Feb 16, 2022

DCI Engineers

Rodin

Cai

DCI Engineers promoted two employees. Lexi Cai, PE, LEED BD+C, has been promoted to project manager. Cai brought precast concrete and LEED evaluation experience when joining the firm. She is currently contributing engineering support to the QTS Data Center project in Hillsboro, Oregon and a FedEx warehouse in Bozeman, Montana.

Harry Rodin III, PE, has also been promoted to project manager. Rodin III has designed and supported high profile projects ranging from hospitality, residential, commercial office, mixed-use, high-rises, K-12 schools, and tenant improvements. He has exhibited his engineering abilities while working on high-rise buildings utilizing BRB frame systems. Rodin III is a member of the firm's in-house technical committees for concrete, wood, steel & aluminum, mass timber, and tenant improvements.

FFA Architecture and Interiors, Inc.

Cramer

Starr

Nguyen

FFA Architecture and Interiors announced three new hires. Carolyn Nguyen joined FFA Architecture and Interiors as a member or architectural staff. Nguyen is a 2018 graduate of the University of Oregon's Bachelor of Architecture program and brings her experience in multi-family and affordable housing and hospitality throughout the west coast. She is providing architectural support for projects including the Forest Grove City Hall as well as a study for a new public safety center. She is also an active member of FFA's Community Outreach Committee.

Brianna Starr has joined the company as an interior designer. A 2021 graduate of Ohio's Miami University, Starr comes to FFA Architecture and Interiors after receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design. Since joining FFA, Starr has provided support on projects including a new public safety center and the Kafoury Court affordable housing development for the city of Portland.

Anna Cramer has been hired as an administrative and accounting assistant. Cramer comes to FFA Architecture and Interiors after working as a private tutor. She earned her Bachelor of Psychology while attending Tufts University in Massachusetts. Since joining FFA, she has been assisting the accounting department, providing support with contract administration, managing the day-to-day functions of the office, and co-chairing FFA's Community Outreach Committee which fosters goals of giving back to the community and interoffice team building.

Lund Opsahl

Peterson

Schroeder

Aguilar

Bowles

Mason

Capuano

Lund Opsahl announced the promotions of two professionals in its leadership team and four additional staff members for their contributions to the firm. Tony Mason was promoted to principal, Jeremiah Bowles to associate principal, Kevin Aguilar to senior design engineer, and Scott Schroeder to design engineer. Garrett Peterson and Alissa Capuano have been promoted within the engineer-in-training program.

A Design-Build Institute of America Associate, Mason leads project design teams and oversees the firm's technology and BIM groups. Most recently, his projects include the new Redmond Senior and Community Center, Portland's 100 Multnomah Office Tower, Washington State Department of Labor and Industries and Washington State Department of Agriculture Safety and Health Lab and Training Center, and numerous significant Eastside construction engineering projects.

Bowles oversees the firm's social media presence and shares oversight for the firm's single family project portfolio. His recent projects include multiple West Coast luxury residences. Public projects include the historic Byrd Barr Place Renovation (formerly Seattle Fire Station 23), Olympic College Shops Building Renovation, and Intercity Transit Pattison Maintenance, Operations, and Administration project.

Recently earning his professional structural engineer credentials for Washington State, Aguilar actively volunteers for the firm's training efforts for their engineers-in-training and supports the college outreach program. His broad portfolio of work includes the new multi-family community, Orenda at Othello Square in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood, the Quinault Outpatient Medical Clinic, and a tenant improvement project for a confidential biotech client.

A part of the firm's internal social event team, Schroeder recently received his professional engineer credentials for Washington State and has been a vital team member on multiple key projects. His project work includes the University of Washington Softball Performance Center Design-Build, the Mariner's recently acquired mixed-use building renovation on First Avenue South, and two new behavioral health facilities for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services in Vancouver and Centralia.

Peterson began working for Lund Opsahl as an Intern in 2018 and joined the team as an EIT once he graduated from California Polytechnic State University in 2019. He has provided strong contributions to a variety of projects, including King County Parks Central Maintenance Facility Expansion; Island County's new Camano Administration Building; and the Intercity Transit Pattison Maintenance, Operations, and Administration project.

Capuano also worked as an intern at Lund Opsahl in 2019 and joined the team in 2020 after graduating from Seattle University. Her significant project contributions to projects include work on the Washington State L&I and WSDA Health Lab and Training Center; Othello Square's new Building A, part of a new multi-service and multi-family community in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood; and Bainbridge Island's Buxton Center for Performing Arts Expansion and Renovation.

Lund Opsahl provides structural engineering services in a broad range of market sectors for public and private clients

Parametrix

Seville

Steve Seville, PE has joined Parametrix as director of salmon recovery. He will be based out of the firm's Seattle office, leading the firm's salmon recovery and fish passage efforts. Seville has 25 years of experience as a civil engineer, specializing in the development and implementation of habitat restoration programs, projects, and mitigation designs. He has led programs that targeted fish passage and enhancement of environments to connect historic floodplains throughout the Western United States.

Seville comes to Parametrix from David Evans and Associates where he served as vice president. His project experience includes serving as Stream Design Program Lead for the Washington State Department of Transportation's Olympic Region Fish Barrier Removals. He has also worked with local governments and fish enhancement groups to design and construct stream habitat enhancement projects.

At Parametrix, Seville will lead the firm's team of salmon recovery and fish passage professionals, working for clients such as the Washington State Department of Transportation, King County, and salmon recovery groups in the Puget Sound and Columbia River Basin.

NuScale Power

NuScale Power and Poland's KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (KGHM) will announce an agreement to initiate the deployment of NuScale's small modular reactor (SMR) technology. The definitive agreement between NuScale Power, whose SMR is the first and only small modular reactor to receive design approval from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and KGHM, a Poland-based leader in copper and silver production and large industrial energy user, will position KGHM as a clean energy implementation leader with the first deployment of SMRs in Poland. Under the agreement, NuScale will work with KGHM to support the deployment of SMR technology, and together, the organizations will take steps toward deploying a first NuScale VOYGR power plant in Poland as early as 2029, which would help Poland avoid up to 8M tons of CO2 emissions per year. The first task under the agreement will identify and assess potential project sites and develop project planning milestones and cost estimates. KGHM and NuScale first began their collaboration in September 2021, after the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in the development, licensing and construction of a NuScale VOYGR plant in Poland. NuScale is headquartered in Portland and has offices in Corvallis, OR; Rockville, MD; Charlotte, NC; Richland, WA and London, UK.

Impinj

Seattle-based Impinj, a leading RAIN RFID provider, announced the company has joined the DoseID Consortium to expand its focus on RAIN radio-frequency identification (RAIN RFID) applications in healthcare, and to participate in developing standards for RAIN RFID healthcare use. DoseID is a member-driven industry consortium with representatives from leading pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers and hospitals. Impinj partners with healthcare providers that use its RAIN RFID products to deliver solutions that improve patient care, reduce costs, and increase efficiencies by better managing assets and inventory and by automating systems that keep patients and staff safe. Solutions built by Impinj partners are designed to work within an existing healthcare setting, supporting compliance with procedures and regulations and making the work of caring for patients easier.

Feb 15, 2022

Kevala

Seattle-based Kevala announced that it raised $12.1 million in Series A funding to modernize the healthcare industry through scheduling and compliance software. Cercano Management led the round, with participation from existing investors Costanoa Ventures, High Alpha, and PSL Ventures. Kevala spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in April 2020. Kevala is an intelligent workforce management and engagement platform built to solve the staffing problems in healthcare facilities. Kevala is first addressing the needs of long-term care organizations, including senior living, skilled nursing and rehabilitation and hospice. By building an integrated and intelligent SaaS solution, Kevala is able to maximize employee productivity and engagement, while improving quality of care and the bottom line. Clients are able to curate and float pools of talent within their organizations or opt to fill open shifts from the Kevala Care Network, a fully credentialed pool of per diem and contract healthcare professionals. Kevala has also automated how healthcare facilities track and maintain caregiver credentials. Kevala currently offers solutions to hundreds of organizations across five states, and plans to continue to expand its reach into new states with its software platform and the Kevala Care Network of caregivers this coming year.

nLIGHT

nLIGHT, a provider of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers used in the industrial, microfabrication, aerospace, and defense markets, announced that it has acquired the assets of plasmo Industrietechnik GmbH (“Plasmo”), an Austrian-based provider of automated quality assurance and diagnostic solutions. Plasmo's products are driven by proprietary machine vision and analysis software that monitor and help automate a wide range of industrial welding and additive manufacturing processes. Complementing nLIGHT's expanding laser portfolio, the acquisition of the Plasmo assets strengthens nLIGHT's position as a critical enabler of next generation manufacturing solutions in these growth markets. Headquartered in Camas, Washington, nLIGHT employs over 1,275 people with operations in the U.S., China and Finland.

Inland Northwest Partners

Inland Northwest Partners appointed KayDee Gilkey as its new executive director. Gilkey comes to INP with more than 30 years of service to nonprofit boards on a local, regional, and state level, and is former two-term mayor of the town of Fairfield, Washington. Gilkey is the economic development organization's second director and assumed her position earlier this month. She succeeds Sharon Matthews, who held the position for 25 years. Matthews retired at the end of 2021. Gilkey will concurrently remain as director of industry relations for the Washington State Beef Commission. She currently serves on the Liberty Community Education Foundation Board of Directors and serves as chapter advisor to WSU's Alpha-Gamma-Delta chapter. Inland Northwest Partners originated in 1986 as an in-house Avista economic development program and became an official non-profit corporation in 1996. In 2004, the organization developed the Inland Northwest Economic Alliance to better support community and economic development professionals from across the Inland Northwest. INP members meet quarterly to share common economic challenges and solutions within the eastern Washington and northern Idaho region. Topics include technology, financing community initiatives, forging regional partnerships, civic capacity-building, business expansion and retention strategies, and talent attraction. INP often partners with local chambers or state organizations for value-added training.

NWCCA

Harris

Kahler

Knutson

Yalowicki

Sumsion

Till

Bagnell

The Northwest Wall and Ceiling Contractors Association elected its 2022 officers: Doug Bagnell of Olympic Interiors, president; Ryan Till of Anning-Johnson, vice president; Nathan Sumsion of Western Partitions, secretary-treasurer; and Cory Yalowicki of Superior Stucco Services, immediate past-president. Directors are Greg Knutson of G.K. Knutson, James Kahler of Northwest Partitions and Rick Harris of Performance Contracting. NWCCA members consist of signatory wall and ceiling contractors.

Alston Construction

van Niekerk

Hennie van Niekerk relocated from Phoenix to join Alston Construction's preconstruction team in Seattle. Alston says van Niekerk is well versed in working with architects and engineers in design, understanding the value-engineering process, and leading design review work sessions. During his 17 years in the industry, he has estimated and completed 258 commercial projects, from mid-size financial institutions up to 3.4 million-square-foot mega structures.

Bayley Construction

Mercer Island-based Bayley Construction restructured its leadership to expand within the Pacific Northwest, West Coast and Southwest regions of the U.S. Restructuring includes new president positions for each region, plus promoting previous president Steve Grasso to CEO. The new regional presidents are: Hans Hansen, Washington; Jerry Crowell, Arizona; and Kenny Ellis, California. Hansen has over 25 years of experience and leadership in the construction industry, including collaborative team building and a focus on alternative project delivery for both public and private clients. Crowell has been at Bayley for 24 years, starting as an intern before being hired as a project engineer, and then going into estimating. He served as director of preconstruction and estimating for 10 years at the firm. Ellis, with 25 years of industry experience, joined Bayley in 2005 as a project manager and worked his way up to project executive. He was at Bayley for 13 years, returning last year to the firm's Lake Forest, California, office. Grasso originally joined the company's San Diego office in 1985 as a project engineer. He was promoted to project manager in 1989 and moved to the Seattle office. In 1994, he became construction manager, advanced to vice president of preconstruction and estimating in 2007, and then became president in 2012.

Aldrich + Associates

Bothell-based Aldrich + Associates is marking 50 years in business in 2022. The company focuses on critical environments and technically sophisticated construction, including new construction and renovation projects for the health care and laboratory markets. It won an AGC Construction Excellence Award last year for its work on the CHI Franciscan Health St. Joseph Medical Center Level III Neonatal ICU project.