Sep 06, 2000

CDM

Camp Dresser & McKee has named Charles H. Bolton to lead the firm's development in the Pacific Northwest. Bolton is a senior vice president who has worked nearly 35 years for CDM, a global consulting, engineering, construction and operations firm. He has served as program manager or senior officer on hundreds of water, wastewater, stormwater and related water resource projects in the United States and internationally. He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's degree in environmental engineering from the University of Florida. CDM is part of the CDM Philip team that is delivering the new Tolt treatment facilities for Seattle Public Utilities on a design/build/operate basis.

Ownership transition

A seminar on ownership transition for engineers, architects and environmental firms is being offered Sept. 28-29 in Tampa, Fla., by FMI Corp. Cost is $895. Multi-person discounts apply. For more information, contact FMI at (800) 877-1364; or go on-line at http://www.fminet.com.

SPEEA

Bill Dugovich has been named communications director for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, SPEEA, IFPTE Local 2001. He is president of Dugovich & Associates public relations agency.

CNA Architecture has hired several new employees.

Fred Allie has experience in facilities planning and construction of corporate, institutional, industrial and health care facilities. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the John Fluke Manufacturing Co. and Heery International. He will be working as project manager on renovation projects for Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.

Stephanie Seyk will specialize in project management, space planning and design. Most recently, she was the capital facilities planner for Community Transit and design and construction manager for the city of Phoenix.

As senior project manager, Kelly McBride has experience in planning, designing and managing retail, commercial, hospitality and residential projects. Her former employers include Kurt Jensen & Associates and Construction Management Team. McBride will be responsible for the overall coordination for Kirkland Parkplace redevelopment project.

John Espe joins the firm as project architect with experience in the planning, design and management of health care, technology and commercial properties. He had worked for Group Health Cooperative, NBBJ and Botesch-Nash Associates. With CNA, Espe will be project architect for clients such as Northwest Hospital.

McGranahan Architects has hired three new employees.

Justin Richardson Martino joins the firm as a project architect. His project experience includes U.S. embassies in Asia, capitol buildings, safety and transportation, and commercial and educational projects.

Virginia Calloway joins the firm as a receptionist. She has worked for United Way of Pierce County, Warn Industries and the Saturn Corp.

Kathy Anderson joins the firm as a marketing manager. She worked in promotion and sales at The Boeing Co and also operated her own graphic design and corporate consulting business in central Washington.

Stormwater Management

Stormwater Management has hired Scott de Ridder as environmental scientist. His responsibilities include development of new and existing stormwater devices.

The firm has added Ayn Generes and Matthew Griffin as project designers. Generes and Griffin will provide engineering support for the company’s “StormFilter” product to clients nationwide. Most recently, Generes was project designer at Pate Engineers of Houston.

Griffin comes to the company from Howard Environmental Services of Amherst, Mass., where he was a project designer.

Two new interns have joined ARC Architects, a Seattle firm.

Marc Furst, architectural intern, has been working on the design of office environments and corporate culture for the firm’s e-commerce clients. He graduated from Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and joined ARC after working at another Seattle firm.

Glenn Gardner comes to the firm with experience as an intern in California and Vancouver, B.C. At ARC, he has helped to complete design documentation for the $3.6 million Richland Community Center, and is currently working on the University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Center addition/renovation.

CDi Mechanical Enginners

NewsBriefs:Mari Hamasaki has been promoted to associate at CDi Mechanical Engineers.

Hamasaki is the project manager for the Seattle Justice Center, the University of Washington Suzzallo Library renovations, several projects at Olympic College in Bremerton and the State Legislative Building renovations in Olympia.

Marshall and Associates

NewsBriefs:Several new Geographic Information System programmers have joined the Olympia corporate headquarters of Marshall and Associates: Fenying Hao, Jay Florey, Edward Castellarin and Tommy Harlow.

Merritt + Pardini has hired several new staff members.

Scott Harm and Jim Bryant have joined the firm as senior project managers. Harm was most recently a principal at Anderson Koch & Smith and the managing partner of that firm’s San Diego office. He is the project manager for the Tacoma Convention Center. Bryant was most recently with CNA Architecture. He has experience with high-tech, bio-tech, religious and industrial facilities. He is working on the Redmond City Hall project.

Richard Pearse, Shintaro Goto and Ben Ferguson have joined the firm as intern architects. Pearse is working on the Alderwood Water District Administration Building, the city of Lynnwood Utility Operations Center, and Meadowbrook Bridge. Goto is also working on the Alderwood and Lynnwood projects. Ferguson is working on the Lakewood City Hall.

Michael Machnic has recently shifted his focus from the planning studio to the interior design studio. He is working on the Lakewood City Hall and the Lynnwood Justice Center space-planning project.

Dee Blondo is the firm’s new administrative manager, and will serve both the Tacoma and Seattle offices. Blondo has been working in the architecture and engineeering industries for more than 15 years, and was most recently with Parsons Brinckerhoff.