Industry CEOs Honored/A&E New Hires/Contractor Promotions

Don Logan, Robert Stevens, David Eller and Michael Sanderson were honored for their 2004 work in different arenas of the Colorado construction industry.

Donald Logan, founder and president of Stresscon Corp. in Colorado Springs, was saluted as a Titan of the Precast Concrete Industry at the Precast, Prestressed Concrete Institute's 50th anniversary convention in November.

Most of the honored Titans have been prominent engineers and university researchers. Logan is among the few who are also founders and CEOs of prestressed concrete producer companies.

He was recognized for conceiving and implementing a unique multi-entrepreneurial organizational structure, consisting of small-project management teams, each headed by a professional structural engineer who sells and then manages the projects through completion.

ARCADIS Executive Vice President Robert Stevens has been awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers' Harland Bartholomew Award, presented annually to an ASCE member judged worthy of special commendation for enhancement of the role of the civil engineer in urban planning and development.

David Eller, Region 3 materials engineer for the Colorado Department of Transportation, was awarded the 2004 Charles R. Valentine Award for Excellence in Recycling by the Asphalt Recycling and Reclamation Association. He was recognized for his work on a cold in-place recycling project on S.H. 92 in Delta.

Michael Sanderson was honored during the Rocky Mountain Builder Conference in Beaver Creek. Sanderson, vice president and regional building manager for Countrywide Home Loans Inc., received the REACH - Recognizing Excellence Among Colorado Homebuilders - award for New Volunteer of the Year.

Eugene Commander and Michael Sabian of the Denver office of Shughart Thomson and Kilroy were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2005-2006 , published by Woodward/White Inc. of Aiken, S.C.

Commander is vice chairman of STK's construction practice group. Sabian is chairman of the business practice group.

M.A. Mortenson Co. has announced the promotion of Dave Sandlin to construction executive and Maja Rosenquist to senior project manager.

Sandlin is overseeing the high-profile expansion of the Denver Art Museum. Rosenquist recently completed work on Exempla Good Samaritan Hospital and is beginning work on the Denver Health Far Western Addition.

Dave Plothow of Wagner Equipment Co. in Aurora was installed as 2005 president of the Colorado Equipment Dealers Association during the association's monthly luncheon in December.

Thomas Skinner has been appointed vice president of JVA Inc. He has more than 25 years of structural engineering experience on K-12 schools, higher education projects, municipal recreation facilities and a variety of commercial buildings.

The firm also announced that Robert Hunnes, president; Thomas Soell, vice president; and Kevin Tone, vice president; have earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

W. David "Dave" Alley, AIA, has been appointed chief marketing officer for The Durrant Group Inc. in Denver. Alley has more than 24 years of business development, architectural practice, facilities management and educational experience.

Megan Moye has joined the firm as marketing director. Based in Denver, she will direct national marketing initiatives for the company's 12 offices nationwide.

Mike Willingham has joined Maxwell Construction as vice president of operations. Before joining Maxwell, he served as vice president of operations for R.A.S. Builders of Denver; director of construction for Montgomery Ward in Chicago; vice president of store development for H.J. Wilson Co in Baton Rouge; and principal of his own architectural firm in Baton Rouge.

Jessica Lopez has joined the firm as a project coordinator, working on the firm's multifamily projects. Before joining Maxwell, she was with Gerald H. Phipps.

Drexel, Barrell & Co. has announced the promotions of veteran employees Mark Hageman and Loren Shanks, PLS. Both have been promoted to associate and have become shareholders and members of the board of directors.

Adolfson & Peterson Construction has added four new hires to its Colorado office - Bryant Long, Janet Sund, Luke Inniger and David Flint. Long and Flint will work as project managers. Sund joined A&P as an estimator. Inniger will serve as assistant project manager on the Greeley Commons Retail project.

Boulder-based McStain Neighborhoods has named Diane Zile as its new vice president of ecology. Before joining McStain, Zile worked for more than 18 years in human resources for Fortune 500 companies such as Level 3 Communications, YUM! Brands and Macy's.

Chad Gale and Tyler Prout have joined Western States Reclamation Inc. Gale has been named project manager in the company's landscape division. Prout has also joined the same division as an estimator/landscape architect.

Pedro Repetto, PE, has been named office manager for the URS Corp.'s Denver office. Repetto has more than 35 years of experience, is registered in 10 states and has been with URS for 10 years.

Christopher Lynch has been named an architectural intern at Pahl-Pahl-Pahl Architects/Planners in Denver and Malia Mather, a principal of the Denver contemporary art gallery, Andenken Gallery and Design, has joined the firm as marketing coordinator.

Mark Vogele and Dan McIntosh have joined Swinerton Builders - Vogele as director of business development and McIntosh as senior project manager.

Wendi Birchler, ASLA, has been promoted to senior associate at Norris Dullea, where she is responsible for the management of the Forest City commercial mixed-use development project at 144th and Huron in Westminster and the Richmond Homes Cobblestone Ranch project in Castle Rock.

Tom Roberts, Greg Dow, Joanna Paine and Bonnie Niziolek are the Denver firm's newest landscape architects.

Roberts is assisting on several projects, including the Prairie Center community development project. Dow is working on the Sand Creek Ranch community development project. Niziolek, also a planner, is working on the Windler Homestead community development project.

Wells Squier II, AIA, has joined David Owen Tryba Architects as a project architect at its design studio in Denver's Uptown neighborhood. He is working on urban infill and redevelopment projects - developing conceptual design alternatives for projects near Denver's Civic Center complex and Central Platte Valley.