Aug 03, 2011

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Charlton

KPFF Consulting Engineers Principal Nathan Charlton has joined the firm's Seattle office. He relocated from Portland, where he began his career as a structural engineer and worked for nearly 21 years. In Seattle, he will work on sustainable building projects. His recent work includes the Port of Portland headquarters.

ZGF Architects

ZGF Architects has hired seven people in Seattle, bringing the head count there to 105. They are Craig Rizzo, associate partner and project designer, Melissa Eby, interior designer, Beth Stroshane, specification writer and associate, and Julie Cronk, marketing manager, along with interns Scott Blakemore, Thayer Wild and Adrienne Watkins. Rizzo returns to the firm with 15 years of experience on projects. Most recently, he worked at Leo A. Daly in Phoenix designing a net-zero-energy building in Qatar. Eby's work includes Smokey Point Medical Center in Marysville. Previously, she was at Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects. Stroshane's projects include a mixed-use building in Russia and tenant improvements at the University of Washington Medical Center. She worked at NBBJ. Cronk worked as marketing director at Lorig Development. Blakemore is working on the master plan for St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way. Wild is working on Seattle Children's expansion. Watkins was at ZGF from 2007-2009. Her projects included the University of Washington Molecular Engineering Building.

RDH Building Sciences

RDH Building Sciences hired four people for design and field review on new construction and rehabilitation work in Seattle and Portland. They are Tony Thompson, a senior construction technologist, Tony Case, a senior project architect, Mike Beelendorf, an architectural technologist, and James Newlin, an engineer-in-training. RDH provides engineering, architecture, construction management and risk assessment for building enclosures.

Buckland & Taylor

Buckland & Taylor, a North Vancouver, B.C.-based engineering company specializing in bridges, has opened an office in Alberta with Dale Serink as director. He has 30 years of experience in bridge engineering, including with Alberta Transportation and Aecom. He has been involved in more than 75 bridge designs and 200 bridge rehabilitation projects including the Athabasca River Bridge in Alberta.

AIA Seattle

AIA Seattle hired Gear Whisenant as administrative assistant. He will provide customer service, office management, administrative support and member service. Whisenant has been in the architecture industry for years, most recently at DKA Architecture.

Jul 27, 2011

DCI Engineers

DCI Engineers promoted engineer Scott Erickson to associate in the Seattle office. Erickson joined the firm in June 2009. He has 15 years of structural engineering experience in housing, hospitality and office tower design. He will continue to manage projects and lead the special design group, and he will do more marketing. His work has included the Swedish Hospital Issaquah Campus. DCI is a Seattle-based civil and structural consulting firm.

MLA Engineering

MLA Engineering hired Debbie Jung as an associate. Jung has more than 10 years of experience as a construction manager, senior engineer and project manager of structural design projects. She is the lead structural engineer on the New York Aquarium Ocean Wonders. MLA is a Seattle-based structural engineering firm.

Westwood Professional Services

Westwood Professional Services hired Nick Brown as a project engineer in its Portland office. Brown will work on wind project site planning and civil design in the energy engineering group. He has a bachelor's in civil engineering from the University of California at Davis. Westwood is a national land and energy development consultant.