Jul 09, 2002

Downtown Seattle Association

New officers for the Downtown Seattle Association board of trustees are Matt Griffin, Pine Street Group, chairman; Mike Flynn, Puget Sound Business Journal, first vice chair; Carla Murray, Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers, vice chair; and Mark Houtchens, Vance Corp., treasurer. John C. McCullough of Phillips McCullough Wilson Hill & Fikso will remain as general counsel. Also, new board members are former Seattle mayor Norman Rice, Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle; George Griffin, Gogerty Stark Marriott; Pat Callahan, Equity Office Properties; and David Yuan, NBBJ.

UW Center for Urban Horticulture

The Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington has so far raised more than $400,000 to help rebuild buildings lost to arson last May. The center is allowing donors to purchase floor tiles with an engraved leaf pattern and donor's names to pave the new center's lobby. For information visit www.urbanhort.org. Other funding sources include the Miller Charitable Fund of Seattle, which has pledged matching funds and the Northwest Horticultural Society, which has established a $55,000 fund and pledged an additional $200,000 for library furnishings and shelving.

Jul 03, 2002

Sider+Byers

Mechanical engineering firm Sider+Byers Associates has promoted Goren Hattatoglu to associate.

Since joining Sider+Byers as a project manager in 1998, Hattatoglu has designed mechanical systems for the Fifth & Bell Building in Seattle, the Mount Baker Kidney Center in Bellingham, the Maintenance Operations Center for the city of Issaquah and hotels in four western states. He is currently managing LEED design for the Traugott Terrace project in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle.

KJM

Nina Marquis has joined the Bellevue office of KJM & Associates as project controls specialist.

Marquis has 16 years of experience in project controls, executive administration and project management. Most recently, she has been managing cost allocation and budgeting for construction, arts, legal and creative services contracts with a transportation agency.

KJM & Associates, a Bellevue-based national program and construction management consulting firm, specializes in managing and controlling project time, cost and quality.

Steven Lee has joined the Bellevue office of KJM scheduler. Lee has 13 years of experience in construction management, fixed facility, and remedial project management and project controls including planning, scheduling, cost control and construction. During the last two years, he has worked for Pacific project management as a senior project controls engineer serving as the lead scheduling engineer for the systems engineering consultant team for the Sound Transit Light Rail Project, and also as a project manager specializing in claims for Clark Consulting Group.

Emick Howard

Emick Howard & Seibert, an architecture, interior design and strategic facility planning firm, announced the addition of R. Joseph Keith to the staff. As a project architect, Keith will provide architecture, interior design and project management services for the firm. He has a background in commercial and residential architecture and retail store planning and design.

Most recently, Keith managed his own contract design service company and previously worked for Starbucks in project management, and retail design in Seattle and Japan. Keith has also worked for Whitely Jacobsen and Associates in Seattle and for two firms located in London.

Parametrix

Parametrix recently hired senior project engineer Mike Flanigan. Flanigan will be responsible for both project execution and business development in the Portland area. The addition of Flanigan increases capacity in the areas of hydraulic engineering and analysis in the Portland office.

Flanigan brings 14 years of experience in hydraulic engineering including hydraulic analysis and design for gravity and pressure pipelines, treatment plants, and pumping station design as well as hydraulic transient analysis. Current project work for Parametrix includes the preliminary design for a large-scale water reclamation project for Washington State University. The design will incorporate a new pipeline to deliver up to 1.5 million gallons of reclaimed water for the city of Pullman and the university’s irrigation systems.

McGowan Broz

William Waldrop has rejoined McGowan Broz Engineers as a senior electrical designer after a one-year absence. Waldrop will work primarily in municipal, industrial and institutional projects. Currently he is assigned to various projects at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and a substation replacement project at the Phillips 66 Refinery in Ferndale.

McGowan Broz is a mechanical and electrical engineering firm located in Bellevue, serving commercial, high technology, industrial, utility and municipal clients, primarily in the Puget Sound area.

Jul 02, 2002

Emurasoft

Emurasoft has relocated to a new office in Redmond from its former Bellevue location. Emurasoft was incorporated in 1995 in Tsukuba, Japan, and the Bellevue office opened in July, 2001. Emurasoft is a custom Windows software developer. Services and products include custom software development, localization of software and Web sites, and graphic design.