March 5, 2003

Design Detailings: GeoEngineers, AES announce merger

Redmond's GeoEngineers will merge with Applied Environmental Services of Port Orchard. AES has provided natural resource and regulatory services throughout the Northwest and Alaska since Wayne Wright and Lisa Berntsen founded the company in 1993. AES specializes in wetlands consulting, fisheries biology, wildlife investigations, nearshore habitat assessments, underwater scuba and video surveys, and aquatic habitat restoration services.

GeoEngineers’ core strengths are in earth sciences and engineering, water resource management, environmental site investigations and remediation, and GIS/data management.

"Their work is creative yet practical, especially in reaching balance between human development pressures and our highly valued aquatic and terrestrial species and ecosystems," said GeoEngineers president Jim Miller. AES will assume the GeoEngineers identity, and retain the Port Orchard location.

UW lecture by Boym Partners

In conjunction with the Bellevue Art Museum exhibition "Oh Boym! A Slideshow of Design," Constantin and Laurene Boym will discuss their work, their process and their design philosophy at 7 p.m. Thursday. The free lecture will be held at University of Washington, Kane Lecture Hall, Room 110.

"Oh Boym!" showcases the work of the Boym Partners. Running through April 13, it is the first exhibit to concentrate on the work of this New York City design studio, revealing the sources and development of their designs. For information, call (425) 519-0760.

Row Houses founder speaks Friday

Rick Lowe will lecture at Seattle Art Museum's Plestcheeff Auditorium at 7 p.m. Friday.

Founder of Project Row Houses, a neighborhood-based public art program that renovated 22 shotgun-style houses in one of Houston's poorest neighborhoods, Lowe worked with others to create galleries, workshop spaces, offices and housing as places for young single mothers to learn life skills.

Lowe's work has been included in national and international exhibitions and programs. He is the recipient of the Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University School of Design and chief arts planner of the new downtown Seattle Central Public Library with architect Rem Koolhaas.

Tickets are $8 for SAM members, $10 for non-members. Order tickets in advance by calling the SAM Box Office at (206) 654-3121.

Open house on regulating design

David Spiker, guest editor of Arcade, will speak at an open house Thursday on "Regulating Design." Arcade is an architecture/design journal for the Northwest.

The open house will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Production Network, 1000 N. Northlake Way, just north of the Adobe software campus between Stone Way and the Aurora Bridge.

Lessons from the WTC clean-up

The Seattle Post of the Society of American Military Engineers sponsors a luncheon Tuesday discussing the lessons of the World Trade Center clean-up.

The speaker will be Jeff Tasca of AMEC Corp., who will present lessons learned by AMEC staff during recovery and cleanup operations at the World Trade Center site. AMEC was one of three contractors awarded removal contracts.

The event is hosted by Engineering Field Activity Northwest, Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The luncheon will be held at Consolidate Mess, Trident Ballroom, at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Attendees will need to give organizers their full names and Social Security numbers -- information that will be held in confidence and will be destroyed after the luncheon. The information must be provided with the RSVP, no later than Thursday. Cost is $10. Drivers need to bring their driver’s license, registration and proof of insurance. For information, contact Shannon Marsh at (360) 396-0043, fax (360) 396-0855, or e-mail marshSN@efanw.navfac.navy.mil.

What's the future for Spokane?

The March 13 program and luncheon meeting of Marketing Associates of Spokane will be presented by Randy Barcus, chief economist for Avista Corp. Barcus will discuss the Spokane region’s economy, including his forecast for the coming months.

The meeting will be held at noon at the WestCoast Grand Hotel at the Park, 303 W. North River Drive in Spokane. The cost is $15 for MAS members and $25 for non-members. Reservation deadline is Monday. For membership information or to make a reservation, contact MAS vice president David Dowers at (509) 536-3853 or see the MAS Web site at www.maspokane.org.

Gustafson changes name, location

Gustafson Partners Ltd. recently announced a name and address change. The new name is Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd., and the offices are in Pier 55, 1101 Alaskan Way, floor 3. The phone is (206) 903-6802, and fax is (206) 903-6804.

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol is working on the Princess Diana memorial in London's Hyde Park and Boston's North End Parks. They are working with Boston's Wallace Floyd Design Group on the Boston project, and British architect Neil Porter on the memorial.