May 27, 2026

DLR Group

Binder

St. Cyr

DLR Group announced the promotions of Adam St. Cyr and Bob Binder to corporate leadership roles. With more than 25 years of architectural and strategic leadership experience, St. Cyr is now a managing principal. He is credited with growing the Texas region from two offices, 72 employees, and $17.5 million in revenue in 2022 to four offices, 134 employees, and $67.6 million in revenue. He works with the K-12 Education studio and DLR Group's project management systems, leadership development and cross-office collaboration.

With over 30 years of leadership at DLR Group, Binder has been promoted to senior principal. His key achievements include expanding the K-12 education sector in Colorado, being appointed Southwest region higher education leader in 2015, and driving 73% growth in gross revenue across the firm's Colorado Springs, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tucson offices in just three years. DLR Group's Seattle office opened in 1986.

Port of Bremerton

The Port of Bremerton has been honored with the Washington Public Port Association's Community Outreach Award, recognizing the port's public outreach efforts tied to its Airport Feasibility Study.

The award highlights the port's commitment to transparency, accessibility, and meaningful public participation in evaluating the potential introduction of passenger and/or cargo service at Bremerton National Airport. This initiative displays long-term implications for both regional economic development and local quality of life, and in recognizing the significance of this project, the port prioritized robust community engagement from the onset.

The port used a multi-channel outreach strategy to ensure that residents and stakeholders of Kitsap County had opportunities to learn about the project and share feedback. These efforts included a community-wide survey that exceeded response expectations, a hybrid public open house, and ongoing communication through social media, newsletters and dedicated project websites. The port used these means to identify and directly address key community concerns, and those insights are helping shape the continued work of the study.

Fora Landscape Architects

Shoji-Jeevanjee

Gastmans

Lewis

Hermsen

Jones

Chan

At Fora Landscape Architects, Abby Jones and KC Hermsen have been promoted to senior associate. Isa Lewis has been promoted to designer II. New team members include Alderik Gastmans, Sonia Shoji-Jeevanjee, and Nancy Chan.

Jones' promotion reflects her success managing large and complex projects in the K-12 education and mixed-use realms. Recent notable work includes Illahee Middle School, Crescent Harbor Elementary School and the Everett Riverfront Development.

Hermsen began at Fora with a strong background in mixed-use and transit-oriented design projects as well as campus planning and high-rise tower projects. At Fora, Hermsen continues this work delivering projects such as Amazon AUS20, 11040 Main and Lake Stevens Elementary School #8.

Lewis' promotion recognizes success with complex community-oriented design projects, including award-winning projects like the Snoqualmie Tribe Harvest Kitchen, College Place Campus and Evergreen Transition Sensory Garden. Lewis has also lead the development of Fora's internal carbon calculator and established goals for the firm's climate action work.

Gastmans joins Fora with 25 years of experience in the landscape industry, from landscape construction to design/build to irrigation auditing. He has successfully guided design and construction processes for large public athletic field complex projects, parks, and a range of educational K-12 school campus projects.

Shoji-Jeevanjee brings wide-ranging experience in mixed-use residential, parks and school design across Southern California. She has expertise in visual communication and hand graphics, creative design thinking, thoughtful team coordination, project management and client communication skills.

Chan brings a background in journalism and graphic design to the landscape architecture field, using those skills to weave storytelling and visual communication through her work. She has over 12 years of experience in a diverse range of urban projects including mixed-use communities, multi-family residential, open space/transit projects and commercial office developments.

May 22, 2026

Deacon Construction

Peeples

Deacon Construction has added Steven Peeples as division manager for Special Projects in its Seattle office.

Peeples brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in real estate development, construction management, and operations across multifamily, mixed-use, hospitality, and commercial projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. His background spans both owner/developer and general contractor perspectives, giving him a well-rounded command of preconstruction, budgeting, scheduling, entitlement strategy, and full-cycle project execution.

Known for building collaborative, high-performing teams and delivering strong outcomes for clients and stakeholders, Deacon says that his proactive approach and deep industry relationships make Peeples a valuable addition.

Mutual of Enumclaw

Peterson

Mutual of Enumclaw recently hired industry veteran Joe Peterson as its new vice president of claims and chief claims officer.

Peterson joins the MOE team with more than 20 years of claims leadership experience, most recently serving as vice president – P&C Claims at Zenith Insurance Company. In that role, he was responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the Agribusiness Claims organization, with a focus on performance, innovation, and organizational alignment.

Previously, Peterson held senior leadership roles at Zenith, including assistant vice president and director of casualty claims, with oversight of complex casualty and litigation portfolios. Over the course of his career, Peterson has a reputation for building strong culture with a focus on the development of the claims team. He also held multiple claims leadership positions at Allied/Nationwide Insurance, where he built and led high-performing teams and reinforced technical excellence.

Mutual of Enumclaw is a Washington-based regional insurer specializing in personal, business, and farm and ranch coverage.

May 21, 2026

ACI Mechanical & HVAC Sales

Keller

ACI Mechanical & HVAC Sales has named Tyler Keller vice president, Data Center Solutions. Keller brings more than 17 years of experience driving revenue growth, with expertise in hyperscale, colocation and AI infrastructure, combined with a strong engineering background. Keller will lead ACI's data center solutions division, focusing on expanding the company's presence and supporting both existing and emerging client relationships.

Prior to joining ACI, Keller served as global account manager, Enterprise Solutions on Carrier's Global Data Center team. Earlier in his career, he held roles at Automated Logic, a Carrier company, managing large-scale automation projects for global enterprise clients across various markets.

Headquartered in Seattle, an ESOP company, ACI Mechanical & HVAC Sales is an the Pacific Northwest's premier partner for commercial HVAC applications. ACI collaborates with consulting engineers, contractors, and their customers to deliver solutions in data centers, industrial, education, commercial office, and healthcare. ACI is a team 55 degreed sales engineers and project professionals working with over 50 equipment manufacturers.

May 20, 2026

Liberty Bank

Woods

Liberty Bank announced the appointment of Rob Woods as executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Woods brings decades of financial leadership and community banking experience to Liberty Bank, which is based in Poulsbo. Prior to joining the organization, he spent more than 20 years with SaviBank, where he was a founding member and chief financial officer.

Earlier in his career, Woods held the role of chief financial officer at Columbia Trust Bank in Kennewick and gained additional experience with several financial institutions, including the Federal Home Loan Bank.

Woods holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Western Washington University and a Master of Finance from Seattle University. He also completed advanced banking studies at the University of South Carolina's Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management.

Liberty Bank is a locally owned community bank.

Cameron MacAllister Group

Ferriss

Davis

Bergeron

Dennis-van Dijl

Frantz

Wilson

Gilday

Cameron MacAllister Group (CMG), a California-based consulting and marketing firm serving A/E/C clients throughout the country, has added seven principals to its ownership team: Kate Frantz and Saskia Dennis-van Dijl who are based in the Pacific Northwest, and Tiffany Bergeron, Clark Davis, Lori Ferriss, Larisa Forester Gilday, and Scott Wilson who serve clients nationwide including the Seattle area.

CMG was founded 40 years ago by Mark Cameron and has now grown to a team of 20. Cameron is stepping down from formal ownership and will remain active as a consultant.

Parametrix

Arizmendiz

Randy Arizmendiz has joined Parametrix as a senior principal engineer. He brings 20 years of experience planning, designing, and delivering advanced wastewater treatment systems for municipal and industrial clients throughout the West Coast.

Arizmendiz comes to Parametrix from Revida Water, where he served as vice president of engineering and construction. His experience includes large-scale organics-to-energy facilities, anaerobic digestion and renewable natural gas systems, advanced wastewater treatment, industrial water reuse, and integrated energy recovery infrastructure.

At Parametrix, he joins the firm's water division, which provides electrical and supervisory control and data acquisition, flood control, stormwater, wastewater, and drinking water services to cities, counties, water districts and others throughout the Northwest.