Feb 07, 2007

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Magnusson Klemencic Associates named four principals. Greg Briggs leads MKA’s museums and libraries group. With 17 years’ engineering experience, he has a background in the design of cultural and civic projects. His current projects include the LeMay Car Museum in Tacoma and the St. Louis Art Museum renovation and expansion in Missouri. Brian Dickson, MKA’s stadiums and arenas specialist, is working on new football stadium designs for the University of Washington, Washington State University and the University of Minnesota. He is also project manager for the new Kent Events Center for the WHL Seattle Thunderbirds and the Seattle Seahawks practice facility in Renton. Ola Johannson is project manager on the 69-story 340 On the Park in Chicago, the 57-story One Rincon Hill in San Francisco and the 32-story RiverEast in Manhattan. Part of MKA’s hotel/housing specialist group, Ola specializes in high-rise design, advocating innovative structural systems for projects in seismic zones. Pat Ryan has 27 years’ experience and has done significant work in MKA’s aviation market group. He has worked on terminals, hangars and blast hardening systems around the world. He is currently managing the structural design of the manufacturing facility, and the static and fatigue test frames for the new Boeing 787.

Walker Macy

Walker Macy has added Tim Bono, Leah Foster, Mike Gaussa, Andrew Holder, Nopporn Kichanan and Michael Moyers. Bono graduated with a bachelor of landscape architecture and has a certificate of environmental ethics from the University of Georgia. Foster majors in community development at Portland State University. Gaussa is a landscape architect with more than 25 years of experience and will serve as quality control/construction administrator. Gaussa has expertise providing technical review and construction administration services for a range of projects. Holder specializes in project design, detailing and construction administration, as well as project management. His interests include sustainable design, artistic use of stone and water, urban plazas, corporate campuses, eco-roofs and parks. Born in Bangkok, Kichanan has worked in the Bay Area as an environmental educator for the Headlands Institute. He was a recipient of the Jane Kerr Platt Scholarship for work focusing on planting design. Moyers is a designer with more than 10 years of professional experience. He has worked on water features, including at the National Museum of American Indian in Washington, D.C., and a private palace in the United Arab Emirates.

CDi Engineers

Sean Abbott recently joined CDi Engineers. He has seven years’ experience working in construction, project management and mechanical design, and has an interest in energy conservation and sustainable building. Abbott is affiliated with the Seattle Chapter of Engineers Without Borders and serves on the Committee for Sustainability, Evaluation and Research. He is working on the St. Anthony Hospital project in Gig Harbor.

Jan 31, 2007

Hewitt Architects

Hewitt Architects named Suzanne Duley and Katie Sheehy associates. Duley is LEED accredited and is working on the Anacortes Multimodal Terminal for Washington State Ferries. Sheehy leads marketing efforts.

Transportation Solutions

David W. Johnson has been named a principal of Transportation Solutions. Johnson is responsible for transportation demand management, parking operations, master planning and related strategic planning for TSI. Johnson has 20 years of experience in the transportation and master planning fields and has been at TSI since 1994. His recent major projects include Suncadia Resort, Evergreen Hospital Master Plan, Port of Centralia Master Plan, Shoreline Community College Master Plan, Point Ruston and the redevelopment of Totem Lake Mall.

Hennebery Eddy Architects

Hennebery Eddy Architects of Portland promoted two new associates: Doug Reimer and Kyle Womack. The firm has hired four architectural staff members: Philip Schmunk, Erica Dunn, Robert Kroster and Dan Bedard. Reimer is a senior project architect/project manager with 25 years of experience. Current work includes the Sophia’s View condo project in Portland, a new Language House Residence Hall on the Reed College campus and the Nike ITC Café in Beaverton. Womack has been promoted to associate. Since joining Hennebery Eddy in 2001, Womack has been a team member for planning and design of higher education, commercial, public and single and multi-family residential projects. Womack is project architect for the new residence hall at Reed and is also managing multiple projects at Lewis & Clark College. Schmunk and Dunn joined the architectural staff. Schmunk has contributed to transportation projects in Singapore, Shanghai and Seattle. Robert Krotser is working on a feasibility study for the Hood River Expo Center, the Brickhouse, a mixed-use project in Madras, Ore., and the Marquam Hill Townhomes. Bedard is working on remodel of the Westin Hotel in downtown Portland and the conversion of under-utilized spaces into new student residence rooms at Lewis & Clark College.

SCS Engineers

The Bellevue office of SCS Engineers named licensed geologist Dan Venchiarutti environmental services director for the Pacific Northwest region. Benjamin “Benny” Benson has relocated from Long Beach, Calif., to manage the satellite operation in Bend, Ore. Venchiarutti has 19 years of design and management experience — 16 with SCS Engineers, performing environmental investigations, monitoring, facility compliance and site remediation of hazardous and solid waste sites. Benson, a mechanical engineer, has 18 years experience, focused on the areas of power generation, landfill gas collection control systems, control SCADA system design and programming, well field data management, materials handling, recycling, conveyance systems, computer-aided design and modeling and air quality modeling. Also joining the Bellevue office are junior-level geologist Stephen Bond and engineering professional Eric Sonsthagen. Bond is working for the environmental division, charged with performing environmental investigations and monitoring activities at several commercial properties and landfills throughout the Northwest. Sonsthagen works in the engineering division, which involves design and field activities at landfills throughout the Northwest.

Interior Architects

Interior Architects’ Seattle office promoted Mark Gribbons to senior associate and Kim Parsley to associate.

NBBJ

Katherine (Kate) Diamond is a new principal in the Seattle office of NBBJ. Diamond will serve as a design lead for commercial practice and provide strategic direction to the NBBJ Los Angeles office. An AIA Fellow, she has more than 30 years of experience designing projects in governmental, institutional and commercial sectors. Diamond comes to NBBJ after nearly five years as the design principal/lead designer for the Los Angeles office of RNL Design. Some of her projects include the Fontana Library, Resource Technology Center and Civic Auditorium, the LAX air traffic control tower and the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Bureau Headquarters.

Miller|Hull

Miller|Hull has advanced five architects to new positions within the firm. Richard Whealan has been promoted to principal. Promoted to associate were Katie Popolow, Margaret Sprug, Ruth Coates and Brian Court.

Berger/ABAM Engineers

Jake Lewing joined Berger/ABAM Engineers as a civil engineer at the Seattle office. Lewing has worked on transportation-related systems, such as roadway design, drainage and utilities design and construction support. He is currently working on Berger/ABAM’s Interstate 5/State Route 161/State Route 18 triangle improvements project near Federal Way. Kaiyuan Liu has joined the firm’s headquarters office in Federal Way. Liu has a background in structural analysis and detail structural design for bridge structures and other civil engineering structures. His experience includes serving as a construction risk evaluation engineer for an insurance company and as a design engineer for a number of bridge projects in China. Santiago Aguilar has also joined the Federal Way office. Aguilar has field work experience ranging from geometric design and drafting for road construction, as well as surveying and stakeout. His background also includes construction materials testing, nuclear density testing and geotechnical consulting. Mathew O’Connor joined the office and is a recent civil engineering graduate from Saint Martin’s University.

Shannon & Wilson

Shannon & Wilson made three promotions in its Seattle office. Hollie Ellis, director of computer services, Bill Laprade, engineering geologist, and Red Robinson, director of underground services, were named senior vice president. Katie Walter, natural resources manager and Richard Martin, manager of groundwater services group, were promoted to senior associate. Monique Nykamp and Carole Mitchell, geotechnical engineers, were promoted to associate.