Nov 24, 2010

Hewitt

Hewitt hired Shammara Estrada as marketing manager. Estrada has 11 years of experience in marketing, communications, and business development for architecture, engineering and construction firms. Hewitt is a Seattle-based architecture, landscape architecture and urban design firm.

Otak

Otak hired Janel Hammond as a marketing coordinator in the Kirkland office. Hammond has more than seven years of experience in marketing, including email marketing campaigns, proposal and qualifications preparation, event planning and presentation development.

NAC|Architecture

Troy Bishop has joined the Spokane office of NAC|Architecture as a designer/architectural intern. Bishop will be responsible for planning, conceptual design, detailing and design oversight. He has six years of architectural design experience, and holds a bachelor of science in architectural studies and master of architecture degrees from Washington State University. NAC specializes in planning, design, engineering and capital facilities consulting, with offices in Seattle, Spokane, Los Angeles and Denver.

Ridolfi

Ridolfi, a Seattle environmental engineering and scientific consulting firm, hired Stacie Singleton as an environmental engineer. Singleton has worked for the Washington State Department of Ecology specializing in hazardous waste regulation, RCRA permitting, and ecological/terrestrial toxicology. She is helping to develop a solid waste management plan and investigating innovative waste-to-energy alternatives for the Yakama Nation. Ridolfi specializes in cleanup, habitat restoration, waste management and energy services.

Virginia firm buys Taylor Associates

TEC Inc. of Charlottesville, Va., has acquired Seattle-based Taylor Associates, a water resources consulting firm that serves public and private clients. Bill Taylor founded Taylor Associates in 1986, and will now lead TEC's water resources group.

TEC has had an office in Bellevue since 1996. The 250-person employee-owned company is a consultant for engineering, environmental management, architecture, planning, infrastructure and energy projects worldwide.

Taylor Associates focuses on three core areas: water quality, hydrology and fisheries. The firm also provides habitat restoration and watershed studies for clients primarily in the greater Puget Sound region. It has done work for the city of Seattle, Washington Department of Transportation, Sea-Tac Airport and the Port of Seattle.

TEC said in a press release the acquisition will expand its water resources consulting services to the federal government and provide a wider range of services for Taylor's local clients.

TEC and Taylor will operate separate offices in Bellevue and in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood under management of TEC's Rich Tremaglio.

In early 2011, TEC will consolidate staff at a location in the Seattle metropolitan area.

Nov 23, 2010

Gaco Western

Seattle's Gaco Western hired Eric Peterson as chief financial officer. Peterson has 30 years of experience in accounting, analytics and finance. He previously was CFO and vice president of finance and administration for the Independent Brewers United. He succeeds Mark Elliott, who was CFO since 2004. Gaco makes elastomeric coatings and polyurethane spray foam for the construction and waterproofing industries.

Greenberry Industrial

Corvallis, Ore.–based Greenberry Industrial won Shell's 2009 Contractor Health, Security, Safety and Environmental Leadership Award. The honor recognizes Greenberry's incident-free safety record in 2009 at Shell's Portland facility. The company claims it has completed more than 2.2 million consecutive work hours over the last six years without a lost-time accident in its projects. Greenberry is an industrial general contractor and fabricator with offices in Portland, Vancouver, Burlington and Ontario, Calif.

Korsmo Construction

Commercial contractor John Korsmo Construction of Tacoma is changing its corporate brand. The update includes a new logo as well as a name change to Korsmo Construction.

SDC Homes

SDC Homes of Puyallup opened a kiosk at the Tacoma Mall to sell its new homes. The kiosk is located across from the entrance to Macy's.

Lynnwood Convention Center

The Lynnwood Public Facilities District extended the management contract of SMG for managing the Lynnwood Convention Center for five years. The new agreement includes another five-year renewal option. SMG has managed the center since it opened in 2005.

Vinotemp International

The owners of Vinotemp International, a wine storage and refrigeration business, said they purchased the assets of Seattle-based Apex Saunas and Wine Cellars to form a new company, Apex Wine Cellars and Saunas. The new company, now located in Los Angeles, offers wine racking for wine cellars, and saunas and steam baths.

Door to Door Storage

Door to Door, a provider of portable container storage and moving, named Paul Reed interim chief executive officer. Reed joined as chief financial officer in 2007 when the company was in financial difficulty. He managed a financial restructuring in September 2008 to pay off debt in the midst of the national financial meltdown and was instrumental in acquiring two competitors in 2009. Reed co-founded Seattle Coffee Co., the parent company of Seattle's Best Coffee, where he served as chief financial officer.

The Bravern

The Shops at The Bravern added French menswear designer, Cafe Coton, an upscale European brand specializing in shirts, ties and sweaters for men. This will be its third U.S. store.