May 14, 2008
Core Design
Core Design promoted
Lafe Hermansen and
Ken Shipley to associate partners. Hermansen has been with the firm since 2000 and leads the planning department. Hermansen's projects include master planned communities in Chelan and Silverdale, and several low impact development projects such as green roof and rain garden designs in Kirkland, and bioretention swales in Whatcom County. Shipley leads Core's survey department overseeing field survey operations, construction layout and staking. His current projects include overseeing survey services at Port Blakely Communities' Issaquah Highlands project and Polygon Northwest's Lakeland and Riverview projects in Kent and Auburn respectively. The firm also hired
Nancy Robertson as office manager. Robertson was a vice president at Edelman Public Relations.