Mar 21, 2012

GN Northern

Place

GN Northern hired Michael Place as a project engineer in the Kennewick office. Place has 10 years of experience that includes geotechnical soil lab testing, slope stability analysis, geotechnical inspections on earthwork projects, and field investigations and sampling. He worked for Golder Associates in Denver and Associated Earth Sciences in Seattle.

Walker Macy

Vaughn

Miller

McCann

Walker Macy promoted Chelsea McCann to principal and Christopher Miller and Ben Vaughn to associate. McCann is a landscape architect with 13 years of experience. She will continue to manage large-scale projects and help lead the firm's operations. She is project manager for the South Waterfront Greenway in Portland. Miller is a landscape designer who has worked on waterfront and urban design projects, and who leads the firm's technological resources development. His clients include Amazon.com and the University of Portland. Vaughn has worked on mixed-use urban infill, rooftop gardens, affordable housing, campus design and public infrastructure, and he manages the professional development program. Among his recent projects is Camp Withycombe Armed Forces Reserve Center in Clackamas, Ore. Walker Macy is a landscape architecture, urban design and planning firm based in Portland.

HOK

Chambers

Global design firm HOK hired David F. Chambers as a director in the health care practice in the Seattle office. Chambers has 35 years of experience in health care planning and design, including in Lean Empowered Design and new project delivery models, and wrote the book “Efficient Healthcare — Overcoming Broken Paradigms.” Chambers consults with international health care groups and presents at national symposiums. He was director of strategic facility initiatives at the University Research Institute.

Cary Kopczynski & Co.

Cary Kopczynski & Co. hired Andy Tu as a senior design engineer, Jerry Lee as a design engineer and Dave Youngblood as a CAD designer. Tu has more than nine years of experience, and is rejoining CKC after working in Taiwan as a construction manager. At CKC, he is working on The Martin, a 24-floor Belltown apartment building. Lee has four years of experience. He is working on 815 Pine, a Seattle high-rise apartment project. Youngblood has 11 years of experience in AutoCAD drafting and a background in building information modeling. He is working on the Avalon University District housing project. Bellevue-based CKC is a structural engineering firm.

StormwateRx

Portland-based StormwateRx, which provides industrial stormwater treatment and filtration systems, hired Lanz Fritz as chief operating officer, Larry Ostry as Midwest regional manager and Raymond Lindeen as South Central regional manager. Fritz has worked for StormwateRx on a contract since 2009. He was formerly CFO and VP of operations for Stormwater Management. Ostry has experience selling industrial and energy equipment. Lindeen formerly represented SMI/Contech stormwater treatment products and represented companies in the laboratory, environmental, industrial hygiene, safety, and process control equipment industries.

Brown and Caldwell

Brown and Caldwell hired Gino Mazzotti as an engineer II, Dennis Howe as a senior engineer, Chun Lau as a supervising engineer and Steven Tanner as a structural designer in Seattle. Mazzotti has experience in steel and concrete design, computer modeling and analysis programs and in seismic design and risk assessment. Howe was a project engineer with Naval Facilities Engineering Command in San Diego, and has experience in steel and concrete-based structures, concrete slab design and project management. Lau was an associate at DCI Engineer, and has worked with the Port of Seattle managing capital improvement projects. Tanner has experience in drafting, and worked with Power Engineers in Boise as a structural designer. Brown and Caldwell is an environmental engineering firm.

Mar 14, 2012

GGLO

Hohstadt

Ring

Reed

Clibborn

Hartwell

Daniels Uhlig

Panton

Cutler

Sindell

Dwyer

Eden

Seattle architecture firm GGLO promoted Beth Dwyer and Mark Sindell to principal, David Cutler, Ted Panton and Alicia Daniels Uhlig to senior associate, Hal Eden, Amy Hartwell, Lindsey Clibborn and Kevin Reed to associate, Tracy Ring to director of human resources and Barry Hohstadt to director of information systems. Dwyer has 25 years of experience that includes retail, commercial, historic renovation, educational and multifamily projects, among them University Village. She is working on UW/Children's Workforce Housing. Sindell is a landscape architect with 15 years of experience in projects that include housing, hospitality, parks and open space. Cutler focuses on complex design projects, from buildings to districts, and works with public-private partnerships, innovative development codes and mixed funding sources. Daniels Uhlig has more than 15 years of experience in sustainable design. As GGLO's director of sustainability, she leads internal research and integrates sustainable design in projects. Panton designs and manages urban mixed-use projects, with a focus on complex environmental and entitlement issues. Eden knows construction technology and detailing. Hartwell has worked on multifamily, mixed-use and rehab projects. Clibborn has experience in housing, hotels, spas, conference facilities and tenant improvements. Reed designs affordable housing. Ring has been with GGLO for 14 years, with experience in benefits, policy development, recruiting, communications and professional development. Hohstadt has more than 15 years of information systems experience.

Enginuity Systems

Brever

Enginuity Systems hired Amy Brever as office manager and director of marketing. Brever has five years of experience in marketing and graphic design. Enginuity is a Tacoma-based firm that provides mechanical engineering and energy analysis.

The Blueline Group

Brooks

The Blueline Group hired Gina Brooks as project engineer. Brooks has 16 years of civil engineering experience on residential and commercial projects. Blueline provides civil engineering and land use planning.

USKH

Edwards

Wilkinson

USKH hired Randy Wilkinson as a senior mechanical engineer in the Spokane office and Steve Edwards as communications manager. Wilkinson has 30 years of experience engineering and designing HVAC and plumbing systems for educational, commercial, industrial and institutional projects. Edwards has been with USKH since 2009, formerly as a marketing specialist. He has 25 years of experience in communications, including nine at the Anchorage Daily News. USKH provides architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, environmental, planning and surveying.

David Evans and Associates

David Evans and Associates has added a bridge center in its Bellevue office. It will be headed by Jake Menard, the firm's lead on the SR 520 Eastside Transit and HOV project. Menard has 10 years of bridge design and engineering experience. Prior to joining DEA, he was a bridge engineer for the Washington State Department of Transportation. Patrick Montemerlo will work on the bridge team. A bridge engineer for 10 years, he previously worked at FIGG Engineering in Florida. DEA's staff includes engineers, surveyors, hydrographers, planners, landscape architects and natural resources scientists.

Associated Earth Sciences

Associated Earth Sciences hired Lannie Smith as Tacoma environmental manager and Elizabeth Rachman as Tacoma senior hydrogeologist and project manager. Smith and Rachman have more than 30 years of combined experience in environmental assessments and remediation. Associated is a consulting engineering company that provides geotechnical engineering, hydrogeology, environmental consulting, geology and low impact development support.