September 22, 2004

Design Detailings: EES joins HDR network

The consulting and engineering firm Economic and Engineering Services is joining HDR. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. EES will conduct business as HDR/EES.

EES specializes in helping public clients finance and manage water system assets. It employs 70 professionals in Bellevue, Olympia, Mount Vernon, Tri-Cities and Portland. HDR is an architectural, engineering and consulting firm. It has 90 locations worldwide, including offices in Seattle, Bellevue, Portland, Boise and Anchorage.

Callison wins Boston project

Callison Architecture was recently commissioned to design retail and mixed-use portions of Waterside Place, a 1.2 million-square-foot retail complex in Boston. Callison will work with Kallman McKinnell & Wood Architects of Boston, who will lead project design. Waterson Place is being developed by Boston-based Drew Co. and Urban Retail Properties. It will be the city's new convention center with 570,000 square feet of retail, a 20-story condo complex and a 21-story hotel.

Seattle-based Callison has designed centers around the country and in the Phillipines, China, Russia and Poland.

Eight new LEEDs at Helix

Eight of Helix's Design Group's staff have earned LEED accreditation: Lee Davenport, Travis Ness, Jeff Blachowski, Cindy McKean, Paul Clark, Will Schick, Rocky Flores and Matthew Kogut. Helix is based in Tacoma and has 23 employees who work on architectural, interior design and graphic design services for the public and private sector.

Olson Sundberg gets LEEDs

Seattle-based Olson Kundig Allen Architects announced principal Rick Sundberg, and architects Olivier Landa and Gladys Ly-Au Young earned U.S. Green Building Council LEED accreditation. The firm recently joined the U.S. Green Building Council.

27 hold LEEDs at GGLO

GGLO has 27 staff members now accredited under LEED. They are architects, designers, landscape architects, interior designers and planners. GGLO works on sustainable housing, retail, tenant improvement, parks and planning projects for public and private sector clients. It recently finished work on Alcyone in the Cascade neighborhood of South Lake Union.