Mar 07, 2000

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

Christine Allen, public service counsel at Foster Pepper & Shefelman, has developed a curriculum for a fully staffed free program designed to teach individuals how to represent themselves in court. Individuals who represent themselves in court, known as pro se litigants can now enroll in the complimentary classes at the Seattle law firm by contacting Allen at (206) 447-5347 or emailing her at allec@foster.com.

AHM Services Corp.

Paul Jackson, a senior health and safety and environmental consultant, has joined AHM Services Corp., as the principal and director of operations at its new office in SeaTac. AHM's serves primarily construction project management. It provides management solutions for construction safety and hazardous material concerns, and also provides related laboratory services.

Mar 01, 2000

BRC

BRC Acoustics, a Seattle firm, has promoted two employees and hired a third new staff member.

Ioana Park, who recently became a licensed professional engineer in acoustics, has been promoted to senior acoustical consultant. She specializes in environmental noise control.

Mohamed Ait Allaoua, who has been with BRC for three years as a technician, has been promoted to acoustical consultant. He works primarily in architectural acoustics.

Andi Strasser recently joined the firm as a technician. He will be conducting analyses of mechanical noise control and vibration.

CBG

CBG Consulting Engineers, a mechanical and electrical engineering firm, has named John Karasaki, energy services manager, as an associate. He has been with the firm for five years.

Dale Heberling, electrical engineer, also has been promoted to an associate. He has more than 13 years of industry experience with a background in electrical and life safety systems. His current projects include two new elementary schools for the Hillsboro (Ore.) School District and the Northwest School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland.

DCI

Kathryn Emery will head the civil department at the newly relocated Everett office of DCI Engineers. She is currently civil project manager at the Bellevue corporate office. Emery has nearly 20 years of professional experience.

Her current projects include Eastgate Plaza, a multistory office building in the Eastgate area of King County, the Northup Commons Office Building in Bellevue, the Blier Office Building in Kirkland and the Cedar Park Assembly of God in Bothell.

DCI Engineers is a structural and civil engineering firm based in Bellevue with branch offices in Everett, Spokane and Portland.

David Evans and Associates

David Evans and Associates has hired Dennis Derickson as a senior planner in its Everett office. Derickson worked as a city and county planner in Washington state for about 30 years.

He is working on the Harbor Pointe Master Plan in Mukilteo and the Cassidy Ridge Development in Snohomish County.

Eric Williams, who recently passed his landscape architecture examination, was promoted to project manager for the firm's landscape architecture group in Tacoma.

Based in Bellevue, DEA is a consulting firm of engineers, scientists, surveyors and planners.

Degenkolb Engineers

David Roggenkamp has been promoted to principal at Degenkolb Engineers, a structural engineering firm based in Portland. He joined the firm in 1997 and has 25 years of professional experience in the design of structures, rehabilitation, seismic analysis and excavation shoring systems.

Roggenkamp is the project manger for several projects, including a seismic upgrade for the city of Portland's groundwater pump station and the Portland International Airport's enplaning roadway canopy.

HBB

Wayne Williams has joined Halvorson, Beach & Bower as an associate and project manager. He has 11 years of professional experience with a focus on educational, office, recreational, health care, restaurant and institutional projects.

He is working on the Island County Courthouse remodel, a groundwater heat pump system for the Lake Washington School District and the new music building at Edmonds Community College.

Based in Seattle, HBB provides mechanical engineering services and performs energy and cost studies.

Sparling

Sparling has named James Degnan as a principal in the firm. Degnan, who has been with Sparling for five years, has more than 21 years experience in the design of power, lighting and emergency and security systems for commercial, industrial, aviation and transportation facilities.

He is in charge of the central terminal redevelopment at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, electrical design for a 60,000-square-foot seminar building at The Evergreen State College and electrical design for a three-story office building and garage at Redmond Town Center.

W&H Pacific

Tom Huntsinger has been named vice president of Portland operations at W&H Pacific, a planning, engineering and surveying firm based in Seattle. He worked as deputy general manager of the transportation division for an international company.

Michael Schmid has been named vice president of project management of the Portland office. He is the incoming president of the Consulting Engineers Council of Oregon.

The firm has also named James Purkey as survey director of the Seattle office. Most recently, he was assistant survey director for Entranco.

INCA

Mike Gillespie has joined INCA Engineers in Bellevue as a senior project manager in INCA's transportation department. His 20 years of engineering experience includes several years with the cities of Shoreline and Lynnwood and 12 years with the King County Department of Public Works, Roads Division.