Mar 12, 2014

Candela

Glover

Candela Lighting Design and Consulting promoted Shannon Glover to senior lighting designer in its Lynnwood office. Glover has 16 years of experience in design for commercial, educational, office and retail spaces and hospitality projects, and a background in theater design. She was is working on projects for the Center for Wooden Boats and the EMP.

Freiheit & Ho Architects

Myers

Freiheit & Ho Architects hired Karla Myers as accounting manager. Myers will oversee accounting functions and financial reporting. Freiheit & Ho is a Kirkland-based commercial architectural firm.

Confluence Environmental

Park

Schlenger

Confluence Environmental Co. named Paul Schlenger a partner and promoted him to principal fisheries biologist. It also promoted Ruth Park to project biologist. Schlenger has managed projects ranging from habitat restoration to watershed planning, and worked on salmon recovery planning in western Washington watersheds. Park supports aquatic biology projects, including wetland delineations, stream surveys, and habitat assessment surveys. Seattle-based Confluence provides project delivery for natural resources projects in the Puget Sound region.

Sparling

VerValen

Sparling hired Troy VerValen in its Lynnwood office as a project manager for the technology services group. VerValen has 21 years of experience in information technology consulting and design for health care, commercial, industrial, government and education projects. He is working on the Snohomish County Justice Center in Everett. Sparling is an electrical, technology, audiovisual, acoustical and lighting design firm with offices also in Portland and San Diego.

Degenkolb Engineers

Jhutti

Wray

Callister

Degenkolb Engineers promoted Jeremy Callister, Gordon Wray and Pardeep Jhutti to associate. Callister is based in San Diego. He has worked on new building design, seismic retrofit design, and foundation underpinning/shoring, and done consulting. Wray is an engineer based in Oakland. He has done remodels, structural and non-structural design and upgrades of hospitals, and taught seismic design to engineers in Haiti. Jhutti is based in Oakland and has been involved in large integrated project delivery developments.

Mackenzie

Mack

Matarrese

Higashi-Poynter

In its Seattle office, Mackenzie hired Laura Higashi-Poynter as an assistant planner, Jeff Matarrese as an architectural staff designer and Christine Mack as an interior designer. Higashi-Poynter provides land use planning support, GIS mapping, and permit process research. She has experience in presentation graphics and preparing document submittal packages. Matarrese spent the past year in the Portland office on Mackenzie's public buildings team. He provides architectural project support from pre‐design through construction. Mack is on the interiors team, specializing in tenant improvements, office repositioning and medical clinics. Mackenzie is a West Coast provider of architecture and interior design; structural, civil and traffic engineering; land use and transportation planning; and landscape architecture.

Parametrix

MacDonald

Gordon MacDonald of Parametrix received his Designated Design-Build Professional certification. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences, with offices in the western United States.

Presbyterian Retirement Communities

Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest (PRCN) is pleased to announce that Torsten Hirche will join the organization as the president and chief executive officer on March 31, 2014. Hirche brings more than 13 years of executive experience to his new role, including ten in the senior living business. He will oversee the strategic direction and growth of PRCN and its three communities: Park Shore, Exeter House, and Skyline at First Hill.

Hirche is currently the senior executive director at Oakmont Senior Living in Santa Rosa, California. From 2005 to 2012, he served in senior executive roles with Pacific Retirement Services in Medford, Oregon.

Torsten, who is originally from Germany, holds a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Business Administration, both from Southern Oregon University. He also received a bachelor's degree in international tourism studies from Hochschule Harz, University of Applied Sciences in Wernigerode, Germany. He is a member of Rotary International and a licensed Nursing Home Administrator and Preceptor.

Elliott Bay Design Group

Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), a Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm with offices in New Orleans and Ketchikan, recently obtained approval in principle (AIP) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the design of a 2000 cubic meter liquefied natural gas (LNG) combination bunkering barge.

The EB-2000 LNG is one of several LNG barge designs developed by EBDG for clients to meet growing demand for efficient and cost-effective refueling of LNG powered vessels. The innovative 257 ft. EB-2000 was designed for either an ATB or towed configuration, and features a marine diesel fuel cargo tank for refueling dual fuel vessels.