Jun 16, 2021

Studio Meng Strazzara

Bird

Shu

Branham

Fan

Lee

Draper

Mahoney

Feliciano

Weller

Hatch

Ceyhun

Izquierdo

Johnson

Landa

Studio Meng Strazzara, a Seattle-based architectural planning and consulting firm, has begun broadening its top-level leadership with a number of promotions into senior positions: Steve Lee was promoted to principal and Tony Fan, Lucas Branham and Lukas Shu to associate principal.

Also, SMS promoted to associate Aidan Bird, Erik Hatch, Austin Weller, Kristina Feliciano, Patrick Mahoney, Bryant Draper, Robert Landa, Matt Johnson, Pepe Izquierdo and Haluk Ceyhun.

Lee, a designer and project manager with over 30 years of experience, has spent his whole career with the firm designing education facilities for higher education and K-12 clients. Fan, an architect and project manager with over 20 years in the design field, works in the commercial studio, with a background in early feasibility studies and development planning. Branham, a 15-year veteran of the firm, is an architect in the commercial studio, working on mixed-use and residential projects and new business development efforts. Shu is an architect with 30 years of experience across multiple sectors, including education, public and community facilities. Shu often leads the firm's work with public agency clients, transportation districts and municipalities.

Bird, an architect with 30 years of experience, is a technical expert and serves as a senior design resource for the education and commercial design studios. Hatch is an architect with experience in different market sectors, recently acting as job captain on a predesign study for Central Washington University, and currently leading a commercial development project in Tacoma. Weller leads early design development and concept graphic representations for the firm's commercial studio. Feliciano, a designer and project captain, has worked in the commercial and education studios. She recently led the design and completion of the master planning, renovation and addition project at The Little School in Bellevue. Mahoney has over 25 years of experience, with a background in building and zoning codes, and manages early planning and feasibility study projects for the commercial studio. Draper has spent his 21-year tenure at SMS, often leading public projects with municipal and county clients, as well as design and planning efforts in the education sector. Landa is an architect specializing in educational environment design. He is the lead architect and project manager on the addition project at Stahl Junior High School in Puyallup. Johnson is an architect working in the education studio, and is the project architect on the new addition at James Madison Middle School in West Seattle. Izquierdo is a designer and project manager working in the commercial studio; he leads residential and mixed-use projects from early design through construction closeout. Ceyhun is an architect with 20 years of experience in the design of education-sector projects; most recently, he was the project architect for the new Thomas Middle School in Lakewood and is leading a district-wide facilities study and survey for the Puyallup School District. SMS is led by Charles Strazzara, owner; Dennis Erwood, principal; and Carrie Thompson, director of operations.

Jun 09, 2021

Lund Opsahl

Parker

Schroeder

Augustine

Cyra

Capuano

Clark

Pelelo-Ray

Kerlin

Seattle-based Lund Opsahl hired Alissa Capuano, Claire Cyra, Mike Augustine and Scott Schroeder as engineers; Jason Parker, Julie Kerlin and Sam Pelelo-Ray as BIM technicians; and Margaret Clark as an administrative assistant. Capuano holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Seattle University. She began as an intern with Lund Opsahl and has been involved with the Washington State Labor and Industries/Washington State Department of Agriculture Lab and Training Center in Tumwater and the Buxton Center for Bainbridge Performing Arts. Cyra has a master's in civil engineering from the University of Washington and is working on the new UW Behavioral Health Teaching Hospital at Northwest Hospital and the mixed-use Orenda building at Othello Square in Seattle. Augustine has over 14 years of structural design and project management experience in the industry. His work at Lund Opsahl includes 16-bed and 48-bed behavioral health facilities in Centralia and Vancouver for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services and construction support services on building projects for a local high-tech client.

Schroeder holds a bachelor's in architectural engineering from Kansas State University and has four years of engineering experience. He has been on Lund Opsahl's team for the UW Softball Performance Center and the new Encompass Northwest Snoqualmie Children's Clinic. Parker has 20 years of experience, and his work at Lund Opsahl includes a new townhome project for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe in Auburn, the historic Byrd Barr Place Renovation (Fire House 23) in Seattle, and the new 100 Multnomah Office Tower in Portland. Kerlin has a studio art degree from the University of Redlands and CAD and BIM certifications from North Seattle College. She has been working on the Olympic College's Shop Building renovation, the new Covington New Life Church campus and PAWS Wildlife Campus in Snohomish. Pelelo-Ray has six years of CAD and BIM experience and is working on the Tacoma Medical Center Medical Office Building addition and upgrades for the Seattle Repertory Theatre's Bagley Wright Theatre. Clark has a bachelor's in international studies and English from Texas A&M University. Clark provides administration and marketing support and social media updates and was involved in the firm's recent website redesign. Lund Opsahl provides structural and seismic engineering services.

Magnusson Klemencic Associates

Wiley

Daniel

Rose Price

Mouras

Seattle-based Magnusson Klemencic Associates promoted Joshua Mouras to senior associate and Kelsey Rose Price, Devin Daniel and Alex Wiley to associate. Mouras' portfolio of engineering design work includes buildings as tall as 67 stories and as large as 5.5 million square feet. He was hired in 2008. His projects include the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center expansion in New York, Salesforce Tower in San Francisco and the Washington State Convention Center addition in Seattle. Price was hired in 2013. She is one of Building Design+Construction magazine's 40 Under 40 honorees for 2020, and was involved in the development of the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator, a free and open-access tool that helps identify lower embodied carbon building materials in an effort to reduce overall emissions during the design and construction of a project. Her work has included developing carbon reduction standards for Amazon and Hines, Pike Place Market MarketFront Entrance in Seattle and St. Regis Chicago in Illinois. Daniel has designed Class-A office buildings as large as 2.7 million square feet and residential towers as tall as 61 stories. He was hired in 2012 and was the design engineer for the Buckling-Restrained Mega-Braced tower at Oceanwide Center in San Francisco, and key engineer in the implementation of SpeedCore, the technology used in construction of Rainier Square Tower in Seattle. Wiley has worked on large-scale projects such as hotels, stadiums and high rise office towers in the United States and the Philippines. He joined MKA in 2014. His projects have included the Salt Lake City Convention Center Hotel Tower, and Dominion Headquarters Tower at 600 Canal Place in Richmond, Virginia. MKA is a structural and civil engineering firm.

Sazan Environmental Services

Stong

Pham

Bowen

Seattle-based Sazan Environmental Services hired Tom Bowen and Thanh Pham as commissioning engineers in the Seattle office and Julia Stong as a project coordinator in Portland. Bowen has had a 15-year career operating and maintaining Naval submarine nuclear power plant systems. His current commissioning projects include Olympia High School in Olympia, Highline High School in Des Moines, and electrical upgrades at Washington Corrections Center in Shelton. Pham holds a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Washington State University. She is currently commissioning West Woodland Elementary School in Seattle and Woodside Elementary School in Bothell, and helping with projects under the Seattle Building Tune-Up Ordinance, which mandates buildings meet energy and water efficiency measures. Stong holds a bachelor's in sociology from WSU and has worked in the AEC industry for three years. Her recent projects include the Seattle Public Schools facility condition and learning environment assessments, a value engineering study for Terminal Park Elementary School in Seattle, and a School for the Blind constructability review for the State of Washington DES. Sazan Environmental Services helps facility owners optimize infrastructure and building performance through third-party consulting services.