Engineering Firms Hiring and Promoting to Keep Up with Marketplace Growth

Colorado A/E/C firms are enhancing their green building expertise with increasing numbers of employees earning LEED certifications.

Clarice O'Hanlon, an engineer with Meurer & Associates of Lakewood, recently became a Colorado-licensed professional engineer. O'Hanlon has been with the firm since October 2002, working on sanitary sewer rehabilitation and utility design projects.

DTJ Design Inc. has announced the following staff additions - Errol Schuman and Adam Kantor, landscape architects and planners; Kim Cattau and Gary Friedman, designers for residential and commercial architecture; Laura Fabian, office manager; and Melissa Rankin, receptionist.

Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture of Denver has announced that two of its professionals - Joohno Yo and Erin Braunstein, both senior associates - have earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Boulder Associates Inc. has hired two new intern architects - Douglas Whiteaker and Young Sup Won.

Whiteaker has 10 years of architectural experience - including project management expertise with LEED-certified buildings in the education sector - and currently serves on the American Institute of Architects' Central Valley Intern Development Program committee.

Won earned a bachelor's of science in architectural engineering at Soong-Sil University in Seoul and a master's degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His master's thesis - "In-between Space with Light" - won the 2004 Ferry Award as the best design thesis in his graduating class. In addition, Won was nominated for the 2004 SOM Architecture Traveling Fellowship.

Troy Moody has been named Moody Insurance Agency's first chief operating officer. He will oversee day-to-day operations of the 32-year-old, privately owned agency while continuing current client service and sales development efforts.

Bob Revis, vice president of business development-estimating for Greeley's Roche Constructors Inc., has earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

David Cranfield, PLS, has joined Drexel, Barrell & Co. as the new survey manager for the firm's Colorado Springs office. A registered professional land surveyor in Colorado and Virginia, he has more than 26 years of experience in all aspects of land surveying with both conventional and global positioning satellite equipment.

Edward Steinhauser, PE, has joined the Denver office of Kumar & Associates Inc. Steinhauser has 12-plus years of experience in the design of foundations for buildings, bridges and roadways.

Scott Keim, manager of the Denver office's construction materials testing department, received his PE license in Colorado. Keim has 16-plus years of construction-related experience. His background includes extensive work on numerous state, municipal and private-sector projects located throughout the Front Range and Rocky Mountain region.

Greg Bradshaw has joined Engineering Economics Inc., where his responsibilities will focus on BAS and life-safety services. Bradshaw has 40 years of experience in the construction industry - the last 28 years focusing on automation systems, energy management, energy retrofits and smoke control systems. He has worked with controls-integration companies, a mechanical design-build firm and a BAS manufacturer, where he was the regional manager.

Gordon, Gumeson and Associates has announced the promotion of Mary Gizze, PE, and Michael Rauzi to senior associates, and Timothy Erickson to associate.

Gizze is a senior electrical engineer and project manager at the firm. Her recent projects include the new Hotel, Restaurant, Tourism Management School and the College of Law at the University of Denver and the Communications Building Addition-Renovation at Northern Arizona University.

Rauzi is the head of GGA's construction administration department. He consults with the design engineers about the feasibility of design options, assists with cost estimating and oversees mechanical systems installation and construction phase activities.

Erickson is a senior mechanical engineer and project manager with current projects at Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Ball Aerospace and Qwest Communications.

Randall DeLancy, PE, SE, has joined Loris and Associates as the firm's new chief structural engineer and associate. He will be responsible for leading the structural service line in design, plan preparation, quality control, scheduling and business development.

DeLancy has more than 30 years of experience in Colorado, including structural design work for clients such as United Airlines, Denver Public Schools, Cobe Cardiovascular, Cirque du Soleil, City and County of Denver and Denver International Airport.

OZ Architecture has announced three new staff members - Mairi Mashburn, Kelly Fogarty and Bryant Canaan.

The firm has also promoted 17 members of its professional staff. They are Becky Stone, principal; Rob Rydel, associate principal; Heike Kerbs, Susan Mellblom, Linda Purcell, Kayla Smith and Joe Ward, senior associate; Jeff Dawson, Kate Fields, Brian Haffey, Chad Holtzinger, Susan Kohuth, Jeff Mapp, Dan Miller, Don Schieferecke, Chris Stumm and Liz Yo, associate.

Rhoads Construction Inc. has announced the following accomplishments by three of its employees - Michael Callahan, Carol Wilkinson and Susan Gorman.

Callahan, a project engineer/superintendent, has recently received his Colorado professional engineer's license with an emphasis in civil engineering and earned accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.

Wilkinson has recently been certified by the OSHA Standards Training Institute, which qualifies her to teach OSHA's 10- and 30-hour safety classes. Gorman, the firm's marketing manager, has been designated a certified professional services marketer the Society for Marketing Professional Services.

Nicole Lane and Allen Zachary - structural engineers in Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc.'s Denver office - have recently become Colorado-licensed professional engineers.

Alaina Kneebone Marler, P.E., has joined the civil engineering department at JVA Inc.'s Boulder office. Marler has worked throughout Colorado for the last 10 years as a consulting engineer with a focus on land development design and hydraulic analysis.

Pinkard Construction Co. has hired two new project superintendents - Robert Selph and Russell German.

Selph has more than 28 of experience in the construction industry. Before joining Pinkard, he worked for JHL Constructors in Denver. German has 24-plus years of experience. He came to Pinkard from the Neenan Co. in Fort Collins.

Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers has announced the following additions to its staff: Marty Kenfield, assistant facilities manager; Andy Rogers, civil department engineer I; Raymond Hill, civil department engineer I; Ryan DaMetz, civil department engineer I; Richard Galloway, survey department instrument person; Ryan Barth, P.E., structural A/E team engineer; Charlie McLean, structural A/E team engineer I; Emily Guglielmo, structural A/E team engineer I; Eli Pacheco, structural CAD operator I; Tyla Mudgett, structural department accounting assistant.

The firm also offers internships to students who wish to receive on-the-job training. They are Teri Verschoor, Eryn Ammerman, Emily Nelson, Andrea Hodler, Kailey Petersen and Kelsey Lund.

Two engineers in Martin/Martin 's Lakewood office - Tonya Major and Kimberley Thornock - have received licenses to practice as professional engineers in Colorado and PE-level promotions within the company.

Mark Dwyer has joined Trammell Crow Co.'s Denver office as a senior associate, where he will focus on industrial leasing and sales. Before that, Dwyer was with First Industrial Realty Inc.

Kelly Eckhoff has joined Newman Cavender & Doane as finance manager of the firm, which specializes in commercial architecture and interior design and is working on projects for Sage Hospitality Resources, Denver Newspaper Agency, Cimarex Energy Co. and Donor Alliance.