W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. of Colorado has announced the following recent promotions in its Colorado office.

Todd Guthrie, former vice president, has been promoted to president. Guthrie founded the Colorado office of W.E. O'Neil and has continually headed local operations since its inception in early 1999. His new responsibilities include all Colorado operations, estimating, customer relations and marketing.

Jeff Strom has been promoted to vice president of business development. Strom joined W.E. O'Neil nearly two years ago after a 15-year association with a Denver national retail contractor, serving as its senior vice president of sales. Strom will focus his efforts on expanding opportunities in O'Neil's core industries of experience, including retail, office/high tech, health care, institutional, hospitality and multi-family.

Clark Bender, W.E. O'Neil's chief estimator, has been promoted to company secretary and treasurer. After a number of years in the estimating department of a large Front Range general contractor, Bender joined Guthrie in founding the new Colorado office of W.E. O'Neil. Bender will continue his chief estimating duties while assuming the responsibilities of secretary/treasurer.

John Cracraft has been promoted to director of special projects. Cracraft is another founding member of the local W.E.O'Neil office. His special projects focus is on clients with smaller projects and on-demand construction needs in the high-tech, defense contractor and property management industries.

Gary Truesdale has been promoted to project executive. He came to W.E. O'Neil last year after gaining 20 years of construction experience. Truesdale will focus on large project management and mentoring O'Neil's staff of superintendents and project managers.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has announced that Craig Siracusa has been named the department's new chief engineer responsible for overseeing the state's construction and maintenance programs. The position has direct operational responsibility for approving agreements and contracts; establishing standards and budgets; and setting department goals, objectives and policies.

In February 2002, Siracusa retired from the New York State Department of Transportation after 33 years of service.

Farris Engineering Inc. has announced that Aaron I. Springfield has joined its Colorado Springs office. Springfield will assist the electrical and mechanical design team at Farris. His project experience includes electrical design and construction administration in addition to engineering design in telecommunications. Springfield previously worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a national engineering-construction firm.

Drexel, Barrell & Co. has announced that James T. Stewart, PLS, recently celebrated his 30th anniversary with the firm and that Prudence R. Jones, Todd G. Rand and Michael D. Walker have passed their Colorado professional engineer's examination.

Stewart joined Drexel Barrell in 1973 as a survey party chief. For the past 15 years has served as the manager of the firm's field survey department. His experience includes boundary, topographic, route and construction surveying.

Jones joined Drexel Barrell in 2001 and serves as a project manager in the Boulder office. Specializing in water resources engineering, she is qualified in the areas of hydrologic modeling, hydraulic analysis and floodplain management.

Rand joined Drexel Barrell in 2001 and serves as a project manager in the Greeley office. Rand is responsible for the preparation of land development and water resource projects, including hydrologic and hydraulic studies, floodplain analysis, master basin planning, drainage reports, storm drainage and grading design, street design and utility design and feasibility studies.

Walker joined Drexel Barrell in 1998 and serves as a project engineer in the Greeley office. Specializing in residential and commercial land development, he has been responsible for grading, roadway, utility and drainage design as well as water main distribution modeling and sanitary sewer capacity analysis for a variety of projects.

Golden-based KL&A Inc., structural engineers and builders, recently announced that Dr. Gregory R. Kingsley has been named president and CEO of the firm; Brant J. Lahnert, PE, has been appointed chief financial officer; and M. Douglas Rutledge has assumed the position of director of construction services.

Kingsley has been a principal with the firm for eight years. He is an established authority on the design, analysis, evaluation and retrofit of masonry structures with a special emphasis on seismic design.

Lahnert has been a principal with the firm since 1994 and has been integral to the firm's expansion to three offices with 29 employees. His expertise is analysis and design of all types of structures; he is most frequently called upon to design unique structures of architectural interest.

Rutledge has been a principal with the firm for nine years. With an extensive background in construction, he is responsible for the firm's construction engineering and steel detailing operations as well as guiding the strategic development of the firm's efforts in the area of design-build.

Ash & White Construction Co. has announced staff changes and additions.

Lacy Eddy, project coordinator in Ash & White's Castle Rock office since August 2002, has relocated and joined the Brush office construction group.

Richard "JR" Keller, Forrest "Neil" Wilson, Ben Harris, Katy Hoyt and Jenna Ard-Bossen have joined the organization.

Keller has joined Ash & White's project manager team providing 13 years of experience in construction estimating and project management. Keller's experience includes ground-up projects up to $16 million in value, including recreation facilities, office complexes, medical facilities and educational facilities.

Wilson has joined the firm's project superintendent team with 19 years in construction supervision. Wilson's experience includes projects up to $76 million, including historic renovation, tenant finish, urban renewal, parking structures, office complexes, medical facilities and educational facilities.

Harris has joined the estimating group and brings several years of construction industry expertise. Harris' estimating experience includes projects up to $23 million, including government facilities, recreation facilities, office complexes, medical facilities and educational facilities.

Hoyt has joined Ash & White's project development team and will serve as the executive assistant to Tim White. She has 17 years of experience in construction administration, project scheduling and marketing. Hoyt's experience includes projects up to $60 million, including sport stadiums, government facilities, recreation facilities, office complexes, medical and educational facilities.

Ard-Bossen has joined as the project/office coordinator. Her organizational and administrative skills will support the entire Ash & White team.

M+O+A Architectural Partnership has announced that Principal Gregory J. Markling, FCSI, AIA, CCS, CCCA is now a LEEDTM 2.0 accredited professional, as designated by the U.S. Green Building Council through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. In addition to the LEED accreditation, Markling is a fellow of the Construction Specifications Institute, a certified construction specifier and certified construction contract administrator.

Ray Hamilton, PE, DEE, recently joined Carter & Burgess Inc. to manage the public works unit in the Denver office. Hamilton will be promoting the firm's expertise in the water and wastewater markets across the Rocky Mountain Region.

Hamilton has more than 30 years of technical and management consulting experience in both sanitary engineering design and water resources management.
His background includes strategic planning, feasibility studies, design and construction oversight for water, wastewater and water resources projects.

Rental Service has announced the appointment of Jerry Morin as district manager of a new geographic area the company designated in June. The new sales district, District 605, includes six stores across northern Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. Morin has been in the rental business for 17 years.

The Colorado Contractors Association Inc. has appointed Tim Montano as associate director of membership services and marketing, a newly created position. Montano will call on members and prospective members and communicate the services provided by CCA.

Nolte Associates Inc. has hired Roy Fawcett, PE, and Peter Kozinski, PE, as senior engineers in the water resources division.

Fawcett brings more than 25 years of experience in design and review on a wide variety of drainage projects, including design projects for the Urban Drainage and Flood Control Districts. His experience in design and review includes master drainage studies, site-specific drainage reports, storm sewers, onsite and regional detention and water quality facilities.

Kozinski has extensive experience with drainage and flood control projects in mountainous areas and large city projects. A licensed engineer, Kozinski has more than eight years of experience in both the public and private sector, as well as in channel stabilization and river mechanics.

Olsson Associates' Denver office has announced that two newly registered professional engineers have been promoted to associate engineer.

Wesl Butero is currently the project manager for the Stone Ridge Master-Planned Community in Trinidad and numerous new facilities for the Brinker International restaurant chain in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

Brad Bijold is currently managing the site design for the Hunter Douglas Business Campus in Broomfield, a design-build project with The Neenan Co., the South Metro Fire & Rescue District Fire Rescue Station No. 34 in Lone Tree and a 14,500-sq-ft office building for the Asphalt Specialties Co. Inc. in the Phelps-Tointon Industrial Park in Adams County.

Bob Matatall, AICP, recently joined RNL Design as a senior urban designer at the firm's Denver office. In this role, Matatall will be responsible for project management of various public and private sector projects, quality control on existing projects as well as some community planning. Matatall has more than 15 years of professional experience in both the public and private sectors.

URS Corp. has announced two promotions and one new hire.

Cortney Brand, RG, has been promoted to water resources operations manager.
Brand has more than eight years of experience in hydrogeology, well design and aquifer testing, groundwater recharge, surface water hydrology and source water assessment and protection. He will be responsible for review of contracts and project setups, monitoring of group financials and dealing with day-to-day operations of the group.

Jon Sorensen, PE, has been named principal water resources engineer. Sorensen has more than 28 years of experience in urban stormwater management. His experience spans the full spectrum of disciplines within stormwater, including stormwater utilities, multi-jurisdictional organizational and funding studies, stormwater NPDES, stormwater quality, master planning, design and GIS.

M. Ridley Moorman, PE, has joined URS Corp. as principal transportation engineer.
Moorman has more than 30 years of experience in civil engineering, the last 20 of which were spent working on Colorado transportation projects. His areas of expertise include scheduling, allocation of manpower and project oversight.

McLaughlin Water Engineers Ltd. has announced that William "Bill" Taggart, PE, and Bobbie Peters have joined the firm's water resource group, and Rick D. Coldsnow, PE, and Sara King have joined the firm's marketing and business development group.

Taggart has more than 30 years of water-related engineering experience in the Denver area and throughout the Western United States. He has expertise in river and stream stabilization and restoration; whitewater bypasses and river recreation enhancement; river dam and intake design; and flood control and drainage improvements. Taggart's experience includes ownership of his own firm as well as key management positions with other Denver area consulting firms.

Peters is a GIS specialist and has more than six years of experience implementing GIS systems. She is proficient in the ESRI suite of products, including ArcGIS 8.3, ArcIMS and database administration. Peters has managed GIS applications for water resource, environmental remediation, transportation and asset management projects; presented training materials; and designed and administered project databases.

Coldsnow serves as the business development manager and will also provide transportation engineering services. He is responsible for client development, quality assurance and community involvement, and will oversee new transportation services for the firm. Coldsnow is a professional engineer with more than 27 years of experience.

King serves as a senior marketing manager and has more than 16 years of marketing experience in the engineering industry. She is responsible for the firm's marketing and business development activities, public relations, promotional and proposal materials, plus event and trade show planning.

Humphries Poli Architects recently named John Fuentes, AIA, as an associate with the firm. Fuentes joined HPA in 2000, and has been practicing architecture in Denver for 12 years. He has served as project architect on a variety of project types, most recently for the 74,000-sq-ft Westminster Public Safety Building and the 92,000-sq-ft Thornton Justice Center.

Linda C. Hoffmann of Nolte Associates Inc. has completed the LEED accreditation.
Hoffmann, the managing director of Nolte's Fort Collins office, is the first employee in the office to complete the accreditation. A principal of Nolte, Hoffmann has a broad background in land-use planning, land development and public involvement. Her primary areas of expertise include public participation programs, client representation and public presentation, land-use analysis and planning, project conceptual design and landscape architecture.

S.A. Miro Inc. has announced the promotions of Steve Mystkowski and Ben Roberts.

Mystkowski has been promoted to the position of associate in Miro's Denver civil engineering department. Before his promotion, Mystkowski was a senior project engineer. He has been with the firm since December, 1997.

Roberts has been promoted to the position of project engineer in Miro's structural engineering department. Before his promotion, Roberts was a design engineer II. He has been with the firm since March 1999.

RNL Design has announced that Principal Richard T. Anderson, AIA; Principal Katherine Diamond, FAIA; Associate Principal Tom Wuertz; and Electrical Engineer Theresa Williams have been designated LEED™ - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - certified professionals by the U.S. Green Building Council.

In addition, the firm announced that interior designer Brian Heltshe earned his NCIDQ - National Council for Interior Design Qualification - certification. The NCIDQ serves to identify to the public those interior designers who have met the minimum standards for professional practice by passing the NCIDQ examination.

The Norris Dullea Co., an award-winning landscape architecture and planning firm in Denver, has announced the following promotions.

John M. Birkey, ASLA, has been promoted to partner. Birkey has established a strong reputation as a landscape architect and photographer in the eight years he has been with the firm. He has managed a variety of projects, including educational facilities, parks and recreation complexes and residential community developments.

Trent McClain, ASLA, has been promoted to senior associate. McClain has been with the firm for five years as a landscape architect, project manager and associate.
McClain has been responsible for the landscape architecture on a variety of projects, including new large-scale residential communities, recreation centers, commercial and retail centers, parks, open space and recreational trail systems.

Brad Gustafson, was recently promoted to project manager. Before joining Norris Dullea a year ago, he was a landscape architect with two local landscape architectural design firms. Gustafson has worked on a variety of planning and design projects that include the coordination of the design process with golf course architects.

Pinkard Construction has announced that Ryan Wilson has joined its estimating department. Wilson has spent eight years in the construction industry as an estimator and project manager/estimator of negotiated and hard bid projects.

Also, Shawnna Barenberg, manager of human resources at Pinkard Construction Co. recently earned certification as a senior professional in human resources. Barenberg will be conducting training classes for all Pinkard managers and supervisors to enhance their managerial and communication skills.

Washington Group International has announced the addition of two new employees.

Leonard Cheslock, PE, senior transportation engineer, joins the firm's division of infrastructure services with 16 years of experience as a specialist in transportation engineering and planning. Cheslock will assist the highway and bridge division of Washington Infrastructure.

Michael Dean Vinson, senior drainage engineer, joins the firm's Denver operations center with 26 years of experience in the design of public works related projects, storm design, analysis and hydrologic/hydraulic evaluations. Vinson will assist the highway and bridge division of Washington Infrastructure.

Boulder Associates Inc. has announced the addition of Jimmy Sanchez to its administrative staff and the promotion of Matt Krall.

Sanchez replaces Krall as Boulder Associates' office assistant in its Boulder office.
Sanchez's experience includes previous administrative positions in the oil and gas industry and freelance computer work. In his current role, Sanchez will provide administrative assistance to the 42-person office, specifically communications, marketing and logistical support.

Krall, former office assistant, was promoted to database coordinator and is implementing a new office-wide, customer-relationship management database for the 19-year-old firm.

MKK Consulting Engineers Inc. has announced that Carol Buss, EIT, Brian Larson, PE, and Toby Smith, PE, have been certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as LEED™ Accredited Professionals. In addition, Vince Rea has received his professional engineering license.

Buss, an electrical engineer, joined MKK's Englewood office in 2002. Her design experience includes health care facilities, telecommunications, municipal facilities, educational facilities, casinos, classrooms and outdoor recreational facilities. Her work has also included environmental testing and reporting at the state and federal levels.

Larson is a mechanical engineer in MKK's north branch office. He joined MKK Consulting Engineers in 2000 and has experience in mechanical system and plumbing design for a wide variety of projects, including schools, commercial office buildings, retail spaces, commercial kitchens, computer rooms, residential projects, ski resorts and tenant finish.

Smith is an electrical engineer in the health care division of MKK's headquarters office in Englewood. He joined MKK in 1996 and has project management and project engineering experience for a variety of telecommunications and health care projects.

Rea is a senior electrical engineer in MKK's Charlotte, N.C. branch office. Rea joined MKK in 1999, bringing with him more than 18 years of experience in electrical engineering. He has worked on several Colorado projects,including Poudre Valley Health System, Platte Valley Medical Center, Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital and The Children's Hospital in Denver.

Sara Blette has joined Communication Arts Inc. - a Boulder multi-disciplinary design firm - as a designer. Since starting with CommArts, Blette has focused much of her time on design work with Value Retail, a European retail developer headquartered in London.

Harry H. Frampton, III - managing partner of East West Partners, a real estate development company based in Beaver Creek - is the new chairman of the Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit education and research institute dedicated to providing responsible leadership in the use of land to enhance the total environment.