Jun 22, 2011

Aecom

Aecom hired architects and urban designers Jim Bodoia and William “Bill” Kreager and urban planner Lisa Folkins in its Seattle office to strengthen its master planning services, particularly for housing. Bodoia has received more than 25 national awards for his work on sustainable communities, apartments and townhomes. He has more than 40 years of experience in high-density housing and large-scale planning. Kreager has led housing and planning projects ranging from infill development to resort communities, and has been honored by the American Institute of Architects and the Urban Land Institute. Folkins has 29 years of experience with urban and community planning, including mixed-use, senior living, higher education and commercial. Her work integrates architecture and site planning. Aecom provides technical and management support services to transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government markets.

Environmental Science Associates

Wolfe

Environmental Science Associates promoted Marjorie Wolfe to director of the Portland office. She was a senior engineer for Clean Water Services in Hillsboro, Ore., and has also worked for Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans and in Montana restoring habitats, doing floodplain studies and planning stormwater management. ESA is a West Coast-based environmental and planning firm. It merged last year with Philip Williams and Associates, and plans to expand estuary restoration services in Oregon and Washington.

Quantum Consulting Engineers

Isbell

Quantum Consulting Engineers hired LEED-accredited Wes Isbell as a staff engineer. Quantum is a Seattle-based firm that provides structural engineering, renovation and analysis services.

Mahlum

Grant

Rosen

Goodfriend

Mahlum named Erik Goodfriend principal and Corrie Rosen and Anjali Grant associates. Goodfriend has spent the past 12 years focusing on health care at Mahlum and leads that practice group in Seattle and Portland. He is lead medical planning principal for the new Peace Island Medical Center and is working on renovations at Salem Hospital in Oregon. Rosen has nine years of experience, and leads the firm's community service group. Grant specializes in sustainable educational facilities. She is project architect for Finn Hill Junior High, a net-zero-ready school. She has 14 years experience, practicing in Seattle and New York.

The Watershed Co.

Nickel

Mortensen

The Watershed Co. promoted Hugh Mortensen and Dan Nickel to principal. Nickel, an environmental engineer, manages the planning and fisheries practices. Mortensen, a wetland scientist for the past decade, manages the wetland practice. Kirkland-based Watershed provides natural resource assessment and restoration services, and landscape architecture. Recent projects include stream channel restoration at the Plaza at Yarrow Bay.

BCRA

Zuger

Crow

Sahihi

BCRA hired Maziar Sahihi as a landscape architect, Kevin Crow as a civil engineering technician and Stacy Zuger as a studio administrator. Sahihi joins the Seattle office staff with eight years of experience, and was formerly with Kenneth Philp Landscape Architects and The Berger Partnership. His is working on Brookville Gardens Community Park in Fife. Crow earned a bachelor's degree from Washington State University School of Engineering. Zuger was previously with The Whitman County Gazette, where she worked as a production manager. BCRA provides architecture, interior design, engineering, building science, planning and communications strategy, with offices also in Tacoma, Wenatchee, Alexandria, Va., and Manila, Philippines.

Trindera Engineering

Lechich

Trindera Engineering hired Casey Lechich as an electrical drafter. Lechich has six years of AutoCAD drafting experience, and will work on commercial projects. He was employed at Kootenai Electric Co. Trindera is an electrical and control systems engineering and consulting firm based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Columbia State Bank

Columbia State Bank hired Mellisa Case as vice president and branch manager of the south Redmond office. Case recently worked at US Bank as an assistant relationship manager and branch manager. She has 16 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Kate Spade New York

Kate Spade New York will open its first full-line shop in Washington at Pacific Place in August. The shop will take 1,600 square feet on level 1 next to BCBG. The brand is distributed in more than 400 spaces worldwide.

Fred Hutchinson

Benjamin Anderson, a researcher in the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and director of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance's Breast Health Clinic, is the 2011 recipient of the Partners in Progress Award given by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The award recognizes a person for increasing public awareness about cancer. Anderson received the award for his efforts to improve the quality of care.