Oct 26, 2011

VIA Architecture

VIA Architecture hired Dan Bertolet as an urban planner. He has more than seven years of experience including station area planning, town center redevelopment, Hope VI master planning, mixed-use and sustainability analysis. He created hugeasscity, which he describes as “a blog about the concept of hugeass cities, and Seattle as interpreted through the hugeass city lens.” He will continue to head up Citytank, another blog about cities he created. Bertolet holds a master's degree in urban design and planning, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Via works in architecture, infrastructure, planning and community building.

KPFF Consulting Engineers

KPFF Consulting Engineers promoted Emily George and Beth Jensen to associate. George joined the firm as a structural engineer in 2005. She has had a lead role on projects, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers District Headquarters at Federal Center South. Jensen is a structural engineer who rejoined KPFF in 2008. She is leading design of a number of multifamily projects, including Avalon Bay Communities in Ballard, and is lead on the Bellevue Botanical Gardens Visitors' Center addition.

Core Design

Core Design hired Lindsey Altenburg as a landscape designer. Altenburg will support the landscape department on a number of projects. Core Design is a civil engineering, planning, surveying, landscape architecture and urban design firm.

Mayer/Reed

Portland-based design studio Mayer/Reed hired Liz Talley as an environmental graphic designer and Kerry White as a landscape architect. Talley has 10 years of experience in signage, dimensional graphics and wayfinding. She is working on signage and wayfinding for Legacy Health's Emanuel Medical Center. She worked for design firms in New York and Dallas. White is working on the Collaborative Life Sciences Building and Skourtes Tower at the Oregon Health and Science University Schnitzer Campus in Portland. She previously did landscape architecture design at Boise State University. Mayer/Reed provides landscape architecture, urban design, environmental graphics and product design.

Hanson Professional Services

Hanson Professional Services hired railroad designer Theresa Nagle in the Seattle-area office. She has 25 years of experience as a project coordinator and engineering technician for transportation and civil development projects. Nagle is working as a rail designer on projects including the BNSF Railway Co.'s Vader to Napavine triple track project in Washington. She was designer and CADD technician for a section of a Texas highway and a section of an Indiana roadway in both urban and rural areas. She was designer or co-designer for roadway extensions and renovations. Hanson Professional Services provides engineering, architecture, planning and allied services.

Oct 19, 2011

KPFF Consulting Engineers

Weston

Clapham

KPFF Consulting Engineers promoted Jenifer Clapham and Rebekah Weston to associates. Clapham was hired by KPFF in 2004 with utility and drainage experience on large public transportation projects, and she continues to manage complex site development projects. She is project manager on the USACE Federal Center South. Weston joined the firm in 2006, and has expanded its business into utility modeling and system optimization. She was project manager for the Market Street project in Ballard.

PSF Mechanical

Whitmyre

Seattle-based PSF Mechanical hired Chris Whitmyre as project executive. He is an engineer with more than 30 years of experience, and will focus on health care, biotech and other complex projects. PSF provides mechanical engineering, construction, consulting and energy services.

DLR Group

DLR Group hired Lawrence (Larry) Yuan as its Asia region leader. It also named Scott Kruse and Tom O'Neil as a senior principals and Ron van der Veen and Bill Judge as principals. Yuan has been an architect for more than 30 years, with management, project development, planning and design experience in the Pacific Rim. Kruse is Northwest regional leader, managing operations and mentoring staff in Seattle, Portland and Honolulu. O'Neil is the Southwest regional leader, directing operations in six states and offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Denver and Colorado Springs. He has been a project, K-12 and office leader. Van der Veen works in the Seattle office as designer focusing on higher education and was a founding board member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Judge is practice leader of DLR's operations in Riverside, Calif. His background is in quality assurance. DLR Group provides architecture, engineering, planning and interior design.

USKH

USKH promoted Kennet Bertelsen to associate in the Spokane office. He is in the civil engineering department and has experience in analysis, design, cost estimating and construction inspection. He was involved in the Downtown Transportation Alternatives Analysis study by the city and Spokane Transit. He has led USKH efforts in Haiti, including the Healing Hands for Haiti Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Institute. USKH provides architectural, engineering, environmental, landscape architecture, planning and land surveying services.