Industry Veteran Joins Shaw's Western Slope Office/Heisler Elected Carter & Burgess Principal/Monroe & Newell Add Four

Larry Fickel is the new construction manager for Shaw Construction's Western Division, where he is responsible for the company's projects between Grand Junction and the Vail Valley.

Industry veteran Larry Fickel joined Shaw Construction as construction manager of the firm's Western Slope Division. Based in Grand Junction, Fickel oversees the division's field construction activities, including planning, scheduling and project management for all projects located between Grand Junction and the Vail Valley.

Monte Robinett was named the new chief operating officer for CFC Construction Inc. in Golden. His responsibilities include overseeing the company's preconstruction and operations departments.

Senior Structural Engineer Patrick Farrell, PE, joined CASE Forensics, formerly Schaefer Engineering Corp., in Golden.

Farrell's duties include investigating the cause and nature of structural and building envelope failures and providing expertise in structural rehabilitation, shoring and construction defect investigations.

S. A. Miro Inc. has promoted three people in its structural engineering department. Brandon Warren, PE, and Dan Balmer, PE, were named project engineers; Erich Bretz was promoted to Design Engineer II..

Andrew Patapoff and Anna Olson have been appointed as associates at the Denver office of IA Interior Architect.

Pam and Dave Keller of Keller Homes were named "Industry Persons of the Year" at the Colorado Springs Home Builders Association's annual gala in January.

Eric Bunce of The RMH Group passed the professional engineer's exam, becoming a licensed electrical engineer in Colorado.

Englewood's Lantz-Boggio Architects announced five promotions earlier this year. Vicki Stone and MaryLou Parham were named principals; Mark Baker and Paul Bormann were named senior associates; and Syed Mayraj Peer was named associate.

The firm also made several additions - Peter Adams, project architect; Stacey Rose, project coordinator; David Bosley, project manager; Rebekah Pesce, intern architect; and Bill Parker, Peter Melander and Matt Brinkman, CAD technicians.

Two SlaterPaull Architects staffers have become licensed architects - Gwen Gilley and John Pettit.

OZ Architecture added five staff members to the firm - architect Erich Hill and architectural interns Blake Guyer, Marcel Van Garderen, Lindsey Miller and Michael Six.

Denver-based M-E Engineers Inc. announced these promotions: Art Smith, principal; Brian Kannady, Shane Lazaroff and Michael Wallace, senior associate; and Steve Ferguson and Leonard Gurule, associate. Also, Xia Fang, a mechanical project engineer, is now a licensed professional engineer.

H+L Architecture recently promoted several staffers - Kent Freed, Ken Dabbs, Adam Braunstein, Curtis Hendershott and Gil Hack - to associate.

Accurate EngiSurv's Darron Agawa received his professional engineer's license. Agawa has been with Accurate for two years and is working on the Bear Creek Terrace and Northlands projects.

Jennifer Heisler, AICP, was elected a principal of Carter & Burgess, with Jim Fluhr, PE, and J.D. Ingram, PE, named associate principals and Ryan Edwards, PE, Dan Heilig, Danielle Smith, PE, Mark Talvitie, PE, and Jim Trott, PE, named associates.

David Glater, PE, and Nan-Ping Hsieh, PE, were named principals in CTL/Thompson's Denver office.

Harris Kocher Smith has added traffic engineering and expanded its municipal engineering, transportation engineering and construction services, resulting in a promotion and new hiring.

Josh Barrett, PE, was promoted to manage and develop the firm's municipal engineering and construction disciplines while Michael Kibbee, PE, PTOE, joined the firm to manage and expand the traffic and transportation disciplines.

Phil Fowler joined Quality Electric Inc. in Thornton as chief financial officer and controller.

Also, President Rex Wiederspahn was reappointed as a member of the Associated Builders and Contractors' national government affairs coordination committee.

Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc. added four new people to its staff in Denver - Lauren Grenz and Gregory Leuchtmann, structural engineers; Sally DiScuillo, executive assistant; and Winston Schultz, CAD technician.

Brian Nicholson joined the Denver's studioINSITE as a landscape architect. Before joining the landscape architecture and urban design firm, Nicholson was owner, operator and principal designer of a landscape design-build firms.

Lisa Ferlita and Mark Morton joined Alliance Construction Solutions LLC in Loveland. Ferlita is a senior project manager; Morton is a construction executive.

Brianna Rhyne joined Denver's Kieding Office Architects as an interior designer, where she assists project managers with various production and interior design tasks.