Jun 24, 2020

HBB Landscape Architecture

Oviir

Seattle-based HBB Landscape Architecture promoted Merit Oviir to vice president. Oviir will take on a stronger role in the company's leadership while continuing to nurture creativity and quality design and build strong client relationships. Since joining HBB in 2012, Oviir has worked on projects that include trail and open space planning, streetscape improvements, plazas and multimodal transportation corridors. HBB has 18 landscape architects, urban designers and planners.

The Greenbusch Group

Turner

The Greenbusch Group promoted Dylan Turner to principal and practice lead for its mechanical engineering, commissioning services and vertical transportation group at the Seattle office. Turner has played a key role in the delivery and growth of those services after joining the firm nine years ago. As a principal, he is involved with client relations, business development, project scheduling, quality control and project management, and leads projects for owners, including Sound Transit. Greenbusch is a multidisciplinary engineering firm that provides acoustical and vibration consulting, mechanical engineering, audio/video systems design, vertical transportation design and commissioning services.

Pace Engineers

Kopetzky

Kirkland-based Pace Engineers hired Deneise Kopetzky as business development director. Kopetzky will be responsible for setting the business development and marketing strategy for the firm and managing the marketing groups in its four offices. She has 17 years of marketing and business development experience in the architecture, engineering and construction industry, including at PCS Structural Solutions, McGrahanan Architects and TCF Architecture. She is on the SMPS Seattle Board of Directors and is engaged in organizations that include A4LE, WSSHE, CREW, WLIC and Building Women. Pace provides civil and structural engineering, planning, surveying and GIS services.

Hanson Professional Services

Schroedter

The board of directors of Hanson Professional Services elected Lauren Schroedter assistant vice president. Schroedter, Hanson's railway discipline manager, works in the Seattle regional office. She interned for the firm in 2006 and joined it full time in 2009. She has experience in project scoping, feasibility studies, conceptual designs, design team coordination, construction phasing planning, design quality control, bid document preparation, estimating, scheduling, construction administration and contract management for railroad projects. Hanson is a national consulting firm providing engineering, planning and allied services.

Knit

Vance

Jonelle Vance joined architecture firm Knit as an associate principal and director of interiors. Vance has three decades of experience designing interiors for commercial, hospitality, healthcare and tenant improvement clients — projects totaling millions of square feet. She has relationships with developers and brokers such as Ensemble Real Estate Solutions, EQ Office, Del Mar Properties, CBRE and Colliers International. She's based in Las Vegas but her work is throughout Knit's regional offices in Seattle, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. The firm provides architecture and design services.

City of Redmond

Redmond Fire Chief Tommy Smith has resigned. Smith was hired in 2013 by the city of Redmond after serving as deputy fire chief for the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The city of Redmond gave no reason for his departure. Deputy Fire Chief Don Horton has stepped in as acting fire chief.

Brightwork Consulting

Seattle-based Brightwork Consulting hired Jeff Powell as vice president of business development. Powell has over 30 years of experience leading business development and sales programs and teams. Brightwork is a risk management, change management and IT/business strategy consultant.

Uchimura Robotics

Atlanta-based Uchimura Robotics opened an operation in Seattle to better serve the West Coast with fully autonomous disinfecting robots, collaborative robots, industrial robots, low-cost laboratory/educational/hobbyist robots and telepresence robots. Uchimura supplies robots for industrial, commercial and educational applications. It is a subsidiary of Uchimura Co. Ltd. of Japan.

City of Tacoma

The city of Tacoma's Community and Economic Development Department says it approved 69 small businesses to participate in its $1 million COVID-19 stabilization loan program. Loans averaging about $15,000 were given to the businesses, which have 10 or fewer employees and brick-and-mortar operations. About 36% of the businesses are restaurants and bars and 20% are retailers. The city received 200 applications for the program.

Arcimoto

Eugene, Oregon-based Arcimoto is teaming with HyreCar to provide Arcimoto's Deliverator electric vehicles in Los Angeles. The three-wheeled vehicles will be ready to rent this summer using HyreCar's carsharing marketplace for ridesharing and delivery. HyreCar rents cars to Uber, Lyft and delivery drivers, and is targeting last-mile food and package delivery in heavily populated areas. Deliverators have a top speed of 75 mph and can go about 100 miles in the city before recharging.