Jul 12, 2011

Flesher Marketing Infrastructures

Jan Flesher re-launched her consulting business, Flesher Marketing Infrastructures, which offers marketing and database management to the architecture, engineering and construction industries. Flesher has more than 25 years of marketing experience. More information can be found at http://www.jflesher.com.

Jul 06, 2011

BNBuilders

Nielsen

Jeff Nielsen, principal and co-founder of Seattle-based BNBuilders, joined the board of American Rivers, a conservation group that promotes healthy rivers. Nielsen has served on the advisory council of American Rivers Northwest since 2006 and as the advisory council chair since 2010. He has led efforts at BNBuilders to complete every project using sustainable building practices and to provide a fleet of hybrid vehicles for employee use.

MBA Care Foundation/John Day Homes

The Master Builders Care Foundation and John Day Homes won the Gold Nugget for Community Spirit award at the recent Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco. The two groups partnered with Compassion House, an Issaquah nonprofit provider of housing for homeless families, to build the Julia L. Pritt House. John Day, his staff and more than 40 trades from the homebuilding industry contributed more than $244,000 to build the duplex near downtown Issaquah, which houses two families. Long-time Issaquah resident and philanthropist Julia Pritt donated the land. The Care Foundation is a philanthropic arm of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties, based in Bellevue.

Steel Advice

Local steel professional, technical writer and author Kerri Olsen created an online magazine for steel fabricators called Steel Advice. The site can be found at: http://www.steeladvice.com/steel_advice_027.htm