Feb 12, 2020

Weinstein A+U

Aune

Keithley

Seattle-based Weinstein A+U promoted Clint Keithley and Emily Aune to associate. Keithley has over 10 years of design experience on project types that include higher education, commercial, urban planning and performing arts. He is project manager on the La'I Loa Condominiums in Maui, Hawaii. Aune is an architect with eight years of experience on project types that include adaptive reuse, commercial, multifamily buildings and master planning. She recently completed the Ainsworth & Dunn/10 Clay apartments mixed-use project and is project manager on a new office building, both in Seattle.

Hart Crowser

Herrenkohl

Taylor

Kuiper

Dodo

Mowar

Whitman

Black

Hart Crowser hired Oscar Mowar as a geotechnical engineer and Mitchell Dodo as a geologist in Seattle, and Jennifer Kuiper as a senior associate geologist in Portland. In Honolulu, it hired JoDee Taylor as a senior associate engineer, Mark Herrenkohl as a senior associate engineering geologist and Shannon Black as an environmental scientist. In Guam, it hired Bill Whitman as an environmental scientist.

Mowar has a master's in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked on public and private tunnel, school and housing projects. Dodo has a bachelor's in geology from the University of Puget Sound. His background includes trends and patterns in lake sediment. He has also worked on residential and commercial construction projects. Kuiper is an environmental scientist with 28 years of experience providing consulting services in brownfield assessments and remedial investigations, energy facility siting, natural resources, and regulatory permitting. She supports property acquisition and divestiture.

Taylor leads the Honolulu office's growing geotechnical engineering business in Hawaii and the Pacific. She has over 18 years of experience in geotechnical design, construction, and management of private and government construction projects. Her projects include public works (roads, culverts, bridges, parks, utilities), ports (sea and air), private development, Superfund sites, and emergency response (sinkholes and post-fire erosion control). Herrenkohl returned to Hart Crowser after 29 years away. He has 31 years of experience in environmental investigation and remediation. Most recently he was solid waste program administrator for San Juan County Public Works. He has managed environmental projects in the U.S., including Superfund sites and litigation support projects. Black has a bachelor's in environmental science from the University of Washington. She has designed methods and materials for collecting microplastic particle contamination from freshwater, specifically the Puyallup River Watershed, for the Center for Urban Waters. She also processed and analyzed sediment samples collected from Lake Mead, Nevada, for microplastics for the U.S. Geological Survey. Black received the Zirzow award for her research from the National Association of Environmental Professionals.

Whitman has 11 years of environmental consulting experience; he specializes in environmental monitoring to evaluate compliance with laws and regulations. He has managed long-term monitoring projects in Hawaii and Micronesia. Since 2012, he has studied seasonal water cycles and the impacts of land-based pollution on rivers and coral reefs in Guam.

Hart Crowser is an employee-owned engineering, science and consulting firm headquartered in Seattle.

Feb 05, 2020

PCS Structural Solutions

Moore

Karimzadeh

Sharma

Thorpe

PCS Structural Solutions promoted Jonathan Thorpe to project manager in its Tacoma office and Spencer Sharma, Mona Karimzadeh and Connor Moore to project engineer in its Seattle office. Thorpe is working on Hunt Middle School for Tacoma Public Schools and Star Lake Elementary/Totem Middle School for Federal Way Public Schools. Sharma is working on Issaquah School District's Issaquah High and Issaquah Elementary and also on Swedish First Hill Campus. Karimzadeh is working on the Bellevue Memory Care Residence and recently completed 444 Ravenna Apartments in Seattle and Jefferson Flats in Tacoma. Moore is working on Issaquah High and Issaquah Elementary, Swedish First Hill, and renovations at Daniel and Meridian elementary schools for Kent School District. PCS is an 80-person structural engineering firm, with an office also in Portland.

FFA Architecture and Interiors

Jackman

Malboeuf

Villareal

Watson

Yun-Nordstrom

Portland-based FFA Architecture and Interiors hired Sonya Yun-Nordstrom, Jack Watson and Veronica Villarreal as architectural staff and Joe Malboeuf and Lara Jackman as project architects. Yun-Nordstrom holds a bachelor of arts degree in architecture from Portland State University. She has worked in architecture for almost four years and is providing design support on an office tenant improvement for the Portland Bureau of Transportation's Parking Enforcement Division and renovations for Mt. Scott Community Center. Watson holds a bachelor of arts in architecture from Portland State University. He is providing support on facilities assessments for the cities of North Plains and Tigard.

Villarreal is supporting FFA's interiors team with corporate office tenant improvement projects. Malboeuf has 14 years of industry experience. He is on the design teams of the Chemeketa Community College Agriculture Complex and the facility study for Monmouth City Hall. Jackman has seven years of experience. At FFA, she has been on the design teams for a condition assessment of Portland Parks & Recreation's historic Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and the TIs for PBOT's Parking Enforcement Division. She won AIA Portland's 2017 Chris White Scholarship for Emerging Professionals. FFA provides architecture, planning and interior design.