Apr 07, 2010
Design firm NBBJ named
Arnold Levin and
Jose Sama as principals in the Seattle office. Levin has 40 years of experience conducting workplace research, teaching design strategy and consulting in corporate real estate. He is workplace strategy director at NBBJ and is working on several projects with Beckman Coulter. Sama is a health care studio design lead with 20 years of experience on medical, academic, corporate and research projects. His past projects include Swedish Orthopedic Institute and Virginia Mason Medical Center. He is working on the University Medical Center in New Orleans.
Parametrix hired
Brad Bastin as the engineering services division manager in its Lacey office. Bastin has 30 years of experience in transportation, strategic planning and team building. He will provide business development, leadership and mentoring for the community building and transportation programs. Bastin's expertise is in planning, design, management and transportation projects.
Western Architectural has hired
D. William Otey to do building envelope consulting and design, and serve on the firm's litigation support team. He will offer expert witness testimony in construction defect cases. Otey has 30 years of experience in architecture, construction management, construction forensics and claims. Portland-based Western Architectural is a forensic architecture and engineering firm.
John Gish and
Jim Rothwell have been elected to Callison's board of directors. Gish has 25 years of retail and mixed-use experience and an understanding of the social aspects of design, the firm said. He works in Asia with clients such as Shanghai Greenland Group and Ayala Land. Rothwell has worked with Microsoft and Vulcan. With 25 years in the industry, he has led speculative office developments, build-to-suit office buildings, corporate campuses, high technology facilities and mixed-use developments. He is market leader for commercial work in the Middle East. Callison is an international architecture and design firm with nine offices worldwide.
Dykeman promoted
Patricia (Trish) Sherman and
Michael Stevens to associate principal and
Zachary Ham to associate. It also announced the hiring of
Matthew Kimball as associate,
Sam Castro as intern architect and
Kristen Anderson as an interior designer. Sherman joined Dykeman in 1991. She works on schools, commercial, residential and retail, and is project manager on the Valley View Middle School for the Snohomish School District. Stevens was hired in 2007. He has 13 years of experience and has been involved in retail/mixed-use, education, residential and civic projects, including Valley View. Ham started at the firm in 2005. He is working as project architect on Everett School District's James Monroe Elementary School. Kimball recently joined Dykeman. His work includes the Snohomish County PUD operations center and multiple Safeway projects. Castro joined Dykeman in 2009. He is involved in projects for the Housing Authority of Snohomish County. Anderson was hired in 2009 and is working on James Monroe Elementary School. Dykeman, located in Everett, specialties in architecture, interior design, Web site design, environmental graphics and visual marketing.
Mar 31, 2010
Seattle-based Schacht Aslani Architects has hired
Tracy Lorelli as marketing manager. Lorelli has eight years of marketing and business development in architecture, planning and environmental services. Prior to that, she was a graphic designer in the A/E industry.
Sclater Partners Architects promoted
Michael D. Chaplin to principal and shareholder. He will be responsible for new business development and the project lead for large-scale projects. He joined the firm in 2003 and has focused on large mixed-use developments, retail, and office projects, including the Bellevue Square renovation, Lincoln Square office tower and retail, and skybridges in Bellevue. He is senior project manager for the Lincoln Square expansion. Sclater Partners is a Seattle architectural design and planning firm.
Catherine Lategan and
Brian van Stipdonk joined the Seattle office of IA Interior Architects as senior project manager and project designer, respectively. Lategan previously worked at NBBJ. She has 17 years of experience, mostly with Pacific Northwest clients. She specializes in program management, and her design experience includes federal, technology and non-profit sectors. Van Stipdonk previously worked at Gensler. He has 17 years of experience in master planning, mixed-use development, office buildings, retail and high-density residential centers, and showroom and restaurant design. He also knows industrial design and graphic and multi-media production. IA Interior Architects is a global architectural firm focused on interiors.
Pierce Homer joined Moffatt & Nichol as transportation director. The firm said he will use his 25 years of executive experience in transportation, land use and public-private partnerships to expand the company's practices in those areas. Previously, he was secretary of transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia, where he led a $4.5 billion annual program that employed 10,500 people, Moffatt & Nichol said. The firm, headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., is a global infrastructure adviser.
