CU Honors Distinguished Engineers/Forker Wins Wire Off/Norris Dullea Expands Team

Six alumni and the former director of the Women in Engineering program at the University of Colorado at Boulder were honored with the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award at CU's 40th annual Engineering Awards Banquet.

They are James Abrams, J.D. Abrams Inc.; Peter Balsells, Bal Seals Engineering; Linda Capuano, Honeywell International; Michael Francis, Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; David Haussler, University of California at Santa Cruz; Eugene Myers Jr., University of California at Berkeley; and Jill Tietjen, former director of the Women in Engineering Program at CU-Boulder.

Sarah Armstrong, who works in the preconstruction services department of FCI Constructors, has earned accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program.

Roxanne Watson has been promoted to controller of Swinerton Builders' Colorado division.

The company has also added three new staff members: architect Mark Hughes, project manager; Dorothy "Dody" Day, quality control manager; and Cassie McGuire, project accountant.

Additionally, two staffers have returned to the Colorado group - Superintendent Larry Solis and Assistant Project Manager Nick Elmont.

Paul Fischer, PE, has been promoted to vice president at Burns & McDonnell Engineering. A 17-year firm veteran, Fischer has led the Denver office for three years as a regional manager and is currently leading its efforts on the city of Thornton's Columbine Water Treatment Plant expansion.

Jeffrey Bayer, project manager; Jeff Ellis, estimator; and Jackie Brantley, accounting; have joined Maxwell Construction.

Kurt Mahnken, PE, principal and senior vice president of CLC Associates, has been appointed to the Design Professionals Risk Control Group's national board of directors.

J.R. Harsh is Wagner Equipment Co.'s new agricultural division sales representative for northern Weld, Washington, Logan, Moffat, Routt, Rio Blanco, Eagle, Summit, Clear Creek and Gilpin counties.

J.E. Dunn Construction Co. has announced the addition of Ken Gibson, project manager; Vince Stellino, assistant project manager; and Rodney Schaub, superintendent.

HomeSphere Inc. in Lakewood has announced several additions to the company's headquarters staff. They are Sandra Bochsler, account manager; Tracy Fletcher, marketing specialist; Amy Fairchild, PMP, software development manager; and Doug Kelley and Stan Matz, software developers.

Kurt Klanderud and Scott Bonner were recently promoted to senior vice presidents at Gerald H. Phipps Inc.

Ben Forker of Quality Electric Inc. won the Independent Electrical Contractors Rocky Mountain Chapter's annual Wire Off competition in May, advancing to the national finals in Baltimore.

Also, David Hoyt and Chad Frydenlund joined the company - Hoyt as a senior estimator and Frydenlund as a project manager.

Edward Wetzel has joined the management consulting and engineering firm R.W. Beck Inc. as its east coast director of water and waste resources in Nashville.

Mariko Tominaga, trained as both an architect and landscape architect, joined Wenk Associates Inc. as a staff landscape architect.

Norris Dullea expanded its team with seven new hires. They are Kurt Moje, associate; Jeff Carrier, Eric Taylor and Jake Travis, project managers; Ryan McBreen, planner; and Philip Plum and Brandi Hall, landscape architects.

David Owen Tryba Architects has added several staff members to the firm's uptown Denver design studio. They are Maggie Thomson, Kevin Handley and Andrew Pavalis, project designers; Amy Fisk, executive assistant; and Katie Schuchardt, office services assistant.

Designer Andrea Lawrence Wood was named head of 4240 Architecture's interior design department.

For the second consecutive year, Barry Stamp of Shaffer-Baucom Engineering & Consulting was selected to review grant applications for regional biocontainment laboratories in Washington, D.C.

Sorin Barbalata also joined the firm as head of the electrical department.

Project architect Richard Arriaga, MCSE, an associate with M+O+A Architectural Partnership in Denver, passed his architectural exams in the spring to become a registered architect in Colorado.

Short Elliot Hendrickson Inc. added several new members to its Colorado staff. They are James Hayson, PE, project engineer; William Poole, airport planner; Jeffrey Dankenbring, PE, senior transportation engineer; Brian Kennedy, environmental scientist; and Mark Ruckold, project design leader.

Sarah Clark, PE, and Jeff Glover, PE, have been named professional associates at HDR through the firm's Professional Associate program, which recognizes employees who have distinguished themselves as technical experts in their chosen career fields and identifies leaders in specific areas of expertise.