Jul 06, 2011

BCRA

Kemper

BCRA hired Molly Kemper as director of business development. She will use her 13 years of business development and marketing experience to help the firm grow regionally and internationally, and mentor staff in client support. Kemper was previously with Callison and Studio Meng Strazzara. BCRA provides architecture, interior design, engineering, building science, planning and communications strategy, with offices in Seattle, Tacoma, Wenatchee, Alexandria, Va., and Manila, Philippines.

Yost Grube Hall Architecture

Wiebe

Yost Grube Hall Architecture hired Andreas Wiebe as an intern architect. He supports architects on projects for domestic and international clients. Wiebe has interned at Olson Kundig Architects in Seattle and at German architecture firms. He also taught building structures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he received his architectural degree. Portland-based YGH provides planning, architecture and interior design.

Coughlin Porter Lundeen

Coughlin Porter Lundeen hired Renee Giroux as marketing manager. Giroux has spent 10 years in marketing/communications for architecture, engineering and construction firms. Coughlin Porter Lundeen provides civil and structural design.

Landau Associates

Weeks

Barton

Duncan

Landau Associates hired Brandon Duncan as a staff environmental engineer and Allan Barton as a GIS technician in the Edmonds office. Sarah Weeks joined the Tacoma office as a geologist intern. Duncan holds a master's in environmental engineering from Rice University. Barton has five years of experience working as a GIS technician and GIS analyst. Weeks has a bachelor's from Western Washington University and experience in field geologic mapping for the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Landau is a geotechnical and environmental engineering and natural resource consulting firm with offices also in Seattle, Spokane, West Richland and Portland.

GeoEngineers

GeoEngineers hired Gabe Ng as a water resources engineer in its Bellingham office, Theo Leonard as an environmental engineer in Seattle and Renee Holt as an intern in Tacoma. Seattle-based GeoEngineers is an environmental, earth science and technology consulting firm with 12 offices nationwide.

Trindera Engineering

Medlock

Trindera Engineering hired Kaci Medlock as a business development assistant. She will assist with proposals and marketing. She was previously employed at Windermere Real Estate. Trindera is an electrical and control systems engineering and consulting firm based in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Buckland & Taylor

Phelan

Buckland & Taylor hired R. Scott Phelan as an executive engineer in its Seattle office. Phelan holds a Ph.D. and has 17 years of bridge design, elevated transit design and construction experience, including with precast concrete segmental design and construction. He has worked on Sound Transit's East Link High Capacity Transit and Translink's Evergreen Millennium Line Extension. He also has provided construction support in seismic design and analysis, and in remote monitoring of bridge systems. North Vancouver, B.C.-based Buckland & Taylor is an engineering company specializing in bridge design.

Golder Associates

Kleppe

Jim Kleppe has re-joined Golder Associates as senior director of client development. He has 35 years of engineering and consulting experience. He has focused on transportation, land development, water resources, federal programs and energy. Kleppe will work to grow local operations, which include 550 staff in the Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia. He was with Golder from 1981 to 1983. It is a global ground engineering and environmental consulting firm.

Seattle Art Museum

Catharina Manchanda will join the Seattle Art Museum as the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She will oversee the modern and contemporary artistic program at SAM Downtown, Seattle Asian Art Museum and Olympic Sculpture Park. Manchanda was senior curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.

Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau

Seattle's Convention and Visitors Bureau hired Ali Daniels as director of marketing. Daniels was recently senior account manager at Creature, a Seattle advertising agency. The nonprofit is Seattle/King County's official destination marketing organization.

Sound Credit Union

Members of Watermark Credit Union voted to merge with Sound Credit Union, the final step in the approval process. The merger will be effective Sept. 1, and the combining of operating systems is set for spring of 2012. The credit union will operate as Sound Credit Union. Richard Brandsma, Sound's president and CEO, will lead the organization.

BNBuilders

Nielsen

Jeff Nielsen, principal and co-founder of Seattle-based BNBuilders, joined the board of American Rivers, a conservation group that promotes healthy rivers. Nielsen has served on the advisory council of American Rivers Northwest since 2006 and as the advisory council chair since 2010. He has led efforts at BNBuilders to complete every project using sustainable building practices and to provide a fleet of hybrid vehicles for employee use.

MBA Care Foundation/John Day Homes

The Master Builders Care Foundation and John Day Homes won the Gold Nugget for Community Spirit award at the recent Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco. The two groups partnered with Compassion House, an Issaquah nonprofit provider of housing for homeless families, to build the Julia L. Pritt House. John Day, his staff and more than 40 trades from the homebuilding industry contributed more than $244,000 to build the duplex near downtown Issaquah, which houses two families. Long-time Issaquah resident and philanthropist Julia Pritt donated the land. The Care Foundation is a philanthropic arm of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties, based in Bellevue.

Steel Advice

Local steel professional, technical writer and author Kerri Olsen created an online magazine for steel fabricators called Steel Advice. The site can be found at: http://www.steeladvice.com/steel_advice_027.htm