Vince Van Heukelem recently began his new position as the CEO of Colorado Hardscapes Inc. Vince was welcomed at a party in his honor on March 31. His father, Calvin Van Heukelem, passed the title to his son after holding it himself since Colorado Hardscapes' incorporation in 1978.

Wendell Van Heukelem, Calvin's father, began the company in 1947 with one truck servicing the Denver Metro area. Calvin worked with his father and eventually took over Van Heukelem Concrete, as it was then called.

Calvin expanded the company into Colorado's leading concrete contractor with seven divisions of concrete, including architectural concrete paving, premium floors, decorative walls and custom rock as well as a full-service standard concrete division. Under Calvin's direction, Colorado Hardscapes now boasts Colorado's only Concrete Design Center at 8085 E. Harvard Ave. in Denver.

Calvin Van Heukelem will retain ownership of Colorado Hardscapes and remains chairman of the board for now. His role is still being determined by the needs of Colorado Hardscapes.

Vince Van Heukelem grew up in the business, has studied civil engineering and is a licensed professional engineer.

John Frey has joined Kwal Paint Co. as its new architectural representative. He is responsible for working with architects throughout Colorado in writing paint specifications and other support services.

Frey has experience working with architects, suppliers and contractors from his previous position with the Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill Construction, where he worked for 14 years.

Kwal Paint, owned by Professional Paint Inc., has been a leading supplier of commercial and residential coatings for more than 50 years. Frey works out of the Denver factory at 3900 Joliet St. and can be reached at 303-307-2123.

HWS has added Ben Tuthill to its staff. Tuthill is providing technical assistance on asbestos and other environmental projects. He has a BS in environmental science from the University of Vermont.

J.E. Dunn Construction has announced that Matt Vineyard has received his Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design professional accreditation. Vineyard has been a project manager with the company for four years in Colorado Springs.

LEED-accredited professionals are experienced building industry practitioners with knowledge of integrated design. The accreditation program recognizes expertise in green building and LEED to help meet the growing demand in the industry. Vineyard's achievement gives J.E. Dunn additional flexibility to offer its clients certified environmentally sound services. There are currently six LEED accredited professionals in the company.

The LEED Green Building Rating System is a consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance buildings. LEED provides a complete framework for assessing building performance by emphasizing state-of-the-art strategies for sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality. A LEED Green Building provides reduced energy consumption and protection of ecosystems and occupant health.

Kirkham Michael Consulting Engineers has hired William Archdeacon, PE, PLS, to manage its land development division in Colorado.

Archdeacon has 30 years of design experience in the residential, commercial and industrial development markets. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
Archdeacon currently serves as chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers' Urban Drainage Standards Committee.

Ware Malcomb has announced that Kerri Wilson has been promoted from director of finance and administration to chief financial officer.

Wilson has been with the firm for more than 10 years and has made a significant contribution to the growth and evolution of the company, which currently has over 100 employees and five offices. Wilson has substantial experience in business management, finance, operations, administration and marketing.

As CFO, Wilson will help provide executive oversight, vision and support for the accounting, finance, human resources and administration departments in the firm. She will also provide support to the president and CEO in the financial, planning and strategic direction of the firm.

HDR Engineering Inc. has announced the promotion of Mary Kay Provaznik to water and wastewater section manager.

Provaznik, who has nearly a decade of experience in the engineering industry, has been a project manager and engineer for both local and national projects. Her areas of expertise include water and wastewater master planning, water supply planning, risk assessment, hydraulic engineering, water resources and modeling.

Since joining HDR in 1997, Provaznik has worked on such high-profile projects as the Rio Grande Decision Support System and the Newport News Regional Water Supply Assessment.
Locally, she has provided engineering services to clients such as the City of Westminster, Colorado Springs Utilities, Eagle River Water and Sanitation District, City of Aurora and Denver International Airport.

In her role as section manager, Provaznik will be responsible for the day-to-day management of 21 engineering professionals and support staff, as well as quality control of all projects and overall strategic direction for the group.

She is currently a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association, American Water Resources Association and the Colorado Association of Flood Plain Managers.

Quality Electric Inc. has announced that company President and CEO Rex Wiederspahn has been re-appointed to the Westminster City Council Planning Commission. Wiederspahn will help review plans for growth and new development in the city. It is a two-year term, expiring December 2004.

Structural Engineer Steve Dominic, PE, and Sr. Civil Structural Engineer Ajay Goyal, PE, are two recent additions to URS Corp.'s Denver office. Dominic and Goyal will be key members of the dams team within the geo/civil engineering group.

Dominic's experience is in analysis and design of hydraulic structures. His areas of expertise include concrete dam static and dynamic stability analysis, finite element analysis, design and preparation of drawings and cost estimates at conceptual and final design levels.

His initial focus with URS involves the structural design of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Orangeburg Dam in South Carolina.

Goyal specializes in analysis and design of structures in commercial, industrial, municipal, mining, petrochemical and water resources. His work has involved conducting frame and finite element analysis of complex structures, analysis and design of heavy steel and concrete structures, foundations, retaining walls, conveyor belts, hydraulic structures and buildings.

Currently, Goyal is designing a new intake tower and a labyrinth weir for the spillway at Elkhead Reservoir for the Colorado Division of Wildlife. He is also conducting a stability analysis of Rush Dam for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Oklahoma. In addition, Goyal is assisting the URS facilities group with a pond liner design at Lowry and a fleet maintenance facility design for La Plata County.

Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers recently promoted the following individuals in its civil and structural divisions:

Windy Marshall has been promoted to CAD I;

Estrella Bernal has been promoted to CAD II;

Robert (Skip) Cromley and Neil Luckinbill have been promoted to designer;

Britton Evans, Phillip Krieble, Jeremy Montrose, Daniel Sutter and Stephen Taylor have been promoted to EIT II;

Brian Dummer, PE, and Scott Paling, PE, have been promoted to project engineer;

Brent Leu, PE, David Schroeder, PE, and Pontus Ugander, PE, have been promoted to professional engineer;

Kevin Dunham, PE, has been promoted to investigative engineer; and
Joseph Coco, PE, Andre Schlappe, PE, Patricia Sullivan, PE, and Mark Thornbrough, PE, have been promoted to senior project engineer.

Klipp Colussy Jenks DuBois Architects has announced the promotion of Keat Tan to associate principal.

In addition to his new position, Tan is the director of design at KCJD. Tan graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's of architecture degree in 1981. He joined the firm in 2002 after working in Asia and New York City for more than 20 years for firms including Michael Graves & Associates in Princeton, N.J.

He brings a portfolio of international design work to the firm, with experience in large-scale, mixed-use urban projects and specializing in higher education facilities, cultural arts centers, libraries, corporate headquarters and interior design. His award-winning designs have been featured in Interior Design Magazine and he has been honored with the 2001 Award of Excellence for Interior Architectural Design for IsBank in Istanbul, Turkey.

Since joining KCJD, Keat has acted as lead designer for a variety of projects, including the Colorado Convention Center Hotel, The Shops at Dove Valley, Denver School of Science and Technology, Aspen Country Day School and Colorado Academy's Chowdry Middle School.

Farnsworth Group Inc. has announced the addition of Lance A. Stewart, PE, CEM, to its Denver office.

Stewart is an electrical engineer with 25 years of experience in design and construction of a broad range of facilities. He is a registered professional engineer in 18 states and is also a certified energy manager. Stewart will be an engineering manager in the facilities, science and technology group.

The Colorado Springs office of Farris Engineering Inc. has announced the appointment of Malisa L. Martinez as director of marketing. Martinez has more than six years of experience in the construction industry with an emphasis on marketing.

Reese Engineering, an architectural engineering and lighting design firm, has announced the recent accomplishment of Mark J. Harrington and Mark D. Layfield in attaining the status of professional engineer.

Harrington is a plumbing systems and HVAC engineer and has been with Reese Engineering for more than two years.

Layfield is an electrical engineer and brings strong lighting design expertise to the firm. Further, Layfield was recently promoted to associate, which recognizes his commitment to the overall company mission.

Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers has announced that Jack E. Petersen, PE, a principal of the firm, has passed the State of Utah professional engineers exam.

Petersen has been a structural engineer with Martin/Martin for 19 years and in addition to his Utah professional engineering license, he is also a registered professional engineer in Colorado and North Carolina.

Petersen currently leads the firm's special projects group, a team of professionals who focus on performing structural engineering services on functional, engineering-driven projects. Team members are trained to apply a multi-disciplinary approach to project management design and coordination. Martin/Martin's special projects group provides custom design-build steel frames and steel connection design on a national basis.

Sink Combs Dethlefs has announced the promotion of Christopher Kastelic to principal of the firm. Kastelic has built a strong reputation with Sink Combs Dethlefs as an outstanding designer and leader. He joined the firm in 1994.

Since joining Sink Combs Dethlefs, Kastelic has worked on the award-winning Fort Lewis College Student Life Center, the Fort Lupton Recreation Center and Study, the Green Valley Ranch Recreation Center, the Charles Whitlock Recreation Center in Lakewood and the newly renovated Rainbow Ballroom, which now serves as the firm headquarters at 475 Lincoln St. in Denver.

Land Architects Inc. recently hired Brent Ruple as a designer.

Ruple, a recent graduate of the University of Arkansas, will work closely with team leaders on detail design and landscape architecture projects. He is currently working on detail design for Lutheran High School of the Rockies and landscape architecture for the Greater Brighton Fire District.

CTC-Geotek Inc., a consulting geotechnical engineering and construction materials testing company, has named Robert Scavuzzo, PE, president of the firm.

Scavuzzo is a registered professional engineer in Colorado and Wyoming. He has been in the geotechnical engineering, construction materials testing and quality assurance fields for 20 years and has presented and published papers dealing with geotechnical laboratory and field testing, stone cladding anchorage systems, concrete behavior, soil-cement construction control and earthquake modeling using a geotechnical centrifuge.

Scavuzzo is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Testing and Materials, American Concrete Institute, Colorado Association of Geotechnical Engineers and the Jefferson County Engineering Advisory Board.

Redwine-Reizian Inc. has announced the promotion of John Brunner to associate.

Brunner has been with the firm since 1996 and has acted as the senior project engineer on several of the company's larger projects. He has also been instrumental in the development of the firm's Intranet, which links users to a detailed library of engineering and CAD software, plus Web-based resources.

The RMH Group has announced that Mechanical Engineer Tom Macleod, PE, recently passed the LEEDTM accreditation examination. LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the U.S. Green Building Council's rating system for certifying high-performance, sustainable buildings.

RMH is currently providing LEED consulting and certification services, in addition to design, for the Byron Rogers U.S. Courthouse renovation in Denver, the Bureau of Land Management's Rawlins field office in Wyoming, and an environmental and water quality laboratory in Colorado Springs.

The Byron Rogers renovation is one of 50 projects nationwide to test the prototype "LEED for Existing Buildings" program. Once certified, the Rawlins field office will be the first LEED Gold building in Wyoming and the first BLM Gold-rated facility. RMH is using the Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria, which will soon be adapted as the LEED for Laboratories Application Guide, for the Colorado Springs laboratory.

RMH is also providing LEED consulting and certification services for the new U.S. District Courthouse in Salt Lake City.

Robert "Bob" Mattucci recently joined Kiewit Construction Co. as area president of building operations in the Rocky Mountain region for Kiewit's midwest building district.

A noted 25-year construction veteran in the Denver area, Mattucci has been instrumental in the construction of many Colorado projects such as the Denver West Village and Main Street Station Resort in Breckenridge.

Mattucci's responsibilities are to oversee all day-to-day activities of commercial building and business development.

Mattucci brings significant experience in executive management in Colorado to Kiewit. This experience in the building industry includes positions in manufacturing, heavy highway, mining and commercial construction.

During his career, he has been involved in nearly $1 billion of projects throughout Colorado for clients such as The City and County of Denver, United Airlines, Safeway, East West Partners and others.

Mattucci is currently treasurer of the Jefferson Economic Council and represents JEC as a member of the Transit Alliance Action Fund. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the Southeast Business Partnership.

Mattucci holds an MBA from the University of Denver and is a member of its Burns Counselor Board. Before joining Kiewit, Mattucci was executive vice president of the Colorado division of Skanska USA Building.

Julia R. Crawmer, a 15-year veteran of the real estate industry, has been named director of real estate for Hall-Irwin Corp., a Greeley-based full-service real estate development and construction company.

As Hall-Irwin's top real estate broker, Crawmer will represent Hall-Irwin and its related entities in the sale of platted and approved residential lots, residential and commercial land, and the sale and leasing of commercial/industrial real estate.

Before joining Hall-Irwin, Crawmer was an associate broker for McWhinney Enterprises, where she was responsible for the marketing, selling and leasing of commercial and investment real estate, land and water, within McWhinney development communities.

Hall-Irwin is developing several master-planned communities in Weld County, including Centennial Crossing in Milliken, Greenspire in Windsor, Booth Farm in Firestone and Berryman Farm in Kersey.

Wells Fargo Bank recently named the following new officers across the state.

Named vice president were Greg K. Gorze, Colorado Springs; Millie R. Kitchen, Greenwood Village; Gretchen Middents, corporate trust; Pamela C. Miller, Wheat Ridge; Virginia C. Redmon, institutional trust group; and Marybell Trujillo, Greenwood Village.

Named assistant vice president were Kathleen J. Jahrman, treasury management; and Suzanne M. Pitrusu, Aurora.

Named officer were Brenda Duntsch, Centennial; Tara Townsend, institutional trust group; and Joanne S. West, Greenwood Village.