Feb 17, 2021

Vantis

Conway

Commercial interior construction company Vantis opened an office in Seattle to serve the Pacific Northwest, with a primary focus on the greater Puget Sound and Spokane markets. Longtime Seattle construction industry executive Mark Conway is heading up the office as vice president of the Pacific Northwest. Conway comes from Vantis sister company OpenSquare, where he was senior vice president. Vantis specializes in corporate, technology, health care and education facility interiors using custom prefabricated components that are adaptable as user needs change. It also works with modular construction fabricators. Its California headquarters are based in Santa Clara and its Seattle operations include OpenSquare, Porter and Splice.

Rider Levett Bucknall

le Roux

Emile le Roux returned to Rider Levett Bucknall's Seattle office as associate principal after spending time on a big project in Las Vegas. Le Roux has an educational background in quantity surveying, and over 29 years of national and international construction cost estimating experience, including nearly 20 years with RLB. With offices across the globe, RLB provides construction cost and project management services.

Hensel Phelps

Cummins

General contractor Hensel Phelps promoted Jared Cummins to project superintendent within its Pacific Northwest region office. Over the course of his 11-year career with the company, Cummins has worked on civic, health care and aviation projects in Washington, Northern California and Hawaii. He is currently working on Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's North Satellite modernization project. He holds a bachelor's degree in construction management from Washington State University.

Auburn Mechanical

Johnson

Auburn Mechanical hired Roger Johnson as senior project manager. Johnson has been in the industry since 1989, as an estimator, project manager, license holder and executive. Auburn-based Auburn Mechanical is a women-owned firm specializing in mechanical design, HVAC, plumbing, fitting, refrigeration and maintenance.

Feb 09, 2021

Katerra

Beason

Katerra, a technology-enabled construction company, appointed Kris Beason as head of construction for the Pacific Northwest, where she is overseeing project delivery in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Her role focuses on scaling delivery of factory-built multifamily housing and mass timber projects. She succeeds Greg Smith, who is transitioning to lead project delivery for the company's factory-driven multifamily platform. Beason has over three decades of experience in construction management, holding executive roles at large construction companies that include Skanska and Mortenson.

Forma Construction Co.

Whitton

In Seattle, Forma Construction Co. named Carrie Whitton as outreach and inclusion manager. Whitton has been with the company for three years, most recently as a project manager in the Special Projects Division. Prior to joining Forma, she was a designer with a small subcontractor and also was a contracts specialist at Sound Transit, where she collaborated with local businesses on public works from the owner's side. Forma says Whitton has an understanding of the subcontracting process from the perspectives of both a public agency and a general contractor, as well as the realities of what small and historically underutilized firms face in the marketplace.