Apr 07, 2003

Masins

Bob Masin, third generation owner and president of Masins Fine Furnishings & Interior Design in Seattle, received the National Home Furnishings Association's Retailer of the Year award. The award honors Masin for guiding his company through two disasters, an earthquake that severely damaged his Seattle store and a fire that destroyed his Bellevue store. Masins relocated the Bellevue store and has kept its Seattle store open, while making plans to remodel. The new Bellevue store is set to open this fall at the corner of Main and 108th Avenue. Remodel of the Seattle store is expected to begin in the fall, and will increase the showroom and designer offices.

Apr 02, 2003

NBBJ

NBBJ announced that Steve McConnell and Jay Halleran were made firm partners. Since joining NBBJ in 1990, McConnell has led the design and planning of such projects as the Reebok world headquarters in Boston and Samsung's Global Gateway in Korea, Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, and the new LEED-rated U.S. Federal Courthouse. He has taught architecture and design at the University of Washington.

Halleran is director of NBBJ's in-house cost management group. He is responsible for providing construction cost expertise throughout the design and construction of a project. Halleran joined NBBJ in 1980, where he has supervised the cost estimating and value engineering on more than 1,000 projects. He establishes a realistic capital cost of construction at the beginning of a project and then continues to monitor the financial management of the design. The approach allows the project to be bid/negotiated, documented, and completed within the agreed upon cost structure, and it helps architects, engineers, and owners to design to a cost while taking into account all the factors that affect design decisions.

Roth Hill Engineering Partners

Chris Ruiz has re-joined Roth Hill Engineering Partners as a full-time services coordinator working directly with project and group managers as a lead administrator.

Katie McMurray has joined as a full-time survey field technician in the land survey group.

Melanie Arnold joined the engineering services group as a design engineer for municipal utility projects.

Roth Hill Engineering Partners, a full-service civil engineering firm, serves public and private sector clients throughout the Puget Sound region from its principal office in Bellevue.

AHBL

AHBL announced the addition of Melissa Richey as marketing coordinator. She will assist with business development and marketing for AHBL's Seattle and Tacoma offices.

She joins AHBL following two years as a marketing specialist for IDmicro, Inc.. Richey holds a bachelor of arts in business from the University of Puget Sound.

AHBL offers services in civil and structural engineering, community planning, landscape architecture and land surveying. Founded in 1969, the firm has more than 75 employees and offices in Old Town, Tacoma and Pioneer Square.

Hammond Collier Wade Livingstone

Civil engineering firm Hammond Collier Wade Livingstone announced that design engineer Ann Epler has earned her professional engineering license, and has also been recognized by the Puget Sound Engineering Council as the 2002 Young Engineer of the Year.

Epler is active in the engineering community and, in particular, works to promote the profession to young people through her work with the American Society of Civil Engineers. She sits on the executive board of the ASCE’s Younger Member Forum and on numerous committees for the Seattle Section of ASCE. She plays a role on Hammond Collier’s wastewater engineering team, where she focuses on system planning and design for both municipal and private clients.

LMN Architects

LMN Architects recently elevated five individuals to firm leadership positions: Sam Miller to principal; and Steve DelFraino, Anne T. Herrick, Brian Nagele and Kathleen Stallings to associate.

Miller has more than 15 years of professional experience within the architectural, engineering and construction industries. He is a LEED accredited professional and one of the firm’s leading sustainable design experts. He recently spoke at the Green Building International Conference and Exposition in Austin, about the sustainable attributes of the new Seattle Central Library. As LMN’s project manager for the library, he provides leadership and management skills.

DelFraino joined LMN in 2000 and has become an integral member of the Seattle Central Library team. DelFraino has helped coordinate the curtain wall’s exterior skin and related structural systems.

Herrick has worked on a private residence in Seattle and the expansion to the Yakima Convention Center. She also served as the project architect for 2000 Third Avenue, a mixed-use office tower in downtown Seattle.

Nagele is working on LMN’s conceptual design of the New Music School for University of California, San Diego.

Stallings is instrumental in the development of the Everett Event Center, which is scheduled to be complete later this year, and she is now the project manager of the $100 million Cincinnati Convention Center Expansion.

Hart Crowser

Hart Crowser announced promotions in the Portland office. Stuart Albright has been named principal geotechnical engineer, and Taku Fuji has been promoted to senior associate toxicologist/sediment quality specialist.

Albright has been with the firm since 1999 and has 17 years of diverse geotechnical engineering experience that includes building and land development, roadways, bridges, dams, and landslide investigation. His recent projects include 192nd Avenue, Phase III for the city of Vancouver, and the Nike World Campus.

Fuji has 12 years of experience working on issues related to risk assessment and sediment contamination at hazardous waste sites, and he is an expert in developing and conducting ecological and human health risk assessments and designing, implementing and interpreting biological testing programs.

Mar 26, 2003

Pacland

Holly Patterson and Mark Papich recently joined Pacland as designers in the Seattle and Olympia offices, respectively. Pacland provides site development services, including site planning, land-use/permitting, civil engineering, transportation infrastructure design and landscape architecture.

AMEC

Tyler McCormick and Leslie Donley recently joined the Kirkland office of the international engineering firm AMEC, adding to the company's materials testing and marketing expertise in Washington. Additionally geologist Keith Schembs, a 13-year employee, has been named manager of AMEC's office in Tacoma.

McCormick is the new materials-testing manager for Washington operations; and Donley is marketing coordinator. McCormick is experienced in laboratory and field testing of soils, concrete and asphalt, and with field logging of test holes and monitoring-well installation for geotechnical and environmental projects.

Donley has more than 12 years experience as marketing coordinator for architecture and engineering firms. She has bachelor's degrees from California State University in Fresno and a public relations program certificate from the University of Washington. She is a member of the Seattle chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services and a former member of the American Marketing Association in Reno.

Schembs' geotechnical expertise includes commercial structures, roads, bridges, pipelines, municipal waste disposal projects and geologic hazards. He is a registered professional geologist and a member of the Association of Engineering Geologists and the American Institute of Professional Geologists. McCormick recently relocated from Farmington, N.M., where he managed AMEC's materials testing since 1998.

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Wilson Hu has been named associate at KPFF Consulting Engineers. Hu, a structural project manager, has 10 years experience working on commercial, transit and curtain wall projects.

Hu is the prime consultant project manager for the Eastgate Park-and-Ride Expansion, part of King County Metro’s multi-storied structured parking program. The expansion increases parking capacity to 1,700 stalls with a 1,400-stall parking structure. Hu works directly with King County, and leads a team of 12 subconsultants. He is also project manager for the Tzu Chi Foundation’s Tan Tzu Medical Center in Taiwan. Upon completion, it will be the largest base-isolated building in the world. His previous work includes Bentall’s Five Newport and The Summit in Bellevue, and the curtain wall design of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the John Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Established in 1960, KPFF is a civil and structural engineering firm with 10 offices nationwide.

T.E., Inc.

T.E., Inc., a mechanical and electrical consulting firm, announced the promotion of Joel G. Mortenson, to principal. He has been serving as the assistant department head for three years.

Paal K. Ryan has also been promoted to principal. He has held the mechanical department head position for two years.