Oct 22, 2019

Bouten Construction Co.

Johnson

In Spokane, Bouten Construction Co. hired Phillip Johnson as senior project manager. Johnson came from Lease Crutcher Lewis in Seattle, where he was a project manager for two years. Before that, he was a project manager at University Mechanical Contractors and a superintendent for Kiewit Infrastructure West Co.

NAMC-WA

Glenn

The Washington Chapter of the National Association of Minority Contractors handed out six awards at its recent 3rd Annual Minority and Women Business Enterprise Awards gala. The winners were: Young-Sang Song, owner of Song Consulting, Emerging Business; Tunista Construction, Established Business; Hensel Phelps, General Contractor of the Year; Washington State Department of Enterprise Services, Public Agency of the Year; Robert Armstead, NAMC past president, Founder's Award; and Regina Glenn, president of Pacific Communications Consultants, Diversity Advocate of the Year. NAMC-WA also announced it will name the Diversity Advocate of the Year award in honor of Glenn. NAMC-WA is a nonprofit trade association promoting minority contractors.

ABC of Western Washington

The Associated Builders and Contractors of Western Washington announced its 2020 slate of officers and board members. Here are the officers: Jason Wandler of Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker, chair; Glen Kuntz of Tekton Group, chair-elect/secretary; Travis Hull of Mechanical & Control Services, immediate past chair and vice chair of leadership development; Josh Griesse, Washington Commercial Painters, vice chair of government affairs; Stephanie Carlin of Propel Insurance, vice chair of membership; Dawn Lanz of Sea-Tac Electric, vice chair of professional development; and Marc Victor of Rafn Co., treasurer. Board members are Mike Yore of Olympian Precast, Adam DeBruler of Neeley Construction, Candi Pfluger of Peterson Sullivan, Doug Jones of Haggard Electrical Contractors, Shelley Bloom of The Blue Book Building & Construction Network, Karen Say of Saybr Contractors, Cindy Axthelm of Axthelm Construction and Scott Garcia of Parker, Smith & Feek.

Rite Way Electric

Chaz Hooley of Rite Way Electric in Albany, Oregon, won second place in the Independent Electrical Contractors' 2019 National Apprentice of the Year Competition. Hooley is a member of IEC's Oregon chapter. The nonprofit trade association also named Cindy Regier of the Oregon chapter as 2019 IEC Chapter Executive Director of the Year.

Omega Morgan

Bechtel recognized Omega Morgan as a top subcontractor at its recent annual Supply Chain Awards event. Omega worked with Bechtel to deliver components to the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant site. The job included engineered transportation and rigging services. Omega primarily serves the Portland and Seattle areas, as well as parts of western Canada.

Comcast

Tashjian

Comcast named David Tashjian as regional vice president for the Oregon/southwest Washington region. Tashjian was vice president of sales and operations of the company's West division in the Denver area and has 23 years of industry experience. He replaces Rodrigo Lopez, who now leads the company's Washington region.

Nytec

Global professional services company Accenture signed a deal to acquire Kirkland-based product innovation and engineering company Nytec. Under the deal, Nytec will become part of Accenture Industry X.0, which drives the digital reinvention of industry. Financial terms of the deal were not released. Nytec has 250 employees and was founded in 1975. It operates a product innovation center that offers design, prototype development, engineering and support services for manufacturing.

King County Search and Rescue

King County Executive Dow Constantine selected King County Search and Rescue for the Executive's Award for Community Resilience, citing KCSAR for its exemplary service during February's snow emergency, in which the nonprofit's members volunteered nearly 1,000 hours and drove more than 7,800 miles in personally owned vehicles. KCSAR is an independent, nonprofit group of more than 600 trained volunteers that partners with the King County Sheriff's Office during emergencies.

CERB

The state Community Economic Revitalization Board approved $252,000 in loans and $409,000 in grants for economic development, public infrastructure development and economic feasibility studies. Here's where the money will go: $50,000 grant to the Port of Port Angeles for the Clallam County broadband feasibility study; $252,000 loan and $84,000 grant to the Port of Royal Slope in Grant County for a waterline extension; $50,000 grant to Okanogan County for development of a broadband strategic plan; $50,000 grant to Pend Oreille County Public Utility District No. 1 for a broadband feasibility study; $50,000 grant to the Port of Anacortes in Skagit County for a marine terminal modernization study; $25,000 grant to the city of Spokane Valley for the Appleway Trail economic development study; $50,000 grant to the city of Chewelah in Stevens County for the Sand Canyon development study; and $50,000 grant to the Nisqually Indian Tribe in Thurston County for a broadband feasibility study.