Nov 20, 2007

Lane Powell

The Seattle law office of Lane Powell hired Katrin Andrews, Andrew Gabel and Renee Grant Bluechel as associate attorneys. Andrews will work in the Aviation Group. Gabel will work in the Construction Litigation Group. Bluechel will work in the Taxation Law Practice Group.

Intermec Technologies

Everett-based Intermec Technologies hired Earl Thompson as vice president and general manager, printer and media. Thompson has 24 years of domestic and international business experience and last worked at Agilent Technologies. Intermec develops, manufactures and integrates chain asset technologies.

Expeditors International of Washington

Seattle-based Expeditors International of Washington promoted R. Jordan Gates to president and chief operating officer and Timothy C. Barber to president-global sales and marketing. Gates fills the post vacated by the May retirement of Glenn M. Alger. Gates was executive vice president-chief financial officer and has been with the company since 1991. Barber has worked with the company since 1986 and was recently executive vice president global sales. Expeditors is a global logistics company.

Sequoyah Electric

Redmond-based Sequoyah Electric added Jeff Casino as preconstruction manager, Jeff McNeal as senior project manager, Wendy Karlsen as project manager and Jared Hansen as account executive. Casino has worked in the construction industry for more than 30 years. McNeal is working in the New Construction Division. He has more than 25 years of industry experience. Karlsen is working in the Special Projects department. She has more than 23 years of experience. Hansen returned to the Network Services department. He specializes in the design and construction management of CCTV, access control and security systems. Sequoyah is a regional electrical and data/communications contractor.

Grainger

South Seattle Community College student Gregory Smith won a $2,000 Grainger Tools for Tomorrow scholarship. Smith is studying welding fabrication technology at the college. Upon successful completion of his program, he will also receive a Westward tool kit from Grainger. Illinois-based W.W. Grainger has eight Seattle-area branches that offer thousands of construction products.

Vital Construction and Electric

A new company called Vital Construction and Electric has been launched in Beaverton, Ore. It specializes in retrofitting commercial and industrial properties with energy-efficient lighting solutions. Its markets are in Washington, Oregon and northern California.

Haskell Corp.

Bellingham-based Haskell Corp. recently won three safety awards for its project at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Northwest Construction Consumers Council. The design-build project installed air-cooled condensers at the base’s Central Heat and Power Plant. It took 2.5 years to finish using more than 150,000 labor hours. There were no lost-work-day incidents. From the corps, Haskell received the 2007 Multi-Year Safety Performance Award and the 2007 Alaska District Celebrate Safety Contractor of the Year. From the council, it received the Patrick K. Lyneis Memorial Safety Excellence Award. Haskell used labor from the Fairbanks Building Trades Council and several Alaska subcontractors, including Denali Steel Erection, Great Northwest, Arctic Structures, Sun Air Sheet Metal, Northern Services, Control Contractors, Concrete Cutters and Industrial Insulation.

Turner Construction

Two Turner Construction projects recently won honors from the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties and the Northwest Construction Consumers Council. The 2200 project for Vulcan Inc. won NAIOP’s Mixed Use Development of the Year and the structural renovation of the Seattle Aquarium won NAIOP’s Public Project of the Year. Turner’s work on the aquarium’s exhibits won the NWCCC Distinguished Project Award for private projects under $10 million. Subcontractors on the aquarium project included: The Justen Co., Bios LLC, Armour Unsderfer Engineering, BMWC, Evergreen Power Systems, Cemrock, Aquatic Exhibit Group, Hurlen and Reynolds Polymer Technology.

PSF Mechanical

Greg Yamada joined PSF Mechanical as a purchasing agent. Yamada has worked in the industry for more than 18 years. PSF is a design/build HVAC contractor.

AGC of Washington

David Kearby is the new Central District manager for the Associated General Contractors of Washington. Kearby previously was human resources director for a Coeur d’Alene printing company.