Ashley Lemon and Brian Konczak have joined M+O+A Architectural Partnership as intern architects.

Lemon holds a master of architecture degree from the University of Utah and has more than six years of design experience with a focus on religious, academic and museum projects. Before joining M+O+A, Lemon worked on such projects as the Tupac Shakur Arts Center and the Unitarian Universalist Church in Atlanta. He is currently working with Greg Markling, AIA, on the New Denver Seminary Campus in Highlands Ranch.

Konczak holds a bachelor of environmental design degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder and has three years of design experience with a variety of project types, including academic and municipal designs. Before joining M+O+A, Konczak worked on such projects as the Grand Prix Motorsports in Littleton and the Montessori Peaks Academy in Lakewood. He is currently working with Jere Eggleston, AIA, on the National Archive and Record Administration Storage Facility in Riverside, Calif.

Newman Cavender & Doane, specializing in commercial architecture and interior design, has announced several new staff additions.

Dan Kessler, AIA, joins the firm as a project architect; Rochelle Manhart as an interior design project manager; John St. Martin as an intern architect; and Tyler Hendrick as an intern architect.

Newman Cavender & Doane's principals have more than 75 years of combined architecture and design experience and together have been responsible for more than $4 billion in building projects.

Nancy Ashley is the new director of marketing for Designworks Inc., a 30-year-old, full-service national interior design firm in Denver. Ashley will report to Letty Rozell, president of Designworks.

Ashley has 28 years of experience in the real estate development industry. During the last eight years, she has held the titles of director or vice president of sales and marketing for national home builders.

Ashley has been active with the Sales and Marketing Council of the Home Builders Association, serving as a past board of directors member and Peak Awards Committee chairman. She holds the title of 1997 MAME Sales Manager of the Year and the Most Professional Marketing Director of the Year.

Communication Arts Inc., a Boulder multi-disciplinary design firm, has rehired two former staff members.

Dave Dute has been named senior graphic designer. Dute holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design from Colorado State University and has completed foundation level studies at Art Center College of Design.

Dute has extensive experience in brand strategy, corporate identity, marketing, advertising, environmental graphic design and interactive media. His previous positions include associate creative director at Burns Marketing and art director at One Tribe Creative, both in Fort Collins.

Margaret Sewell has returned as a project manager and director. She had been with CommArts for 11 years before taking an extended leave of absence. She earned her bachelor of arts degree at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and her bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Before joining CommArts in 1989, she worked at Fitch Design in Boston. Projects she has worked on at CommArts include Madison Square Garden and Penn Station in New York, Anaheim and Disney Resort in Anaheim, Mall of Georgia in Atlanta, and Fidenza Village, Maasmechelen Village and Wertheim Village for Value Retail in Europe.

Chad Novak and Patrick Johnson have been promoted to associate principals at H+L Architecture's Denver office.

Novak has been with H+L Architecture for 10 years. His project experience at H+L has been focused on primary and secondary education on more than $250 million worth of projects. Novak was the lead designer on several award-winning projects, including Silver Creek High School in Longmont and Grandview High School in Cherry Creek School District.

He is currently working on designs for Brighton High School, St. Vrain High School No. 5, St. Vrain Erie High School, Challenge to Excellence Charter School and several Douglas County Schools projects.

Johnson has been with H+L for nine years and served as a project manager on the award-winning University of Denver Law School and the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Library and Student Center projects. In total, he has been a project manager/architect for more than $160 million of educational and institutional projects around Colorado.

Johnson heads up the "green design" committee at H+L and promotes LEED certification and sustainable architecture in all the firm's projects. His past design work includes Basalt High School, Crested Butte Community School and Cherry Creek High School No. 5. Johnson is currently working with the ZGF/H+L Team on The Children's Hospital at Fitzsimons.

Jeff Mehle, PE, has joined Carter & Burgess Inc. as a senior structural engineer in the firm's Denver transportation programs structures group. The group has an extensive portfolio of structural and architectural design for bridge projects in Denver and several western states.

Mehle has a strong background in segmental bridge design that enhances the firm's multifaceted structural design capabilities. His experience includes design and construction engineering for highway and transit bridges, with an emphasis in complex segmental, prestressed concrete bridge structures.

URS Corp. has announced that Mark Leese, AIA, AICP, has been named director of urban design; and Ronald Rypinski, a rail transportation specialist, recently joined URS as a senior member of the transit planning group.

Leese has more than 28 years of experience as an urban designer, city planner and licensed architect. His expertise is in municipal policy development, community design and infrastructure design and planning with extensive experience producing urban design plans, neighborhood plans, sub-area plans and corridor studies.

His recent work includes downtown plans for Fountain, Parker and Monument. Leese is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners; American Institute of Architects, Denver Chapter; and the Congress for New Urbanism.

Rypinski has more than 38 years of experience in domestic and international rail transportation, including transit operations, maintenance planning and design, freight railroad operations and commuter rail planning and design.

His background includes all aspects of planning and designing commuter rail (push-pull and DMU), light rail, heavy rail, high-speed rail, streetcars, automated people movers, storage and maintenance facilities, fixed plant improvements, track inspections and freight rolling stock.

Diana Dean, PE, of Farnsworth Group-Colorado Springs was elected Southwest Region vice president of the National Society of Professional Engineers at the group's fall regional meeting in Shreveport, La.

Dean will be one of two vice presidents serving the Southwest Region, which consists of Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. She will sit on the NSPE Board of Directors from July 2004 through July 2006.

Dean is a senior project engineer with 14 years of experience in civil and utility engineering. Her engineering experience includes hydrological studies, site planning, structural engineering, wastewater package system design, energy and water services, project engineering, project management and construction management.

Joseph D. Skaggs has been named chairman of ASM International's Rocky Mountain chapter.

Skaggs is a senior metallurgical and materials engineer with Schaefer Engineering Corp., specializing in material failure analysis involving overloading, fractures, fatigue, corrosion, water intrusion and related failure mechanisms.

Established in 1913, ASM International is one of the oldest materials societies in the United States and serves materials engineers and scientists in advancing technology and application of materials and metals.

Tom Roche, president and CEO of Roche Constructors Inc., was recently awarded the 2003 Bravo! Entrepreneur Award for Greeley.

Under Roche's guidance, Roche Constructors, a Greeley-based general contracting firm, has grown to $130 million in annual revenues. He also serves on several committees and boards throughout the Front Range.

The Bravo! Entrepreneur program is sponsored by several northern Colorado chambers of commerce, with winners chosen from Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland and their outlying communities. Nominees can come from any regional industry and must display the core values of entrepreneurship - risk-taking, overcoming adversity and achieving business success.

Dr. A. Ray Chamberlain, former president of Colorado State University and former executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, was presented the 25th Annual Roderick L. Downing Award for outstanding achievements in transportation during the 76th Colorado Transportation Conference in Denver this fall.

Chamberlain is currently vice president of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quake & Douglas Inc. of Denver, a transportation consulting and engineering firm.

Chamberlain participated in the enactment process of the $220 billion federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act and worked with the Colorado General Assembly in achieving legislation that transformed the Colorado Department of Highways into CDOT.

Lyle Hubl, of the Colorado Springs office of Farris Engineering Inc., completed the accreditation process for the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Hubl has been with Farris Engineering since 1981. His mechanical design experience includes projects such as the design-build Peterson AFB Fire Crash Rescue Station, the Historic Lowell School Rehabilitation and numerous projects with School Districts 11, 20 and 49, among others.

Currently, Hubl is the project manager for two projects at Buckley AFB, the Church of Latter Day Saints in Castle Rock and Fire Station 20 for the City of Colorado Springs.
Hubl was also involved with the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad shop upgrade in Antonito.

Michael Mitchell has joined Saunders Construction Inc. as the manager of project development for the company's retail and special services groups. His role involves developing and enhancing relationships in the retail and tenant finish markets.
Mitchell has more than 17 years of business development experience in the construction industry.

Mike H. Barrett, PE, of Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers, has retired after 48 years in engineering.

Barrett was a partner in KKBNA, one of Colorado's founding civil/structural engineering firms, and has been a principal at Martin/Martin since 1988.

At his retirement celebration, Barrett was honored for his involvement in many significant engineering projects, including Denver's Currigan Hall, Public Service of Colorado Office Building and the Alamodome in San Antonio.

Barrett remains active in the Boy Scouts of America, Denver Rotary and the American Council of Consulting Engineers.

H+L Architecture recently announced staff additions.

Alisa Rice recently moved to Denver from Oklahoma and joins H+L with 14 years of experience in health care, retail, education and aquarium design. She will be working on The Children's Hospital at Fitzsimons in Aurora.

Bo Han comes to H+L with 10 years of experience in multifamily housing and public facilities. She will be working on the University Corp. for Atmospheric Research's Foothills Laboratory Zero within the technology, commercial and corporate segment.
Todd Kreinbrink has eight years of experience in landscape architecture for corporate, commercial and educational facilities. He is the landscape designer on the Irving Elementary School in Pueblo and Northridge Elementary School in Highlands Ranch.

Melanie Tang has 15 years of experience in health care, retail and commercial facility architecture. Her current work assignment is on the Northridge Elementary School project in Highlands Ranch with H+L's education segment.

H+L Architecture is a professional services firm comprised of architects, intern architects, landscape architects and interior designers. Celebrating its 40th year, the architectural corporation services three segments in the Rocky Mountain Region - education, health care and technology/commercial/corporate.

Valerie A. Villanueva has joined the Denver office of Schaefer Engineering Corp. as the firm's marketing coordinator.

Villanueva joins the firm from Alyn-Weiss & Associates, where she was an account assistant and the firm's media relations specialist. At AWA, Villanueva provided articles and columns to the local and national media.

As Schaefer's marketing coordinator, Villanueva will work in conjunction with the Seattle marketing department to develop a local marketing base to the construction, legal and insurance industries.

Hank M. Harris has been appointed as president and managing director of FMI Corp., management consultants to the construction industry. Harris assumed this role effective Sept. 1. He replaces Hugh L. Rice, who will continue to serve as chairman of the firm and a senior member of FMI's investment banking business. In his new role, Harris will be responsible for the overall business control of FMI's services to the marketplace.

Sue Sibel, PE, has been promoted by Stantec to the position of senior project engineer in its land development group.

Sibel's experience includes more than six years of various land development projects, including single- and multi-family housing and commercial developments. She is currently working on High Plains Country Club in Aurora.