The E-470 Public Highway Authority recently named J. Matthew Alexander as its new director of roadway and land management and Neil Thomson as its new construction manager.

Alexander will be responsible for overseeing maintenance of the highway, including preparations for winter weather driving. As the new construction manager, Thomson will supervise construction work and interface with the highway's contractor and consultants.

Previously, Alexander was the construction manager at the E-470 Authority for seven-and-a-half years and Thomson was a construction engineer for six years. Before that, both worked for the Regional Transportation District.

Margaret A. (Peggy) Catlin, deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation, has been named winner of the 2002 Woman of the Year Award by the Colorado Women in Transportation Seminar, a professional organization.

Catlin has spent much of her 25-year engineering career in transportation. She worked for 20 years for the engineering firm HNTB Corp., serving as vice president of the central division in Denver from 1994 to 2000. During that time, she served on the executive team for the development of Invesco Field at Mile High.

In her role as CDOT deputy director since 2000, she is responsible for day-to-day management, operation and overall strategic direction of the agency and its 3,100 employees. She is also responsible for the department's intelligent transportation systems program, information systems, public/private partnership initiatives and asset management. She is currently serving as interim director of the Colorado Tolling Enterprise.

Archie Lind, PE, has joined URS Corp.'s Denver Tech Center office as vice president of aviation. Lind has more than 35 years of experience in aviation engineering applications.

His background includes extensive project management of airport systems development, specifically in aircraft fueling, ground power, passenger loading bridges, preconditioned air, deicing systems, pneumatic tube systems, automated storage/retrieval systems, cargo systems and baggage systems.

URS has also announced that it recently hired the following individuals: Geremy Samuelson, computer technician/operator; Brian Starbuck, data validation chemist; Chad Gillan, geo/civil staff engineer; and Brandon Desh, engineering intern.

The Neenan Co. has announced that John T. Mills, AIA, ACHA, and Robert Campbell have joined the firm's health care division. Mills joins the division as a principal architect and Campbell is an associate vice president.

Mills will be responsible for plans and designs for hospital facilities with a special focus on inpatient-related facilities. He has more than 25 years of health care architecture experience, is a member of the American Institute of Architects and a founding member of the American College of Healthcare Architects.

Campbell will assist with business development for the health care division. His strong client relation skills will complement Neenan's commitment to an expanding national presence in the health care industry.

Merrick & Co. recently promoted Barney Fix, PE, and Bill Oliver, PE, to vice president.

Fix joined Merrick in 1993 and currently manages the civil infrastructure team. Under his leadership, the team has successfully performed civil engineering projects throughout Colorado.
A notable long-term project that he managed is the US Home Stetson Hills residential and mixed-use development in Colorado Springs.

Oliver joined Merrick in 1993 and currently manages the firm's advanced technology New Mexico operations. This includes more than 65 multi-discipline staff members working out of two offices in Los Alamos and Albuquerque. Under his leadership, the team performs process, facilities and specialty equipment projects for radioactive and hazardous materials operations at Los Alamos, Sandia and other DOE weapons complex locations.

Carter & Burgess Inc. has announced its newest leadership additions - two newly elected Denver-based associates that are both in the transportation programs unit.

James Fluhr, PE, is a senior project manager with more than 18 years of experience in airport development. His responsibilities include overall project management of engineering design and construction projects as well as contract administration, project scheduling, cost estimating and overall construction management. Fluhr has extensive experience in all facets of airport planning, design and construction projects for both air carrier and general aviation airports.

Mark Shotkoski, PE, is a project manager currently managing a 10-mile design-build toll road in Broomfield. Shotkoski has a wide array of planning, design and management experience primarily from several projects consisting of light-rail transit systems, highway design/construction, a people-mover tunnel and a technical assistance project for natural disasters.

His technical experience spans from drainage, utility relocations, light rail and roadway design to management efforts in construction coordination, cost estimating, technical specification preparation, project schedule and program controls.

Klipp Colussy Jenks DuBois Architects has announced the promotion of two staff members to associate.

Chad Cox has been with the firm since 1999 and has served as project architect/designer for a number of projects within the commercial studio.

Paul Kastner joined the firm in 2000. He has since worked on a variety of projects within the firm's commercial and education studios.

Ware Malcomb has announced the promotion of Rick Gunter to regional director of the Denver office. Gunter has been with Ware Malcomb since 1997 and has more than 14 years of architectural experience. He is a licensed architect in Colorado and California and is knowledgeable about diverse product types, including industrial, distribution, commercial office, R&D facilities, as well as a broad range of interior tenant improvements.

Nuszer Kopatz Urban Design Associates has added Tiffany Holcomb as a project planner.
Holcomb received her master's of landscape architecture degree and a minor in architecture from North Carolina State University.

The firm has also announced that Rob Snelling has returned to the firm as an associate landscape architect. Snelling has a wide variety of experience and expertise in all phases of the design process, including site master planning and feasibility studies, design development and documentation and construction management on a wide range of projects throughout Australia.

Pinkard Construction has announced the promotion of Eric Lindenmuth to project manager.

Lindenmuth has been in the construction industry for 12 years. His responsibilities include managing construction activities, both self-performed and subcontracted work, estimating projects through the design stage, scheduling, material procurement and subcontract letting, shop drawing review and cost control.

Cator, Ruma & Associates, a mechanical and electrical engineering company, has announced two recent promotions.

Sean T. Convery, PE, who joined the firm in 1995 as a mechanical engineer, was promoted to an associate. Convery has been an integral team member on higher education, laboratory and high-tech projects dealing with district steam, condensate and chilled water utilities.

Wayne A. Trader, PE, who was also promoted to associate, has been a mechanical engineer with the firm since 1996. Trader works primarily with multifaceted health care facilities and primary and secondary schools. Trader is accredited for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design by the U.S. Green Building Council and has been directing Cator, Ruma & Associates' sustainable designs.

Washington Group International's division of highways and bridges in Denver has announced the promotion of Alberto Zapata to the position of manager of graphic design. Zapata brings specific graphic design capabilities to Washington Group in the area of information graphics, photo simulations, proposal identities, public presentations and marketing materials.

Monroe & Newell Engineers Inc. has announced that Graham Coddington, PE, has acquired his professional engineer's registration. Coddington's current projects include Tallyn's Reach Municipal Campus in Aurora, Martin Luther King, Jr. library in Aurora, Kwik Lube and Carwash in Thornton and the City Park South multi-family project in Denver.

MKK Consulting Engineers Inc. has announced that it has hired Hal V. Ogle as a senior electrical engineer and project manager. Ogle brings more than 20 years of experience as a professional electrical engineer to MKK.

Before joining MKK, Ogle was the owner and president of his own consulting engineering firm in Phoenix. His experience includes power, lighting and special systems engineering design and construction oversight for a variety of projects throughout the United States. He has a practical working knowledge of the policies, standards and recommended practices governing a myriad of projects within industrial, commercial, institutional, educational and health care markets.

Loris and Associates, structural and civil engineers, has announced the addition of three new staff members and the promotions of several key personnel.

Steven Roche recently joined the firm in the position of controller. Roche will be responsible for the overall financial management of the organization. He brings more than 20 years of financial management experience in Colorado to his position.

Kim Cronin, EIT, joins Loris as a structural engineer. Her background includes several years designing steel structures and her responsibilities will include structural engineering and construction observation.

Paul Mandeville Jr. joined the firm as a bridge engineer. He comes to Loris after working with HDR Engineering in Boston for the past two-and-a-half years. Mandeville will assist with bridge design, structural engineering, roadway design and construction observation.

Julian Lineham, PE, C.Eng. MICE has been promoted to senior associate. Lineham leads Loris' building studio which designs educational, institutional, commercial, residential, historic renovation, recreational and health care projects.

Christopher O'Hara, PE, has been promoted to associate. He leads the special structures studio, which is responsible for structural glass, facade design, tension structures, art installations, moving structures and floating structures in addition to assisting with building design.

Curt Parker, PE, has been promoted to associate. He leads Loris' civil engineering studio with more than 26 years of experience in civil engineering, including floodway design, hydrology and hydraulics engineering for both building sites and roadway projects.

Norris Dullea Co., a planning and landscape architecture firm, has announced the addition of Mark Kieffer, AICP, to its staff as a senior associate and Phillip E. Flores, FASLA, CLARB, as the director of business development.

Kieffer brings 23 years of experience working in community development throughout Colorado.
Before joining Norris Dullea, Kieffer worked for a Denver-based architectural firm with projects throughout the country. Prior to his extensive private sector experience, he also served as planning director for two of the fastest growing communities in Colorado. As a senior associate, Kieffer provides his expertise in project management in both public and private sector work. His responsibilities also include business development.

Flores has been a mainstay in landscape architecture in Colorado for a number of years. He founded Phillip E. Flores Associates Inc. a landscape architecture and planning firm, in the early '70s. In addition to his business development responsibilities, Flores will provide his expertise as a landscape architect, planner, urban designer and cultural landscape preservation specialist.

Lou Sigman, general manager of Harmon Inc.'s Gump Glass, has been named board president of the Colorado Glazing Contractors Association. The association includes a growing membership of architectural glass contractors and related suppliers in Colorado.

Sigman previously held volunteer leadership positions with CGCA as program committee chairman and board trustee. Representing one of the founding companies of CGCA, Sigman draws from more than 20 years of experience in the industry. For the past decade, he has served as general manager of Gump Glass.

Harmon's Gump Glass has also announced that it has hired Karen Pump as an outside service sales representative for the Denver area. Working closely with commercial property managers and building owners, Pump focuses on repair, replacement and renovation needs for buildings' glazed exteriors.

Washington Group International has announced that David Morrisey, PE, and Brian Z. Purto, PE, have achieved the title of professional engineer; and that Matthew T. Kinsella has been promoted to project manager.

With 10 years of experience, Morrisey has worked on such projects as the Lowry Redevelopment, Stapleton Redevelopment and the Fitzsimons redevelopment master plans. Morrisey has extensive experience in design work for drainage and flood control projects, sanitary sewer projects and water distribution systems.

Purto has been the structural engineer on 11 bridges on E-470 Segment IV and the Northwest Parkway, both design-build toll ways.

Kinsella brings years of experience in roadway design, transportation planning, traffic impact studies, roadway alignment and traffic engineering. His most recent experience has been with the Northwest Parkway final design. He was responsible for design and construction assistance for Section A3 of the parkway.

Semple Brown Design PC, a leading Rocky Mountain region architecture and design firm, has recruited Andrea Huddleston, Sean O'Hara and Andrea Nicholl to join its staff of design professionals.

Huddleston brings more than 10 years of architectural experience to Semple Brown. Before joining the firm, Huddleston acted as a project designer at Louviere, Stratton & Yokel LLC, a laboratory planning and architectural design firm.

With a strong background in commercial projects, O'Hara will also play a role in the renovation of the Quigg Auditorium Theatre. O'Hara joined Semple Brown from Gerou & Associates, where he worked on custom residential and commercial projects.

After acting as an architectural intern for the past two years, Nicholl will be moving into her new position as a job captain. Before joining Semple Brown, Nicholl worked for the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado at Denver, HooverDesmondArchitects and AIA Colorado.

Richard Millet, a 37-year veteran of Woodward Clyde/URS Corp., was recently named practice/technology leader for the firm's water resources group.

Millet will provide technical leadership and management support to URS's water resources clients throughout the region. He led the firm's design efforts in the recently completed Metropolitan Water District's 800,000-acre-ft Diamond Valley Reservoir Storage Project and currently is the chairman for the U.S. Society of Dams Foundation Committee.

Jennifer Hanson was recently promoted to public relations coordinator. Hanson will focus on media relations, in-house communications and event planning.

Sprehe Interior Construction Inc. has announced the following promotions and additions to its staff.

John Banks has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer. With 30 years of experience in the construction industry, Banks' primary duties will be in field operations and safety, but will also include client relations and business development. He will have oversight of both the Colorado Springs and Denver offices.

Colin Garretson joined Sprehe in October 2002 as a project manager. He has 10 years of experience in the drywall industry and will be working out of the Denver office.

Brian Townsend joined Sprehe as a project manager in its Denver office in January 2003. He has 24 years of construction experience, seven of which were architectural and the other 17 in commercial drywall.

Rebecca Taylor also joined Sprehe in October 2002 as its new human resources manager.

CTL/Thompson Inc. - a consulting firm specializing in geotechnical, materials and geo-environmental engineering and testing - has appointed Richard Phillips as principal engineer/manager of the Denver engineering division. Phillips brings his expertise from within the company, having previously served in various roles at CTL/Thompson in its Colorado Springs and Pueblo branch offices.

In his role as principal engineer/manager of the Denver engineering division, Phillips' 21 years of experience will lend to his primary duties - project management from assignments to consultation to tracking progress on job sites. In addition, he will provide client support on project work and engineering reports.