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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL

— May 6-May 19, 2015

CDE Who’s News

Beaudin Ganze Consult-

ing Engineers Inc.

completed

its ownership transition with

Dan Koelliker, PE,

in place as

president.

Koelliker is joined by Debbie

Eachus, finance manager; Eric

Rubotton,

PE, hospi-

tality and

technology

services lead-

er; Morgan

Royce, PE,

New Mexico

business unit

leader; and

Wes Ploof,

PE, metro

Denver business unit leader.

Co-founder Denis Beaudin,

former president and major-

ity owner of the firm, which

specializes in mechanical,

electrical, lighting, technol-

ogy, commissioning, energy

analysis and LEED consulting

services, completed the transi-

tion to members of the senior

leadership team, all of whom

are previous shareholders of

the firm and together have an

average tenure of more than

15 years with BGCE.

Beaudin’s plans for the

future include developing

NRG Design Build Inc., a sep-

arate entity from BGCE with

several shareholders in com-

mon. Beaudin completed the

purchase of NRG in March.

H+L Architecture

announ-

ced a number of leadership

promotions, including naming

Gary Prager,

senior life prac-

tice lead, to principal and pro-

moting

Cherie Dice

to director

of interior design.

In addition,

Nandini Kane

Biesk, Robert Galvin, Kaye

Mullaney, Nicholas McCor-

mick

and

Fernanda Pires

were promoted to associate.

Prager, AIA, NCARD LEED

AP, CDT, has 38 years of

architectural

experience.

His attain-

ment of the

principal

title is reflec-

tive of his

professional

commit-

ment to the

H+L’s senior

life practice,

according to the architecture

firm. His expertise includes

creating sustainable living

environments specifically for

senior health care, memory

care, assisted and independent

living, as well as multifamily

housing.

Dice, NCIDQ, LEED AP

ID+C, has worked on a variety

of projects

since join-

ing the firm

in 2006,

including

health care,

education,

advanced

industries

and senior

life.

Kane Biesk

has more

than 20 years

of experience

on a variety

of project

types. She

has served as

project archi-

tect on mul-

tiple projects

as well as a

medical planner on multiple

high-profile area hospitals,

including the new St. Joseph

Hospital and St. Mary's Hospi-

tal in Grand Junction.

Galvin, AIA, has partici-

pated in a variety of roles with

H+L since

2006. Cur-

rently lead-

ing code

compliance,

quality

control and

office stan-

dards devel-

opment,

Galvin has

worked in

all market segments served by

the company as both project

manager and project architect.

Most recently, he was an inte-

gral part of the St. Joseph Hos-

pital project team.

Mullaney, AIA, LEED AP,

has a been a

member of

H+L since

2010. She has

more than

18 years of

experience in

the industry.

McCor-

mick has

been with

the firm for

seven years

and focuses

on advanced

industries,

education

and health

care projects

and serves as

project man-

ager on the

majority of

his projects.

Pires,

EDAC, Lean

GFBC, has

dedicated

her career to

health care

design for

the past 20

years with

extensive

expertise

with lean

and evidence-based design.

Currently she is working on

the UCH Harmony Emergency

Department project.

John Norris,

president of

planning and

landscape

architecture

firm Nor-

ris Design

Inc., recently

was one of

12 Kansas

State Univer-

sity alumni

named as

2015 Alumni

Fellows.

Norris is an Alumni Fellow

for the College of Architecture,

Planning and Design and was

on campus in April to present

guest lectures.

He earned a bachelor’s

degree in landscape archi-

tecture from Kansas State in

1981.

Christopher Meek

joined

Adolfson & Peterson Con-

struction

as the new senior

project manager for the firm’s

higher education market.

Meek has more than 18 years

of experience in the industry,

completing projects across

the United States, including

the Cherry Creek Shopping

Center reno-

vation, vari-

ous athletic

complexes,

and private

and public

schools.

Brittney

Warga

also

joined the

firm. Warga

is a project

manager for

A&P and has

more than

nine years of

experience

overseeing

and manag-

ing various

construction

projects.

Her most

recent expe-

rience comes from working as

a construction project manager

for the University of Colorado.

She earned her bachelor’s

degree in architecture from

University of Illinois at Urba-

na Champaign.

George Kettlewell

and

Ken-

neth “Kenny” Dearth

recently

joined

GE Johnson.

Kettlewell came to the gen-

eral contrac-

tor firm with

more than 33

years in elec-

trical con-

tracting and

will serve as

superinten-

dent. Previ-

ously, he

worked with

Encore Elec-

tric and Riviera Electric and

held multiple roles, including

superintendent, operations

manager and director of field

resources. Projects Kettlewell

has been involved with

include the new St. Joseph

Hospital, Microsoft Data Cen-

ter in Cheyenne, Wyoming,

Craig Hospital, Parker Adven-

tist Hospital, the Four Seasons

Hotel Denver and Ralph L.

Carr Colorado Judicial Center.

Dearth has spent the better

part of three

decades in

the construc-

tion industry

and joins the

company as

a superin-

tendent. He

brings a spe-

cialization in

green build-

ing prin-

ciples and has extensive expe-

rience with high-performance

buildings, including LEED

Platinum certification.

Notable projects Dearth has

been a part of include Weaver

Tower and Maple Hall at

Colorado School of Mines, the

Niagara Water Bottling Plant

in Aurora, Lewis Palmer High

School’s stadium and track in

Colorado Springs, and the Bel-

mar retail and parking project

in Lakewood.

Cuningham Group Archi-

tecture Inc.

expanded its

practice in Denver with the

addition of

Thomas Fridstein,

FAIA, LEED AP,

as the new

director of development.

The former executive direc-

tor of Cuningham Group

China, Fridstein brings more

than 30 years of experience

in the development, design

and construction of significant

buildings,

urban spaces

and inte-

rior environ-

ments to the

full-service

design firm.

Fridstein

will con-

tinue the

expansion

of the Den-

ver office, which emphasizes

educational facilities, sustain-

ability, libraries and affordable

housing.

General contractor

Swin-

erton Builders

added to its

lineup of construction profes-

sionals with the addition of

10 employees to its Colorado

Division who will provide

construction management, site

supervision, safety, building

information modeling and

quality assurance services.

Brett Dahlin

returned to

Swinerton as a superintendent

for the East

Quad Cam-

pus High

School, a

new design-

build facility

for Denver

Public

Schools near

Denver Inter-

national Air-

port. Previ-

ously, Dahlin worked on Swin-

erton’s construction of the

Four Seasons Hotel and One

Lincoln Park residential tower,

both in downtown Denver.

Scott Hill

joined the com-

pany as a

superinten-

dent and

has been

assigned to

the design-

build con-

struction of

the Mod 4

East Parking

Structure at

DIA.

Michael

Brown

also

joined the

Mod 4 East

Parking

Structure at

DIA design-

build team as

an assistant

project man-

ager. He is a

graduate of

Texas A&M University with a

degree in construction science.

Shawna Dias

came to Swin-

erton’s special projects group

as a project

manager for

commer-

cial office

and data

center inte-

rior improve-

ments and

renovations.

She is a

graduate of

the Univer-

sity of Washington.

Shawn Burke

has been

named project safety man-

ager and is

responsible

for devel-

oping job

site-specific

safety plans

and training

Swinerton

employees

and job site

subcon-

tractors. He is a graduate of

Colorado State University’s

Construction Management

program and holds several

safety certifications, including

OSHA 500, 502 and 510.

Christina M. Tetrick

returned to the company

as quality

control man-

ager. She

will oversee

the divi-

sion’s quality

control and

assurance

measures

for a mul-

titude of

projects. She

previously served as a project

manager for Swinerton’s con-

struction of the Four Seasons

Hotel and One Lincoln Park

residential tower.

Jeremy Tolmen

and

Nathan

Menken

joined the firm’s

building information model-

ing team. Tolmen joined as

BIM man-

ager, trans-

ferring to

Colorado

from Swin-

erton’s San

Diego office.

Menken is

a gradu-

ate of John

Brown Uni-

versity with

a degree in

construction

management.

Added to

Swinerton’s

special proj-

ects group

are Senior

Project Engi-

neer

Amy

Weaver

and

Project Engi-

neer

Shelby

Lee.

Weaver

has several

years of local

construction

experience.

Lee is an

alumna of

Swinerton’s

internship

program

and a recent

graduate

of the Uni-

versity of

Denver with

a Bachelor

of Science

in business

administra-

tion in real

estate and

construction

management.

George Diestelkamp

joined

F&D International

as a senior

project manager.

Diestelkamp brings nearly

30 years of experience work-

ing for El

Paso County

as the facili-

ties manager

for county-

wide capital

construction

projects to

the full-ser-

vice project

management,

engineering

and architecture firm specializ-

ing in construction consulting

services. He has contributed

his expertise to a wide variety

Dan Koelliker

Nandini Kane Biesk

John Norris

Kenny Dearth

Thomas Fridstein

Brett Dahlin

Jeremy Tolmen

Nathan Menken

Amy Weaver

Shelby Lee

George Diestelkamp

Scott Hill

Michael Brown

Shawn Burke

Shawna Dias

Christina M. Tetrick

Christopher Meek

Brittney Warga

George Kettlewell

Gary Prager

Cherie Dice

Robert Galvin

Kaye Mullaney

Fernanda Pires

Nicholas McCormick

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