Apr 16, 2003

Helix Architecture

NewsBriefs:Helix Architecture announced several recent additions. Jaime E. Sanchez has 12 years experience in the design of schools, office, and retail facilities since graduating from Kansas State University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. He is currently assigned to Helix’ military projects at Fort Lewis and Portland Air National Guard, Oregon.

Paul E. Clark has 10 years experience in design/documents production for industrial and commercial projects. His current assignments include Port of Tacoma’s Pierce County Terminal and seismic repairs of multiple buildings at Western State Hospital in Lakewood.

Helix Architecture is a Tacoma-based firm with a staff of 20, offering architecture, planning, interior design and construction administration.

Parametrix

Steve Aisaka, senior structural engineer, recently joined Parametrix. Aisaka will be responsible for project execution and business development.

Aisaka has 23 years of project management and design experience, with emphasis on the design of bridges and other transportation-related projects, including rapid transit, aviation, rail, port facilities and tunneling projects.

His recent experience includes reconstruction of the Northeast Eighth Street interchange in Bellevue. Current projects include work for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities on the Glenn/Parks interchange project, as well as the statewide Programmatic EIS for replacement of failing bridges for the Oregon Department of Transportation.

George Suyama Architect

Jay Deguchi recently joined George Suyama Architects as a new partner. Deguchi has 15 years of architectural experience. After 30 years as George Suyama Architects, the firm's new name is Suyama Peterson Deguchi. Their address is 2324 Second Ave.

HDR

HDR recently hired Dan Olson, a professional engineer, as a senior project manager in its Bellevue office. Olson has 25 years of experience in public and private sector leadership, project management and construction management. He is certified as a project management professional.

Prior to joining HDR, Olson was general manager of the Northshore Utility District in north King County, providing potable water and sanitary sewer service for 65,000 people and businesses in north King County. He also held leadership positions with Seattle Public Utilities and the Seattle Water Department for 15 years as he managed the Construction Management, Specifications and Contracts, Real Property and Survey groups. Dan began his career as a project manager with PBA Consulting Engineers.

NBBJ

NBBJ recently named senior associates Kelly Coller, Kay Compton, Karen Dahlstrom, Scott Dunlap, Duncan Griffin, Gary Harris, Tom Henry, Wayne Hiranaka, Robert Leykam, Margaret Montgomery, Laurel Rech, Robert Smith, Duncan Thieme, Carl Tully, Tim Weyand, and Noel Whorton. New associates are Laurie Bert, Marnie Boomer, Jim A. Brennan, Billy Chen, Phil Duff, Ed Fajardo, Holger Fritsch, Dana Hollingshead, Keith Hui, Midge Hunnicutt, Duane Jonlin, Ross Leventhal, Marcus Lintault, Barney Mansavage, Andrew McCune, Gregory Menikoff, Yachun Peng, Jan Ralkowski, Scott Roaf, Claudia Ross, Tara Schneider, Leslie Synnestvedt, Lisa Tomich, and Natasha Turcinovic.

Cierra Associates

Stevan English has joined Cierra Associates, a Seattle electrical engineering firm, as a project manager. He has 33 years experience with electrical design, consulting and engineering for health care, high tech office, educational and Department of Defense facilities. English has managed electrical design for 10 million square feet of health care facilities for organizations such as Swedish Medical Center, Providence Hospital and Medical Center, Stanford Hospital and Kaiser Permanente. He recently managed the electrical design for MDS Pharma Services’ laboratory relocation in Bothell.

Elmo Acacio has been promoted to associate. He has 14 years of experience and joined Cierra two years ago as project manager. His responsibilities have focused on civic buildings such as the High Point Community Center Expansion, and medical facilities including numerous projects with Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Valley Medical Center and Providence Centralia Hospital.

Jon Gordon was promoted to senior designer. He has five years of CADD drafting and design experience, and has worked at Cierra since 1998. Gordon has a degree from Western Washington University in industrial technology. His projects include the Overlake Hospital Medical Center Outpatient Surgery Remodel, and Quest Diagnostics at Valley Medical Center.

Alan Tubis has joined the firm as a CADD drafter. He has three years of professional experience.

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.