Oct 14, 2015

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

Scott

Salzwedel

Olson

Fortuna

Schiavone

Seattle-based Gustafson Guthrie Nichol promoted Tess Schiavone to principal and Jill Fortuna, Lynda Olson, Cass Salzwedel and Emily Scott to senior associate. The landscape architecture firm's projects include CityCenterDC, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus, and Seattle's Pike-Pine Renaissance streetscape plan.

NAC Architecture

Merrill

Straub

Dompier

Schmidt

Hill

Phan

Baumann

In its Spokane office, NAC Architecture hired Laura Hill as human resources director, Chad Schmidt as an associate, Cody Dompier as an architect, Robert Straub as a communications distribution designer, Courtney Merrill as an office coordinator and David Baumann and Andy Phan as electrical designer/technicians. Hill is responsible for employee recruitment, benefits and compensation, and training and development. Schmidt is an architect who is working on Cascade High School in Leavenworth. Dompier is an architect with eight years of experience. He is working on the Tri-State Hospital master facility plan update in Clarkston. Straub has over nine years of engineering experience in education and institutional projects. He is working on Mount Si High School replacement in Snoqualmie. Merrill does administrative work. Baumann holds a bachelor's in technology from Eastern Washington University. He is working on Providence Health & Services infrastructure master plan. Phan has a bachelor's in electrical engineering from Eastern Washington University and is working on the Workforce and Business Development Center at Walla Walla Community College's Clarkston campus. NAC provides planning, design, engineering, and capital facilities consulting services.

SCJ Alliance

Este

Landscape architect Miranda Este joined SCJ Alliance in Seattle. She has worked on projects in over 10 countries, including a resort in Morocco, conceptual design and construction documents for the Four Seasons Resort Dubai at Jumeirah Beach and master planning for a planned Ritz Carlton in the Bahamas. SCJ provides transportation planning and design, civil engineering, landscape architecture and land use/environmental planning.

B+H Architects

Libby

In its Seattle office, B+H Architects hired Laura Libby as a senior project designer. Libby has nine years of experience in commercial interior design. She has worked on mixed-use, civic and corporate projects and her clients have included Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. She was an interior designer at Gensler, LMN Architects and Mercedes Fernandez Interior Design, and worked for the International Interior Design Association's Northern Pacific Chapter. B+H is a global design firm.

Oct 07, 2015

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

Boulos

Benson

Goodman

Aryana

Herndon

Lange

Zewde

Walbert

Syvertsen

Malandra

Leach

Jorgensen

Li

Seattle-based Gustafson Guthrie Nichol hired Meg Herndon as an associate, Jasmine Aryana as a project manager, Aria Goodman as a graphic designer, and Michael Benson, Kristelle Boulos, Peter Malandra, Philip Syvertsen, Joan Walbert and Sara Zewde as designers. Also, Mary Lange and Laurel Li joined the landscape architecture firm as design interns and Caitlin Jorgensen and Adrienne Leach as administrators. GGN's work includes CityCenterDC, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus and Seattle's Pike-Pine Renaissance streetscape plan.

BHC Consultants

Tittelfitz

In its Seattle office, Talia Tittelfitz rejoined BHC Consultants after working as a watershed coordinator for the Wabash River Enhancement Corp. in Indiana. At BHC from 2007 to 2013, Tittelfitz worked on long-range plans, codes and GIS analyses, including the Kelso downtown plan. BHC is a municipal services consulting firm, with an office also in Tacoma.

Zervas Architects

Bostanci

Karin Bostanci joined Zervas Architects in Bellingham as an interior designer. Bostanci was with an architecture firm in New York City. She holds a bachelor's in urban design and architecture studies from New York University and a master's in interior design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. At Zervas, she is working on the Blaine Primary School addition. Zervas is an architectural and interior design firm.

CollinsWoerman

Carole Kassir-Garcia and Keysha Stark have rejoined CollinsWoerman as senior interior designers for workplace, mixed-use and health care projects. The hires are part of an expansion of the firm's interior design department. Kassir-Garcia has over 25 years of experience designing workplace, health care, and public space interiors. Stark has over 14 years of experience designing workplace and public space interiors. Seattle-based CollinsWoerman is an architecture, design and planning firm.

Shannon & Wilson

Shannon & Wilson hired Axel Nitschke, Ph.D., as vice president and director of operations for underground services in its new office in Tysons Corner, Virginia. His hiring will help the Seattle-based geotechnical and engineering company widen its national underground services portfolio. Nitschke has 20 years of industry experience, including on road, rail and utility tunnel projects for civil infrastructure as well as mining clients.

The Blueline Group

The Blueline Group hired Steve Moore as a CAD drafter. Moore has over 20 years of CAD experience, including water distribution, oil field design, subdivisions, schools, playfields, parks and commercial developments. Blueline provides civil engineering consulting.