Apr 14, 2010

World Trade Club

The World Trade Club gave the Governor's 2010 Trader of the Year Award to Anderson Hay & Grain Co., an exporter of hay and straw products based in Ellensburg. It awarded the Emerging Trader of the Year Award to 3TIER, a Seattle-based renewable energy information services company. The awards recognize companies that help expand the state's international trade.

King County Ferry District

The King County Ferry District board of supervisors named Hank Myers executive director. Myers is a transportation economics consultant who is also serving his first term on the Redmond City Council. He previously served on the advisory board for Metro Transit. The district operates water taxi service between downtown Seattle and Vashon Island.

InfoSpace

Bellevue-based InfoSpace hired Stephen Hawthornthwaite as vice president of corporate development. Hawthornthwaite will be responsible for merger and acquisition activities and has 14 years of experience in investment banking. He recently worked with GCA Savvian Advisors as partner and managing director.

Reid Middleton

Reid Middleton promoted Brian Moon to principal and announced that Shanna Vasser earned her Washington state civil engineering license. Moon, a structural engineer with 27 years of experience, was hired in 1999. His recent work includes the city of Edmond's Frances Anderson Center seismic retrofit and management of structural engineering projects for military contracts. Vasser has five years in the industry and works in the airport engineering group. Reid Middleton is an Everett-based engineering, planning and surveying firm.

DKA Architecture

DKA Architecture hired Julie Koch to head the interiors group. She has worked for 30 years with local, state and federal agencies, and corporate clients on projects in the United States. As a senior interior designer she does space programming and planning, tenant improvements, ADA assessment, furnishings selection and development of bid packages.

Golder Associates

Mark Liebman joined the Redmond office of Golder Associates. He will head up a new forensic building science practice area. He has 20 years of experience conducting forensic investigations using geophysical techniques and non-destructive testing. Alec Liebman will assist him as a staff forensic investigator. Marie DeMeo also joined the Redmond office as an executive assistant supporting the firm's national health and safety director. Golder is a global group of consulting companies specializing in geotechnical engineering and environmental services.

Kleinfelder

Grant Knechtel joined Kleinfelder's Redmond office. He has 30 years in the industry and will supervise daily operations where construction materials, soil and rock testing are offered. Knechtel's expertise is in soil strength testing by triaxial, direct shear and oedometer methods, and soil index testing. Clients include Northwest ports, as well as commercial and industrial firms.

2020 Engineering

2020 Engineering hired Matt Randall as project manager to meet increasing demand for sustainable civil engineering services. Randall has nearly 10 years of civil engineering design experience. He will manage projects that use sustainable and low-impact development for health care, commercial, residential and education clients. Bellingham-based 2020 has researched, planned and/or designed low impact development, LEED and living building projects in the United States and Canada.