Jun 11, 2014

Mithun

Harris

Butler

Olmsted

Swaab

Oien

Mithun promoted Heidi Oien, Dan Swaab, Susan Olmsted, Chris Butler and Malcolm Harris to associate principal. Oien is project manager for market-rate, affordable and student housing projects — including the University of Washington's Lander, Terry and Maple residence halls. Swaab is a senior project architect and technical design leader for mixed-use, corporate facilities and urban housing projects, with work that includes Mosler Lofts in Seattle. Olmsted is an architect and landscape architect who is project manager on projects with an educational and ecological focus, including the Sustainability Treehouse in West Virginia. Butler is a project architect, designer and manager with experience on corporate, educational and cultural projects, including the Wanapum Heritage Center in Priest Rapids. Harris has over 20 years of experience and is project manager for multifamily housing and urban mixed-use design, including 1180 Fourth Street Family Housing in San Francisco.

SRG Partnership

Wilcox

Gust

Ottinger

Cowan

In the Portland office, SRG Partnership hired Harley Cowan, Matt Ottinger, Susan Gust as associates, and Tyler Wilcox as a designer. In the past 18 years, Cowan has worked on projects around the world, with a focus on health care labs. He is a member of the Professional Advisory Board for WSU's School of Design + Construction. Ottinger has nearly 20 years of experience and a background in health care design. He has trained architects to use Revit with The PPI Group. Gust has experience in corporate interiors and has been practicing for more than 10 years, including workspace design for LEED platinum CI projects in the United States. Wilcox graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology in 2012 with a masters of architecture. He recently worked in Behnisch Architekten's Boston office and with Paolo Soleri at Arcosanti.

Legacy Group

Pletschett

Legacy Group hired Heather Pletschett as vice president of sales for the commercial furniture division, which provides office furniture for corporate, legal, educational, financial, health care, technology and creative markets. She has 16 years of experience in the contract furniture industry and most recently was at Knoll as business development manager focusing on the architectural and design community.

Jun 04, 2014

Tiscareno Associates

Sargent

McIntire

Holec

Seattle-based Tiscareno Associates hired architect/project manager Todd Holec, and architects Mark McIntire and Valerie L. Sargent. Holec has been in the industry for 20 years, and has managed and designed housing, mixed-use and medical projects. McIntire has 25 years in the industry and a background in historic preservation, senior care and corporate buildings. Sargent has 16 years of industry experience and is a project manager. Her work includes planned communities and tenant improvements. Tiscareno is an architecture and urban design firm.

Studio Meng Strazzara

Izquierdo

Hatch

Erik Hatch and Pepe Izquierdo joined Studio Meng Strazzara as intern architects. Hatch previously worked at H&K Architects in Reno, Nevada, on educational, commercial, health care, industrial and sports projects. He is working on renovations and classroom upgrades for Lake Washington School District. Izquierdo holds a bachelor of architecture degree from the University of Oregon. He is working on an apartment complex at 11th Avenue and East Pike Street.

Golder Associates

Finnila

Golder Associates hired Aleta Finnila in Redmond. Finnila is a geologist who performs geophysical modeling of fractured rock reservoirs and supports software development and sales for Golder's FracMan Discrete Fracture Network Software Group. She has a Ph.D. in geology from Brown University and was previously employed as a groundwater geologist, IT consultant and programmer. Golder is a global ground engineering and environmental consulting firm.

Notkin Mechanical Engineers

Schwend

Brown

Notkin Mechanical Engineers promoted Larry Brown and Darren Schwend to partner. Brown worked at Notkin between 1982 and 1991, and returned in 2013. He specializes in infrastructure projects for health care clients and has cold-region design experience. He also assists with developing dynamic electronic recordkeeping systems for infrastructure, a specialty he developed as a sole proprietor for 15 years. Schwend joined the firm in 1997. His design and project management experience includes infrastructure and expansions for health care and higher education. His work on technology in projects has included indirect evaporative cooling for the University of Washington campus.

SoundEarth Strategies

Bixby

Seattle-based SoundEarth Strategies named Ryan Bixby president and CEO. Bixby replaces Berthin Hyde, who founded the firm in 2001 as Sound Environmental Strategies Corp. and helped it grow on average 20 percent per year. Hyde will continue as chairman and focus on corporate initiatives and client support. Bixby, a geologist, was hired in 2005 to manage environmental projects for developers, attorneys, industry and petroleum companies. He most recently was environmental division president. SoundEarth provides due diligence, remediation, environmental review and permitting and has a construction division. The company has over 80 employees, with offices in Washington, Oregon, California and Colorado.

Aecom

Kambol

In the Seattle office, Aecom hired Stephen Kambol as associate vice president, principal project manager to lead the Seattle rail and transit design practice. Kambol has 35 years of civil engineering experience, with an emphasis on rail and highway projects. He has managed planning and design teams on projects that include the corridor EIS and preliminary engineering for the $3.1 billion East Link Light Rail. He also spent 12 years working in Asia on road and rail projects.

Freiheit & Ho Architects

Kirkland-based Freiheit & Ho Architects hired Julie Koch as director of interior design. Koch's career has spanned 30 years. She is a project manager with tenant improvement, renovation and new construction experience. Freiheit & Ho provides architecture and interior design.