Adolfson & Peterson Tops 100 LEED APs/JE Dunn Adds Preconstruction Manager/JEC Announces New Board Officers

Adolfson & Peterson Construction of Aurora recently announced that several employees have received LEED accreditation status through the U.S. Green Building Council to bring the company-wide total to 107.

The list includes Ralph Kasper, chief estimator; Clark Bender, preconstruction manager; Tony Cingoranelli, preconstruction manager; Eric Dimmick, senior estimator; Tyler Sartorius, estimator; Luke Inniger, project manager; Matt Curtis, field engineer; Nathan Korger, field engineer; Al Grasso, marketing manager; Gabe Madsen, field superintendent; and Talbot Holmes, field engineer.

All are from the firm’s Colorado office, which has a total of 50 LEED-accredited professionals on staff.

Steve Burns of Pinkard Construction Co. in Lakewood has been promoted to the newly created role of director of preconstruction.

As director of preconstruction, Burns’s duties will include collaboration with Pinkard’s estimating and preconstruction staff and client owners and architects to expand the quality of Pinkard’s preconstruction and planning services, including BIM, scheduling, constructability review, project feasibility analysis, estimating, sustainability and defect prevention.

JE Dunn Construction, a commercial general contractor with offices in Denver and Colorado Springs, has announced the recent addition of Peter Tronnier, senior preconstruction manager.

Tronnier joins the firm with more than 26 years of construction experience in project management and preconstruction cost estimating. His experience includes more than a decade as the director of preconstruction for another large local contractor and the founder of the Preconstruction Resource Group in 2004.

For the past 14 years, Tronnier’s industry focus has been on health care, where he provided preconstruction services for more than 2.5 million sq ft of new and renovated health-care construction totaling over $1 billion.

Drahota’s Derek Cohen, a project manager; Ed Hurtubis, an assistant project manager in Steamboat Springs; and Brad McDanald, an assistant superintendent; have all earned LEED accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Cohen, Hurtubis and McDanald and their other LEED-accredited counterparts at Drahota are not only well educated on green building practices, they can also efficiently guide Drahota clients who want to construct buildings that will earn LEED certification, said company president and CEO Terry Drahota.

The Jefferson Economic Council elected its 2009 Board officers in December. Kristen Anderson, senior vice president for Wells Fargo, is JEC’s new board chair. Mike McGinnis, a partner with Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck, will serve as vice chair; and Karen Lind, executive director of Elk Valley Public Improvement Corp., will serve as past chair. Mike Partheymuller, vice president of Carma Colorado will serve as treasurer; and E. F. “Buddy” Douglass, Jr., president with FirstBank of Lakewood was elected to as board secretary.

The JEC also welcomed four new board members elected onto the board in November. Kimra Perkins, general manager for Colorado Mills Mall; Joe Jehn, president of Jehn Engineering; Ron Teck, business development manager for Olsson Associates; and Tom Currigan, director of community and local government relations for Kaiser Permanente.

Nick Benjamin, an estimator in the Colorado office of Kiewit Building Group, has earned the certified professional estimator accreditation from the American Society of Professional Estimators.

ASPE provides continuing education and the opportunity to become a CPE through study, submission of a 2,500-word technical paper and 12 hours of exams. Currently, there are only 33 CPEs in Colorado and 637 in the nation.