May 24, 2006

BrN Engineering

Acacio

Aliwarga

Gordon

Elmo Acacio joined BrN Engineering as vice president and senior project manager. His focus will be project management, marketing and business development. He is working on the Salmon Bay Marine Center and Creekside Village Town Center, and leads Boeing projects in the firm. Stanley Aliwarga joined as a designer and CAD drafter. He is working on the Port Gardner mixed-use project in Everett and Washington Square in Bellevue. Jon Gordon was promoted to associate. He is working on Washington Square in Bellevue and the Canadian Consulate in downtown Seattle.

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Tokarczyk

KPFF Consulting Engineers has named engineer Bryan Tokarczyk an associate. He is working on the Swedish Providence campus redevelopment, including the operating room expansion, and upgrade and expansion of the historic James Tower. Tokarczyk is project manager for a historic resort renovation in Boca Raton, Fla.

Mason, Bruce & Girard

Hall

Currens

Manning

Mason, Bruce & Girard hired three people in the Portland office. Phil Hall has 30 years of experience with the Bureau of Land Management. He leads the effort to draft an EIS for revising BLM resource management plans in Oregon. Kristen Currens is a botanist from the National Park Service. She is assessing impacts of development on endangered plants. Scott Manning has biology experience with a previous consulting firm. His experience includes stream and habitat assessments, wetland delineations, environmental assessments and environmental monitoring reports.

SRG Partnership

Richey

Helgerson

SRG Partnership has promoted two architects, Tim Richey and Jocelyn Bates Helgerson, to senior associates. Richey, a member of SRG's Seattle office, focuses on commercial and civic work. His most recent project is Bellevue City Hall. Bates Helgerson is project manager in the Portland office. His projects include the Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary Academic Center, Oregon Institute of Technology Center for Health Professions and the master plan for Seattle University.

Parametrix

Tandle

The Bellevue office of Parametrix recently hired Sanjeev Tandle, who will specialize in traffic engineering and transportation planning. Tandle is working on the Interstate 5 pavement reconstruction project and the capital improvement plan for the Washington State Department of Transportation. His responsibilities include an analysis of I-5 between the Northeast 130th Street and Spokane Street interchanges.

Sclater Partners Architects

Sclater Partners Architects added four employees to the design team. Joyce Klontz and George Braslaw work on retail and mixed-use office/residential projects. Paul Richards will focus on high-rise office and hotels, and Man-Foon Chu recently rejoined the firm and is working on a new retail/residential project.

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Magnusson Klemencic Associates promoted nine senior design engineers to associate. Eric Anderson works on retail centers and in MKA's retail/urban villages specialist group. He is project manager on the 10-acre Kent Station. Hans-Erik Blomgren is working as lead design engineer for the 42-story Washington Mutual Tower/Seattle Art Museum. Rob Chmielowski is project manager on part of the Verona, Wisc., Epic Systems campus. He is leader of MKA's foundations specialist group. Dave Fields is project manager on several high-rises in California and Washington. He is in MKA's earthquake specialist group and the Structural Engineers Association of Washington's Earthquake Engineering Committee. Brett Gourley is finishing managing construction administration for the 40-story Hokua at 1288 Ala Moana condominium tower in Honolulu. He is project manager for two other high-rise residential towers in Hawaii and two in California, and is also active in MKA's concrete specialist group. Paul Larson is lead design engineer on 2200 in South Lake Union. Robin McKennon Thaler leads the sustainability specialist group and was project manager on Cascade Park in South Lake Union. David Rhoades is project manager for the civil site design for Southlands Town Center and is project manager for construction administration on the Roosevelt High School renovation. Jingye Wang has 23 years of design experience, including seven years in China. His projects have included the Seattle Sheraton Hotel expansion and the Washington Mutual Tower/Seattle Art Museum.

May 17, 2006

Tetra Tech/KCM

Tetra Tech/KCM hired 10 staff members. Engineer Derek Doell is managing several projects for Seattle Public Utilities involving stormwater flow monitoring, and assisting Pierce County with a hydraulic analysis of the South Midland Wetland Reserve. Mechanical engineer Alex Filson is working on a medical warehouse on the Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado and a Brightwater sampling portal. John Herrmann, a geomorphologist/watershed scientist, is working on watershed planning on the Lower Spokane River. Tom Larson, who has 15 years experience in architecture, is assisting in design and production for King County's new South Treatment Plant Administration Building and Bainbridge Island's wastewater treatment plant. Luke Ramirez is a mechanical engineering student in his senior year at the University of Washington and working part-time at Tt/KCM on King County Transit's Ryerson/Bellevue Base improvements. Tom Roth is project architect for King County's 25,000-square-foot South Plant Administration & Laboratory Building in Renton. Kelly Trendler has joined Tetra Tech/KCM's accounts payable department. Ray Vargas, a civil engineer, is working on Marine Drive improvements and the Equalization Storage project for the city of Blaine. Mechanical engineer Vincent Villa is working on replacement of HVAC systems at the Central Base Maintenance Building for King County Metro. Tracy Winjum is a civil engineer who is working on the FEMA map modernization of four Washington counties for the state Department of Ecology.

W&H Pacific

W&H Pacific's Olympia office hired nine employees. Eric Finley joined as a senior engineer. Jim Haglund is a senior designer with 15 years of experience in subdivision and plat layouts. Lane Sater is a designer with 10 years of experience in subdivision layout, grading and utilities for commercial and residential developments. Josh Brannon is a recent graduate engineer from St. Martin's University. Stacy Davis is a senior project manager with 16 years of experience in the design and management of arterial and highway improvement projects. Manuel Abarca joined as a traffic engineer with 10 years of experience in signal design, traffic impact analysis, roundabouts and pedestrian/bicycle facilities. Travis Sater joined as a designer with 12 years of experience in roadway design, storm water and sewer design, and civil/site development engineering. Steve Ivey is as project manager with 27 years of experience and expertise in aquatic land ownership. Pat Beehler is the office's director of survey.

Sienna Architecture

Sienna Architecture Co. hired three employees in its Seattle office. Mark McIntire, Steven Haas and David May join the architecture division. McIntire specializes in residential design and is working on the Mark Apartments, a 248-unit mixed-use project in Seattle. May is also working on the Mark Apartments. Haas is working on the Bremerton Harborside Condominiums under construction on the Bremerton waterfront.

RH2 Engineering

RH2 Engineering hired Sean Kanda in its Bothell office. His experience includes a summer spent as a laboratory assistant in the University of Washington Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

ALSC Architects

ALSC Architects of Spokane hired Lesa Webb as an interior designer. She has 10 years of experience in interior design and space planning, and is involved in projects for clients including Coldwater Creek, Bank Reale and Gonzaga University.

Candela Lighting Design

Candela Lighting Design and Consulting recently added Randy Fisher as a lighting designer. His current Candela projects include Stone Creek Village, Bellevue Square renovations, 2001 Ninth Avenue and the Roslyn Library and Community Center.