Sep 01, 2010
BLRB Architects hired
Gene Grulich to lead its historic preservation studio, allowing the firm to do more preservation work, including adaptive reuse. Grulich, a Washington architect for nearly four decades, has managed preservation of historic structures including The Granary at Fort Nisqually in Tacoma, West Point Light Station in Seattle, Alexander's Castle in Port Townsend and the Pantages Theatre in Tacoma. He was the founder and owner of GA+PS, an architecture firm focused on historic restoration and preservation projects, and had consulted for BLBR. He is managing the exterior refurbishment of Tacoma's Municipal Complex. Tacoma-based BLRB provides design services to educational, commercial and public clients.
Sparling hired
Greg Vail as project manager for electrical engineering in the Seattle office. He has 28 years of experience in design and construction of health care, commercial, military, institutional and industrial facilities. His expertise includes lighting, security systems, power quality analysis, office space design, value engineering, cost estimating and military facilities. He has worked on Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, the South Pavilion Expansion at St. Joseph Hospital in Tacoma and Northgate North in Seattle. He also was involved in more than 200 projects at Microsoft's corporate campus. Sparling provides electrical, technology, audiovisual, acoustical and lighting design services, and also has offices in San Diego, Portland and Houston.
BHC Consultants hired
Ken Dahl as a senior structural engineer to strengthen its structural engineering services. Dahl has 28 years of experience on commercial, technical, industrial and institutional structures. His has worked around the world in many seismic zones, and he has managed several award-winning projects, including renovation of the University of Washington Hec Ed Pavilion. BHC is a locally owned engineering, planning and construction services firm serving the public sector. It employs 50 people.
MulvannyG2 Architecture said
Craig Davenport has returned to the firm as a principal for the Bellevue retail environments team, which includes domestic and international projects. He has 25-plus years of experience in hospitality, retail, educational facilities and corporate office buildings. He worked with MulvannyG2 for 4.5 years prior to leaving in 2007. After that, he worked with developer R.C. Hedreen Co. as senior manager of architecture and design. MulvannyG2 has more than 300 employees. Other offices are in Portland; Irvine, Calif.; Washington D.C.; and Shanghai.
Aug 25, 2010
Architects West hired
Matt Knoll as client development director, a new position in the company. Knoll will be responsible for business development and relationship management in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. He has seven years of industry experience, including commercial construction and architecture. Architects West provides architectural, landscape architecture/land planning and interior design in the Northwest.
Inca Engineers, a Tetra Tech company, added five transportation and surveying employees in its Bellevue office. They are:
Torger Erikson, Jonathan Harris, Brian Blevins, Travis Bradley and
Rudy Cordova. Inca provides transportation planning/engineering, structural engineering, navigation, flood control, mechanical, electrical, construction services and surveying for public agencies. It also has a New Orleans office.
Wilson Engineering hired
J. Thomas Brewster as land and hydrographic survey department manager. He has 19 years of experience as a surveyor, including 15 at Wilson. He also has more than 10 years of marine and river hydrographic surveying experience. Brewster returns to Wilson after one year as an instructor of land surveying and mapping technologies at Bellingham Technical College. Bellingham-based Wilson provides civil and structural engineering, surveying and GIS services. Its projects include roads, stormwater, water, wastewater, campuses, parks, port facilities, new buildings, building renovations and seismic rehabilitations.
Terra Associates promoted
Carolyn Schepper, who received her engineers license, from staff engineer to project engineer. She has provided geotechnical engineering design services on projects that include slope stabilization, excavation shoring and foundations for mid- to high-rise structures. Terra is a geotechnical engineering and environmental consulting firm headquartered in Kirkland.
