Mar 28, 2012

PSF Mechanical

Loewen

Seattle-based PSF Mechanical hired Jim Loewen as an energy and sustainability engineer in the energy services division. He will provide technical information on energy efficiency and facility optimization. Loewen has experience in energy analysis and engineering, including for banks, and co-authored the “Master Facilities Energy Plan” for The Boeing Co.'s Everett facility. PSF provides mechanical engineering construction and consulting and energy services.

BergerABAM

Dargan

Thomas Dargan joined BergerABAM in Federal Way. He has 12 years of civil engineering experience. He has worked on federal design/build work, including military installations, schools and state government projects. He is working on FY12 infrastructure upgrades on Joint Base Lewis-McChord. BergerABAM provides civil and structural engineering, land use planning, natural resources, public involvement, landscape architecture, surveying, construction management and support, and dive services.

Hardesty & Hanover

Bharil

Raj Bharil joined the Hardesty & Hanover engineering firm as Western USA business director, focused on expanding business development and operations in that region. Bharil will be based in Lacey. He is a civil and structural engineer with 25 years experience as a designer, inspector, project engineer, project manager and project principal on roads and bridges. He was a principal with David Evans and Associates. He has worked on the I-405 design-build bridges and structures for WSDOT.

GeoTest Services

Garcia

GeoTest Services hired Edwardo (Ed) Garcia as a project geotechnical engineer in Arlington. Garcia has more than 12 years of geotechnical engineering experience, mostly in Snohomish, King, Skagit, and Island counties. That has included utility, residential, recreational, commercial, industrial and municipal developments. GeoTest provides geotechnical engineering, environmental, construction special inspection, and materials testing services.

Trindera Engineering

Barker

Trindera Engineering, an electrical and control systems engineering firm based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, hired Barbara Barker as a lighting consultant. Barker has 25 years of experience in lighting design. She previously worked at DEI Electrical Consultants in Spokane. Trindera provides electrical, controls, lighting and specialty systems.

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.