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.

Betacom

Betacom was named the winner of a Gold Stevie Award in the Best Business Technology Pivot category in The 21st Annual American Business Awards. All organizations operating in the United States are eligible to submit nominations for the American Business Awards. Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word meaning “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners in New York on June 13th. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Thought Leader of the Year, and App of the Year, among others. Betacom is the first-time winner in a first-time category – Best Business Technology Pivot. Betacom was established in 1991 as a wireless infrastructure provider to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. Having completed more than 800 large-scale design and deployment projects, Betacom saw an opportunity to pivot its business model to embrace the end-to-end delivery and deployment of high speed, low latency networks using private 4G/5G technology for future-looking Industry 4.0 initiatives such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and AR/VR. In addition, Betacom's customer Teltech Group won a Silver Stevie for Minority-Owned Business of the Year. More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Bellevue, Betacom has regional offices throughout the country.

T-Mobile

Bellevue-based T-Mobile US announced that T-Mobile USA, its direct wholly-owned subsidiary, plans to offer, subject to market and other conditions, senior notes in a registered public offering. T-Mobile USA intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include among other things, share repurchases and refinancing of existing indebtedness on an ongoing basis. Barclays Capital, Citigroup Global Markets, Goldman Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities are the joint book-running managers for the offering of the notes. The Issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the offering of the notes. These documents are available by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

May 09, 2023

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates

Carruthers

Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, the largest winery in the Pacific Northwest, appointed Robert Carruthers as the new vice president, East Region. In this role Carruthers will lead the company's sales organization in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, and South Carolina. Carruthers comes to Ste. Michelle with two-plus decades in the wine industry. Most recently he served as a senior vice president for national/strategic accounts for Foley Family Wines. Previously, he served in leadership roles at Terlato Wines, as well as E&J Gallo Winery. Carruthers replaces Derek VanTine who was recently named vice president of customer marketing for Ste. Michelle. The Ste. Michelle Wine Estates portfolio includes: Chateau Ste. Michelle, 14 Hands, Columbia Crest, Col Solare and Spring Valley Vineyard from Washington; A to Z, Erath, and REX HILL from Oregon; Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and Patz & Hall from Napa and Sonoma, respectively; Marchesi Antinori of Italy; and Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte of France.

Banner Bank

Newsweek named Banner Bank as one of America's Most Trustworthy Companies 2023. This list is compiled by Newsweek, in collaboration with market research partner Statista, a statistics portal and industry ranking provider. Mark Grescovich is president and CEO of Walla Walla-based Banner Bank. America's Most Trustworthy Companies were identified in an independent survey based on a sample of U.S. residents who rated companies they know in terms of three touchpoints of trust: customer trust, investor trust, and employee trust. A total of 95,000 evaluations were submitted. All U.S. public and private companies with more than $500 million in revenue were considered in the study. Newsweek and Statista teams selected the most trustworthy companies across 23 industries. In the banking industry category, Banner ranked seventh of the 37 companies that made this year's list.

Washington Federal

Washington Federal, Inc., the parent company of Washington Federal Bank, and Luther Burbank Corporation, the parent company of Luther Burbank Savings, jointly announced that at special meetings of their respective shareholders held on May 4, 2023, Washington Federal shareholders approved the issuance of shares of Washington Federal's common stock to the shareholders of Luther Burbank pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, (The Merger Agreement), dated as of November 13, 2022, and Luther Burbank's shareholders approved the Merger Agreement, the merger of Luther Burbank with and into Washington Federal, with Washington Federal as the surviving corporation. The final results on the proposals voted on at the special meetings of each company's shareholders will be set forth in the companies' separate Form 8-Ks to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after certification by each company's inspector of election. The consummation of the Merger remains subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of required regulatory approval. Washington Federal is headquartered in Seattle, and has 199 branches in eight western states. Washington Federal conducts its business primarily through its wholly-owned subsidiary, WaFd Bank. Luther Burbank is headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, and operates 10 full service branches in California, 1 full service branch in Washington, and several loan production offices located throughout California.

Lydig Construction

Burton

Katie Burton is the new chief financial officer at Lydig Construction. Burton, a CPA, served as controller at Lydig for five years before her promotion. She graduated from the University of Idaho and has over 20 years of experience in accounting and finance. Prior to joining Lydig, Burton spent 15 years at Moss Adams, specializing in audit before transitioning to tax accounting. She replaces Mark Bray, who retired at the beginning of the year after 28 years as CFO. Lydig has offices in Bellevue, Spokane and Kennewick.

UMC

Golden

Hookfin

Gough

Weaver

Di Cristina

Mechanical contractor UMC recently added several employees to various departments within the company. In the Marketing Department, Ashley Di Cristina joined as a marketing specialist. Di Cristina focuses on a variety of marketing efforts including the pursuit and proposal process, client relationship management, event coordination, award submittals and marketing collateral development. In the Major Projects Group, Elijah Seenandan joined as a project engineer. Seenandan assists in coordinating with the field, communicating with vendors, creating and documenting submittals, conducting diagnostic tests on mechanical systems, and quality control and assurance on jobsites. Aubrey Weaver joined the Purchasing Department as an administrative assistant, where she provides administrative support and organizational oversight. In the Special Projects Group, Hailee Gough joined as a project engineer and Tracy Hookfin as a project coordinator. Gough supports the project and account managers with coordinating communication, and creating and documenting submittals. Hookfin supports teams by defining and executing project frameworks. In the Industrial Group, Minhkennedy “Minh” Pham joined as a project engineer and JB Gearheard joined as a project manager. Pham assists in coordinating with the field, communicating with vendors, providing estimating support, and maintaining and creating project documentation. Gearheard is responsible for coordinating project teams delivering efficient HVAC and plumbing systems. New to the Facility Services Group are Joe Golden, customer service representative, and Emily Jones, operations coordinator. Golden develops and maintains client relationships across all markets in the greater Seattle area. Jones provides administrative and project support for UMC's customer service and dispatch teams. Brandon Thompson, PE, LEED AP, joined the Engineering Department as a lead engineer. Thompson is responsible for mentoring junior engineers while delivering detailed engineering plans.

Clark Construction

Dykeman

Bond

Kellen Bond and Chris Dykeman will be promoted at the end of next month to key leadership positions at Clark Construction, as founder and President Rachele Turnbull retires. Bond will become president and Dykeman will become vice president of construction. Bond joined Clark in 2014 and has over 17 years of construction industry experience. He worked his way up in the company, from project manager, superintendent, project principal, and vice president of construction. Dykeman joined Clark in February 2022 after spending 50 years in the construction industry on the East Coast, where he worked on medical facilities, laboratories, educational campuses, factories and food processing plants, high-rise buildings, bridges and railroads. He holds a bachelor's degree in business management and is a licensed Master Electrician. Clark is headquartered on Bainbridge Island, with a satellite office in Sequim. The company has nearly 100 employees and a projected annual volume over $50 million. It builds commercial, multifamily and custom residential, with a special interest in affordable housing and sustainable building practices.

Absher Construction Co.

Puyallup-based Absher Construction Co. opened an office in Wenatchee at 123 Easy St. that serves projects throughout central and eastern Washington and Oregon. The office's current projects include the Chelan PUD Service Center, Confluence Technology Center demolition and salvage, The River Academy, and the new Wenatchee Valley YMCA. Senior project manager Aaron Binger is leading the Wenatchee office, with a focus on health care, educational, public works, recreational and tribal projects. The office operates independently, while having full support and resources from company headquarters. Absher says Wenatchee was picked for the office due to its central location. Absher has been building in the region for over 10 years.