Aug 04, 2021

Parametrix

Chatila

Parametrix hired Hicham Chatila, PE, PTOE, as their National Director of Smart and Livable Communities. Chatila has over 35 years of industry experience, specializing in technology and emerging smart city solutions for connected and livable communities. He has managed a variety of award-winning projects in North America and internationally. He began his career with the Washington State Highway Department as a transportation engineer. He later joined the City of Springfield, Oregon as Transportation Manager. He went on to join Transpo Group where he established and grew the firm's Intelligent Transportation Systems practice in the United States. In 2010 he relocated to the Middle East where he established and grew the planning and technology business to five offices in multiple countries with over 130 staff. He served as the firm's President of the Middle East and North Africa. In 2020 he relocated to Seattle and established TRAFX, providing strategic technology consultancy services to several public and private sector clients including City of Bellevue, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Portland TriMet. His project experience includes a variety of autonomous and connected vehicles, Cloud-Based connected vehicle mobility and safety solutions, intelligent transportation system and multi-modal transportation planning and design projects for clients in the Pacific Northwest and internationally. Chatila will be based out of the firm's Seattle office, leading the firm's practice to assist clients with smart and livable community programs and initiatives. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences.

Rice Fergus Miller

Kelly

Gladics

Rice Fergus Miller promoted two new principals. Gunnar Gladics is now a principal in the firm's Fire and Emergency Services Studio. Dean Kelly is now a principal in the firm's Housing Studio. Gladics joined RFM in 2019 after working closely with Dave Fergus and Ron Easterday on fire station projects while employed at a firm in Idaho. Now, he helps lead the firm's FES Studio, which currently employs a team of over 20 professionals. After earning his Master of Architecture from the University of Idaho, he served for seven years in volunteer and paid firefighting positions. Kelly specializes in complex Senior Living, Mixed-Use, Market-Rate Housing, and Master Planning projects including the recently completed Panorama assisted living community center and courtyard, the Emerald Heights campus facade renovation, Horizon House master plan, and Evergreen Pointe for Sound West Group. Originally from Austin, Texas, Dean relocated to Bremerton to join Rice Fergus Miller in 2014. Rice Fergus Miller is an architecture, interiors and planning firm based in Bremerton. The firm's primary markets are Healthcare, Housing, Senior Living, Hospitality, Fire and Emergency Services, Community, and Education.

Reid Middleton

Hackathorn

McCabe

Mazloomifard

Deol

Bond

Wheeler

Reid Middleton Inc. hired Collin Bond and Inder Deol as Designer I's, Milad Mazloomifard as a Designer II, Rob McCabe as a project surveyor, and Chris Hackathorn and Kevin Wheeler as help desk technicians. Bond received his degree from Seattle University. Deol received her degree from University of Washington. Mazloomifard brings three years of experience. McCabe brings five plus years of experience, Hackathorn and Wheeler both bring previous IT experience. Reid Middleton provides civil and structural engineering, planning and permitting, and surveying services to public and private sector clients. Its corporate office is in Everett, WA and it has locations in San Diego and Anchorage.

HNTB Corp.

Sears

HNTB Corp. named Mel Sears, PE, PMP, as the new president of the firm's Northwest Division. Sears will lead the operations of HNTB's fastest growing division, which includes more than 400 employees. He will oversee vital and complex infrastructure programs in growth markets that include highways, rail and transit, tolling, aviation and more. He succeeds Jim Thomson, who retired in the spring. Sears joined HNTB earlier this year as Western Region sales officer where he focused on growth in the region by increasing HNTB's strategic focus on clients' infrastructure needs and successful project delivery. Sears has more than 35 years of experience in the Western U.S. and has led the development of strong owner relationships, transportation funding initiatives, office and division leadership, and business development leadership. He also has project management expertise on complex public and private infrastructure programs and has worked successfully across many key markets, including highways, transit and environmental with many of HNTB's largest clients. Sears is based in the firm's Bellevue office. HNTB Corporation is an employee-owned infrastructure firm serving public and private owners and contractors.

Cushing Terrell

Rhoads

Cushing Terrell welcomes Randy Rhoads as Executive Director of Affordable Housing. Rhoads brings more than 30 years of experience in the design of residential, commercial/retail, education, and government projects to his position with the firm. His previous work comprises leading the design of 6,000+ mixed-income, multi-family, and senior living apartment units in 14 cities across the United States. Rhoads also served as the lead architect for over 30 Low Income Housing Tax Credit-financed developments, including the first multi-family, mixed-income building in the U.S. to incorporate Universal Design features in every unit, one of the first affordable housing developments to be certified under the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria, and one of the first mixed-income rental developments to achieve LEED for Homes certification and LEED for Neighborhood Development certification. Cushing Terrell is a multi-disciplinary architecture firm that provides building design, visualization, planning, and engineering services. The firm has offices in Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Texas, and Washington.

PRR

PRR, an integrated communications agency, announced that Greg Eppich will serve as its new senior director of creative and marketing. Eppich has more than 20 years of creative and marketing communications experience. As part of PRR's senior leadership group, Eppich will lead a team of social marketing, creative, digital marketing, and behavior change specialists across a portfolio of public and private sector clients including King County, Sound Transit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington State Department of Health, Washington State Department of Transportation, and the Virginia Department of Rail and Transportation. Prior to joining PRR, Eppich was a senior vice president at MSL, a global marketing communications firm. Established in 1981, PRR is a certified women-owned business, and has offices in Seattle, Washington D.C., Norfolk, Va., and Baltimore.

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson announced that its Family Law Practice Group has received Tier 1 ranking recognition by Chambers and Partners Global High Net Worth Guide for 2021 in the category of Family/Matrimonial. In addition, family law attorneys Linda Kelley Ebberson and Lisa Ann Sharpe were recognized in Tier 1 and Tier 2, respectively, with high marks in complex divorce proceedings for wealthy and notable individuals. Chambers research is conducted by 200 research analysts, across 200 jurisdictions and provides nearly 6,000 rankings tables. They collect hundreds of thousands of responses from clients, the majority via in-depth interview, each year. Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson was founded 48 years ago in Seattle.

NW Natural Holdings

NW Natural Holdings has released its second annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report outlining the company's progress in 2020 on safety, carbon reduction, diversity, community engagement and governance goals. The ESG report, posted online at http://www.nwnatural.com/about-us/the-company/sustainability, incorporates disclosures recommended for the industry by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). The items highlighted in the report included that the company moved its Portland headquarters and operations center into a new LEED Core and Shell Gold certified building that reduces energy use and waste; continued its focus on diversity, equity and inclusion; contributed nearly $1 million to community organizations through the NW Natural Corporate Philanthropy Fund; and provided a 100% company match for two employee-giving campaigns that raised $350,000 for local nonprofits. Northwest Natural Holdings has been doing business for over 160 years in the Pacific Northwest. It owns NW Natural Gas, NW Natural Water and other business interests.