Apr 11, 2003

University of Washington

The University of Washington's College of Engineering will hold an open house on April 25 and 26. Exhibits and activities for the free event will be held in the campus engineering buildings. More information can be found at www.engr.washington.edu/openhouse/.

Apr 09, 2003

KPFF

Bryce Tupper of KPFF recently became a LEED accredited professional in the Puget Sound. Tupper is one of a few structural engineers in the area to pursue and receive LEED accreditation.

KPFF has been involved with numerous LEED projects, including the Jean Vollum Center, the first gold-rated preservation project in the nation, and the platinum-rated Bren Environmental Sciences and Management Building at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Locally, KPFF is working on several projects which are slated to receive a LEED rating: Seattle City Hall, Lake Washington Technical College, Seattle Shops Renovation, University of Tacoma Phase IIB, and the Southwest Police Precinct.

NBBJ

NBBJ has announced new principals Tom Owens, Martin Regge and Jerry Yin.

Yin is leading the design for the Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, and the $260 million Harborview Medical Center bond program. In 2002, two of his projects, the Swedish Cancer Institute and Bremerton Naval Hospital, won AIA Awards in Seattle.

Regge adds a design focus to NBBJ's planning practice. His work includes the master plan for the award-winning Bothell campus; Idaho Place, which is the University of Idaho's downtown Boise campus; the award-winning development vision for the University of Arizona's Science and Technology Park; as well as the current urban design for the areas surrounding the firm's new Seattle office.

Owens is NBBJ's in-house counsel. Prior to joining NBBJ in 1999, he worked with the firm Treece, Richdale, Malone, Corning & Abbott, where he was immersed in issues of construction law.

NBBJ is the second largest architectural firm in the United States, third largest in the world.

Callison Architecture

Callison Architecture, Inc. announced the promotion of three senior staff members to principal. The new principals are Tom Bowen, Steve Harmon and Ro Shroff. John Cochran is Callison’s new director of technical services.

Bowen is a principal in Callison’s stores studio and manages operations in New York City, responsible for design services, client relationships, business development and account management for the East Coast retail programs. Since joining Callison seven years ago, Bowen’s experience ranges from Nordstrom stores, numerous U.S. retail centers and many specialty retail projects, giving him a broad understanding of the retail store business. Bowen is currently working with national brands William Sonoma, Cole Haan, Guess, Yves Saint Laurent and Nike.

Harmon is a project manager working on mixed-use developments. Harmon is managing the Meydenbauer Center mixed-use development in Bellevue for Schnitzer Northwest. For the past year Harmon has also been acting as Callison’s coordinator to Insight Alliance, connecting with counterparts to facilitate alliance efforts at the office level. He is active on a number of large-scale projects in the Middle East for Dubai Palm Development including concept designs for the development of a new island off the coast of Dubai, the Al Nakheel residential community and The Gardens in Dubai, U.A.E.

Cochran was recently appointed by Gov. Gary Locke to the Washington State Building Code Council and to chair the Building, Fire and Plumbing Codes Committee. Cochran is an active member of the Construction Specifications Institute, the National Conference of Specifications Institute, the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, the Seattle AIA Continuing Education Committee, the National Fire Protection Association, the International Conference of Building Officials and BOCA International.

Ro Shroff has spent more than 20 years focused on planning and designing large-scale mixed-use, retail and entertainment-oriented developments around the world.

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.