Sep 17, 2013

Walsh Construction Co.

Patton

Shea

Walsh Construction Co. promoted Tim Shea and Joe Patton to assistant superintendents. Shed interned with Walsh in 2008 and joined the company in 2009 as a project engineer. He holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from the University of Washington. Patton joined Walsh in 2006 as a journeyman carpenter, and most recently was a carpenter foreman. Their new duties involve project documentation, labor supervision, schedules, quality inspections, and coordination of subcontractors, field supervisors and field employees. Walsh has offices in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland.

Mortenson

Cromwell

Jackson

McKenna

Jung

Weber

Goebel

Slama

Lindsay

Eight joined Mortenson's local operations: Rick Lindsay is a superintendent in the Seattle office; Brent Slama is a senior project manager in the Seattle office; Greg Goebel is a field engineer assigned to the Puyallup Correctional Facility; John Weber is part of the estimating team; Kyle Jung is an assistant equipment facility manager at the Woodinville equipment yard; John McKenna is an assistant project manager; Joshua Jackson is a field engineer on the Touchstone Hill7 development in Seattle; and James Cromwell is an assistant superintendent at the Chambers Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant project in University Place. Lindsay is working on a data center in Quincy. Goebel and Weber are recent graduates of the University of Washington construction management program. McKenna is working on the Hill7 development. Jackson recently graduated from Brigham Young University–Idaho with a bachelor's degree in construction management.

Skanska

Skanska USA promoted Mary Brown to human resources service coordinator for the West Coast. The company also hired Zach Wasielewski as senior project engineer, Rick Bisol as field engineer, and Jamie Armintrout, Shelby Borg and Nate Messner as project engineers. Based in Skanska's Seattle office, Brown is supporting the company's personnel in Washington and Oregon, and is also providing HR services for Skanska's Aviation Center of Excellence.

Bay Shore Systems

Bay Shore Systems signed an agreement with Davey Kent of Kent, Ohio, for exclusive sales rights to Davey Drill products in all states west of the Mississippi. Rathdrum, Idaho-based Bay Shore makes, sells and services drilling equipment for the foundation and geotechnical construction industries.

Sep 10, 2013

Walsh Construction Co.

Vierling

Walsh Construction Co. hired Craig Vierling as project manager for its Washington region. Vierling, LEED AP, has nearly 30 years of construction experience. Walsh specializes in affordable mixed-use, multi-unit, special needs and student housing, as well as renovations and historic preservations. It has offices in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland.

Walsh Pacific

Herr

Finney

Mike Finney and Donna Herr joined the Seattle Regional Office of Walsh Pacific. Finney, a senior project superintendent, has more than 30 years of industry experience, starting as a carpenter. Herr, a project administrator, spent much of her career working on local high-rises. Both are working on the $60 million Bellevue Marriott Hotel project. Walsh Pacific is part of the Walsh Group, one of the 15 largest contractors in North America, according to Engineering News-Record.

DBM Contractors

Federal Way-based DBM Contractors and San Diego-based TerraPacific Consultants won the small project division award from CalGeo for their work on the rehabilitation of the Chancellor's House for the University of California, San Diego. For the job, crews installed soldier piles to stabilize a bluff on a sanctified American Indian cemetery site adjacent to the historic house in La Jolla. TerraPacific is a geotechnical engineering firm.

Canyon Creek Cabinet Co.

Monroe-based Canyon Creek Cabinet Co. won the 2013 Reader's Survey Bronze Award for Best Cabinets from Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Magazine. Readers of the magazine picked the winners.