Jan 29, 1997

LMN

Chris Eseman has been named a partner with Loschky Marquardt & Nesholm (LMN). He joined the firm in 1990 and has been a principal since 1993. He has led several award-winning public assembly and urban design projects, and recently has served as project manager and designer for the Washington State Convention and Trade Center expansion, the Baltimore Convention Center expansion and the Hec Edmundson Pavilion restoration and upgrades at the University of Washington. Bruce Donnally, Robben Mayer and Bob Tiscareno have been named principals at LMN. Donnally joined the firm in 1995 as an associate. His experience includes Benaroya Hall for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Henry Art Gallery expansion/renovation at the University of Washington, Werner Otto Hall at harvard University, the Bechtler residence in Zurich, Switzerland and the Wildwood Convention and Civic Center in New Jersey. Mayer came to LMN in 1995 from California as an associate, and has since led design for the Grand Forks Events Center in North Dakota and the Washington State Convention and Trade Center expansion. Tiscareno, who joined the firm in 1991, was made an associate in 1995. His experience includes Redmond Town Center Mill Creek Town Center and Washington Square Shopping Center projects. Olga Bastiaannet Fisher, Arthur Haug, Dave Matthews, David Reddish, and Byron Rice have been promoted to the level of associate at LMN. Fisher, who joined the firm in 1994, serves as client services manage and office manager. she is involved in many of the firm's day-to-day activities, including oversight of the marketing and administrative departments, business development and office administration. Haug, who joined the firm in 1994, specializes in building system details, construction drawing and project management. His recent experience includes construction administration for the Henry Art Gallery Expansion. Matthews came to LMN in 1995, and has provided construction administration leadership for Redmond Town Center, a complex, multi-phased 25-building urban center. Reddish, who also joined the firm in 1995, has been a key member of the design teams for Redmond Town Center, the Cougar Mountain -- East Village Development in Issaquah, and the IBEW mid-rise residential tower in downtown Seattle.

Golder

Ralph H. Stoll has joined the Redmond office of Golder Associates Inc. as vice president for nuclear projects. He is responsible for business development, project management and strategic planning to increase the nuclear market sector on an international basis. He recently completed a 27 year career in the U.S. Navy as commanding officer of the USS Georgia, a Trident nuclear submarine, and served at NATO Headquarters in Brussels were he developed policy for NATO's military cooperation program with countries of the former Soviet Union. He holds graduate degrees in business administration, international security and nuclear engineering.

Parsons/PB Farradyne

Brian Patton has been named Seattle area manager for PB Farradyne, Inc., the Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS) subsidiary of Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB). In this position, he will be responsible for managing PB Farradyne's operations in the Seattle area. Prior to joining PB, he served as the director of traffic management for the City of Seattle. He also served a one year stint as Seattle's director of street maintenance.

CNA

Philip Giuntoli has joined CNA Architecture of Bellevue as director of healthcare operations. He served as director of capital project development for Group Health from 1984 to 1994, and has provided consulting services to the healthcare industry since that time. Guintoli was Group Health's representative when the firm designed Group health's Tacoma Specialty Center in 1989. Guintoli has a master's degree in architecture and serves on the board of the University of Washington's Facility Management program.

Perteet

Joel Birchman has joined Perteet Engineering Inc. of Everett as project manager. He is currently project manager for a flood mitigation program for the City of Snoqualmie and a sanitary sewer plan for the City of Snohomish. Birchman was previously public service director for the City of Woodinville and public works director for the City of Mountlake Terrace.

SSOE

Nunsia Orr has joined SSOE as an electrical designer. Formerly with PSF Mechanical in Seattle, Orr provided electrical design for Metro's West Point sewage treatment project. Molly Magistad has joined the firm as a project manager's assistant, and will provide support to the marketing and human resources departments also. She was previously with Benesphere.

Landscape architects honored

J. Douglas Macy of Walker & Macy and Carol Mayer-Reed of Mayer/Reed in Portland have been inducted as Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Macy, a founding partner in Walker & Macy, was recognized for his work on Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square, the Vietnam Veterans of Region Memorial and the revitalization of the South and North Park Blocks. Mayer-Reed is known for multi disciplinary teams and for her design work on the Portland Place Memorial, the Museum at Warm Sprigs, the Tropical Africa Exhibit and the Hewlett-Packard Vancouver executive courtyard.

WOSCA Shippers Cooperative

Gaye Hundley has joined WOSCA Shippers Cooperative as account executive in Southern California. Headquartered in Seattle, WOSCA has terminals across the U.S. that provide less-than and full trailerload shipping, air freight service, private consolidations and electronic data interchange tracing programs.

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

The Portland office of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt has added the following new attorneys to its firm: Douglas Bryson, Neil Cole, Jeffrey Davis, David Howitt, Raymond Kindley, Allyson Krueger, Corey Parks, Anne Talcott, R. Cammon Turner and Linda Vierra. In the Seattle office, Mary Shima has been elected as a shareholder, and Chase Alvord has joined as an attorney.

Columbia Analytical Services

Columbia Analytical Services, Inc. (CAS) announced senior management has signed a memorandum of understanding with its parent company, EMCON, to purchase 100 percent of its common stock, financed by an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). CAS, which has shown sustained growth and profitability since its founding in 1986, is one of the largest environmental testing laboratory networks in the United States with annual sales exceeding $20 million. Headquartered in Kelso, Wash., CAS operates facilities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington.

CobWeb

CobWeb, just six months after opening its corporate headquarters in Issaquah, has moved to larger quarters. CobWeb's new office space in located at 1065 12th Ave. N.W., Suite E-3, Issaquah. The new location quadruples the square footage of the previous headquarters. Drew Holland and Willie Reed have both been hired at CobWeb to meet the company's anticipated growth. Holland joins from M1 Software in Los Angeles as web producer, overseeing major productions with clients like Microsoft and Edmark. Reed comes from Commerce Direct International. He will manage the company's Internet Service Provider operations on the newly purchased Quad Pentium, in partnership with regional ISP, AccessOne.

EvansGroup

John Maley has been promoted to vice president at EvansGroup Public Relations, assuming the dual title of account supervisor, creative/director, business development. Maley will manage all creative projects undertaken for EvansGroup Public Relations clients, working in coordination with creative director Dan Bockman and account staff.

Miriani's

Miriani's, a new restaurant, has opened in Wallingford located at 2208 N. 45th St., Seattle. Tom and Linda McElroy, who also own and operate Ristorante Machiavelli on Capitol Hill, opened Miriani's together with partner Tom Dillard. Miriani's features Italian fare by chef Linda McElroy, with a strong accent of fresh seafood.

B.F. Day Elementary

On Jan. 15 the Fremont Chamber of Commerce and merchants of Fremont held an auction for the B.F. Day Elementary School, raising $13,000 to support various programs at the school. The programs supported are "Family Dinner," "Reading Is Fundamental," "Conflict Management," and "Parent-Pal." Parent-Pal looks for ways to find work at the school for B.F. Day parents who are unemployed. B.F. Day's goal is to raise $50,000 this year. Like all schools, B.F. Day is having to turn to the community to keep current services in place. B.F. Day is the oldest continuously-operating elementary in Seattle.

Physio-Control

The City of Boston recently purchased 100 state-of-the-art automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) from Physio-Control International of Redmond. The defibrillators will be used for the Boston Emergency Medical Services in partnership with local firefighters, police and other "first responders" to reduce cardiac-arrest deaths. Two elements of the program make it unique among American cities: The Boston Police Dept. will equip strategic police units with life-saving AEDs, and two major Boston high-rise office buildings, the John Hancock Tower and the Federal Reserve Bank Building, will have units onsite with trained security guards to use the same defibrillators employed by EMTs, firefighters and police.

CNA

CNA Architecture is now at work on the design of 25,000 square feet of remodeled space for the Prolinx research and development laboratories in Bothell, and construction will begin this spring. Construction will begin next month on an 89,000-square-foot expansion of the Sea-Tac sort facility of Federal Express. Site work begins in May for a 273,000-square-foot expansion for Security Capital Industrial Trust for Carr Gottstein. For the Port of Seattle, CNA is designing a 52,600-square-foot maintenance and repair facility at Terminal 5, with construction scheduled this spring. The firm is finishing design for a 47,700-square-foot service center in Bremerton for Puget Power Kitsap Service Center in Bremerton. An in May, construction will begin on a 120,000-square-foot high-tech/biotech friendly class "A" office facility in Redmond.