New Denver Metro Realtors President Elected/Local ASLA Fellows Inducted/CDOT Engineer Honored

LEED certifications continue to grow among Colorado's design professionals.

Bob Bustos, Chris Pedersen and Greg Collier were promoted to senior project manager at Gerald H. Phipps Inc.

John Fairbairn has been elected president of the Denver Metropolitan Commercial Association of Realtors, the largest commercial real estate association in the United States. He is an active member since 1997 and a 16-year commercial real estate veteran.

Jerry Adamson, Loveland; Todd Johnson, Denver; and J. Patrick Shea Jr., Lakewood were among 32 members inducted late last year into the American Society of Landscape Architects' Council of Fellows.

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.

Senior project managers David Stevenson, PE, and Jeff Clevenger, PE, have taken new management positions within Carter & Burgess' Denver transportation programs unit. Stevenson will manage the office's 65-person infrastructure group while Clevenger will head the 110-person program management/construction management group.

Mark Shaw, Sr. Managing Editor with McGraw-Hill Construction Publications in Denver, is the new editor-in-chief of AGC's Constructor, the official magazine of the Associated General Contractors of America - published by McGraw-Hill beginning this spring. Shaw is adding editorship of the 40,000-circulation national magazine to his other duties for MHC's regional publications. He will continue to lead the editorial teams for Colorado Construction, The Daily Journal, AIA Architect Colorado and Colorado Builder Forum. He will be based out of McGraw-Hill's Denver office.

Joel Gregg, formerly a display ad sales rep with Colorado Construction magazine, has joined Engineering News-Record, Design-Build and Constructor magazines as the northwest/mountain/southwest accounts manager. Gregg will continue to be based out of McGraw-Hill's Denver office.

Richard Brown, PE, has joined Carter & Burgess as a vice president and program manager with the Transportation Programs Unit in Denver. He will also be an associate of the firm.

Douglas Carnahan was unanimously elected a vice president of Merrick & Co. during the Aurora-based corporation's November 19 board of directors meeting.

Michael Kiefer, PE, has joined PSI's Wheat Ridge operations office as the environmental services department manager, where he will oversee environmental engineering projects for the company..

Jeremy Hollands, a mechanical engineer with Cator, Ruma & Associates, was certified by the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program and elected to the Technical, Energy and Government Affairs Committee of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASHRAE.

Michelle Bean, Annette Glaess and Vaishali Patel have joined Denver's M+O+A Architectural Partnership as architectural interns.

Brian Fennelly has joined Forest City Stapleton Inc. as vice president for finance and accounting.

Jennifer Bigger has joined IndyMac Bancorp Inc. as business development manager for IndyMac Bank Home Construction Lending.

Scott Jones, PE, has been named project engineer at URS Corp. in Denver, where he will work with the firm's dams group.

Chad Wentz has been promoted to designer at IA Interior Architects in Denver.

Peter Van Dusen and Caitlin "Katie" Barnes have returned to BRSA after working nearly two years with a residential architecture firm and is the project manager for the Devil's Thumb Guest Lodge in Tabernash. Barnes returned as a senior associate and is involved in the Logan School project at Lowry.

Dawn Horner and Patrick Casias have joined the Vail office of Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc.

Horner is office manager and Casias is a CAD technician whose projects include the Vail Plaza Hotel and Manor Vail.

GE Johnson has added four new people to its staff in Colorado Springs - Jerry Jernigan and Will Hopkins, senior preconstruction services managers; Ryan Wilson, preconstruction services manager; and Jessica Schlick, estimator.

RNL has welcomed four new additions to its Denver office - Lisa Beckman, human resources director; Ashwin Bhavikatti, AIA, project architect; Joye Divine, marketing coordinator; and Nancy Kristof, marketing and public relations manager.

David Blair and Douglas Emerick have joined the Boulder office of JVA Inc.

Peter Cornish has joined High Country Engineering Inc. as GIS manager, where he will establish a GIS department fully integrated with existing engineering and surveying capabilities.

Orlando Rockwell, a recent graduate from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture, has joined Newman Cavender & Doane as an intern architect.

Matthew Houtsma, Nadia Malik and Jennifer Duettra have joined Faegre & Benson LLP.

Douglas Warrington has joined Quality Electric Inc. as chief financial officer/controller and Timothy Jones has joined the company's preconstruction services group.

Melissa Winburne has joined the Durrant Group Inc. in Denver.

Sheri Gann has joined the Denver office of Schaefer Engineering Corp. as the firm's area marketing coordinator.

Jeff Goldman has joined the business development team at American Civil Constructors Inc. in Denver, where he will be responsible for creating opportunities for the company's landscape maintenance divisions.

Tina Turner and Stephany Taddeo of Pear Commercial Interiors, a workplace solutions provider, have earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.