Jan 25, 2000

AGI adds staff

AGI Technologies, an environmental engineering and consulting firm, has added several new people in its Bellevue office.

Scott L. Hardman is the firm's newest associate. A geotechnical engineer, he brings more than 15 years' experience to AGI. He has worked on buildings, dams, bridges and roads in Washington, Oregon, Utah and California.

Of the other newcomers at AGI, Russ Gerads has joined as a lab technician; Betty Gibbons is a chemist; Kevin Roth is an equipment technician; Mary Trute is a lab technician; and Jonathan Turcott is a staff engineer.

AGI specializes in environmental engineering and management, remediation, water resources and construction. Last April the firm merged with Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc. (CDM).

New and notable at Associated Earth Sciences

John Strunk and Kurt Merriman have received promotions at Associated Earth Sciences, Inc. Heidi Maki has joined in marketing.

Strunk, of the firm's West Sound office on Bainbridge Island, is an associate geologist with 15 years' experience in the environmental and water resources industries. He has done hydrogeologic evaluations, water supply development and hazardous and solid waste investigations.

Merriman, and associate engineer with 17 years' experience, focuses on commercial, municipal, health care, education and housing developments and facilities. He is a specialist in geotechnical engineering and geologic hazards. Merriman works in the firm's Kirkland headquarters.

Maki formerly worked with Coughlin Porter Lundeen and Northwest Architectural Co. She will manage production of marketing materials and expansion of the firm's marketing database in Kirkland.

Six newcomers at Landau Associates

Landau Associates, a 70-person environmental engineering and consulting firm, has added staff in several of its Northwest offices.

Mark Whitson has joined the Portland office as a senior environmental engineer. He has 17 years of experience in management of site investigations and feasibility studies for contaminated sites. Ryan Reich, a staff geologist with two years of environmental experience, has joined Landau's Spokane office. In the Edmonds office, Steven Wright, a senior geotechnical engineer with seven years' experience, has joined the team. Tim Hammermeister, an eight-year specialist in sediment management and ecological risk assessment, has joined the firm's natural resources group as a senior project environmental scientist. Reid Carscaddeu, a senior engineer with 14 years' experience in water resources, mining, remediation and geotechnical projects, also has joined. Bruce Sheldon is the new manager of Landau's graphic arts and CAD department.

Jan 19, 2000

Bucher, Willis & Ratliff

Jimmy Lin, a principal of Bucher, Willis & Ratliff, was recently elected president of the International Chinese Transportation Professionals Association. Its members include government officials and public and private professionals from North America, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Lin has also been chosen chairman of the upcoming ICTPA annual meeting to be held in Hong Kong.

BWR is an engineering, planning and architecture firm based in Kansas City. The firm has a local office in Seattle.

Degenkolb Engineers

Stacy Bartoletti has been promoted to associate at Degenkolb Engineers. Bartoletti, who joined the firm in 1993, manages several projects for the Hewlett-Packard Co. He is assisting in an investigation of Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing facilities following the country's earthquake last summer.

Teri Larsen has been promoted to regional office coordinator.

Matthew Cavaness, who joined the firm as a temporary drafter, has been promoted to project CAD specialist as a permanent employee.

Jim Snow, who worked in the firm's San Francisco office, has joined the Portland office. He is working on projects in Corvallis for Hewlett-Packard and in Salt Lake City for the Mormon church.

Franco Albi, a recent civil engineering graduate, has also joined the firm. He is performing seismic evaluations nationwide for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

David Nilles, who recently received his master's degree in structural engineering from Stanford University, has joined the firm. He is working on a seismic strengthening project for Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis.

Degenkolb Engineers is an employee-owned structural engineering firm based in Portland. It specializes in earthquake engineering and also provides seismic evaluations.

Hough Beck & Baird

Pamela Neuman has rejoined Hough Beck & Baird to assist with business development. Neuman had been with Hough Beck & Baird for eight years before leaving in 1996. She brings 10 years of marketing and sales experience to the firm.

Henry Boyar has recently joined Hough Beck & Baird Inc. as a senior associate. Most recently, Boyar was principal of Boyar Associates. He has more than 23 years of experience in landscape architecture and urban design services. His current projects include the Longfellow Creek habitat restoration in West Seattle.

Entranco

Phillip Odegard, a civil engineer, has been re-hired by Entranco. He joins the firm's Helena, Mont., office as transportation group manager. He was a transportation project manager for Entranco's Bellevue office from 1985 to 1995.

Odegard has more than 20 years of experience in all phases of highway, street and drainage facility design. He joins the firm after working as a project manager for RH2, an engineering firm in Wenatchee.

Entranco is a Bellevue-based engineering firm with offices in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Utah.

KJM

David Pells, program management consultant for KJM & Associates, has been named a fellow of the Project Management Institute, a not-for-profit professional association. Fellowship is the highest honor conferred to its members.

Pells managed the first global project management forum in 1995. A business graduate of the University of Washington Pells is a consultant on the "Sound Move" transit program in Seattle.

KJM is a Bellevue-based project and construction management firm with several offices in the western United States.

Robert W. Droll, Landscape Architect

Alan Rice, project manager with Robert W. Droll, Landscape Architect, has completed Washingtons landscape architecture registration examination and is now a licensed landscape architect in the state.

Rice has been the project manager for Providence Walk at Saint Peter's Hospital, the city of Lacey's Marvin Road and Britton Parkway, Fairplex Park in Los Angeles and Northpoint for the Port of Olympia.