Douglas L. Shaffer, PE, and Jaymond W. Brasher, PE, have joined the Carter & Burgess Denver transportation programs unit. They come to Carter & Burgess from Entranco Inc. in Denver.

Shaffer joins as vice president and will be promoting Carter & Burgess' comprehensive transportation services throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Brasher, a senior project manager, will lead the Denver office's municipal transportation practice, focusing on transportation planning, traffic engineering, roadway design and construction services for Colorado cities and counties.

Shaffer brings a broad background and knowledge of technical and policy issues related to transportation programs in Colorado. Shaffer was with the Colorado Department of Transportation for 29 years, including the position of director of maintenance and operations.

Brasher has 16 years of progressive project development and transportation design experience for municipalities across Colorado, CDOT, the Federal Highway Administration, Central Federal Lands, and the Departments of Transportation for Nebraska and Idaho.

Carter & Burgess has also added P. Scott Cary, PE, Paul Fiore and Anna Mauss, EIT, to the firm's Denver aviation group.

Cary is a project engineer with more than nine years of airport engineering experience, focused on airport facilities and airfield civil engineering design. His background encompasses design-build project management, civil design, resident engineering and environmental program management.

Fiore is a senior designer with 11 years of experience involving airport civil engineering design. His background includes producing grading, drainage and geometric designs; preparing engineering plans; processing raw survey data; creating and producing plan and profile sheets, typical sections, quantity calculations, engineering details, line-of-sight checks and construction cost estimates.

Mauss has more than four years of civil engineering experience involving retaining wall design; water, storm and sewer design; underground storm water detention systems; utility studies; drainage studies and due diligence studies.

Saunders Construction Inc. has announced that Mike Wood, CFM, MSM, has joined the company as the manager of project development for its health care services group. In his new position, Wood will be responsible for further expanding the company's contribution to the health care industry and will be involved in business development, pre-construction and project development activities. Wood's professional experience includes facility management, construction project management and real estate development in the health care and telecommunications industries.

Rhoads Construction Inc. has announced three new hires.

Susan Gorman has been hired as a marketing manager. She has been in the design/construction industry for 14 years.

Derek Oliver, a recent graduate of CSU's Construction Management Program, has been hired as a project engineer.

Annette Parker, a master's degree student in the CSU Construction Management program, is working in the contract administration and marketing departments.

Kirk Askelson has joined Braaksma-Himmelman Inc. as a project superintendent and safety officer. Askelson has more than 15 years of experience in the industry. He will be responsible for the Foothills Elementary School and NIST Elevator Retrofit projects.

Rainbow Electric, an electrical contractor based in Longmont, recently added Robert (Bobby) Marchetti to its management team as vice president of business development. Marchetti has more than 30 years of experience in the electrical industry around the nation, the last 11 years based in Colorado. At Rainbow, Marchetti will focus on business development activities. He has experience in estimating and coordinating design-build projects and a diverse knowledge base of the electrical industry.

Dennis J. Brookie, ASLA, has joined Valley Crest Landscape Development's Denver office as a business developer for Colorado. In his new position, Brookie will be responsible for expanding existing client services and developing new regional and national clients and accounts for Valley Crest Landscape Development and Valley Crest Landscape Maintenance. Brookie is a licensed landscape architect and has more than 15 years of landscape construction experience.

Washington Group International has announced the addition of two people to its division of survey/right-of-way and one to its environmental science division in Denver.

Bryan M. Clark, PLS, joins as a survey project manager. With 22 years of experience as a professional land surveyor, Clark is accomplished in areas of right-of-way surveys, property surveys, aerial and field topographic surveys. He received the 2002 Citizen Surveyor Award from the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado.

Shano Perez joins as a land survey technician. A recent graduate from Westwood College of Technology, Perez will assist surveyors in the field with calculations, topographic mapping, layouts and other basic duties. He is working towards receiving his professional registration.

Gary Grieve joins as GIS manager of its environmental science division. Grieve has more than 20 years of experience in geographic information systems, remote sensing, geophysical science, global positioning systems, surveying and civil engineer design.

Stantec Consulting has announced that three of their employees recently passed the Colorado professional engineering exam.

Monica Chapman, PE, is a project engineer in Stantec's land development group. She is experienced in all phases of project development, from coordination with municipal agencies and design teams to ensuring the quality completion of construction plans and reports.

Joe Smith, PE, is a project engineer in Stantec's water resources group. He has experience writing drainage reports, performing hydraulic and hydrologic calculations, designing roadways, performing site grading, along with creating exhibits and construction plans.

Kristin Tanabe, PE, is a design engineer in Stantec's land development group. She has extensive experience designing and coordinating a wide variety of projects from commercial and residential developments to arterial roadways.

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

MKK Consulting Engineers Inc. has announced that Associate Craig Watts, PE; Electrical Engineer Toby Smith, PE; and Mechanical Engineer Brian Larson, PE, have been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as LEED™-accredited professionals. LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - is the U.S. Green Building Council's rating system that provides a framework for assessing building performance and meeting sustainability goals that encompass all phases of design and construction.

Bob Thompson - founder, chairman and senior consultant of CTL/Thompson Inc. - has been elected president of ASFE, a not-for-profit trade association serving geoprofessional, environmental and civil engineering firms.

Capstone Planning & Control Inc. has announced the appointment of Steven P. Howard as its new president. As president, Howard oversee its three divisions, including construction management, enterprise project management, and project management and integration services.

Howard joined Capstone as a director of the construction management division and executive vice president in 1999. He has more than 16 years of experience in providing management, construction management and estimating services.

Conrad Grayson has joined Nuszer Kopatz as a landscape architect. With more than seven years of professional experience, Grayson has a broad range of skills and experience from projects all across the world, including master/site planning, recreational design and project management.

Agency for Architecture has announced that Brant Matthew Tate has completed the architectural registration exam and has been licensed as a Colorado architect. Tate joined Agency in 2002 and serves as a project architect in Denver.

OZ Architecture has announced the addition of eight staff members.

Project Architect Jeff Dawson comes to OZ from Carrier Johnson. Dawson is currently working on the design of the Golden West Manor independent living facility in Boulder.

Project Architect Rachel Lawrence, AIA, is working on the Snowmass Village gateway and mixed-use project. Lawrence comes to OZ from Anderson Mason Dale Architects of Denver.

Project Manager Keith G. Conrad, formerly with Klipp Colussy Jenks DuBois Architects, is working on OZ's renovation and addition projects at Lockheed Martin.

Interior Designer Carissa Fershee previously worked for Gray Design Group of Colorado. At OZ, Fershee's projects include Sheraton's Mountain Vista mixed-use project in Avon and the Sandestin Playground offices in Florida.

Interior Designer Marla Manning, formerly of Gray Design Group, is working on the Colorado State University Lory Student Center Food Court Maintenance Project for OZ. Manning is NCIDQ certified.

Project Manager Sarah Sexton comes to OZ from San Francisco. Sexton is currently working as a project manager on the University of Colorado Atmospheric Research and KeyBank projects for OZ's project delivery services division.

Construction Manager Lori Lee brings experience from several Colorado construction firms to OZ's project delivery services division.

Mike Pedrick joined OZ as a workstation administrator in the firm's Denver studio. Pedrick was formerly with Semple Brown Design, PC.

At its annual Young Architects' Award Gala held April 11, the Colorado chapter of the American Institute of Architects recognized local designer Adam Ambro with a Student Portfolio Award for a compilation of his work.

Ambro's portfolio was selected over 12 other entries and included designs he completed while enrolled at the University of Colorado at Denver's masters in architecture program; projects he has worked on while employed at Humphries Poli Architects; and paintings he has done during his free time.

Currently, Ambro is the project designer on 16 new high-end brownstone, townhome and carriage house units being developed by East West Partners in the Central Platte Valley.

Denver-based Robinson Brick Co. has announced the promotion of Bob Jaster to chief executive officer. Former CEO F. George Robinson, Jr. remains as the company's chairman of the board.

Jaster joined Robinson Brick in 1995 as the director of manufacturing. After a series of promotions, he was named president and chief operating officer in December 2000, while the company appointed Robinson chairman of the board and chief executive officer.

Englert Inc., a leading supplier of metal roofing and gutter products, has announced the promotion of a new western regional manager and the appointment of a new lead mechanic and manager of design assistance and education for contractors in the company's Denver office.

Ken McLauchlan has been promoted from Denver branch manager to western regional manager responsible for sales and customer service for 15 western states, including Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Before joining Englert, McLauchlan was an architectural roofing contractor with B&M Roofing in Boulder and with Colony Metal Inc. of Commerce City.

As an architectural sales representative, Jeffrey T. Barnard will be responsible for developing relationships and providing design assistance to design professionals in the Mountain States region. Before joining Englert, Barnard was an estimator and project manager for Southwestern Metal Systems Inc., D&D Monarch Sheet Metal Inc. and Colony Sheet Metal Inc. in Commerce City.

Joining Englert as regional service mechanic, Nathanial Roston III is a veteran service mechanic with more than 14 years of experience in manufacturing and production in the construction products industry. Roston joins Englert from Weather Guard Building Products in Denver where he served as a manufacturing manager.