Engineers JONES Jessica Jones of The RMH Group, Lakewood, Colo., was recently promoted to director of sustainable services. She will spearhead the company’s sustainable design and facilitate its commitment to providing low-energy-use mechanical and electrical engineering solutions. Her job will include maintaining the firm-wide focus on green design by keeping the company abreast of trends and technologies and coordinating in-house green training. Jonathan Jensen, associate mechanical engineer with Spectrum Engineers, Salt Lake City, has earned the Building Energy Modeling Professional certification from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Jensen provides mechanical engineering services for health-care, hospitality, education,
Straight-shooting engineer Renee Azerbegi wants to be as accurate as possible when describing the Denver consulting firm she co-founded with her husband. Since its start in 2004, Ambient Energy has been identified by a golden logo and the tagline, �solar and sustainable design solutions,� but Azerbegi is considering a tweak. �The Ambient name was his idea�my husband�s a solar guy and he was a consultant for us�but now he�s with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, so we�re thinking of changing the tagline.� And so it goes at an evolving firm led by a perfectionist. Located in a retrofitted Victorian-era building
She recently returned from Paris, the “first real vacation” she and her husband have taken without their son. She’s also resumed taking piano lessons, willfully making time now instead of waiting until retirement, when “I won’t have the memory any more.” She has resumed taking piano lessons, willfully making time now instead of waiting until retirement. Also important to Azerbegi is her mother-son time. Once a week, no matter the demands of the office, she picks her son up from school, and they also take weekly taekwondo classes together. Azerbegi says she believes that �people think I�m too serious because
Construction began on a $50-million project that will create a new interchange connecting Stapleton’s Central Park Boulevard with Interstate 70 in Denver, the largest American Recovery & Reinvestment Act-funded project in Colorado. Photo by JobSiteVisitor.com The Central Park Boulevard Interchange and bridge will connect the Stapleton development on both sides of I-70 with a six-lane bridge over the highway. In 2000, redevelopment at the Stapleton International Airport site occurred on both sides of I-70 in east Denver; however, a designated road to connect the two sides was not included in the plan. The new Central Park Boulevard project makes those
Construction is complete on a new 33,000-sq-ft career center in Salt Lake City for plumbers, pipefitters, welders and HVAC&R technicians run by the Utah Mechanical Contractors Association and United Association Local 140. The new Utah Career Center will train and re-certify more than 1,000 trades people annually. The Utah Career Center, which replaces an existing career center, is expected to achieve LEED-Gold certification and will train and recertify more than 1,000 tradesmen annually. UMCA and UA’s apprenticeship programs require over 1,350 hours of training—far exceeding most educational trade program requirements. Apprentices who complete their education to become UA journeymen also
Denver-area construction costs have increased only 0.2% so far this year, says the latest research from global property and construction consultant Rider Levett Bucknall. Chart courtesy of RLB But it represents the first posted cost increase in Denver after seven consecutive quarterly price drops, the most significant of those a minus 7.5% change in bid prices from January 2009 to April 2009. While this current uptick in Denver construction costs is lagging behind the national trend, both national and local construction costs are leveling off and expected to remain relatively stable. Looking to the future, both nationally and locally, RLB
Engineers div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" The RMH Group of Lakewood, Colo., recently added six employees to its staff: Tracey Fisher, lighting designer and energy engineer; Brett Lee, electrical engineer; Don Cherry, electrical engineer; Jerad Meidinger, electrical engineer; Amy Laabs, drafter; and Dave McClellan, civil engineer. Salt Lake City-based Reaveley Engineers + Associates recently made the following staff appointments. Michael Buehner has been made a principal. A graduate of the University of Utah, he has been with Reaveley for 12 years. During that time, he has contributed to the Huntsman Cancer Institute Phases IIA and IIB, the U of
Corgan Associate’s Dallas office announced three new associates to add to its team of professionals with expertise in aviation and interior design. Dan Hursin, Ginger Gee and Shelly Nichols were promoted to associate. Gee received a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Harding University in Arkansas and received her master’s of architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" STG Design in Austin announced the promotion of two team members, PollyAnna Little and Jeff Ervin. Little has been promoted to principal and Ervin to associate principal. Little is a graduate of the University of
Steven Katich recently joined JE Dunn Construction, Denver and Colorado Springs, as a director of business development and government relations. div id="articleExtrasA" div id="articleExtrasB" div id="articleExtras" Katich joins the firm with more than 30 years of experience in marketing, government relations, public affairs, media relations and business development. Katich received a degree in political science from the University of Denver and a law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Bill Salzbrener has joined Guarantee Electrical Co. as vice president of the firm’s Western Region. He will head the company’s office in Aurora. Salzbrener, 63, has more than four
At a time when many firms are in survival mode, trimming costs and eliminating risk, Architectural Nexus is thriving, and it�s encouraging employees to pursue work they�re passionate about, even if it�s not a fi rm specialty. Formed in 2003 by the merger of Jensen Haslem Architects and Thomas Petersen Hammond Architects, Architectural Nexus now has 100 employees among offi ces in Logan, Utah; and Tempe, Ariz.; and a new LEED-Platinum Salt Lake City headquarters, an energetic design studio coaxed from a bland fi tness facility. President Donald Finlayson, who joined Jensen Haslem as a health-care specialist in 1996, became
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