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COLORADO REAL ESTATE JOURNAL
— December 16, 2015-January 5, 2016
Elaine Kanelos
joined inte-
grated design firm
DLR Group
as national workplace business
development leader.
Kanelos brings more than 20
years of experience working in
the architectural and engineer-
ing industry across the nation.
She will be based out of the
firm’s Denver office.
Working with the global-sec-
tor leader, Kanelos will ensure
that clients are aware of the
breadth of core and shell, inte-
rior design, and energy and
engineering services in which
the firm specializes. She also
will collaborate with each of
the firm’s studios to identify
progressive clients that would
most benefit from partnerships
with the leaders and strate-
gists at the firm.
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WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff,
a global engineering and pro-
fessional services organization,
appointed
Michael Unger
area manager for Colorado/
Wyoming.
In his new position, Unger
will be
responsible
for over-
seeing the
operations of
the transpor-
tation and
infrastruc-
ture group
in the firm’s
Denver and
Colorado
Springs offices.
Unger has more than 25
years of engineering experi-
ence serving public and pri-
vate clients throughout Colo-
rado. Prior to joining the firm,
Unger managed the Colorado
operations of a national con-
sulting engineering firm. He
previously served as Western
regional manager for an inter-
national firm, with respon-
sibility for the infrastructure
business unit in the Western
U.S., and as project manager
for a significant infrastructure
project in Abu Dhabi.
Unger received a Bachelor of
Science in architectural engi-
neering from the University of
Colorado.
Tim Harris
was named cli-
ent relations manager in the
Denver office of WSP|Parsons
Brinckerhoff.
In his new position, Har-
ris will lead
efforts to
expand busi-
ness oppor-
tunities with
new and
existing cli-
ents through-
out Colorado
and Wyo-
ming.
Harris
retired from the Colorado
Department of Transportation
following a 33-year career. He
most recently served as chief
engineer and was respon-
sible for leading the agency’s
engineering and maintenance
divisions. He also served
as CDOT’s regional direc-
tor for the Pikes Peak region
and Southeast Colorado. He
previously managed CDOT’s
contracting office, with
responsibility for all construc-
tion, design, maintenance and
funding contracts.
Harris received a bachelor of
civil engineering degree from
Georgia Tech University. He is
a licensed professional engi-
neer in Colorado.
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Himmelman Construction
Inc.,
a privately held commer-
cial general contractor, added
Karen Irwin
as the company’s
new vice president of market-
ing and business development.
Irwin will have oversight of
the strategic direction for all
marketing and business devel-
opment initiatives, including
driving revenue growth for
the company and building
new relationships within exist-
ing and new markets. Irwin
comes to HCI with more than
10 years of marketing, busi-
ness development, advertis-
ing, public relations and brand
management experience with-
in the architecture, engineer-
ing and construction industry.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts
in journalism from Central
Michigan University.
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Mary Morissette, FAIA,
LEED AP,
joined
Page,
a mul-
tidisciplinary architecture and
engineering firm, as a princi-
pal.
As a senior leader in the
Denver office, Morissette is
respon-
sible for
operational
manage-
ment, quality
control, staff
develop-
ment, strate-
gic planning,
and imple-
mentation of
best practic-
es. She also will play an active
role in business development
and marketing.
Throughout her career,
Morissette has focused on
institutional clients, primarily
working on complex health
care, judicial and educational
facilities. The scope of her
projects has exceeded 2 million
square feet and construction
costs of more than $1 billion.
She oversees project deliv-
ery from the site and build-
ing master-planning phases
through construction and
occupancy, and has extensive
experience in historic renova-
tion and new construction.
She has won numerous
design and honor awards,
including the Lindsey-Flani-
gan Courthouse at the Denver
Justice Center, a LEED Gold-
certified facility that won
both AIA Colorado and AIA
Denver design awards as well
as an AGC Golden Hardhat
award. The renovated Byron
G. Rogers U.S. Courthouse
won an AIA Denver design
award, AGC Golden Hardhat
award and a GSA national
environmental award.
Representative clients
include the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers - Hunts-
ville District, University of
Colorado Hospital, University
of Denver Anschutz Medical
Campus, HealthONE Colo-
rado Swedish Medical Center,
Denver Health Medical Center,
General Services Administra-
tion, State of Colorado, the
city and county of Denver, the
University of Colorado and
the University of Denver.
Previously, Morissette
worked for Jacobs as a senior
architect assisting the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs,
Office of Construction & Facil-
ities Management with the
administration of construction
for a new 2-million-sf, $1.2 bil-
lion medical campus in Auro-
ra. Her duties included cost
evaluation, technical review,
quality control, and design
and construction coordination.
Prior to that, she served as
managing principal for Leo A.
Daly in Denver.
She earned a Bachelor of
Architecture from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and
State University. Today, she is
licensed in Colorado and Vir-
ginia, although she received
her initial licensure in Texas.
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DHM Design,
a planning
and landscape architecture
firm, recently made several
promotions at its Denver and
Durango offices.
At its Denver office,
Eileen
Kemp
was promoted to asso-
ciate principal. She has been
at the firm since 2001 and her
leadership of the company’s
federal-sector efforts are “key”
to its current and future success.
Kemp has worked for many
years on National Parks Ser-
vice contracts and has been
integral to winning on-call
contracts in the northeast,
southeast and intermountain
regions.
She has been directly
involved in many of the NPS
projects, including Grand Can-
yon Visitor Center, Dinosaur
National Monument Visitor
Center and Comfort Station
and Yellowstone Canyon
Lodging, which opened this
summer.
Michaela Kaiser
was pro-
moted to senior designer.
She has worked on projects,
including the Pikes Peak Sum-
mit Complex and Silverthorne
Parks master-planning pro-
cess.
Additionally, the Denver
office added
Geoff Taylor,
who will mange 3-D graphics
and visualization for projects
across the firm. Taylor has 10
years’ experience in Seattle,
where he was a senior design
visualization specialist and
project manager at Parsons
Brinckerhoff.
Within its Durango office,
Katie Feeney
was promoted
to senior associate.
The diversity of her project
experience includes the com-
pletion of the Oklahoma City
Whitewater Park package, the
Durango Animas River put-in
projects, a streetscape project
in Ridgway and ongoing work
in Three Springs. As a licensed
landscape architect, she has
an interest in master-planned
projects, having built DHM’s
portfolio with larger water-
related projects throughout the
country. She has led the prepa-
ration of several master plans
and has worked to help design
and execute multiple success-
ful community engagement
processes.
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Michael Unger
Mary Morissette
Tim Harris
T
he end of the year
brings with it
jubilant parties and
celebrations of another year
gone by, tempered with the
usual time of quiet reflection
and anticipation of what’s
to come. It has been a very
good year for most of our
colleagues in the design and
construction professions, and
that has had a far-reaching
impact on communities across
the state. As we all get busier
with our daily lives and projects
in front of us, it can be easy
to lose sight of the value and
expertise architects, engineers
and contractors – the people
– bring to any given project.
And particularly during awards
season, it can be easy to reduce
these awards to little more than
giving each other a pat on the
back for a job well done. Little
appreciation is given to the
fact that these award winners
have truly taken the time to go
above and beyond average, and
in doing such, raise the bar for
everyone around them.
AIA Colorado recently
celebrated the projects and
contributions of AIA Colorado
architects. Though the size
and scale of the projects are
varied, the one constant was
the skill and dedication of
the design team members
behind all of those projects.
The AIA Colorado Honor
Awards recognize the firms
and individuals who are setting
examples in both design and
leadership in our state. Each
of this year’s winners is not
only dedicated to achieving
quality design of the built
environment, but also to
elevating the profession of
architecture for generations to
come.
AIA Colorado presented
seven Honor Awards this year:
Architect of the Year, Firm of
the Year, Innovative Practices
Award, Young Firm of the Year,
Young Architect of the Year,
and two
Leadership
Awards. The
winners are a
diverse group
of individuals
and firms,
each
dedicated to
elevating the
profession
and
designing a
quality built
environment.
Their efforts
represent
the highest standards of
professionalism, integrity,
creativity and expertise each
AIA member is dedicated to
maintaining, as well as the
commitment of AIA members
to achieving collaborative
design of a quality built
environment.
Naturally, as with any
award, there is a sense of pride
surrounding AIA awards as
a recognition of professional
achievement. But beyond that,
AIA Honor Awards help to
further elevate the profession
by not only recognizing
professional achievement,
but also considering how the
honored individuals contribute
back to the profession through
mentoring, innovation,
leadership and dedication.
Not only have this year’s
recipients given tirelessly to the
profession, but also they are
active and engaged members
of the community. They are
ambassadors for a profession
that touches some aspect of
everyone’s life every day, and
with that achievement comes
great responsibility to continue
to be engaged, enthusiastic and
knowledgeable leaders.
So as you’re enjoying the
holiday season this year, take
a moment to reflect upon
these award winners and
appreciate the efforts they, and
so many others, make to help
your visions become the great
buildings Coloradans live in,
work in and visit every day. AIA
Colorado is proud to honor the
professional achievement of its
members and congratulates the
Honor Awards Class of 2015.
Architect of the Year:
Tania
Salgado, AIA, Handprint
Architecture, Denver
Firm of the Year:
CCY
Architects, Basalt
Innovative Practices Award:
Tomecek Studio Architecture,
Denver
Young Firm of the Year:
LIVStudio, Denver
Young Architect of the Year:
Adam Harding, AIA LEED
AP, Roth Sheppard Architects,
Denver
Leadership Award (2):
Cara Hlad, AIA, Short Elliott
Hendrickson Inc., Littleton
Cynthia Fishman, AIA NCARB
LEED AP, KTGY Group,
Denver
s
Angela M.T. Van
Do, AIA, LEED
AP BD+C
President, AIA
Colorado
