Feb 01, 2000

Systems Interface

Systems Interface, a Bothell-based engineering corporation, announced the addition of Kenneth Schiebel as project engineer. Schiebel was employed as an engineer by Matrix Technologies in Ohio prior to joining Systems Interface. He will be involved in the design, test and programming of industrial cooling systems.

Jan 28, 2000

Tera Computer

Dean Thornton, former president of the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, has joined the board of directors of Tera Computer Co., a Seattle-based designer of high-performance computer systems. Thornton said Tera's technology is the "future of high performance computing." He retired from Boeing in 1994.

Jan 26, 2000

Associated Earth Sciences

John Strunk has been promoted to associate geologist at Associated Earth Sciences Bainbridge Island office. Strunks professional experience includes hydrogeologic evaluations, water supply development and hazardous and solid waste investigations.

Kurt Merriman has been promoted to associate engineer at ESIs Kirkland office. Merriman experience includes geotechnical engineering and geologic hazards.

Heidi Maki recently joined AESIs Kirkland office. Maki has nine years of experience with Coughlin Porter Lundeen and the Northwest Architectural Co.

Matthew Miller also has joined the firms Kirkland office. Most recently with David Evans & Associates, Miller has experience completing geotechnical studies in the Pacific Northwest, including residential plat development, commercial office buildings and industrial facilities.

Associated Earth Sciences is a geotechnical engineering firm with offices in Kirkland and Bainbridge Island.

Berger/ABAM

Aaron Savage has been promoted to senior graphic designer at Berger/ABAM Engineers in Federal Way.

Garry Hagness has been promoted to senior graphic designer at the firm. Ginny Edwards has been promoted to senior word processor.

A subsidiary of Louis Berger International, an engineering firm based in East Orange, N.J., Berger/ABAM specializes in public works, transportation and waterfront

GeoEngineers

Rob Smith, senior scientist and technical systems developer, and Joanne Markert, project Geographic Information Systems analyst, have joined GeoEngineers corporate office in Redmond.

Smith specializes in the design and development of database applications and GIS.

Markert has seven years of experience creating, maintaining and presenting environmental databases. She previously worked for the Washington Department of Transportation, where she was a GIS database analyst.

In the Tacoma office, Terry Parks, a geologic engineer, was promoted to principal. Parks specializes in soil and ground water remediation.

The Portland office promoted Doug Schwarm, a geotechnical engineer, to associate.

GeoEngineers is a geotechnical firm offering environmental, geologic, ground water, GIS and Endangered Species Act consulting services.

PAE

PAE Consulting Engineers, a mechanical, electrical engineering and lighting design firm in Portland, has added three employees to its staff.

Bob Jones joins PAE with 20 years of electrical design experience in the areas of commercial, industrial, institutional and advanced technology facilities. He is working on the Multnomah Building, the Whitman College Campus Center and the Good Samaritan Hospital master plan.

Liesl Hammer joins the firm as a mechanical engineer. Hammer is working on the Memorial Coliseum Study and the Northwest Regional Education Service Department Service Center.

Tina Stenquist has joined the firm as an electrical engineer. She is currently working on Portland International Airport's Terminal South Expansion Phase II project.

Cary Kopczynski & Co.

Cary Kopczynski & Co., a Bellevue-based structural engineering firm, has hired Ryan Slaybaugh and Tim Henson.

Slaybaugh is providing construction administration services for Westlake Tower, a 31-story concrete residential building in downtown Seattle; and has also been working on the Columbia Tech Tower, an office building in Vancouver, Wash.

Henson is working on the Bellevue Square Expansion and the Fourth and Blanchard Apartments in Seattle.

3Di

Scott Russell has been hired as director of business development for the Western region at 3Di, a geospatial technologies firm. Russell will work out of the company's Eugene location.

Joetta Zablotney has joined the firm as branch manager of its Bellevue office. Zablotney has more than 12 years experience in environmental consulting, GIS application development and project management.

The Transpo Group

Three engineers have joined The Transpo Group, a traffic engineering and planning firm in Kirkland.

Clyde Scott, a senior transportation planner, has 20 years of traffic modeling experience. His current project assignments include transportation plans for Redmond and Tukwila and an evaluation of travel demands for the State Route 509 extension project near the Seattle Tacoma International Airport.

Dan McKinney is a transportation planner with five years of experience. He is working on the city of Spokane's comprehensive plan, the Fremont Boulevard mixed-use development, a Home Depot in Olympia and several school projects.

Kevin Collins, transportation engineer, joined Transpo following graduation from the University of Washington. He is assisting the traffic engineering design department with traffic signal and illumination design for the Blakely Ridge Urban planned development northeast of Redmond.

W&H Pacific

Robert France has been hired as director of engineering services at W&H Pacific. Prior to joining the firm, France spent six years at PacifiCorp in Portland.

Rebecca Slick has joined the firms as director of site development and land services. Slick worked as a market and real estate manager for KOLL Telecommunications Services in Portland.

W&H Pacific is a planning, engineering and surveying firm headquartered in Seattle

CECW Engineering Excellence Awards tonight

@NewsBriefs:The Consulting Engineers Council of Washington is holding its annual Engineering Excellence Awards banquet tonight at 7:30 in the W Hotel in downtown Seattle. An awards preview will be held at 6:30 p.m. on the second floor. Firms submitted projects in one of five categories, including studies and research; structural systems; environmental; wastewater and water resources; and transportation.

One firm will be nominated to compete in the awards program for the national Consulting Engineers Council. Local comedian and television personality Ross Shafer will be the master of ceremonies for the event.

The Consulting Engineers Council of Washington is a professional trade association representing 185 consulting engineering, land surveying and planning firms statewide.

Business psychologist speaker at CECW winter meeting

@NewsBriefs:Judith Kennedy, a business psychologist with more than 15 years of experience working with organizations, will be the keynote speaker at the Consulting Engineers Council of Washington winter meeting today.

The meeting will be held at noon in the W Hotel Seattle on Fourth Avenue and Seneca Street in downtown Seattle. Kennedy will talk about the qualities of successful leadership and the traits that impede effective leadership. Following her presentation, she will hold a workshop.

New architectural firm sets up shop

@NewsBriefs:John DeForest and Scott Ogden have formed DeForest Ogden design office, a new architectural firm in Seattle.

DeForest, a Seattle native, was previously a project manager with Stephen Sullivan Architects and has also been associated with firms in San Francisco and Connecticut. He is a graduate of Harvard's Graduate School of Design and Yale University.

Ogden was most recently a project manager with Wanzer Munizza Design Studio. He has worked for other local firms including Integrus and WaterLeaf. Originally from Ohio, he is also a graduate of Harvard's GSD.

Both principals are licensed architects with more than 18 years of combined experience in residential, commercial and institutional projects.

DeForest Ogden design office is located at 80 Yesler Way, suite 310. The phone number is (206) 262-0820. The firms Web site is http://www.do-2.com.

Arcade Magazine announces design competition

@NewsBriefs:Arcade Magazine, a nonprofit quarterly journal about architecture and design in the Pacific Northwest, is sponsoring a design competition in which, it might be said, less is more.

On one sheet of 8.5-inch by 10.25-inch paper, each entrant should submit one plan, one section and one sentence describing a complete, designed or speculative building. The contest is open to any architect in the Northwest United States or western Canada. No pre-registration is required and there are no entry fees. Students are not permitted to participate, but unregistered architects are eligible. The complete prospectus is available on the Web site http://www.arcadejournal.com. The entries are due on March 2.

The jurors are Crystal Coleman, an architect working in Seattle for Zimmer Gunsul Frasca, Jerry Garcia, the principal designer at U.n.d., and Glenn Weiss, a writer on architecture at Seattle Magazine and Arcade.

The prize is publication in Arcade magazine. All legitimate entries will be published electronically for six months on the Web site http://www.arcadejournal.com.

Callison takes to the slopes with Calif. resort projects

@NewsBriefs:Seattle-based Callison Architecture has been selected by Intrawest, the owner, developer and manager of resort properties, to provide architectural and interior design services for its newest project, The Village at Mammoth.

Located in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., the complex includes three multiple-story lodges with 265 residential units that surrounding pedestrian plazas and a gondola ski lift. More than 60,000 square feet of retail will front on the new plazas and existing arterial.

Construction is expected to begin in May of 2000 with completion scheduled for November 2001.

In addition to The Village at Mammoth, Callison, Intrawest and Mammoth Mountain are working together to build Juniper Springs Lodge, Eagle Lodge Base Camp and Sunstone Lodge in Mammoth Lakes. Juniper Springs Lodge is a 174-unit resort/condominium that includes a pool, sports facilities and meeting rooms. Eagle Lodge Base Camp is a skier day lodge consisting of retail and meeting space, restaurants and skier services. Sunstone Lodge is an all-season resort with 77-condominium units, pool and fitness center.

ASCE and Paul Dorpat highlight public works projects

@NewsBriefs:The Seattle Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers is hosting on Wednesday, Feb. 9 a dinner discussion and slide show with local historian Paul Dorpat about interesting engineering works around Washington state.

The dinner will be held at the Ballard Yankee Diner, on 5300 24th Ave. N.W. The cost is $16.

The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour, followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and a business meeting at 7:30 p.m. The program starts at 8 p.m. Call (206) 632-2667 for reservations.

Jenny Sue Brown Award goes to McGranahan CEO

@NewsBriefs:The Jenny Sue Brown Award, the highest award the American Institute of Architects Washington Council can bestow on an architect, was given to Gary Chandler, president and chief executive officer of McGranahan Architects.

The award was established in 1992 by the AIA Washington Council to acknowledge architects in the state who have given extraordinary service to the professions and selfless effort in promoting and advancing a favorable climate in which to practice architecture. Chandler was a member of the Oversight Committee on Alternative Public Works Delivery Methods under Govs. Lowry and Locke and has served as officer, task force member, committee chair and board member on more than 30 AIA local, state, regional and national boards and committees. He also has been active in a number of public policy initiatives related to the construction industry in Washington.

Chandler has been with McGranahan architects for 19 years. His projects include the Pierce County Jail, the state Department of Ecology Headquarters in Lacey, Phase II of the University of Washington Tacoma Campus Expansion and the Denney Juvenile Justice Center in Everett.

Asphalt Paving Association donates $57.6 K

@NewsBriefs:The Asphalt Paving Association of Washington, which says it is the single largest source of scholarship funds offered to the University of Washington Civil and Environmental Engineering College, has selected 32 students to receive $1,800 in scholarship assistance. The award also includes summer job opportunities within the paving industry. Recipients attend the University of Washington, Washington State University, Gonzaga University and the University of Alaska. More than 100 students applied for this years scholarship program.

The Asphalt Paving Association of Washington is a nonprofit trade association of producers of Hot-Mix asphalt pavement materials.

Idaho D.O.T. declares CivilTech Corp. a DBE

@NewsBriefs:Bellevue-based CivilTech Corp., a structural, geotechnical, and software engineering firm, has been certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) by the State of Idaho Transportation Department