Engineering Prof Named to CU Leadership/RNL Names Sustainability Director/Terracon Promotes Two

Stein Sture, the Huber and Helen Croft Endowed Professor in the department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was named vice chancellor for research and dean of CU-Boulder’s graduate school this spring. 

Sture has been serving as the faculty director of special projects and initiatives in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and also served as interim vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate school from October 2005 through July 2006.   

Tim Lines, a vice president in Stantec’s Phoenix office, was recently named regional leader for the company’s mountain region, which includes offices in Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Salt Lake City.   

Charles Adkisson and Deborah Barber were named principals at Barber Architecture in Denver while Steve Cummings was named associate principal. 

Adkisson, who has been with the firm for 25 years, is director of quality control. Barber, with the firm for 29 years, is director of interior design. Cummings is a senior project architect.   

Thomas Hootman, AIA, LEED AP, was promoted to director of sustainability at RNL in Denver.   

Sue Grabler and Gary Gable joined David Evans and Associates Inc. 

JE Dunn Construction in Denver added three new people to its staff—Mark Isbell, project manager; John McClellan, M/E coordinator; and Drew Albrecht, assistant estimator.

Shane Lekwa and Todd Richards, both senior landscape architects, were named as associates at DTJ Design Inc. in Boulder.

Adam Oliver joined the Denver regional office of Brinkmann Constructors as a project engineer, while Dustin Graul was promoted to project manager.

Three new employees joined Nunn Construction Inc. in ColoradoSprings this spring—Keith Meier, business development manager; Ken Wright, project manager/estimator; and Deidra Nunn, marketing coordinator/executive assistant.

Haselden Construction inCentennial expanded its leadership by naming four new senior-level executives.

Vice Presidents Ron Ondrak, operations; Mike Sibo, preconstruction; David Lueders, finance; and Gary Thornam, business development; were each promoted to senior vice president while Byron Haselden was been promoted to vice president of preconstruction.

Five people—John Patterson, Ilse Peters, Linda Erickson, Barbara Huff and Stan Kniss—joined 1111 Tower LLC as part of the Four Seasons Private Residences sales team. Ground is scheduled to be broken late this summer on the 45-story FourSeasons Hotel andPrivate Residences Denver.

Andrew Garner, PE, was promoted to geotechnical department manager for Terracon Consultants Inc.’s Denver office while Andrei Bedoya, PE, was named manager of the firm’s Pueblo office.

MOA Architecture in Denver named two new associates—Cornell Allen, RA, project architect; and Jodi Ross, business development manager. 

Jeff Whiteman was promoted to director of the special projects group at W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. while Michael Vickers was promoted to head of sales and marketing for the division.

Three employees at Denver’s Howell Construction­–Chris Morton, Roger Smith and Katie Hoff–have been named accredited professionals by the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program.

Shannon Robbins joined the senior environments studio at Lantz-Boggio Architects inEnglewood, while Kimberly Kaye, joined LBA Interiors, a division of the architectural firm, as director of hospitality.

Richard Townsend joined Short Elliott Hendrickson Inc.’s Lakewood office. as district business development manager.

John Plattsmier, PE, joined the Denver office of HDR as national business class director of pipelines.

Sandy Stenseng joined Loris and Associates Inc. in Lafayette as a project engineer assigned to the firm’s transportation design team.

Jeff Dawson was promoted to principal at OZ Architecture.

Kevin Ashby was named design principal for Rossetti in Denver, where he is also the lead designer for the Gates redevelopment project, named Metropolitan Gardens.

Six employees of Sturgeon Electric Co. completed all requirements for certification as a construction-safety trained supervisor. They are Larry Baker, Robert Bouchard, Tracey LaForest, Matt McMahen, Erik Smith and Zach Valdez.

James Ramos, ASLA, was promoted to partner at Nuszer Kopatz in Denver.

The Decorative Concrete Council, a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors, elected Jay Fangman of Colorado Hardscapes Inc. as council director for 2007-2008 at its April board meeting in Las Vegas.

The following engineers at Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers in Lakewood have earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council: structural department engineers Stanley Welton, PE, SE, principal; Laura Kannady, PE, associate; and Nicole Ellison, PE, senior professional engineer; and the civil department’s Scott Paling, PE, senior project engineer.

Van Gilder added two new professionals to its staff—Eileen Chen Muñoz, an account executive specializing in the oil and gas practice; and Craig Nelson, CPCU, ARM, CIC, senior vice president with a primary focus on risk management strategy and implementation for the firm’s larger customers.

Stephen Jenkins, PE, joined CLC Associates Inc. in Denver as project manager in the civil engineering department.