Apr 16, 2013

PCL Civil Constructors

Dill

Erekson

Leachman

The Seattle Transportation Infrastructure Group of PCL Civil Constructors hired Dan Leachman as construction manager, Mark Erekson as manager of business development and Forrest Dill as manager of estimating. Leachman is overseeing projects from the Seattle area to the North Slope of Alaska. He has more than 30 years of heavy-civil construction experience, and holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from Washington State University. Erekson has more than 20 years of construction experience. He is managing business development operations along the West Coast. Dill is a professional engineer with more than 37 years of heavy-civil estimating, project management and business development experience.

Walsh Construction Co.

Flury

Blake Flury joined Walsh Construction Co.'s Washington region as a project engineer. Flury's responsibilities are documentation, labor supervision, schedules, quality inspection, and coordination of subcontractors, field supervisors and field employees. He is a recent graduate of the Construction Engineering Management program at Oregon State University and interned with Walsh last summer.

Andersen Construction

Barnes

Cattadoris

The Seattle office of Andersen Construction hired Isabel Cattadoris as marketing coordinator, Charles Barnes as project superintendent, and Austin Kartic, Jeff Hofmann and Scott Downs as project engineers. Cattadoris has four years of marketing and brand design experience, and an AEC background. Barnes has 35 years of construction experience, starting as a residential carpenter and working his way up through the trades. Kartic is working in the Special Projects Division. He recently graduated from Central Washington University, as did Hofmann from Oregon State University. Downs will graduate in May from Washington State University.

Custom Backhoe and Dump Truck Service

IO Environmental and Infrastructure of San Diego bought Custom Backhoe and Dump Truck Service of Bellevue. Geoff Yates founded Custom Backhoe in 1979 as an environmental remediation and civil contractor. IO Environmental is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business that plans to have more than 40 percent of its staff made up of veterans.

Apr 09, 2013

Haskell Corp.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District selected Haskell Corp. of Bellingham as Contractor of the Year at its recent 14th Annual Celebrate Safety ceremony at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Haskell was among 10 contractors and two individuals honored for their safety performance in 2012. Haskell took the top award for a $53 million design-build project that replaced two coal-fired boilers and handling systems at Eielson Air Force Base. The company had zero lost days and a DART rate of 0 on the project, which logged 36,000 worker hours.

Hudson Bay Insulation

Greg Zevely is now part owner of Hudson Bay Insulation in Seattle. Zevely has worked at Hudson Bay for more than 10 years in roles related to project management and business development. He joins other owners Jim King, Lisa King, Tim Stout and Ken Gritter. The company also announced John Hernandez joined as senior project manager. Hernandez has worked in mechanical contracting for 17 years, and will help the specialty contractor grow its market share and geographical reach.

DBM Contractors

Kovacs

Federal Way-based DBM Contractors hired Tim Kovacs as design engineer. Kovacs has more than 12 years of experience with heavy-civil infrastructure projects and previously worked at Lachel and Associates doing engineering and non-destructive testing of deep foundations and vibration monitoring. He is a registered professional engineer, and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees with an emphasis in geotechnical and environmental engineering from Brigham Young University.

Sellen Construction

Boysen

Tom Boysen joined Sellen Construction as senior project manager. Boysen has more than 20 years of engineering and construction experience, with a focus on advanced technology and data center projects. In his new role, he is responsible for health-care, laboratory, industrial, data center and energy projects. Boysen previously worked for University Mechanical Contractors and ACCO Engineered Systems. He is a registered mechanical engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Holaday-Parks

Fleming

The Seattle corporate office of mechanical contractor Holaday-Parks hired Jaymes Fleming as detailing manager. Fleming has worked in the construction industry for more than 18 years as a field foreman, project detailer, MEP coordinator, project manager, BIM consultant and constructability consultant. His specialty is modeling and coordinating mechanical systems.