Apr 04, 2000

PSF Mechanical

PSF Mechanical has named Jim Reynolds vice president. His new duties include oversight of the Engineering Department, sales and market development. Reynolds joined PSF in 1996 and has been in the HVAC industry since 1977. PSF also announced Doug Symmons has been promoted to sales manager. Symmons will manage PSF’s staff of sales and project managers for local and national projects. He has been with PSF for the past three years and has 17 years of experience in the HVAC field. PSF is celebrating its 100th anniversary in the Puget Sound area. The company provides design/build mechanical construction services.

Mar 29, 2000

BOORA Architects

BOORA Architects of Portland has added two new designers to its staff.

Mairi Nyhoff is working on a new 72,000-square-foot library, theatre and communication arts building at Linfield College. She has six years of experience on projects including assisted-living facilities, medical centers and housing.

Armin Quilici is working on two other projects at Linfield College. He is project designer and job captain for a campus post office and commons building, and he is on the project team for a new music building. Quilici's experience includes the renovation of St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle as well as multifamily and single-family housing.

David Evans and Associates

Michael Smith has joined the Tacoma office of David Evans and Associates as a project manager for the civil engineering division. He was employed with the Larkin Group in Albuquerque, N.M.

David Evans and Associates specializes in transportation engineering and planning, land development, environmental planning and water resources, and telecommunications with 24 offices throughout the United States.

Perteet Engineering

Jeanie James has joined Perteet Engineering as marketing coordinator. She has more than 30 years experience in graphic design, production and market research. Formerly with Safeco Insurance, James also owned a Mukilteo-based graphics business.

Perteet Engineering is a civil and transportation engineering firm with offices in Everett, Lakewood and Snoqualmie.

Sparling

Sparling, a Seattle electrical engineering and technology-consulting firm, has promoted four employees to associates.

Katrina Corbett has specialized in electrical engineering for commercial, healthcare, correctional, transportation and industrial facilities. She has worked for Sparling for about three years, designing electrical infrastructure upgrades at Olympic Memorial Hospital, a new medical clinic at McChord Air Force Base and the renovation and expansion of one of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport hotels.

Derek Holdt, who has worked for Sparling for 12 years, specializes in electrical engineering for new healthcare facilities, renovations and additions. He has designed extensively for the Harborview Medical Center and the Overlake Hospital Medical Center.

Timothy Janof has been with the firm for five years. He designs and manages electrical engineering in data centers, commercial, retail, military and industrial facilities. Janof has provided design for Real Networks, Microsoft, Bellevue Square and the Puget Sound Kidney Center.

Gail Jensen has experience in the design of electrical systems for data centers, commercial, medical, mixed-use and restaurant facilities. She has been with Sparling five years, and has worked on a number of projects for Microsoft, the Island Hospital Medical Office Building in Anacortes, the Replacement Hospital at Wyoming Medical Center and numerous tenant improvements at the 1101 Madison Medical Office Building in Seattle.

GeoEngineers

GeoEngineers has added several new employees.

Richard Duncan, associate, is developing new technologies designed to help the firm's pipeline clients with pipeline compliance demands. He is currently developing customized methods for terrain analysis, enhanced geohazard identification and corridor mapping. He will be working out of the firm's corporate office in Redmond.

Jim Rybock, principal, is the new leader of the ecological services and permitting group of GeoEngineers. He specializes in environmental consulting, permitting and environmental assessments. He will work out of the firm's the Seattle office.

Mel Walters, senior environmental scientist, formerly worked for Puget Sound Energy as manager of its auditing and PCB program. He is currently providing environmental auditing and compliance reviews for clients. He will work out of the Redmond office.

Hewitt Architects

Hewitt Architects has made several new additions to its staff.

Lasse Jaakola has 25 years in the professional practice of architecture, as an owner of both his own design firm and construction company, and with design firms in Seattle. Her residential projects at Roanoke Reef, Seattle's houseboat community on Lake Union, have been featured on national television and in local publications. Jaakola is currently working on 2121sixth.com, a commercial project with specialized electrical, mechanical, and structural systems suited to the telecommunications and Internet provider industries.

Doug Hofius has 15 years experience in architecture and as contractor, and previously owned his own construction firm. He is currently working on Welch Plaza, a mixed-use residential project in the Central District.

Jonah Ing has two years experience in architecture, having had a previous five-year career as an urban planner with particular emphasis on transportation. Ing is currently working on Sound Transit's Central LINK Light Rail SeaTac and Tukwila Stations.

Chatree Kowitanupong has four years experience in architecture gained in his native country, Thailand. He has a particular interest in environmental technology in building design and photography.

Opus Architects & Engineers

Valdis Ronis has been promoted to associate manager of architecture for Opus Architects & Engineers.

Ronis joined the company in 1997. Before his relocation to Seattle in 1999, he was the in-house architect for Opus South Corp.'s Orlando, Fla., office.

He is responsible for managing both in-house and outsourced design services for Opus Northwest's development projects in Seattle and Portland. He has more than 15 years of commercial design and architectural project management experience.

Opus Northwest is an affiliate of the Opus Group, a Minneapolis-based commercial design, construction, property management and development firm