March 12, 2003

Design Detailings: A New Face in engineering

Burwell

Cheryl Burwell, a design engineer at Magnusson Klemencic Associates, was recently recognized as a New Face of Engineering, as part of National Engineers Week.

The New Faces of Engineering program recognizes 109 nominees out of 1.8 million engineers in the U.S. The program is designed to boost public awareness of the newest generation of engineers. To qualify, engineers had to have worked on unique or high profile projects and/or engineering achievements during the last two to five years.

Burwell was dispatched within an hour of the Nisqually earthquake and inspected damaged buildings, assessing more than 15 properties. She has worked on several Seattle area projects including gravity and steel design on the Seattle Justice Center, pre- and post-implosion monitoring on the Kingdome, and historic renovation of the Harborview Medical Center addition.

She serves on Magnusson Klemencic committees charged with developing new design guidelines and recommendations, such as the steel, earthquake and building preservation expert groups. She also is co-facilitator of the firm's Design Engineer Forum, an in-house discussion group for younger engineers.

Burwell was nominated by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Hargreaves on the WTC team

San Francisco-based Hargreaves Associates, which is designing South Lake Union Park, is on the winning team for the World Trade Center site competition, with Studio Daniel Libeskind.

Memory Foundations, the winning design, leaves a portion of the World Trade Center slurry wall exposed, as a symbol of endurance and a setting for the museum and upcoming memorial competition. At street level, two large public places were designed for the scheme, the Park of Heroes and the Wedge of Light. The Wedge of Light allows that each year on Sept. 11, between the hours of 8:46 a.m., when the first plane hit and 10:28 a.m., when the second tower collapsed, the sun will shine without shadow on the site. A 1,776-foot tall spire will re-establish a new skyline for Lower Manhattan.

"The landscape architect provides an important holistic view in a team collaboration like this one," says George Hargreaves, founding principal of the firm and chair of the Landscape Architecture Department at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. "We relish this role on multidisciplinary teams both large and small."

He said one goal for Hargreaves is to strengthen the connection of the site to Lower Manhattan, New York City and the world.

In Seattle, Hargreaves Associates is working on the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Facility and the South Lake Union Park.

Wastewater treatment design forum

Bergstrom

Hammond Collier Wade Livingstone’s Robert Bergstrom will give a presentation Thursday on the increasing role of membrane technology in modern water and wastewater treatment design.

Speaking at the 25th Annual Washington Water/Wastewater Operations Workshop in Spokane, Bergstrom will discuss the use of membranes as filter media in the water and wastewater arenas.

The presentation begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Spokane Center. The conference, hosted by the Washington Environmental Training Center, is the largest workshop of its kind in the Northwest. For more information, call the WETRC at (800) 562-0858 ext. 1, or go to www.ivygreen.ctc.edu/wetrc/wow_brochure.htm.

New name, location for Gustafson

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. It is working with Boston's Wallace Floyd Design Group on the Boston project, and British architect Neil Porter on the memorial.

What's the forecast for Spokane?

The Thursday 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.