May 14, 2003

FSi Consulting Engineers

FSi Consulting Engineers and the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers announced Shawn Bliss is the first recipient of the Richard L. Temkin Fire Protection Engineering Scholarship. Bliss is a student at the University of Ulster, Ireland, where she is currently working toward a master's in fire safety engineering.

Richard Temkin was a principal and fire protection engineer at FSi consulting engineers for over 12 years until his unexpected death in October 2002. The scholarship promotes the interest and education of engineers who want to increase their knowledge about fire protection and life safety practices.

Bliss will be participating in distance-learning studies followed by intensive "block release" learning periods at the University of Ulster. Her educational focus will be centered on life/safety requirements and the understanding of fire dynamics, detection, suppression, material fire-resistivity and human behavior in an effort to make buildings safer environments.

SvR Design

Staeheli

SvR Design Co., a civil engineering, landscape architecture and environmental restoration firm, hired several people in its Seattle office: Seth Doull and Erich Ellis join as civil design engineers. Shohreh Nassiri is a CAD and GIS technician. Melanie Mills and Jean Wu join SvR's landscape architecture group, and Sekela Raab joins as a receptionist.

Peg Staeheli, principal of SvR Design Company, was recently elected to serve on the Seattle Pedestrian Advisory Board.

CollinsWoerman

CollinsWoerman, a Bellevue-based architecture, planning and design firm, added John Swolgaard, Shawn Rush, Chien Chen, Steven Kane, Kevin Otteson and Eric Sales to its 85-member team.

As a senior project manager, Swolgaard brings more than 30 years of experience to CollinsWoerman, with expertise in commercial architecture, urban planning and community design. Rush, with more than 20 years of experience in architecture, interiors and facilities project management, is currently working on corporate and health care interiors. With 15 years experience as a project designer, architect and interior designer, Chen joins CollinsWoerman as a project manager.

Kane is a project manager/project architect with 17 years experience and will lend his expertise to CollinsWoerman's health care, corporate and commercial projects. Otteson is as an intern architect with experience in commercial retail, office projects, light industrial and mixed-use multi-family projects. Sales joins CollinsWoerman as an intern architect with experience in architectural design, CAD documentation, presentation drawing and site surveying.

Hutteball & Oremus Architecture

Robbins

Hutteball & Oremus Architecture has added Mark Robbins. Robbins is a registered architect with 19 years experience designing and managing architectural projects for corporate office and public educational facilities. He is working on the Maltby and Fryelands elementary schools for the Monroe School District.

Condon-Johnson & Associates

Parmantier

Condon-Johnson & Associates announced Dominic Parmantier has joined the civil engineering company as project manager in the geotechnical division. Parmantier has expertise in the fields of evacuation support, jet grouting, compaction and permeation grouting. He will work in the firm's Tukwila office.

Berger/ABAM Engineers

Ding

Walton

Ruji Ding recently joined Berger/ABAM Engineers as a Grade VI project engineer in the firm’s downtown Seattle office. Ding has nine years of professional experience in civil engineering design for highway, roadway, railroad, drainage system, container terminal infrastructure, and large site development for local and national agencies. Ding has been providing civil engineering services for the firm’s interim facilities engineering contract for the Seattle Monorail project.

Amie Walton has been promoted to Grade IV engineer with Berger/ABAM. Walton is based in the firm’s downtown Seattle office, and has been a member of the Berger/ABAM team for four years. Recent projects include the Language Training Facility and Tactical Equipment Complex at Fort Lewis for the Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

May 07, 2003

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

Miller

Cinamon

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson announced David Miller and David Cinamon have joined the Seattle office. Miller previously worked in the firm's Berkeley office and served as project architect for the University of California San Francisco Biotechnology Building. Miller joins the Seattle office to work on the Grand Teton National Park Visitor Center.

Cinamon previously worked with Marc LaRoche Architects, most recently completing a residential project in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. He has also worked with Cutler Anderson Architects and Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen. Cinamon joins the Seattle office to work on the Ballard Library.

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has offices in Seattle, Berkeley, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Wilkes-Barre.

McGowan Broz Engineers

Vandegrift

McGowan Broz Engineers hired Tosha Vandegrift and Jim Evans.

Vandegrift is marketing manager. She has 13 years of experience in the A/E/C industry. Vandegrift’s focus will include business development and marketing activities, including strategic planning, client relations, proposals and qualifications, and market research. Vandegrift is president of the board of directors for the Seattle Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services.

Jim Evans has been hired as a senior mechanical engineer. Evans has 35 years of experience designing mechanical systems. Evans’ background includes HVAC, plumbing, pipe stress analysis and power generation for commercial office, institutional and municipal projects. McGowan Broz is a mechanical and electrical engineering firm located in Bellevue.

Freeman Fong Architecture

Nathan D. Brown has joined Freeman Fong Architecture as a designer. Brown comes to the firm with experience in construction management and residential architecture. Brown most recently served as a senior estimator and project manager for the Widewaters Group in Syracuse, N.Y. He holds an architecture degree from Syracuse University.

Parametrix

Ekman

Scott Ekman recently joined Parametrix. As director of management consulting for Parametrix, Ekman will focus on delivering business solutions for the firm's traditional public and private sector clients.

Ekman has 15 years of professional management consulting experience with federal, municipal and commercial clients. He has a background in strategic business planning, business process and organizational redesign, change management and facilitation services. Recent project experience includes serving as program manager and principal management consultant for the Washington State Transportation Permit Efficiency and Accountability Committee.

Candela Architectural Lighting

MacLeod

Candela Architectural Lighting Consultants recently added Lauren MacLeod as a senior lighting designer. With 15 years experience in professional lighting design and specialties in the hospitality, airport, educational, corporate, and residential markets, MacLeod opened offices in Santa Barbara and Bellevue prior to joining Candela.

Her work as principal lighting designer at Wheel Gersztoff Shankar Selles in Los Angeles received national acclaim, including awards for the Guam International Airport, Los Angeles Union Station and Southwestern University School of Law. International projects include the Four Seasons Hotel in Goa, India and the Renaissance and New World hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

MacLeod taught architectural lighting design at University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Santa Barbara