Jan 13, 2016

PCS Structural Solutions

Collins

Klein

PCS Structural Solutions named Principal Jeff Klein director of human resources and employee development, and promoted Jason Collins to principal and director of engineering. Klein has been with PCS for 17 years, and designs hospital facilities, including for MultiCare Health System. Collins joined PCS 13 years ago, and works on housing, and office and hotel towers including Tacoma Convention Center Tower. Klein is in the Tacoma office, and Collins in Seattle.

Parametrix

Atchison

Young

In its Seattle office, Parametrix hired Jenifer Young as environmental planning and compliance division manager, and Alex Atchison as transportation group manager. Young has over 25 years of experience with environmental impact statements for projects. She was with CH2M Hill. Atchison has 17 years as a project manager in transportation planning, traffic analysis and impact studies. She was with Transpo Group. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences, with offices in the western U.S.

KDW Salas O'Brien

Ross

In its Seattle office, KDW Salas O'Brien hired Brenda Ross as director of critical environments to work on regional and national accounts. Ross is an architect with over 25 years of experience that includes design and construction management and complex systems design. She was with KDW Salas O'Brien from 1996 to 2004, working her way to principal. The firm provides facilities planning, design and construction management, with 14 offices in the U.S.

Ecotope

Larson

Storm

Oram

Heller

Ecotope, an energy efficiency research and design firm with Seattle and Portland offices, named Jonathan Heller as president, Shawn Oram as director of engineering and design, Poppy Storm as director of policy and planning, and Ben Larson as director of research and technology. Heller became principal engineer in 2007 and this year was awarded a 2016 First Place National ASHRAE Technology Award. Oram focuses on energy efficient mechanical system design. Storm manages the policy and research group on innovation and the company's contributions to regional and utility efficiency efforts. Larson has a background in energy efficiency, physics, experimental design, quantitative analysis and numerical modeling.

Bernardo|Wills Architects

Nelson

White

Spokane-based Bernardo|Wills Architects hired Timothy J. White as an architect and Erik Nelson as a project manager. White is working on renovation of the Survival School's gym at Fairchild Air Force Base under a contract with the Air Force. He has nearly 40 years of experience, and was with ZBA Architecture. Nelson is working on tenant improvements at Spokane International Airport. He was with Horty Elving, a health care architecture firm in Minneapolis. Bernardo|Wills provides architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and master planning.

Salus Architecture

Ahmadnia

Seattle-based Salus Architecture hired Mahta Ahmadnia as an architect in training. Ahmadnia holds degrees in community, environment and planning, and in Near Eastern languages from the University of Washington, and a masters of architecture from the University of Arizona. Salus plans and designs health care facilities.

ALSC Architects

Wilson

Boyce

In its Spokane office, ALSC Architects hired Sheila Boyce as an interior designer and Forest Wilson as a revit specialist. Boyce has over 27 years of experience that includes educational, medical, corporate, retail and residential design. She is working on Boone Avenue Mail Services Center at Gonzaga University. Wilson is working on Washington State University Soccer Stadium in Pullman. ALSC provides planning and design, with an office also in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Jan 06, 2016

Rolluda Architects

Calaf

Sellsted

Day

Ciampa

Rolluda Architects hired Christina Ciampa as a marketing specialist, and Brenden Day, Anya Sellsted and Juan Antonio Calaf as project designers. Ciampa holds a dual master's in landscape architecture and urban design from the University of Colorado at Denver, and a bachelor's in plant biology and sculpture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She will do proposals, website and social media work, graphic production, event planning and branding. Day holds a bachelor's in architecture from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. He is on the Washington State Convention Center expansion team. Sellsted has worked on design-build projects in France and the U.S., and has a background in interiors. She is working on NOAA projects in Sandpoint and Mukilteo. Calaf has been an architectural designer in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Puerto Rico and Seattle. He is working on restoration of The Louisa Hotel in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.

Parametrix

Stokes

In Puyallup, Parametrix hired Arthur Stokes as a senior electrical engineer. Stokes has 26 years of experience as an electrical engineer working in the Puget Sound region and West Coast. He will do project management and business development. He was an electrical resource manager at Kennedy Jenks. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences, with offices in the western U.S.

Environmental Science Associates

Avila

Environmental Science Associates promoted Terri (Vitar) Avila to community development practice leader. She takes over from Brian Boxer, who was recently named Northern California regional director. Avila has over 30 years of experience in environmental consulting and natural resource planning. She managed the Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II EIR, which won the American Planning Association National Achievement Award for Hard Won Victories. ESA is a West Coast-based environmental planning and design firm.

Stantec

Somers

In Spokane, Stantec hired Scott Somers as a senior architect. Somers has over 26 years of industry experience, mainly with health care, dental and orthodontic projects in the U.S. and abroad. He also has experience in business and real estate projects and community/civic design, and ran his own firm, ARCH-101. Stantec consults in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management and project economics.

FFA Architecture and Interiors

Pete

Leighland

Nakazato

Hilbert

Portland-based FFA Architecture and Interiors hired Lynn Hilbert as a specifications and quality assurance/quality control manager, Mayumi Nakazato as an interior designer, Michael Leighland as a project team leader and John Pete as a project architect. Hilbert returns to FFA with over 35 years as an architect. Nakazato has over 10 years of experience, and recently completed Smith Optics' new office in the Industrial Home Building. Leighland has over 10 years of experience on housing, office, retail and hospitality projects. Pete has over nine years of experience, and is working on Redmond City Hall/Civic Center in Oregon. FFA provides architecture, planning, historic preservation and interior design services.

Hart Crowser

Dunn

Tummala

Marsters

In its Honolulu office, Hart Crowser hired Janice Marsters, Ph.D., as principal and office manager, Vijayalakshmi Tummala as an associate environmental engineer and Jessica Dunn as a project environmental scientist. Marsters has over 20 years of consulting experience in Hawaii and the Pacific, specializing in stormwater, program management, environmental investigation, cleanup, planning and permitting. Tummala has over 12 years of experience in water resources engineering, stormwater management, environmental compliance and civil engineering. She will support National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System projects. Dunn has six years of experience in watershed management. She will support stormwater, environmental, natural resource and GIS projects. Hart Crowser is an engineering, science and consulting firm headquartered in Seattle.