Drinkwater Wins ABC National Award/CU Professorship Honors RNL Founder/Boulder Associates Announces Promotions

Associated Builders and Contractors presented its 2005 Craft Professional of the Year award to Ray Drinkwater, an electrical foreman at Greiner Electric LLC in Littleton.

Ray Drinkwater, an electrical foreman for Greiner Electric LLC in Littleton, was named Craft Professional of the Year by Associated Builders and Contractors during the organization's 2005 national convention, held in late February in Orlando.

The award recognizes a craft professional "who excels in his or her field, maintains a lifelong commitment to training and upholds the merit shop philosophy."

Drinkwater, who has worked in the local construction industry since 1993, is also a level-one electrical instructor for the Construction Industry Training Council of Colorado. He has provided craft leadership on numerous projects and serves as a mentor to teenagers for the Mile High Youth Build of Denver.

Mira Theisen has been promoted to associate at Denver's Sink Combs Dethlefs Architects, where she is a project manager for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Student Recreation Center and the Wood River YMCA in Ketchum, Idaho.

John Rogers, FAIA, principal and founder of RNL Design and an alumnus of the University of Colorado's Executive MBA program, has been honored with the creation of the John B. Rogers Term Professorship at CU Denver's School of Business.

Rogers was recognized for his work to promote understanding of architecture and design to students in the business school while advancing the teaching of business principles to students at the architecture school.

Michael Mismash, who has 25 years of experience in marketing and construction project oversight, has been named manager of business development for Turner Construction Co. in Denver.

Miles Krogman, a foreman with Riviera Electric, was awarded a $1,000 safety prize from The Weitz Co. He was recognized for his zero-accident record on the Aspen Valley Hospital project.

Kevin Pope has been promoted from associate to principal at MKK Consulting Engineers Inc., where he is a lead mechanical engineer in the firm's Billings, Mont. office.

Mike Wisneski, AIA, has joined M+O+A Architectural Partnership as project manager and project architect.

Mike Branigan has joined the advertising staff at McGraw-Hill Construction in Denver as an ad director/account manager for Colorado Construction magazine and The Daily Journal. Branigan was formerly with The Denver Business Journal. He will also represent specialty and custom publications, including Colorado Builder Forum, AIA Architect Colorado, My House in the Mountain States and the ASID Colorado Resource Directory.

DiAnn Sherk, whose experience includes serving on the interior design team for Boulder Community Foothills Hospital, has returned to Boulder Associates Inc. as an associate principal and director of interior design.

Todd Henderson, AIA, Tracy Rasmusson, AIA, and Dan Schneider, AIA, have been named as associates of the firm.

Sean O'Keefe, who has more than nine years of professional experience - including four years of accelerated marketing experience in the architecture and engineering industry - has joined Coover-Clark & Associates as marketing manager.

Tim Hubka, who has more than 25 years of experience in the Denver roofing industry, has joined WeatherSure Systems Inc. as a senior project manager.

Charles Zache has been hired by the Colorado office of Adolfson & Peterson Construction. Zache, who has five years of experience in the state's construction industry, is working on the Greeley Leisure Center project.

E. Kemel Blue Jr. has been promoted to regional vice president and general manager at Forest City West, where he will be responsible for opening and managing properties in the Denver region, including NorthField at Stapleton, Saddle Rock Village in Aurora rand The Orchard at Westminster.

Suzanne Wohlgemuth, PE, has joined CTL/Thompson as a senior engineer and project manager. She has 25 years of geotechnical, civil and environmental engineering experience and has been published in the Transportation Research Record and in the "Handbook for Stabilization of Pavement Subgrades and Base Courses Using Lime."

Cheryl Grisar has joined Shaffer Baucom Engineering & Consulting as the marketing director, where she will oversee all of the company's strategic marketing efforts.

Joseph Christie, PE, of Bucher Willis & Ratliff Corp., has completed the requirements for the professional engineer's license for Colorado.

Melanie Rice has been named a project coordinator at Denver's Carwile Construction Co., where her responsibilities encompass all aspects of project management support, including bidding, scheduling and safety.

Architectural Workshop has announced three additions to its Denver office - Katharina Baumann and Eric McNeal, designers; and Jessica Ryan, office manager.

Steve Suechting has been promoted to senior vice president at the Denver office of Trammell Crow Co. and Steve Bassett has been promoted to principal.

Monte Robinett, chairman of Associated Builders and Contractors, has been named director of preconstruction at CFC Construction Inc. and Randy Parsley has joined the general contracting company as a senior estimator.

Todd Grover has joined Compass Bank as a senior vice president and manager in the commercial real estate group, and William Sullivan has been promoted to senior vice president and manager of the corporate and business banking groups.

Doug Geist, PE, has joined J.E. Dunn Construction Rocky Mountain Region, where his responsibilities include preconstruction estimating, life-cycle cost analysis, identifying constructability issues, coordinating utility tie-ins, construction QA/QC and commissioning.