Feb 23, 2011

Abbott Construction

Former Abbott Construction employees Mike Quinn, Ron Williamson and Jack Loudon have returned to the firm. Quinn is a senior project manager with more than 32 years of commercial construction experience. He spent the last 10 years at E. Kent Halvorson. Williamson is director of construction planning. He spent the past five years at Sellen Construction directing more than $4 billion worth of projects. Loudon is a project manager who owned and operated homebuilder Loudon Construction for the past two years.

Apex Steel

Redmond-based commercial steel contractor Apex Steel hired Brian McLean to head its Montana division, where it is working on the Billings Federal Courthouse, its first job in that state. McLean is a Montana native with more than 20 years in the ironworking trade.

GLY Construction

GLY Construction moved from Lake Bellevue to a new location in Bellevue. The new address is: 200 112th Ave. N.E., Suite 300, Bellevue, WA 98004-5878. All other company information remains the same.

Pape Machinery

Pape Machinery in Kelso became the second work site in Washington to be recognized for safety through the new Safety Through Achieving Recognition Together program, or START. The program is administered by the state Department of Labor and Industries and is modeled on the federal Safety & Health Achievement Recognition Program, or SHARP. Both programs recognize companies with exemplary safety records.

Northwest Boring Co.

Woodinville's Northwest Boring Co. won the 2011 Microtunnel Achievement Award from the Colorado School of Mines. The company was cited for its work on the first segment of the Portsmouth Force Main for the city of Portland, where it built more than 1,900 feet of 7-foot-diameter steel casing using microtunneling. Northwest Boring is owned by Donald W. Gonzales.

Feb 15, 2011

Korsmo Construction

Korsmo Construction hired Wayne Knoll to head its newly formed Small Projects Division. Knoll has more than 35 years of industry experience, working as a carpenter, superintendent and owner-operator of Tacoma-based McConaghy Construction. Korsmo is based in Tacoma.

Porter Brothers Construction

Edgewood-based Porter Brothers Construction hired Jeffrey S. Juel as project engineer/project manager and Rick Franklin as project manager/field engineer. Juel, a professional engineer, previously worked as a planner, design engineer, project engineer and program manager for the Army Corps of Engineers. He also was senior project manager at Inca Engineers. Franklin, a licensed architect, is a Washington State University graduate and holds a certificate in construction management from the University of Washington. He has more than 30 years of industry experience.

Pacific Earth Works

Pacific Earth Works owner Jay Curcio won the 2010 Contractor of the Year Award from the Washington Association of Landscape Contractors. Curcio was cited for his leadership and dedication to the association and the industry. Monroe-based Pacific Earth Works was also recognized with two environmental awards for local green roofs.

McKinstry Co.

Seattle's McKinstry Co. won the W.O. Lawton Business Leadership Award for its collaboration on green jobs and skills with the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County. The honor was presented by the National Association of Workforce Boards and accepted by David Allen, McKinstry's executive vice president and a WDC board member.

Light Doctor LLC

The Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration recently won EPA's 2010 Champions of Environmental Leadership and Green Government Award, which recognizes agencies participating in the Federal Green Challenge to reduce greenhouse gases. The award was based upon a $1.2 million lighting retrofit by Light Doctor LLC at Grand Coulee Dam that reduced energy consumption by 1 megawatt. Light Doctor serves Washington, Idaho and Oregon.