May 17, 2023

Allwest

Swanson

Allwest has hired a new project engineer for the firm's Hayden, Idaho, office. Nathan Swanson recently joined the firm after working more than 20 years in the geology and engineering fields. He has worked on projects in California, Oregon, Canada and the Dominican Republic as a field technician, project geologist, project engineer and senior field engineer.

Swanson most recently worked as a contract field technician with Miller Pacific Engineering Group of Novato, Calif. Swanson graduated in 2004 from Sonoma State University with a bachelor's degree in geology and chemistry. He holds a master's degree in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

BCRA

Gentry

Alisha Gentry has joined BCRA as director of operations, a new role within the firm's strategic leadership team. She will oversee internal procedures and strategies, firm finances, staffing, and general operations. She joins BCRA from B+H Advanced Strategy and brings over 21 years of operational leadership and management experience to this new role at BCRA. Gentry will be based in the Tacoma office.

PACE Engineers

Emmerson

Mealue

Kohn

Turner

Weller

Vestal

Heldstab

Wilburn

PACE Engineers, Inc. has welcomed eight new employees following the firm's recent CES|NW acquisition: Tony Weller, Eliza Turner, Paul Kohn, Ben Mealue, Fallon Emerson, Jerreme Wilburn, Jesse Heldstab and Eric Vestal.

Weller, PE, PLS, now a senior principal engineer in PACE's Municipal Department, has over 45 years of experience designing and managing numerous public and private civil engineering, construction, and surveying projects. His experience includes working in two city engineering departments and volunteer/elected positions serving the City of Tualatin and the Washington County area.

Turner joins PACE as an accounting professional. She brings over 12 years of experience with four of those being an accounting assistant. Turner manages vendors, vendor invoices, process expense reports, and more.

Kohn, PLS, joins PACE as a principal surveyor and brings over 35 years of experience in land surveying. Over 20 of those years have been in leadership roles working on public projects, private land development projects that include boundary and topographic surveys, large-scale utility surveys, ALTA surveys, and large-scale construction surveys.

Mealue, EIT, is now an engineering intern at PACE. He has over 15 years of experience in project management, design engineering, and construction. Mealue's engineering experience includes roadway, waterline, sanitary sewer, storm drainage treatment and control, grading and erosion control, and site development projects. Mealue is experienced in AutoCAD Civil 3D modeling.

Emerson joins PACE's survey team as a survey field technician. With over 19 years of experience, he has extensive knowledge in topographic mapping, construction staking, industrial surveys, boundary surveys, quality control and monitoring.

Wilburn also joins PACE's survey team as a survey field technician and licensed drone pilot with over 26 years of survey experience. He is proficient in topographical surveys, ALTA surveys, condominium surveys, horizontal and vertical control surveys, construction staking, boundary, and GPS Control surveys.

Heldstab, is now a survey technician at PACE. He brings over 12 years of land surveying experience and is a registered drone pilot. He is proficient with boundary surveys, topographic surveys, construction staking, corner restorations, legal description writing, and GPS and RTK surveys.

Vestal also joins PACE as a survey field technician and brings over 16 years of land surveying experience. Vestal's main responsibilities will be managing a field crew, maintaining, and calibrating equipment to ensure the gathering of good data, and overseeing that data is transferred to the project managers. On the project sites, he will determine how to best complete the task and what equipment to use. Vestal is proficient in construction staking, survey practices, GPS, Trimble data collectors, and total stations.

Parametrix

Aderiye

Elder

Tait Elder, RPA has joined Parametrix as a senior consultant. He is a Secretary of the Interior qualified archaeologist with almost two decades of cultural resources experience spanning across the Western United States.

Elder comes to Parametrix from ICF where he most recently served as principal archaeologist and Pacific Northwest transportation sector lead. Elder has served as principal investigator on over 150 cultural resources studies in the Pacific Northwest since 2012 for agencies such as Snohomish County, Washington State Department of Transportation, City of Seattle, and King County Metro. At Parametrix, he will build cultural resources capacity and expertise for the Greater Washington environmental planning and compliance team.

Tope Aderiye, PMP has joined Parametrix as a senior planner. He has over 15 years of project management experience working in telecommunications, information technology, civil infrastructure, construction, and public utility environments.

Aderiye comes to Parametrix from Program Management & Controls Services. He is a Certified Project Management Professional and holds a master's certificate in project management. Aderiye has worked with clients such as the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Department of Aviation. At Parametrix, he joins the firm's Strategic Advisory Services group which offers business advisory, owner's advisory, and delivery advisory services to clients across the Western United States.

Linda Gehrke has joined Parametrix as a principal consultant based in Seattle. She has over three decades of experience working in the public transportation industry, providing planning, environmental, and cartography services across Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Gehrke is the former Regional Administrator for Region 10 of the Federal Transit Administration and spent over 15 years working for the United States Department of Transportation as a Community Planner and Deputy Regional Administrator. She holds a Master of Public Administration and a degree in geography with a concentration in cartography, environmental sciences, and planning.

At Parametrix, she joins the firm's strategic advisory services practice with an emphasis on transit clients, Tribal nations, and other public agencies throughout the Western United States.

May 10, 2023

Mahlum

Park

Felver

Dunnam

Gordon

Mayo

Zhang

Joseph Mayo has been elevated to associate principal. Since joining Mahlum in 2008, Mayo has been an advocate for the use of mass timber in the design and construction industry and has been involved with pushing local jurisdictions to allow mass timber construction.

In 2010, he applied for and was awarded the AIA Seattle traveling scholarship which led him to Europe to learn more about mass timber design. That experience helped guide him as he authored the book, Solid Wood: Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design, published in 2015. He has worked on over a dozen mass timber projects including the Capitol Campus Childcare Center in Olympia, Washington (Mahlum's first Net Zero CLT project); a multi-story, K-12 CLT prototype grant with the United States Forest Service; and he assisted in pushing for Alki Elementary School to be Seattle Public Schools' first three-story mass timber school.

Mayo has also served on local and national AIA committees, co-authored a research paper exploring the economic viability of tall wood buildings, and assisted in teaching mass timber courses. He has worked with the City of Seattle Department of Planning and Development, and Washington State non-profit Forterra to lead investigations into the use of CLT in the building industry.

As Chair of Forterra's Building Code and Regulations Action Team, Mayo helped to successfully pass new building codes in Washington State that now recognize mass timber as a construction type, allowing up to 18 stories of CLT building. He was also a founder of the AIA Seattle Mass Timber Committee and is currently a past co-chair.

Mayo holds a Master of Architecture from University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from University of Washington.

Andrew Weller-Gordon has been elevated to associate. With over seven years of architectural experience, Weller-Gordon has played an integral part in the modernization of Grant High School for Portland Public Schools. Throughout the four-year process of this large, complex project, he contributed to conceptual design, coordination, and technical development, then followed the project from construction to completion. This positioned him as a critical force on Edison Elementary School for the Eugene School District; Legacy High School/Hollingsworth Academy/Archway Academy alternative learning campus for Evergreen Public Schools, and more recently as a team member for the Graduate Housing project at Oregon State University.

Weller-Gordon volunteers for the Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Architects in Schools program and is an active member of Mahlum's Construction Administration Support Group.

He received his Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Rochester. He is a registered Architect in the State of Oregon.

Brett Dunnam has been elevated to associate. Joining Mahlum four years ago, Dunnam has 10 years of architectural project experience. Dunnam took on substantial roles in the designs of Wy'east Middle School for Evergreen Public Schools, and the Samaritan Sweet Home Health Center project. He is currently lead designer for the Benton County Crisis Resource Center, located in Corvallis, Oregon.

He helps lead Mahlum's internal design efforts through the organization of individual project and firm-wide design reviews. He has volunteered for the Architecture Foundation of Oregon's Architects in Schools and as a reviewer for the University of Oregon and Portland State University.

Dunnam received his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design. He is a registered architect in the State of Oregon.

Katie Felver has been elevated to associate. With 12 years of experience, Felver works closely with design teams and consultants to minimize the impact buildings might have on occupant health, well-being, and the environment.

Since joining Mahlum in 2016, she has been involved in a variety of projects. At Lacamas Lake Elementary School for the Camas School District, Felver helped create a nature-centric learning environment, connecting children to the natural world through biophilic design. For the DeJardin Hall Science Addition at Clackamas Community College, she partnered with science faculty members to explore their passion to display science throughout the building as teaching moments, resulting in prominent installations such as a beluga whale skeleton and large-scale molecular structures. For her most recent effort at Edison Elementary School for the Eugene School District, she focused on designing a building that equitably supports students from all socio-economic backgrounds.

Felver leads Mahlum's Embodied Carbon Strategy Workshop and organizes Mahlum's Project Sustainability Leads meetings. She also helped create a tool kit that design teams use to reduce their projects' environmental impacts. Outside of Mahlum, she is a member and co-lead of the Carbon Leadership Forum Portland Hub.

Felver holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Ball State University. She is a registered architect in Oregon and a LEED accredited professional

Mariko Park has been elevated to associate. With 15 years of experience as an interior designer, Park advocates for community-based projects, including educational and historic preservation. Her talent and expertise serve multiple project types across the firm. In her current role on the Alki Elementary School replacement project for Seattle Public Schools, she is leading interior design efforts centering an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens from the design process that will translate into the final building design, helping to ensure the new school will successfully serve its intended community.

Park is an active member of Mahlum's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Continuing Education Committee and in service to historic preservation, she is a council member with Historic Seattle.

She is currently a candidate for Master of Design Studies in Historic Preservation from Boston Architectural College. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design from California State University, Sacramento. She is NCIDQ certified, a Certified Interior Designer in California, and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Sunny Dongyue Zhang has been elevated to associate. Joining Mahlum in 2017, Dongyue Zhang has over eight years of architectural experience. She helps project teams advance innovative and unique solutions for PreK-12 educational facilities and leads the effort to select healthy building materials with little to no toxic ingredients.

Dongyue Zhang was a lead team member in the creation of a master plan framework for The Northwest School in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and she deftly resolved technical details during construction at Seattle Girls' School new south Seattle campus. She leads Mahlum's involvement with the Gibson Ek High School internship program where she mentors students who are interested in a career in architecture. Under her leadership, students shadow project teams, then perform parallel projects with them, or work independently on their own small pursuits.

Dongyue Zhang has a Master of Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from University of Minnesota. She is a registered architect in Washington.

MKA

Lang

Kuo

Hasselbauer

Diggs

Carroll

Kuntz

Chen

Burns

Strandquist

Magnusson Klemencic Associates announced the promotion of nine employees to BIM director, senior associate, and associate positions.

Kevin Carroll, Autodesk CP, AIA, has been promoted to BIM director. Carroll has 35 years of experience as an AEC professional. He is a licensed architect and a past adjunct professor at Pierce College, where he taught Revit and 3D modeling courses.

Jennifer Diggs, Jeremy Hasselbauer, Amy Kuo, Alex Lang, and Brad Strandquist have been promoted to senior associate.

Diggs manages residential and high-rise designs, projects in areas of high seismicity, and is currently working on a significant new addition to the University of California Berkeley campus.

Hasselbauer is a resource for MKA's high-rise building designs in high-seismic and wind-governed regions. He was instrumental in delivering the 200 Park project in San Jose — the second building in the world to incorporate the innovative SpeedCore system.

Kuo specializes in office campus projects offering unique design solutions based on her diversity of experience in steel, concrete, and timber designs.

Lang provides a meticulous implementation of MKA's structural designs with a laser focus on quality documentation and quality assurance of construction.

Strandquist is crucial to MKA's work in the Philippines, leading many successful high-rise projects, consistently demonstrating his ability to collaborate and his specialized knowledge of Performance-Based Seismic Design.

Patrick Burns, Mandy Chen and Kevin Kuntz have been promoted to associate.

Burns routinely delivers the highest-quality design solutions to clients.

Chen has experience on numerous office buildings and life science developments and offers outstanding project management and technical leadership to all her projects.

Kuntz works out of MKA's Chicago office delivering right-fit design solutions to his projects by providing designers and contractors with a specialized understanding of steel structures and lower embodied carbon processes and materials.