Jan 26, 2010
Regional general contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis hired
Marc Everson as chief estimator of the Commercial Division in Seattle. Everson has been in construction in the Seattle area since 1980, serving as a project engineer, project manager, senior project manager and director of estimating. He holds bachelor's degrees in construction management and business administration from Washington State University.
PSF Mechanical hired
B. Joel Smith as engineering technical director. Smith has more than 30 years of experience in engineering, sales and marketing in the Northwest design-build mechanical industry. He is a professional engineer and was a principal at MacDonald-Miller and Hermanson Co.
Seattle's Global Diving & Salvage hired
Christopher Green as a construction estimator. In his new position, Green is responsible for estimating and proposal production within Global's Marine Construction Division for federal, state, local and civil customers, as well as other key markets. He has an extensive educational and professional background in the estimating and preconstruction development process. He was previously employed by MulvannyG2 Architecture and construction companies specializing in retail development.
The Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon named
Tim Kent of Vancouver-based MacKay & Sposito Oregon Surveyor of the Year. Kent has more than 37 years of land surveying experience and has spent the last five years as a professor, first at the Oregon Institute of Technology and now at Clark College, where he is the program coordinator and instructor for the Surveying Program. He holds Professional Land Surveyor licenses in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, California and Colorado. He also is a two-time Surveyor of the Year winner of the Land Surveyors' Association of Washington.
Seattle-based Optimum Energy, a provider of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning software, is partnering with Tom Hartman to bring his HVAC design and control expertise to the company's largest projects. Hartman is working with the company's Engineering Services team, which is based in San Diego and deployed across the country. He is a Professional Engineer, Certified Energy Manager and founder of The Hartman Co. Optimum Energy offers an HVAC optimization solution that Hartman developed 10 years ago. The Engineering Services team specializes in engineering centrifugal chiller plants and variable-air-volume air handling systems.
Jan 20, 2010
Bob Birdsall has retired after working more than 40 years with Federal Way's DBM Contractors. Birdsall began at the firm in 1967 as an equipment operator and worked his way through the ranks to foreman, superintendent, area manager for the North Slope of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, senior estimator and project manager. In 2007, he became the company's first dedicated full-time safety director after serving as its safety committee chairman for 13 years. He held leadership positions and served on several committees of the International Association of Foundation Drilling's West Coast Chapter. He also taught at the drill rig operators' school for the association.
The Associated General Contractors of Washington selected new steering committee members for its Future Leadership Forum, a professional development program for early- and mid-career construction professionals.
The new members are
Brian Antonsen of McKinstry Co.,
Brad Hamilton of Lydig Construction,
Garrick Hughes of GLY Construction,
Tim Nierman of Parker Smith & Feek, and
Katie Trimpe of Turner Construction Co. Returning steering committee members include
Kurt Trester of Heery International and
Sean Woerman of Lydig Construction.
CLP Resources named Seattle's Krekow Jennings a 2009 Safety Partner of the Year. Krekow was one of 12 CLP customers to get the honor, which is based on hours between incidents, overall safety performance of CLP employees on the customer's job site, and safety culture. Reno, Nev.-based CLP, a subsidiary of TrueBlue, is a national supplier of tradespeople to commercial, industrial and institutional building contractors.
