May 27, 2009
Michel Sotura, mechanical department manager for Coffman Engineers’ Seattle office, earned the High-Performance Building Design Professional certification. Sotura is the first Coffman employee to receive this certification and is among a small group of Washington engineers to hold this credential. Sotura has more than 20 years of experience as an HVAC engineer for laboratories, health care, central plants, museums and aquariums, libraries, corporate offices, data centers and institutional facilities.
Berger/ABAM hired
Sheri Murata in the Seattle office. Murata has civil engineering experience with water resources and site development. Her background also includes stormwater modeling, drainage reports, cost estimates and preparing construction plans. She is working on the Port of Tacoma road interchange with Interstate 5 for the city of Fife. The firm also hired
Reza Sehhati in the Federal Way office. Sehhati’s engineering experience includes analysis and design, drafting, cost estimating, land surveying and project management. He is working on the Sea-Tac Airport parking garage and the Issaquah state Route 90 regional trail bridge.
Studio Meng Strazzara hired
Dave Letrondo. Letrondo is a senior architect with extensive management, documentation and contract administration experience in health care, retail, prototype, corporate and mixed-use projects. He has more than 20 years of experience as an architect and will work in the educational design studio.
DLR Group hired architect and designer Jason Dardis to lead the corporate practice for the Seattle office. Dardis has more than 13 years of experience including work on multi-story office buildings, high-rise condominiums and mixed-use developments. He will help the firm expand its national corporate portfolio.
May 20, 2009
Coleen Monaghan has rejoined NAC|Architecture as a senior associate and director of interiors in the Spokane office. Monaghan previously worked for NAC|Architecture for 12 years, providing space planning and interior design to a broad range of clients. Monaghan is designing interiors for Magnuson Hotels in Spokane, Whitman Clinic in Colfax, Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth and for the renovation of Patterson Hall at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
Golder hired
Pamela Gunther in the Seattle office as a practice leader/senior NEPA and regulatory compliance specialist. She has more than 20 years of experience managing NEPA and SEPA contracts for both terrestrial and marine projects. Gunther has worked throughout the U.S. with clients and lead agencies representing local, state and federal agencies; public utility districts and Native American tribes.
WSP Flack + Kurtz hired
Keith W. McIntyre as vice president and head of the electrical department for the Seattle office. McIntyre has more than 30 years of experience as an electrical engineer and for the past six years he served as senior facilities engineer with the University of Washington. McIntyre will oversee all electrical projects for the Seattle office, including Battelle Biological Science Facility, Kent Station Phase 4, Federal Way Regional Library, Western Washington University Buchanan Hall, University of Puget Sound Center for Health Sciences and Tacoma Center for Urban Waters. The firm also promoted
Melanie Taylor and
Edwin F. Bactad to senior associates. As head of the Architectural Lighting Studio in the Seattle office, Taylor has more than 18 years of lighting design experience. Bactad has more than 12 years of experience and is head of the telecom/low voltage department. His expertise includes knowledge of space and pathway planning for outside and inside plant cabling, and specification of the telecommunications cable plant for multiple project types. The firm also promoted
Adam Leingang to engineer,
Ben Gozart to design engineer and
Shannon Wick to lighting designer.
