Dec 18, 2019

SRG Partnership

In Seattle, SRG Partnership hired Pierce McVey as a design principal and Kenny Grist as a senior associate. In Portland, SRG hired Sohee Ryan, Eric Reynaert and Rachel Lozeau as architectural designers.

McVey has three decades of experience focusing on health care, higher education, planning and public projects, with a background in high-performance building systems and sustainable innovation. Grist is an architect with over 20 years of experience who has worked in project architect and project manager roles for education, technical and health care clients in the West. Current projects include the University of Washington IMA Pool Validation Study and the city of Seattle Municipal Courts lobby renovation.

Ryan has five years of experience in the architecture industry and has graphics and visualization skills. She is working on the Oregon State Capitol accessibility, maintenance and safety seismic upgrade and the Oregon Health & Science University aerial tram recladding. Reynaert has five years of design experience. He is working on the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station at Clatsop Community College and the Western State Hospital master plan. Lozeau has four years of industry experience and technical and graphics skills, with current work on the Oregon State Capitol upgrade. SRG provides programming, planning, architecture and interior design.

Freiheit Architecture

In Bellevue, Freiheit Architecture hired Corey Higbee, Sydney Bodman and Michael Ashinay as architectural designers and Jackie Kong as accounting manager, and promoted Dustin Thorlakson to senior project architect and Adrian Ho to project manager. Higbee has four years of experience in residential and mixed-use projects and is working on high-rise and office projects. Bodman has three years of experience and is working on office tenant improvements. Ashinay has five years of experience with a focus on mixed-use projects including podium-style and walk-up apartments, and is working on condo and mixed-use apartment projects. Kong has over nine years of experience focusing on financial statement analysis.

Thorlakson has over nine years of experience focusing on the office, restaurant, retail and mixed-use markets, and a background in project feasibility and early stage design studies. His project experience includes the 13 Coins restaurant and Avalara Hawk Tower in Seattle. He is working on four new office buildings in Kirkland. Ho has over eight years of experience in architecture, specifically in the multifamily and tribal/cultural/civic markets. He also has a background in masterplanning, project feasibility studies and land use code review. His projects include Basel Newport Townhomes and the Tulalip Bay Comprehensive Plan. Freiheit is a commercial architecture and interior design firm.

Dec 11, 2019

Land Morphology

Seattle-based Land Morphology promoted landscape architects Lindsey Heller to partner, Renee Freier to principal and Ints Luters to associate principal, and hired Greg Murphy as a senior associate, Betsy Haddox as a landscape architect, Dylan Crawford and Cara Huang as landscape designers and Kristina Koenig as a bookkeeper.

Heller joined the firm in 2013 with experience in public garden and zoo design. She is leading the Leach Botanical Garden project, now under construction in Portland. Freier was hired in 2016 and has designed parks, schools, botanic gardens and housing. She is working on commercial projects in Alaska. Luters was hired in 2018 and has a background in integrated ecological design. He has designed parks and zoos and is leading several Seattle-area private projects.

Murphy will manage private projects in the Northwest, and projects in Connecticut and New Jersey. He has managed public park and private development projects. Haddox will be project landscape architect for many of the firm's private projects. Crawford has been working on infrastructure, transportation and park projects. Huang previously designed mixed-use and streetscape projects in California. Crawford and Huang will support project teams. Besides bookkeeping, Koenig will assist with office operations. Land Morphology provides landscape architectural services.

DLR Group

In Seattle, DLR Group hired Lizzy Skolmen (architecture). The firm provides architecture, engineering, interiors, planning and building optimization for new construction, renovation and adaptive reuse.

Parametrix

Tom Swartout joined Parametrix as a senior engineer in Puyallup in the water solutions facilities group. He has over 20 years of experience as a process engineer specializing in municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment processes and infrastructure. He was with the city of Olympia providing technical planning and engineering support to its wastewater and drinking water utilities. Before that, he spent 13 years in the private sector, working for Brown and Caldwell, CH2M Hill OMI, and CH2M Hill. Parametrix provides engineering, planning and environmental sciences.