S.A. Miro's New President/J.E. Dunn Promotions/H+L Architecture Adds to Staff

Several A/E/C professionals earned their LEED accreditations this fall.

David Lewis, PE, has been named president of S.A. Miro Inc. Three new vice presidents were also named - Brad Buhler, PE, structural engineering; Milt Lanser, PE, retail architecture; and Kent Brogger, PE, civil engineering.

Pamela Sharkey, AIA, ICC, has also achieved LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

J.E. Dunn Construction Co. has announced the relocation and promotion of two key executives - Bob Latas, an assistant vice president of J.E. Dunn's Health Care Center of Excellence, who has relocated to Colorado; and Erik Petersen, who has been promoted to assistant vice president, becoming one of six local company officers and 47 nationwide.

H+L Architecture has added 11 new staff members. New architectural design staffers are Sarah Simpson, Rob Biesk, Bill Dilatush, Brooke Knappenberger, Ken Bailey, Mike Gross and Kevin Vrba.

Also, Anna Greene has joined the interior design department; Kevin Andrew and Scott Randall have joined the finance staff; and John Cooksey has joined the architectural design team in the Colorado Springs office.

Carter & Burgess Inc. has added four new professionals - Brian Werle, Stephen Stillwell, Bill Knapp and John Hansen - to its Denver-based environmental planning staff. The move was made to expand the 27-member group's expertise in NEPA documentation, aquatic and biological resources and geographic information systems.

James Edwards, who has more than 25 years of experience in the design of mechanical systems for vertical structures; and Kristin Irwin, who specializes in environmental investigation and remediation; have joined URS Corp.

Edwards is as a senior mechanical engineer for the company's Denver facilities division. Irwin has joined the environmental engineering team.

Tom McLagan, president of Hyder Construction Inc., has recently received LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Jeremy Hollands of Cator, Ruma & Associates recently earned accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program.

Gordon, Gumeson and Associates has announced that more than one-third of its technical staff now holds LEED accreditation. The following engineers have earned the certification: Eric Johanson, David Kambich, Karena Broman-Ballas, Khalil Dana, Mary Gizzie, Thomas Barwinski, Nancy White, Mike Wolf and Jennifer Schaefer.

Jean Sebben, president and owner of Jean Sebben Associates LLC, has earned accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program.

Dusty Morgan has been promoted to senior vice president of ISEC Inc. He and Joan Norblom, senior vice president and regional manager of the Rocky Mountain Region, have also been appointed to the company's board of directors.

Jason Scandrol has joined BCER Engineering Inc. as a project engineer. He will work on AT&T projects, which include maintaining facilities throughout Colorado and neighboring states.

The Norris Dullea Co of Denver has added two new professionals to its staff - Jordan Dame as a landscape architect and graphic information systems specialist and Michael Leutenecker as a landscape architect.

Hal Ogle, a LEED-accredited electrical engineer and lighting designer with more than 21 years of experience, has joined Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers Inc. as an associate in the firm's Denver office.

Brad Staver, lead mechanical engineer and project manager in Denver, and Patrick Burns, a LEED-accredited lead electrical engineer and lighting designer in Vail, have been named associates. Tracy Dible, a LEED-certified mechanical engineer in Denver office, has been promoted to project engineer.

Three members of Newman Cavendar & Doane's staff - Jeff Frahm, Rochelle Manhart and Saeng Inthavong - have recently earned the U.S. Green Building Council LEED accreditation.

Linda Anderson and Elizabeth Ochsner have been promoted to associates at Lafayette-based Design Concepts. Anderson, who joined the firm 11 years ago, oversees the firm's bookkeeping, day-to-day management and marketing. Ochsner has been a landscape architect at the firm since 1997.

Brock Foster has joined CTL Thompson as a project engineer in the firm's Colorado Springs office. He responsibilities include managing and performing Phase I environmental site assessments and soil and ground water quality investigations.

Colorado State University civil engineering major Eric Richards is the recipient of the first scholarship to be awarded by the Denver Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute. The scholarship committee will also award a one-year student membership to scholarship runner-up Matt Newman, who is studying architecture at the University of Colorado.

James King, a partner with Baker & Hostetler LLP in Denver, has been elected president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, an educational institution dedicated to the study of the legal systems and issues affecting mineral and water resources.

Steve Parker, president emeritus of the Bank of Colorado in Durango; and Greg McKnight, a business consultant for Chase Manhattan; were recently elected to one-year terms as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Colorado Transportation Commission.

Real estate banking veteran Roger Larson has joined FirsTier Bank as senior vice president with responsibility for commercial real estate lending for construction and interim loans.

Golden Triangle Construction of Longmont has added two new professionals to its ranks - Dennis Richard, director of business development; and Scott Cadwallader, estimator.

The Norris Dullea Co. in Denver, has hired Allison Santoro and Lars Erickson as landscape architects and Desiree Thorpe as an administrative assistant. Jennifer Kraai has been promoted to executive assistant and Jay Griffin, senior associate, has earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Shaw Thomas has been promoted to senior vice president and manager of residential construction for Colorado at Compass Bank, where he will lead a team of lenders responsible for developing and managing a portfolio of development, construction and mini-perm loans for real estate developers and builders throughout the Colorado market.

RNL Design has welcomed three new employees to its Denver office - Sai Balakrishnan, an urban designer; Patty Thwaites, an interior designer; and Jennifer O'Hara, marketing coordinator.

John Ewy, PE, and Kari McDowell, PE, have been promoted within Drexel, Barrell & Co. Ewy has been named assistant department head for the water resource engineering department in the Boulder office.

F. Brian Thye, PE, has also joined the company as a senior project manager in its Boulder office.

James McCurley has been promoted to vice president of the Facilities Service Group at Bryan Construction in Colorado Springs. McCurley has been with the company for more than 12 years.

Joseph DesJardin, PE, has been named project manager for JR Engineering's North Denver office. DesJardin has more than 24 years of broad civil engineering experience, including expertise in roadway, utility and storm water project management.

Jim Maiocco, PE, has rejoined the Denver office of Lampson International LLC, where his responsibilities include assisting Vice President Bucky Gros in the daily operations, sales and engineering of heavy lift, crane rentals and transportation equipment throughout the United States.

C. David Gaige, PE, has joined Burns & McDonnell Engineering as an environmental program manager in its Centennial office. Gaige has more than 29 years of experience- 10 of those in Colorado - and expertise in the full range of environmental requirements and compliance issues that major projects face today.