Dec 17, 2002

Veca Electric

Veca Electric & Communications of Seattle has been certified as a healthcare contractor by the American Society for Healthcare Engineers of the American Hospital Association. Employees Keith Conti and Sandy Maus qualified for their ASHE certificates by completing an ASHE-approved course. The certificates are valid for two years. Conti joined Veca in 1990 and has worked exclusively on hospital projects. Maus joined Veca in 1998 and has worked primarily on hospital projects with Conti.

MBS

Katharina Lingemann-Smith is the new Seattle area manager for Modern Building Systems. She will be based out of the company's renovated office in the city of Pacific, which has mobile and modular office buildings for lease and sale. She spent the past year at the company's headquarters in Aumsville, Ore., training to run the Pacific branch. About 1.5 acres of the property is planned for building storage and display. Also, an existing shop is getting minor renovations so it can be used as a service and maintenance area for buildings. The address is: 1550 Thornton Ave. S.W., Pacific, WA 98047-2114, (253) 863-8863 or (800) 682-1422.

KJM & Associates

KJM & Associates has hired Lisa A. Laughlin as a systems analyst and Allen Wycoff and Maria Valdes as project controls specialists for the firm's Sound Transit program management project. Wycoff brings more than 12 years of building construction and inspection experience. Previously, he served as quality assurance and safety officer for a heavy construction government contractor. Valdes brings more than 10 years of experience in construction, contract and procurement administration for transit projects. She worked on Los Angeles County's MTA light rail construction management contracts. Laughlin has 14 years of experience with information technology systems, recently working for Network Commerce as its Web site and intranet director. Laughlin and Valdes are working in the firm's Seattle office and Wycoff is based in its Bellevue headquarters.

TIC

TIC-The Industrial Company, a large heavy-industrial contractor, has opened an office in Mount Vernon and hired Rick Cherf as area manager. Cherf will focus on providing construction services for the local refineries. He has more than 20 years of experience in design, construction, maintenance and commissioning of major facilities. He holds bachelor's degrees in construction management and business management/labor relations from the University of Washington. The new office is the third in the Pacific Northwest for the Steamboat Springs, Colo.-based company. The other two are in Seattle and Hermiston, Ore.

Manson Construction

Seattle's Manson Construction Co. has won a Green Contractor Award from XL Environmental, a provider of environmental insurance to business and industry. The honor is given to companies that actively manage their environmental risks. Companies are evaluated on their commitment and practice of employee training, health and safety programs, contract preparation, insurance programs, claims history and other risk management practices.

Heery International

The Northwest regional office of Heery International on Jan. 1 will move to a new location in Seattle. The new address is: 1011 Western Ave., Suite 706, Seattle, WA 98104, (206) 587-0473.

Avista

Avista appointed Dr. Lura Powell to its board of directors. Powell is a senior vice president of Battelle Memorial Institute and the director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. She recently announced plans to retire from PNNL at the end of this year. With the addition of Powell, Avista now has 10 board members. The company is authorized to have 11 board members.

Seattle University's Albers School

Seattle University recently instituted a program in the Albers School of Business and Economics that connects graduate students with Northwest companies doing international business. Through its Global Business EDGE program, MBA and MIB students are given complex project assignments by local companies and spend a 10-week quarter preparing a research and analytical report to client firms summarizing results. The Albers School has about 1,300 undergraduate and graduate business students enrolled.

Seattle City Council

The Seattle City Council hired Martin Munguia as its communications specialist. Munguia was most recently senior media relations coordinator at Oregon Health & Science University. He is a former reporter and news anchor at KUOW, and served as deputy communications director for former Washington Governor Mike Lowry. Munguia will assist council members in writing press releases and determining how to communicate policy issues. Munguia will also work with the council's four-member communications advisory group.

Bullivant Houser Bailey

Bullivant Houser Bailey named Thomas D. Adams as a shareholder-in-charge of its Seattle office. He succeeds Jeffrey G. Frank, who has been elected to the firm's board of directors. Adams has been a member of the firm for 16 years and is currently one of the firm's retirement plan trustees.

Western Washington University

Western Washington University program has been awarded the 2002 Golden Gull for Best Health Education and Promotion Practice award from the Pacific Coast College Health Association. The award was presented for the school's Ally Building Network program that provides workshops, facilitated by trained students and professional staff, for students, staff and faculty to teach leadership skills, increase tolerance and build community.