Feb 06, 2019

IBI Group

Wharton

Toronto-headquartered IBI Group hired Gregory Wharton as studio lead for a new commercial-residential mixed-use architecture practice in Seattle. He has over 25 years of experience in Seattle, nationally and internationally as a designer and planner for mixed-use projects including high-rise, mid-rise, apartments, condos, hotels, offices and retail centers. IBI Group has 2,800 employees and more than 60 offices worldwide.

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Mohr

Clifton

Berahman

Seattle-based Magnusson Klemencic Associates promoted Farshad Berahman, Sean Clifton and Danya Mohr to principal. Berahman has a Ph.D. and 20 years of design and structural engineering experience managing projects up to 11.8 million square feet. As leader of the high-rise structures technical specialist team, he has advanced MKA's tall building design with wind and seismic engineering advancements, including new forms of damping systems within tall towers for more efficient motion control. Clifton is a member of the residential and hotel specialist group and the high-rise and concrete technical specialist teams. He has experience internationally in residential, hospitality and mixed-use developments up to 4 million square feet, and high-rises up to 100 stories. Mohr is in the retail/mixed-use specialist group with experience in retail, mixed-use, and hospitality markets globally. He was educated as an architectural engineer and has designed boutique retail as well as multi-tower, mixed-use developments. MKA provides structural and civil engineering worldwide.

Floyd|Snider

King

Seattle-based Floyd|Snider promoted Megan King to associate principal. The environmental engineer and senior project manager has 15 years of experience in upland and in-water hazardous waste remediation, project management and facilitation. She has worked on environmental cleanup and restoration projects in the Northwest for ports, municipalities, industries and developers.

Blueline

Rivera

Contreras

Jensen

In Kirkland, Blueline hired Eric Jensen as planning manager, Gloria Contreras as an engineer/construction inspector on public works projects and Eric J. Rivera as an engineering drafter. Jensen most recently was in capital infrastructure project management for King County's Community Development Block Grant program and has been principal planner for the cities of Duvall, Carnation and Millwood. He will lead land use planning, permitting and grant management for Blueline. Contreras has a master's in civil engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was a project engineer with Gary Merlino Construction. Rivera has been in the civil engineering field for 20 years in California, including on a survey crew for Rodman, and as a designer and CAD manager for Yamabe & Horn Engineering. Blueline provides civil engineering, land use planning and landscape architecture.

ESM Consulting Engineers

Kunitsugu

Everett

Lennon

Stiff

In Federal Way, ESM Consulting Engineers promoted Trevor Stiff to vice president, Zack Lennon to director of survey, John Everett to director of planning and Clark Kunitsugu to principal. Stiff has been at ESM since 2001 and is director of engineering. Lennon has 20 years of experience in land surveying and has taken over the overall management of the firm's survey operations. Everett has 20 years of experience in land planning, real estate and development. Kunitsugu leads ESM's residential services with over a decade of experience in engineering, design and entitlement of residential projects. He works with builders and developers in the Puget Sound region. ESM provides civil engineering, land planning, surveying, landscape architecture and GIS services.

Jan 30, 2019

DCI Engineers

Doshi

In Seattle, DCI Engineers promoted Jinal Doshi to project manager. Doshi has worked on mixed-use, hospitality, high-rise residential and mid-rise/high-rise office projects. He is working on the Grand Avenue Parcel Q project in Los Angeles. DCI is a civil and structural engineering firm.

OAC Services

Hofto

Nabavi

Gardella

Avery

In Seattle, OAC Services promoted Lindsey Avery to project manager. It also promoted Damon Gardella to senior project manager in Spokane, Houman Nabavi to associate in San Diego and Alex Hofto to associate in Los Angeles. Avery has guided tenant improvements in Seattle and Bellevue, and was recently nominated as a “Rising Rock Star” by Women in Commercial Real Estate. Gardella led the Mead School District Capital Improvement Program and assisted with its 2018 bond measure. He also worked on Spokane's library bond and Ellensburg School District's 2018 school bond. Nabavi has been a project engineer, assistant project manager, project manager and technology advisor. In Southern California, he has worked on commercial real estate projects. Hofto has managed projects in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Dallas. He heads the LA office and has led hospitality projects, and high-tech and commercial efforts.

Hainline

Nelson

Rewolinksi

Seattle-based Hainline hired John Rewolinksi and Eric Nelson as project managers. Rewolinksi has over 17 years of experience in the construction industry, including using scheduling platforms such as Primavera P6 and MS Project. He has been a carpenter, iron worker, designer, claims manager and project controls professional. Nelson returned to Hainline after a brief time away. He has over 30 years of construction and construction management experience, including project planning and development. Hainline provides project management and construction management, scheduling, and project controls services.

Dibble Engineers

Miller

Vandecoeverin

Hamad

Doquilo

Kirkland-based Dibble Engineers Inc. hired engineers in training Michael Doquilo, Eltigani (TJ) Hamad, Trevor Vandecoevering and Michael Miller II as design engineers. Doquilo was a summer intern at DEI and has a bachelor's in civil engineering from Gonzaga University. He has worked on residential, commercial and structural review projects, and guided projects through permitting. Hamad has six years of experience in the U.S. He holds a bachelor's in civil engineering from the University of Khartoum in Sudan and a master's in structural engineering from Colorado State University. He worked for a company that designs cold formed steel framing for commercial buildings. Vandecoevering has a bachelor's in civil engineering from Gonzaga, and has worked on single- and multi-family renovations, site structures and field investigations. Miller was a project engineer in California, where he did field engineering, laboratory testing and inspections primarily on retail and commercial buildings. At DEI, he provides structural engineering for residential projects and mechanical anchorage. He has a bachelor's in civil engineering from Seattle University.

Gibbs & Olson

Griggs

Civil engineering and land surveying firm Gibbs & Olson hired T.J. Griggs as a project engineer in the Longview office. Griggs holds a bachelor's in civil engineering from Washington State University and engineer-in-training certification. He is working on road, site, sanitary sewer and water design project elements, and analysis and design of stormwater detention and treatment systems.