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.

Apr 02, 2013

Andersen Construction

Hackett

Sprague

Kessler

Graves

Andersen Construction promoted Thomas Graves, Ryan Kessler and Eric Sprague to project managers and Paul Hackett to preconstruction manager/estimator in the Seattle office. Graves has spent his entire six-year construction career at Andersen, and is experienced in mixed-use housing projects. Kessler has focused on medical and health-care projects throughout his six years with the company. He is a LEED Accredited Professional. Sprague has been with the company for seven years, and has built a LEED platinum and two LEED gold projects. He also is a LEED Accredited Professional. Hackett has 13 years of construction experience, including four with Andersen. He has worked on a variety of commercial projects.

Walsh Pacific

Curran

Michael Curran joined Walsh Pacific as senior project manager. Curran has more than 30 years of construction experience and is leading Walsh's team on the $60 million Marriott Hotel in downtown Bellevue. He has spent most of his career in the Puget Sound area working on school, hospital, hotel, office, industrial and other commercial projects. Walsh Pacific is part of the Walsh Group, which has annual revenues of $3.5 billion.

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker partners Samuel Baker, Douglas Oles, James Nagle and Robert Leslie made the annual list of Super Lawyers. Baker, Oles and Nagle have been named “Washington Super Lawyers” several times in the past, and Leslie repeats as a “Northern California Super Lawyer.” Additionally, attorney Meghan Douris, a construction law expert in the Seattle office, was named a 2013 “Washington Rising Star.” Super Lawyers make up the top 5 percent of the Bar Association membership.