November 26, 2003

Design Detailings: DLR designs Idaho public safety center

DLR Group will design the 40,000-square-foot Blaine County Public Safety Building in Hailey, Idaho. The facility will include 79 jail beds, a 911 dispatch center, sheriff's administration and patrol services offices, video visiting, a full-service kitchen, a laundry and support services.

DLR Group designs justice, education, corporate, retail and sports facilities. It has 17 offices across the United States.

Perkins Coie gets new look in Bellevue

Boise Workspace, the contract furniture division of Boise Office Solutions, has completed an office furniture project for the law firm Perkins Coie's new 40,000-square-foot offices in Bellevue. Workspace provided space planning, design and installation services for 55 private offices, two executive conference rooms and one boardroom.

When Perkins Coie moved into its new offices, the average office size was reduced by 20 square feet for its partners and associates. To offset the smaller workspace, Boise Workspace worked with Perkins Coie to design furniture that would provide both storage and work surfaces.

To help give the offices a clean, more modern design, Boise Workspace designed a 22-foot long, custom maple conference table and custom matching marble-top sideboards for Perkins Coie's executive boardroom. The table, which contains an inlaid brushed aluminum design, also holds power and data pop-up units for computers and Internet hookups, and embedded microphones that are connected to the boardroom's telecommunication system.

West Consultants celebrates 15 years

West Consultants had its 15th anniversary in September. West has grown from a single-person firm operated by Jeffrey Bradley in his back bedroom in San Diego to a 32-person firm with offices in Bellevue, San Diego, Tempe, Ariz., and Salem, Ore.

West is a water resource consulting firm that provides services in erosion control, geomorphology, stream restoration, scour analysis, sediment transport, wetland hydrology, surface and groundwater, hydrologic modeling, flood control and water quality. The Web site is www.westconsultants.com.

ASCE elects Galloway first woman president

Patricia Galloway was recently installed as the American Society of Civil Engineers' first woman president in its 151-year history. Galloway, chief executive officer and president of the Nielsen-Wurster Group, an international management consulting firm based in Princeton, N.J., was installed Nov. 15 at ASCE's annual business meeting in Nashville.

"Women have long been breaking barriers and making astounding contributions to the engineering profession that it seems implausible that only in the 151th anniversary year of ASCE's founding a woman has been selected to serve as president for the very first time," said Galloway. "I don't view my election as a milestone, but instead a validation on how far we have come in 151 years in accepting people for their abilities and skills, strengthening our profession."

A leader in civil engineering and construction, Galloway has chaired a number of ASCE committees. She has served on several private and nonprofit boards, including the Purdue University Engineering Alumni Board, the International Activities Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies as chair and the Society of Women Engineers, serving as president of the New York and Wisconsin sections.

When ASCE was founded in 1852, its membership was restricted to men, a policy which eventually led to a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed in 1916 by Nora Stanton Blatch DeForest, the granddaughter of women's rights advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A Cornell University engineering graduate, DeForest was admitted to junior membership in ASCE in 1905.

ASCE represents more than 133,000 civil engineers worldwide and is America's oldest national engineering society.

Public art needed for Harborview

Washington Public Art Program is seeking an artist or artist-led team to join the NBBJ/Site Workshop design team to participate in overall design development of the Ninth Avenue streetscape on Harborview Medical Center's campus.

Harborview is the region's only Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma center and medical research facility. As part of the current bond program the campus is undergoing extensive seismic upgrades and construction over the next two to six years. Two new buildings will be constructed and improvements will be made to the campus streetscape and open spaces.

The public art budget is $275,000. The artist will be paid $50,000 for design services through the end of the construction document phase. The deadline is Dec. 10.

For information, call Public Art Program Cultural Development Authority of King County at (206) 296-8676, www.culturaldevelopment.org, or e-mail publicart@culturaldevelopment.org.

The Web site is www.culturaldevelopment.org.