civil project manager. He is currently working on site development plans for a design-build medical facility in Bothell. Frank Unocic has been staff engineer for a year and is currently working on Rodland Toyota while finishing his master's degree in structural engineering at the University of Washington. Other additions to the staff at CG Engineering include staff engineer Kevin Sabler, CAD specialist and designer Sharon Koch, and bookkeeper/marketing coordinator Amanda Jones.

Yaletown

Brian Austin has joined Yaletown Technology Group, a Kirkland information-technology consulting firm specializing in decision support systems and electronic document management. Austin was previously business manager for Carlson Architects, and has also been business manager and regional administrative manager for Dames & Moore.