Feb 10, 2010

INCA Engineers

INCA Engineers, a Tetra Tech company, has hired Rich Reis as vice president of operations. He was regional operations manager at WHPacific for eight years, where he oversaw 11 offices in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. Reis has 30 years in civil and environmental engineering, construction and project management, including work for Fluor Daniel, SCS Engineers and Emcon Northwest, with projects in Japan, Canada and Saudi Arabia.

BergerABAM

David Sacamano has joined BergerABAM as a senior landscape architect and urban design manager in the Vancouver office. Sacamano has 14 years of experience with planning, design, permitting and constructing urban landscapes and public open spaces. He has worked for municipalities, higher education and health care institutions, and transportation agencies.

Yost Grube Hall Architecture

Yost Grube Hall Architecture has hired Celeste Warren as a building information modeling manager, Julio Rocha as a project architect, Kevin Montgomery as a model maker, and Alexander Asselineau and Jessica Tippens as design team members. Warren has 21 years of experience in architecture and interior design. She provides technical support for YGH on projects for the U.S. Department of State and Central Oregon Community College. Rocha has 13 years experience as an architect and is working on the campus center project at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Asselineau has eight years of experience and his work includes projects for Clackamas Community College, Portland State University, and Central Oregon Community College. Tippens earned her master's in architecture from Tulane University. She is completing her final registration exams and will work on projects for the Department of State. Montgomery holds a bachelor's in architecture from Ball State University and is pursuing a master's of architecture at the University of Oregon. He will work on projects for the Department of State and Central Oregon Community College.

Mithun

Mark Shapiro has been named a principal at Mithun. He was a principal and project designer/architect for Kansas City-based BNIM architects. Shapiro has about 27 years of experience with education, cultural and civic projects, and has spent 20 years teaching architecture at universities. He has taught at Syracuse and Tulane universities, and was head of the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University. A native of South Africa, he has practiced and taught there, and in Great Britain and Italy. He been recognized for complex projects, including the Greensburg Sustainable Comprehensive Development Plan. He helped develop housing prototypes for actor Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation and the Holy Cross Sustainable Redevelopment Plan/Holy Cross School site master plan in New Orleans.

Feb 03, 2010

HWA

HWA has hired Brian Coker as a construction field inspector. With more than 11 years experience, Coker inspects soils, concrete, asphalt, anchors and masonry for municipal, residential, commercial and light industrial projects. He is inspecting construction at Lift Stations 7 and 8 in Edmonds, and will work on Kent's downtown sidewalk project.

WHPacific

WHPacific hired Mike Horton as director of transportation in the Olympia office. He has more than 32 years as a transportation engineer, mostly at WSDOT. Horton will oversee and manage transportation projects in the Olympia area and participate in business development.

DCI Engineers

DCI Engineers has added Donald Tuttle to direct business development in Bellevue. He has more than 20 years of experience, five as director of marketing and business development at MulvannyG2 Architecture. Tuttle will lead national and international business development.

Hargis Engineers

Hargis Engineers promoted Ron Eliason to principal. He supports staff development and cultivates relationships with academic, health care, civic and correctional clients. Eliason is a mechanical engineer with 20 years of experience.

SCS Engineers

Kevin Lakey has joined SCS Engineers' Bellevue office. Lakey has 25 years of environmental engineering experience largely focused on Northwest solid waste management projects. That includes permitting, master planning, landfill design, construction quality assurance, and plans for operation and closure. He works on hydrogeologic characterization of sites and has prepared feasibility studies for site remediation.

Otak

Otak, an urban design, planning and engineering firm, has promoted 10 people to associate. In Kirkland, the new associates are: Keith Hume, water resource engineer, water and natural resources; Lori McFarland, senior project manager/civil engineer, transportation infrastructure services; Scott Stoneman, senior water resource engineer, water and natural resources; Steve Wilson, structural engineer, transportation infrastructure services. In Vancouver, they are: Grant Evenhus and Jim Neighorn, both civil engineers, transportation infrastructure services. In the corporate office in Lake Oswego, Ore., they are: Ian Machan, construction manager, transportation infrastructure services; Gary Wolff, senior water resource engineer, water and natural resources; and Amanda Owings and Brad Swearingen, both civil engineers, transportation infrastructure services.