Monroe Reappointed by Gov. Owens/MKK, Mortenson Employees Earn LEED Accreditations

Design industry promotions and new hires top the state's personnel news.

Alexa Taylor, AIA, has joined M+O+A Architectural Partnership as a senior designer. She has more than 13 years of experience and is registered with the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

42/40 Architecture Inc. has promoted Tracy Hart, NCARB, Ali Charafeddine and Christian Barlock to senior associates. Izabela Leonczak Rydel and Daniel Horvat, AIA, were promoted to associates.

The firm also hired Isabelle Matteson, associate AIA, as director of marketing for its Denver and Chicago offices, and Terri Konsella and Manya Albreht as architectural interns.

Peter Monroe, a principal of Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc., has been appointed by Gov. Bill Owens to his second term on the Colorado Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

Rodd Merchant, PE, and Matthew Schlageter, PE, of Martin/Martin Inc. Consulting Engineers have received LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

John Van Gulik has joined MKK Consulting Engineers Inc. as director of business development, responsible for identifying and developing new clients and opportunities and working closely with MKK managers in developing and closing work scopes. He will also manage the Englewood-based company's marketing and business development activities.

Stanley Turner, AIA, has joined Humphries Poli Architects PC, where he will serve as project architect for The Plaza at Cherry Creek North, a new mixed-use residential and retail development owned by the Denver Technological Center.

Sarah "Sally" King, a LEED-accredited mechanical engineer, has joined The RMH Group of Lakewood after graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder and spending one year in California working on projects for the federal government and the entertainment and health care industries.

Project manager and mechanical engineer Terry Autry, PE, and electrical engineer David English, PE, also recently earned LEED accreditation, joining a group of six other LEED-certified engineers guiding the firm's sustainable design efforts.

Michael J. Pinsoneault, PE, has joined Stantec as an associate and project manager in the Urban Land group. Pinsoneault has a background in land development and engineering, including federal and municipal service and environmental design and remediation. He is currently involved in projects in Aurora, Thornton and Reno.

Marjory O'Brien, PE, has been named a vice president for Nolte Associates Inc.'s Rocky Mountain region. She is managing director of the Denver office and has more than 30 years of experience as a multi-disciplined engineer with an emphasis on transportation and land development.

Roger Miller and Paul Smith were also recently named associates.

Thirteen professionals at MKK Consulting Engineers Inc. have received LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council. They are David Anderson, Jean Petkovsek, Lisa Hughey, Ronnie Zimmerman, Randy Rinker, Eric Johnson, Aaron Zimmerman, Patrick Dawson and Angie Huber in the Englewood office; Kit Fox, Wyoming; Kathleen Stratton and James Bough, Montana; and Ken Urbanek in Grand Junction.

Eighteen professionals with M. A. Mortenson Co.'s Colorado office have earned LEED accreditation. They are Dennis Ashley, Derek Cunz, Jed Dailey, Mike Early, George Forristall, Todd Hager, Bob Hansen, Peter Hresko, Dana Kose, Karl Kostelic, Jeff Lindsay, Steve Malin, John Pole, Shannon Rogers, Maja Rosenquist, Dave Sandlin, Tom Willson and Ron Wilson.

Janelle Weidler has joined the marketing and business development team at High Country Engineering Inc., where her responsibilities will include coordinating with developers and contractors on commercial and residential site development throughout the Western Slope and Front Range.

Mark Loeb has joined Forest City Stapleton Inc. as director of residential development, responsible for various aspects of Stapleton redevelopment and other projects. Previously, he was director of planning for La Plata Investments LLC in Colorado Springs, a position he held for seven years.

B.J. Davis has been hired as managing principal for The Durrant Group Inc.'s Denver office.

Davis, a University of Kansas graduate, is a licensed architect in Colorado and has more than 25 years of experience in architecture and construction.

Charles Ingram has been appointed construction project manager for Ehrhart Griffin and Associates Inc., where he will manage construction surveying operations from bidding and scheduling to quality control.

Justin Olson, PE, has been promoted to senior project engineer at Vision Land Consultants Inc. Olson is the lead project engineer on Stapleton Filing 16 and a graduate of University of Minnesota.

The company has also made the following new hires: Teresa Williams, office manager; Jarod Broadwater, project engineer; and Colin McKernan, PE, project engineer.

Randy Hergenrether, PE, Doug Richter, PE, and Barry McClung have recently celebrated five-year anniversaries with the company.

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.

Andrew Patapoff has joined the Denver office of IA Interior Architects, where he is currently working on multiple installations of Crème de la Crème child care facilities and recently completed the corporate headquarters for Fiserv ISS in downtown Denver and Fiserv's Inverness location.

James Bogart, president of Just Construction Inc. in Lakewood, was the local winner of the OSI Pro-Series pro-fishing boat giveaway, a contest that drew more than 100,000 entries from builders and contractors nationwide. He won a 2005 Triton TR-185 bass fishing boat and trailer with a Yamaha V150 motor.