Jun 10, 2009
The AIA Jury of Fellows selected
Garrett Maupin of KPB Architects as a fellow. He is one of 112 people awarded the honor this year for making contributions of national significance. Maupin was on the AIA Alaska Board for nine years, serving twice as president. He started the Alaska Architect newsletter and edited it for 13 years. He started the AIA AK Web site and was the webmaster for 10 years. Maupin works for Anchorage-based KPB Architects in its Everett office. He has worked on medical, judicial, airport, civic and educational projects throughout Alaska. Of more than 86,000 AIA members, there are fewer than 2,600 AIA fellows.
Engineer
John Anderson and landscape architect
Steve Calhoun have joined the Kirkland office of PACE Engineers. Anderson has more than 20 years' experience in residential, commercial and industrial land development, project permitting, feasibility analysis and construction management. Calhoun has more than 25 years of experience in community planning, entitlement of preliminary residential plats and commercial architectural site planning, SEPA checklists, architectural and landscape design guidelines, and site development costs analysis. PACE is a civil and structural engineering, planning and surveying firm.
Tom Arnold, manager of Coffman Engineers' Civil Department, has been promoted to principal of the Spokane office. He previously was Spokane city engineer. His municipal background includes an emphasis in transportation, utilities and related land use/site development requirements. He has worked on forming local improvement districts and right-of-way management. He has construction engineering experience, working with owners and contractors to solve construction problems.
Jun 03, 2009
Sally Fisher has joined BergerABAM as project manager/environmental scientist. Her experience includes planning and permitting for in-water and transportation projects; site assessment, investigation and remediation; design and document preparation for dredging and remediation projects; and construction support. Fisher will continue to expand the environmental services of the firm in the Puget Sound region and southwest Washington. At the Port of Tacoma, she worked on the Blair Waterway and the Lincoln Avenue grade separation projects.
Jim Darling, former executive director of the Port of Bellingham, has been named vice president and principal with Maul Foster Alongi, a Northwest environmental and land-use planning firm. He will lead the regional business plan and serve as principal-in-charge for projects in the Puget Sound region. The firm is based in Vancouver and has offices in Portland and Seattle. At Bellingham, he led planning for redevelopment of the Georgia Pacific property, managed a response to develop a NOAA Pacific Fleet Operation Center and oversaw development of a waterfront innovation zone with Western Washington University. He serves on the governor's Task Force on Sustainability.
Four members of the Seattle office of NAC have been promoted.
Darrell Turner is now an associate principal. He is working on the Highline Medical Center's Birch Wing addition in Burien; the master plan for Ketchikan General Hospital in Alaska; and projects for Franciscan Health System in Tacoma.
Stan Hargus has been promoted to senior associate. He is the project manager for Snohomish High School. Also promoted to senior associate is
Steve Wescott, who is working on designs for Echo Glen Children's Center, a juvenile rehabilitation facility in Snoqualmie, and Highline Medical Center's Birch Wing addition.
Vaughn Bray is now an associate. His portfolio includes the Birch Wing addition and the new Group Health Bellevue Medical Center.
Triad Associates' Board of Directors elected
Steve Buxton vice president. He will focus on high-level management and operation efficiencies while continuing to act as information technology manager. Kirkland-based Triad is a civil engineering, surveying, planning and landscape architecture company.
Portland architecture firm Yost Grube Hall Architecture has added two architects,
Brent Young and
John Heinen, to its ownership group. Young is working on the Student Recreation and Aquatics Center addition at Boise State University. Recent projects include the Academic and Student Recreation Center for Portland State University and the U.S. embassy in Quito, Ecuador. Heinen's recent projects include the Science and Technology Center at Olympic College; the Virology and Immunology Laboratory at the University of California, Davis; and the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU. Heinen is working on Building B at Pacific University's Health Professions Campus, and lab renovations for OHSU.
