November 12, 2003

Design Detailings: RoseWater celebrates its 20th anniversary

RoseWater Engineering celebrated its 20th anniversary in October. RWE has grown from a one-woman operation, founded in 1983 by Amy J. Haugerud in her basement, to a 40-person civil engineering consulting firm in downtown Seattle.

RWE provides civil engineering planning and design services in three main areas: site development associated with public buildings; water and wastewater piping and pumping systems; and surface water management and drainage systems.

Haugerud is active in the local and national consulting engineering community, serving as president of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington from 1998 to 1999 and on the national Board of Directors for the ACEC from 1998 to 1999.

The company is providing civil engineering services for projects such as the Alaskan Way Viaduct, Sound Transit Light Rail, SR 509 improvements and the King County Inflow and Infiltration Reduction Program. Construction is nearing completion on the Elliott Way Pipelines portion of King County's Denny Way combined sewer overflow reduction project in Myrtle Edwards Park, designed by RWE. RoseWater was also recently selected by Seattle Public Utilities to provide on-call engineering services over the next several years for CSO reduction, sewer replacements and drainage improvement projects.

Opening party Nov. 13 for SAM sales gallery

From 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday, the Seattle Art Museum's Rental/Sales Gallery hosts a grand opening party for its new space, designed by Tom Kundig of Olson Sundburg Kundig Allen. Two inaugural exhibitions, "Works on Paper" and "New Painting," will showcase a selection of the gallery's most popular artists. The new location is 1220 Third Ave., in the Seattle Tower Building, one block east of the Seattle Art Museum.

The rental/sales gallery space was increased by 400 square feet to 2,600 square feet and has 16-foot high ceilings. "Works on Paper" and "New Paintings" will be on view through Dec. 13. "Works on Paper" features monotypes, collagraphs, drawings, collages and paintings on paper. The artists exhibiting work are Bobbi Ambrosini, Claire Cowie, Joe Max Emminger, Rachel Illingworth, Marilyn Jones, Gary Nisbet, Mark Rediske, Sally Schuh, Nina Seven and Anne Siems. The second exhibition highlights new works by 10 artists including Juan Alonso, Lisa Buchanan, Laura Castellanos, Margaret Coe and Junko Yamamoto.

For more information call (206) 748-9282. Rental/Sales Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Rice Fergus Miller gets 3 fire contracts

Bremerton's Rice Fergus Miller was recently awarded contracts to undertake strategic planning services for the following fire districts:

Northshore Fire Department: assessing the needs, physical condition, structural integrity and maintenance issues at the headquarters station located at the north end of Lake Washington.

Littlerock Fire Department: preparing preliminary building and site plans for replacing two stations south of Tumwater. The department expects to seek voter approval in the spring.

Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue: preparing a district-wide capital improvement plan giving the costs and justifications for replacing two stations and improving four others serving the city of Kelso and areas surrounding Kelso and Longview.

SMPS offers to help Dress for Success

The Outreach Committee for Seattle's Society for Marketing Professional Services encourages members and associates to clean out their wardrobe closets in an effort to collect professional women's clothing for Dress for Success Seattle.

Committee members will pick up interview-appropriate attire from participating SMPS businesses on Friday. They will also accept donations at the SMPS luncheon program on Nov. 20 at the Columbia Tower in downtown Seattle.

Dress for Success provides interview suits, confidence boosts and career development to more than 45,000 women in 75 cities each year. Dress for Success is a not-for-profit organization that helps low-income women make transitions into the workforce. Each Dress for Success client receives one suit when she has a job interview and a second suit when she gets the job. The Dress for Success Professional Woman's Program provides ongoing support to help the client build a successful career.

Women are referred to Dress for Success by not-for-profit and government agencies including homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, immigration services and job training programs.

For more information on SMPS, visit the chapter Web site at: www.smpsseattle.org, or call Nikki Kloeppel at (425) 453-8822.