Jul 06, 2016

Lund Opsahl

Bower

Roberge

Slivers

Associates Adam Slivers, Shawn Roberge and Owen Bower have become owners in Seattle-based Lund Opsahl structural engineering firm. Slivers has 16 years of experience designing commercial and institutional facilities. He is working on a Progressive Care Unit tenant improvement at Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland. Roberge has a background in zoo facilities and commercial structures. He is managing design of an office building for Vulcan Real Estate in Seattle. Bower has over 10 years of experience that includes medical, educational, parking structure and design build projects. He is working on the Washington State Convention Center expansion.

Helix Design Group

Holloway

Elswick

Menzies

Tacoma-based Helix Design Group hired Mamie Menzies as an architect, Beth Elswick as an interior designer and Liz Holloway as marketing manager. Menzies has over 20 years of experience. In addition to her design background, she was a union ironworker apprentice. Elswick has four years of experience that includes K-12, higher education, library, industrial facility, corporate and small renovation projects. Holloway coordinates statements of qualifications and proposals and assists with business development. She has been an architectural designer since 2002 and has done marketing and business development for eight years. Helix provides architecture, interior design and graphic design.

Aspect Consulting

Dennison

Schellenger

Austreng

In Seattle, Aspect Consulting hired Andrew Austreng as a project hydrogeologist, Eric Schellenger as a senior staff geotechnical engineer and Ali Dennison as a senior project geologist. Austreng has five years of water resources experience with a focus on water rights and aquifer characterization. He has worked with municipalities, irrigation districts, water system operators and government and tribal agencies. Schellenger has a master's in geotechnical engineering from the University of Washington. He will do infrastructure, foundation and seismic projects. Dennison has 14 years of geotechnical and environmental experience on commercial, residential, transportation and pipeline projects. Aspect provides earth and water engineering and science consulting.

Stantec

Morrone

Granryd

Woodward

In Bellevue, Stantec hired Darold Woodward as an electrical senior project manager. It also hired Linnea Granryd as a lighting designer in Lynnwood and David Morrone as an electrical project manager in Portland. Woodward has over 20 years of experience as an electrical and controls engineer, with an emphasis on municipal facilities. He worked on the I-90 tunnel project on Mercer Island. Granryd has experience in lighting design, graphics design, illustrative user interface design and drafting, and is an artist. Her projects include the Lincoln Square expansion in Bellevue. Morrone has over 25 years of experience and is responsible for engineering, project management and client relationships on health care and higher education projects. He is working on projects for Clackamas Community College. Stantec does consulting in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management and project economics.

Mackenzie

Mack

Bauer

Ford

Mackenzie promoted Kim Ford, Alexis Bauer and Christine Mack to assistant department head of interiors. Ford works in Portland, Bauer in Vancouver and Mack in Seattle. Ford's projects include the First Tech Federal Credit Union headquarters in Beaverton. Bauer has done workplace design, building repositioning and tenant improvement projects, including Mackenzie's tenant space in The Hudson Building. She will focus on expanding the firm's interiors practice in Vancouver and Southwest Washington. Mack will continue to work on client development. She has done projects for Urban Renaissance Group, PacTrust and others. Mackenzie provides architecture and interior design; structural, civil and traffic engineering; land use and transportation planning; and landscape architecture.

Jun 29, 2016

Weber Thompson

Rubio

Weber Thompson promoted Bernadette Rubio to interior design principal. Rubio will lead a team of ten interior designers, space planners and other professionals in the interior design studio, which works on residential, commercial, hospitality and retail projects. Carrie Smith stepped down as interior design principal at the firm, where she and Rubio built the interior design team. Rubio has 20 years of experience in interior and architectural design. Her work has included Pike Motorworks, a 259-unit mixed-use apartment project in Seattle.

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

dos Remedios

Li

McCay

Liss

Ludwig

Umana

At its Seattle headquarters, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol landscape architecture firm hired Ashley Ludwig and Katherine Liss as associates and Alex McCay as a designer, and promoted Laurel Li to designer and Cheryl dos Remedios to marketing and communications senior associate. The firm also hired Wolfgang Umana as administrator of its Washington, D.C. workspace. Ludwig practiced landscape architecture for several years New York. She is a project leader for the India Basin Shoreline Park and Long Beach Civic Center projects in California. Liss spent seven years in New York practicing landscape architecture. She is leading projects in the U.S. McCay holds a master's in landscape architecture from Pennsylvania State University. Umana holds a degree in environmental science and public policy from George Mason University.

Runberg Architecture Group

Wechsler

Seattle-based Runberg Architecture Group promoted Melissa Wechsler to partner. She joins founder Brian Runberg and Michele Wang in that role. The firm said Wechsler's design vision and project management experience have helped it in designing high-performing mixed-use buildings. She is collaborating with Graphite Design Group on two residential towers above Google's future offices in South Lake Union. Previously, she was with Borrelli + Partners in Miami.

Hewitt

Leverson

Miller

Stendal

In Seattle, Hewitt hired Tracy Stendal as a project architect, Rachel Miller as a landscape architect and Nathan Leverson to the architecture staff. Stendal has over 10 years of mid-rise and commercial architecture experience. She was a project architect with CallisonRTKL. Miller has nearly a decade of landscape architecture and urban design experience and was a landscape designer for Integrated Site Design. She is designing projects in South Lake Union. Leverson holds a bachelor's degree in architectural design from the University of Washington, and is on Hewitt’s architecture team. The firm provides architecture, landscape architecture and urban design.

FSi consulting engineers

Hallock

Kledzik

Bingham

Seattle-based FSi consulting engineers hired Daimian Bingham, Michael Kledzik and Chris Hallock as mechanical engineers. Bingham specializes in energy modeling, life cycle cost analysis and HVAC airside design, and is working on projects for King County and Boeing. Kledzik is an energy manager with 10 years of experience in energy audits and upgrades. He is working on Washington State Ferries' Mukilteo and Colman Dock Ferry Terminal replacement projects. Hallock specializes in cooling, sound attenuation, and plumbing systems for projects that range from department stores to data centers. He is doing work at Sea-Tac airport. FSi provides mechanical engineering.

Stantec

Bettcher

Adam Bettcher of Stantec earned his Washington architectural license. He is an acoustician in the Lynnwood office. Stantec provides engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management and project economics.