Nov 29, 2022

International Special Review District

The annual election for the International Special Review District (ISRD) Board was held by mail, with Seattle Department of Neighborhoods receiving a total of 183 ballots. Two positions were up for election. Michael Le won Position No. 3 for a business owner, property owner or employee, and Nella Kwan won at-large Position No. 5. Both candidates are currently serving their first terms on the ISRD Board, and have been re-elected to serve a second term, beginning Dec. 1. In 1973, the International Special Review District Board was created to preserve, protect and enhance the cultural, economic and historical qualities of the Chinatown International District. The board is composed of seven members – five elected by the Chinatown International District community and two appointed by the mayor. Board member terms are typically for two years, and members may serve up to two consecutive terms. The following Board members served through November 2022: Lizzie Baskerville (vice-chair), Ryan Gilbert, Nella Kwan, Adrian Lam, Michael Le, Andy Yip (chair) and Ming Zhang. The International Special Review District is coordinated by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Historic Preservation Program which is responsible for the designation and protection of more than 400 historic structures, sites, objects and vessels, as well as eight historic districts located throughout the city.

Idaho Scientific

CAES, a provider of electronics for aerospace and defense, announced that it has won its first commercial U.S.-based license for its RISC-V/NOEL-V processor IP with Idaho Scientific, based in Boise, Idaho. Idaho Scientific specializes in solutions that prevent hardware and software security attacks. The announcement builds on a license agreement CAES signed with Idaho Scientific earlier this year. Having access to the source code of the RISC-V/NOEL-V processor IP allows Idaho Scientific's designers to build a ground up processor architecture which will include their own value-added functionality to maximize mitigation of tampering via cyberattacks. CAES is among the largest providers of mixed-signal and radiation-hardened technology to the United States aerospace and defense industry.

OAC Services

Chandler

Longtime OAC Services employee Dan Chandler is retiring at the end of the year. Chandler, currently senior vice president, will remain on the company's board through 2023. He joined the firm as director of project management services in 1996, when OAC had 15 employees, and has been a key contributor to OAC's growth to over 140 staff and eight offices since that time. OAC provides design and construction management services, as well as forensic architecture and engineering.

Genie

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers earlier this month inducted the late Sherman Ward “Bud” Bushnell, founder of Genie Industries in Seattle, into its AEM Hall of Fame. AEM noted that Bushnell made a broad range of contributions in developing and advancing technologies that support the construction and agriculture industries worldwide. In 1966, Bushnell founded Genie Industries, which today is the Genie brand of Terex Corp. Genie makes mobile elevating work platforms, which enable people to work safely and productively at height. Bushnell's first lift operated on compressed air, and customers referred to the hissing noise it made as “Genie magic in a bottle,” leading to the company name.

Granite

Watsonville, California-based Granite says its Alaska Region received the Associated General Contractors of Alaska's 2022 ConocoPhillips Excellence in Safety Award. The awards program encourages and honors excellence in construction safety throughout Alaska, recognizing builders in five divisions. Granite won the Highway Division award. It also won this award last year.

Nov 23, 2022

Arcadis IBI Group

Fedorchenko

Hayes

Olt

Arcadis IBI Group announced the expansion of its Seattle architecture practice with the hiring of three new team members, Matthias Olt, Heather Hayes, and Melissa Fedorchenko. These new team members share expertise in the design of urban mixed-use and tall buildings. In addition, they specialize in design for complex inner-city projects, sustainability, and biophilia.

Olt joins the practice as an associate director – principal, architecture and will serve as the firm's Living+ lead, i.e., high-rise mixed-use, for the Seattle market. Olt brings more than 30 years of experience in architecture, design leadership, and sustainability. He has led the design of several high-profile mixed-use, residential, and commercial towers in the USA, Asia, MENA, and Europe. In 2022, he received an Innovation by Design Award from Fast Company for a use-neutral and adaptable building design. In 2017, under Arcadis CRTKL, he received an AIA Seattle Honors Award for the design of a conceptual mass timber tower in Seattle.

Olt is also an educator and architecture critic at Washington State University. In his new Living+ role with Arcadis IBI Group he will lead the design and implementation of residential, hospitality, and office mixed-use buildings.

Hayes is the firm's new regional leader of interior design and will provide strategic leadership for the company's interior design team across the US, with a special focus on Living+. In her nearly two decades as an interior designer, Hayes has worked on a diverse range of project types and scales, and she continues to serve on the Interior Design Advisory Board for Bellevue College. Her work includes award winning projects in hospitality, multi-family housing, and workplace.

Fedorchenko recently joined the team as an associate – interior design. She will be part of the interior design team, providing design leadership to projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. Fedorchenko brings with her over 15 years of design experience for a wide array of clients, most recently working within the multi-family housing sector in the Seattle area. She is also a professional mentor for local high school students.

Barghausen

French

Chesley

Ellis

Hale

Bruggman

Erolin

Deardorff

Reed

Barghausen Consulting Engineers, Inc., has welcomed five new employees and promoted three staff members internally since the start of September. The new hires include three survey team members, a new addition to the People and Culture team, and an architectural job captain. The promotions include a project engineer and two survey party chiefs. All the promoted and new employees are located out of the firm's Kent office.

New hire Kelsey Bruggman started at Barghausen on Sep. 26 as a talent acquisition specialist. Bruggman graduated from Washington State University with her bachelor's degree in human development with a minor in psychology, and a certificate in family studies. She previously worked as an HR specialist and a recruiter for a construction subcontractor. Her experience includes recruiting for positions across 12 branch locations.

Nicholas Hale joined Barghausen on Sept. 19 as a survey chainperson. Hale has previous experience in the survey field and has also worked as a construction worker for TD Construction, as well as working for the Union Pacific Railroad as a mechanical laborer. He graduated from Las Positas College with his associate of arts degree.

Stephen Ellis started at Barghausen on Sept. 12 as a survey chainperson. Ellis has previous experience working as a laborer and has a background in customer service. He also has a wide variety of knowledge with mechanical skills and trades.

Dustin Chesley joined the Barghausen team on Oct. 3, also as a survey chainperson. Chesley previously worked in both warehousing and manufacturing environments, as well as subcontracting with over 20 years of experience. He has several field certifications.

Harold French joined Barghausen on Oct. 31 as a job captain in the architecture department. French graduated from Green River college and has over 31 years of experience in a variety of different construction backgrounds, with his main passion being architecture.

The three promoted team members are Steven Reed, Yaughn Deardorff and Leo Erolin.

Reed joined the Barghausen team in 2020 and has developed into a well-rounded engineer, taking a leading role with some of the firm's biggest clients and most complex projects. He has technical excellence and has taken the lead on developing key management tools to ensure consistent quality control and task management.

Deardorff started at Barghausen in February of 2017. He has worked with several party chiefs over the years, proving himself to be knowledgeable and proficient in field survey work.

Erolin joined Barghausen in June of 2014 after starting his surveying journey in Hawaii. There, he worked alongside his father and uncle, both professional surveyors running their family's business. Over the last eight years Erolin has performed multiple roles at Barghausen, working both in the field and in the office.

Cyemptive Technologies

Snohomish-based Cyemptive Technologies is the recipient of ten 2022 ‘ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards from American Security Today - more than any other company at this year's competition. Cyemptive won for its cybersecurity solutions that are guaranteed to protect computing environments before or immediately following a compromise. American Security Today's annual ‘ASTORS' Awards recognizes industry leaders in a variety of areas, including physical and border security, cybersecurity, emergency preparedness - management and response, law enforcement, first responders, as well as federal, state and municipal government agencies in the acknowledgment of their efforts to keep the nation secure. Cyemptive handles threat elimination by keeping systems in known and predictable states while constantly and automatically removing threats. Cyemptive won five Platinum Awards, two Gold Awards, two Silver Awards and one Bronze Award. Founded in 2014, Cyemptive's leadership team is comprised of executives from several of the world's technology and security organizations, including the former CIO of Microsoft and the former chief computer architect for the National Security Agency. American Security Today is a digital media platform in the U.S. Homeland Security and public safety industry, focused on breaking news and in-depth coverage of the newest initiatives and technologies in physical & IT security.

Madrona Prize

Madrona awarded the 15th Annual Madrona Prize to the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering team working on the VOCAL system. VOCAL (Video Organization and Interactive Compositional AnaLytics) system enables users to extract semantic information from large quantities of unlabeled data without pre-trained models. VOCAL helps users organize their data, build domain-specific models as they go, and then search for interesting events. Ph.D. students Maureen Daum, Enhao Zhang, and Dong He worked together on the two VOCAL sub-projects that received the prize: Video Organization and Exploration and video search technology called Interactive Video Analytics for Compositional Queries. They were co-advised by Professor and Director Magda Balazinsk and Professor Ranjay Krishna, and they also worked with a collaborator (and Allen School graduate) from Microsoft, Brandon Haynes. Madrona is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, and has been investing in early-stage technology companies for more than 25 years.

Seattle Job Fair

CareerTown.net, Champions Of Diversity, and Choice Career Fairs have partnered to present a multimedia job fair that provides recruiters and job seekers with the latest in social networking communications and online recruitment technology along with the multicultrual network of Champions of Diversity and CareerTown.net's virtual events technology. The fair will allow recruiters to connect and communicate in real-time with thousands of job seekers on-line. The event is being promoted on-air & on-line through Spectrum Reach and IHeart Media, and will be held December 15, 2022 from 11am-2pm. Additional information is available at ChampionsOfDiversity.org Inc.