Colorado Real Estate Journal - March 18, 2015
-Tim Ross and Chris Russell joined full-service architecture and urban design firm Studio Architecture. Ross will head Studio’s marketing and business development activities and will contribute to quality control and project management efforts. He joins the firm with 20 years’ experience as an architect and project manager, most recently at OZ Architecture. Russell is a design architect, overseeing project design and production activities on the firm’s senior care and multifamily design projects. Russell has 10 years of experience in architectural design, most recently at B+H Architects in Shanghai, China. -Leah Jones joined full-service contractor Taylor Kohrs as senior estimator. She will be responsible for overall planning and management of the firm’s estimating activities, including preparation, interpretation and presentation of estimates. Jones started in estimating as a coordinator aiding in the process, eventually working her way to estimator in a few short years. Jones received a bachelor’s degree in communications from Arizona State University and a Certificate of Construction Estimating from American Society of Professional Estimators. -Construction services company Turner Construction Co. recently added a number of employees to the Denver office. George Hartman joined Denver’s special projects division as a superintendent. Prior to joining Turner, he was a project manager for an electrical contractor and spent 15 years as a co-owner and project manager for a local commercial general contractor. Doug Attebery is now working on the Veterans Affairs hospital project in Denver as assistant manager, exteriors. Attebery started his career with Turner in 1979 on the Bally Casino project in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Over his career with Turner, he has worked in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Mark Griffin also joined the Denver office. He started working for Turner in 1990 in the Boston office as a field engineer, before spending 13 years in Washington, D.C., with various roles, including purchasing manager for Mid-Atlantic and manger of business development for SPD. In 2007, he transferred to North Carolina as satellite manager for the firm’s Raleigh office. Much of his career with Turner has been focused on interiors, lab/ biopharm and health care. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Zack Hendricks joined Turner working as the project safety manager on the Hyatt Hotel and Conference Center project in Aurora. Prior to joining the firm, he was a member of U.S. Air Force stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base. He has a bachelor’s degree in safety management. David Klein joined the Denver office as a quality control engineer on the Replacement Medical Center facility in Eastern Colorado. Prior to coming to the firm, he was a QC manager working on projects throughout Southern California. He has a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Northland College. Todd Lantz joined the Denver office working as a senior project manager in SPD. Prior to relocating to Denver, he spent four years with the firm as a senior project manager working on projects at Intel’s semiconductor factory in New Mexico. Prior to joining the company, he worked on numerous projects as an engineer and project manager in health care. He has a Bachelor of Science in construction management from Colorado State University. Janet McGinty joined the Denver office as a quality control engineer on the VA replacement hospital project in Aurora. Prior to joining Turner, McGinty worked as a project engineer/QC representative in general construction on health care, industrial and commercial projects throughout the Midwest and western states. She has a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Michigan State University. David Wight joined the Denver office as an engineer in SPD. Prior to joining Turner, he was a material manager and procurement agent working on power plants throughout the U.S. He has a bachelor’s degree in construction management from the University of Washington at its Seattle campus. -Linda Harmon joined Metro Construction as business development and commercial sales executive. In this position, Harmon will oversee all commercial sales and commercial business development efforts for the general contractor. She also will develop and maintain relationships with multifamily and commercial property managers as well as homeowner associations throughout Colorado. Previously a marketing and sales manager at LJH Partners and Inspired Focus in Denver, Harmon has been in marketing and sales leadership roles for more than 25 years. She also has experience in the construction and business fields, holding positions such as vice president of marketing and sales at the Denver/Boulder Better Business Bureau and vice president of marketing and sales at Amber Homes, Amber Mortgage, Harmon Family Foundation and Puma Development. -Ryan Swanson, PE, joined Maintenance Design Group, which specializes in planning and functional design for transportation maintenance facilities across the U.S. Swanson will be a senior mechanical engineer in the firm’s Denver office. He has more than 10 years of mechanical engineering experience, specializing in HVAC, plumbing and energy analysis projects for industrial, government, health care, education and commercial clients. At the firm, he will be providing mechanical design and engineering on MDG’s transit, public works and other operations and maintenance facility projects throughout the United States and Canada.