Dec 30, 2020

Mutuus Studio

Galdamez

Silvia Galdamez joined Mutuus Studio in Seattle as an architectural designer after having interned for it the past two summers. Galdamez holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Cornell University with a dual concentration in the history of architecture and visual representation. Mutuus offers architecture, interiors and product design services.

Rice Fergus Miller

Quist-Therson

Bremerton-based Rice Fergus Miller hired Patricia Quist-Therson as a project manager. Quist-Therson has experience in commercial, residential and government environments with projects ranging from $500,000 to $20 million. She joins the fire and emergency services studio of the architecture, interior design, planning and visualization firm.

Metrix Engineers

Prehoda

Renton-based mechanical and electrical design and consulting firm Metrix Engineers hired Ben Prehoda as a principal. Prehoda will lead the electrical engineering studio. He has nine years of design engineering experience, most notably supporting K-12 facility design and construction administration. He recently completed design of the Puesta del Sol Elementary School in Bellevue, which will be the first net zero energy K-12 facility and the largest net zero commercial project in the state.

Dec 23, 2020

Thornton Tomasetti

Morgen

Brian G. Morgen, Ph.D., joined Thornton Tomasetti as vice president and Seattle office director. Morgen has over 16 years of experience in the Seattle market and a background in structural analysis and design, and project management. He has worked on office and residential towers, health care facilities, civic and cultural centers and mixed-use complexes. Morgen is a specialist in performance-based seismic design and played a key role in the design of several high-performing buildings in earthquake-prone areas in the western U.S. and Asia. Most recently, he was a principal in Magnusson Klemencic Associates' Seattle office and a senior member of the firm's office and residential specialist groups. Thornton Tomasetti's Seattle office is working on Climate Pledge Arena.

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

Umana

Geter

Cox

Donovan

Seattle-based landscape architecture firm Gustafson Guthrie Nichol promoted Chihiro Shinohara Donovan to senior associate, Azzurra Cox and Rikerrious Geter to associate and Wolfgang Umana to office manager. Donovan has a background in architecture, landscape architecture and environmental design. She has worked on the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Dongtan Park in Seoul, South Korea, and Spring District parks in Bellevue. She is the project designer on India Basin Shoreline Park in San Francisco. Cox loves cities and has a commitment to public space. She is on the design team and leading the public engagement for the India Basin project. She also is an urban design commissioner on the Seattle Design Commission. Geter examines and promotes how public space can best serve impoverished areas to encourage equitable, healthy and sustainable communities. He recently participated in engaging the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco to help them visualize their India Basin Shoreline Park. His current projects include West Main in Bellevue and Mercer Blocks in Seattle, where he brings an emphasis to sustainability. Umana has experience in social media, communications, outreach and technical services. He recently transformed the Washington, D.C., office space to accommodate a growing number of designers and continually advances GGN's technology infrastructure with cutting-edge hardware and software. All the others work in the Seattle office.

Hart Crowser

Hyllseth

Goodwin

Eng

Schmitz

Dagel

Marsters

Simbeck

Arnold

In Seattle, Hart Crowser promoted Mark Dagel and Mike Schmitz to principal and Kelly Eng, Angie Goodwin and Rolf Hyllseth to senior associate. In Tacoma, the firm promoted Dr. Lorne Arnold to associate and in Honolulu it promoted Simone Simbeck to senior associate. Also, Dr. Janice Marsters was promoted to senior principal. She manages the Hawaii and Guam offices.

Dagel is a hydrogeologist who has 33 years of experience, 11 at Hart Crowser. That includes environmental investigations, cleanups, source control and monitoring; Natural Resource Damage Assessment and restoration projects; stormwater compliance; and environmental stakeholder and regulatory negotiations. He has managed environmental work at landfills, petroleum-contaminated sites, military installations, industrial facilities and abandoned mining, milling and smelting sites. Schmitz is a geotechnical engineer who manages the geotechnical business unit. He has 17 years of experience with transportation, airport and river levee projects, including nearly four at Hart Crowser. He was a geotechnical engineer on a team that replaced 554 bridges in just 3.5 years. Eng is human resources manager in the Seattle office. She has 24 years of experience, including 18 at Hart Crowser. She is responsible for the planning, implementation and administration of all functional areas of human resources. She also works with the corporate health and safety manager in the retention of health and safety statistics and completion of OSHA and other compliance reports.

Goodwin is a hydrogeologist who has been with Hart Crowser for 14 years, supporting projects involving water resources, environmental hydrogeology, remediation, property due diligence/redevelopment and groundwater computer modeling. She has been environmental project manager for multi-phase construction projects involving significant soil management and disposal. Hyllseth is a geotechnical engineer with 30 years of experience, including nine at Hart Crowser. His work includes mixed-use developments, deep excavations, landslides, bridge foundations, rockfall mitigation and rockslide evaluation/instrumentation. He has completed projects and is managing on-call contracts for public agencies that include the Washington State Department of Transportation, U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the city of Seattle. Arnold is a geotechnical engineer with nine years of experience including six at Hart Crowser. He is the founder and manager of the Tacoma office. His projects include high-rise, highway and port and waterfront development. He was the geotechnical project manager for the Southbound Interstate 5 bridge over the Puyallup River and the South Sound 911 Public Safety Communications Center in Tacoma.

Simbeck is an environmental scientist who has been with Hart Crowser for two years and has 15 years of experience in environmental assessment, stormwater management, environmental sampling design, dredge management and regulatory compliance. She has contributed to projects in the Hawaiian Islands, contiguous United States, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Marsters has more than 28 years of consulting experience in Hawaii and the Pacific, including five at Hart Crowser, specializing in stormwater consultation and environmental planning, compliance and permitting. She has managed hundreds of environmental and geotechnical projects for private industry and government agencies in Hawaii and the Pacific. She is an American Council of Engineering Companies fellow. Hart Crowser, a division of Haley & Aldrich, specializes in geotechnical engineering, environmental science and engineering, stormwater services and resilience engineering.