Dec 23, 2009

Otak

Otak has named Curtis LaPierre, Tom Litster, Kevin Timmins and Brad Bielenberg to senior associates. LaPierre, a landscape architect and planner, is based in the Kirkland office and has been with the firm for eight years. He has 24 years of experience and is a member of the firm's transportation infrastructure services team. He is working on the National Park Service Cape Cod National Seashore Bike Trail in Massachusetts and South Lander Festival Street in Seattle. Litster, an urban planner, and Timmins, a water resources engineer, are both based in the firm's corporate office in Lake Oswego, Ore. Litster has been with Otak for 17 years and his project experience includes Smart Growth planning for land use and transportation projects, as well as the development of enhanced transit service through light rail, streetcar and bus rapid transit systems. Timmins has been with the firm for a decade and has experience in water resource engineering. He played a key role in the Cedar Creek Culvert to Bridge Replacement in Sherwood, Ore, which won the 2009 Public Works Project of the Year award from the Oregon American Public Works Association. Bielenberg is a landscape architect and planner based in Otak's Tempe office. He has been with the firm for four years and has 18 years of experience as a landscape architect and urban planner. He has designed and managed an array of streetscapes, parks, residences and plazas throughout the U.S., India, Japan, Brazil and Israel. He was project manager in the downtown redevelopment plan for Florence, Ariz.

Landau Associates

Landau Associates hired Perry Welch as a senior ecologist in its corporate office in Edmonds. Welch is a registered professional wetland scientist and natural resource biologist with more than 20 years of experience in wetland and stream restoration, habitat assessments and environmental permitting. Dustin Hinson, a senior fisheries biologist, was hired to work in the firm's Spokane office. Hinson has 13 years of experience in fisheries management and ecology, aquatic habitat function and assessment, and environmental impact analysis. He will work throughout the Inland Northwest. Chris Burke joined the Edmonds office as a senior staff hydrogeologist. Burke is a recent graduate with experience in environmental site investigations. Martin Valeri, also a recent graduate, was hired as an environmental intern technician. The firm also hired Cathy Ridley and Cindy Kester in the Edmonds office as marketing coordinators. Ridley has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and technical communications, and Kester has 23 years of architecture/engineering marketing and public relations.

Boxwood

Boxwood promoted Kristen Atchity Fritsch and Jeremy Reding to principals. Fritsch started at Boxwood in 1999 and has worked as a designer, project manager and LEED consultant. Her recent projects include the Seattle Joint Training Facility, Gibraltar's renovation of the William Tell apartments in Belltown for Hostel Seattle, Hightower Cellars on Red Mountain, and Vulcan's Veer Lofts sustainable consulting and LEED certification. She is managing Lewis Creek Park north site development. Reding has been with Boxwood for seven years as designer and project manager. His recent projects include Waters Winery in Walla Walla, Snoqualmie Valley Eye Clinic, Col Solare winery on Red Mountain, and the Wines of Substance branding and Web site design, which was recognized this year with graphic design awards from Graphic Design USA. He is overseeing construction of a monastery in Omaha, Neb.

Dec 16, 2009

BOE architects

BOE architects of Tacoma hired Christine ‘Dean' Wright as a project associate. Wright is managing the design of a waterfront custom residential project in Gig Harbor and working on 3D delineation for a new Aquatic Center addition at the University of Puget Sound.

Parametrix

Parametrix hired Chuck Schott as a transportation engineer in its Sumner office. Schott has 20 years of experience designing civil and transportation projects in Western Washington. Schott's expertise is in roadway, highway, and interchange analysis and design. He will be working on projects for the Tulalip Tribes. His past projects include First Avenue South roadway and drainage improvements in Burien, the Seattle Neighborhood Street Fund Sidewalk planning and design in Seattle, and State Route 167 HOT Lanes.

ORB Architects

ORB Architects of Renton hired Yong Sun Lee as a designer and Building Information Modeling lead. Lee has eight years of experience. She will provide staff technical training and support, and will develop of the firm's BIM standards and update the working-drawings manual. Yong is working on new housing for military families at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. The firm said that Yong's hiring represents a step forward in ORB Architects' use of BIM as a design tool.

Cierra Electrical Group

Cierra Electrical Group hired Jon Krombein as a project manager. Krombein has five years of experience designing electrical systems for educational, healthcare and retail facilities.