Colorado Real Estate Journal - October 21, 2015
Jeff Schwiethale, PE, recently was appointed as a vice president of The RMH Group. In addition to being a vice president at the mechanical engineering and industrial facilities design firm, he serves as the firm’s Healthcare Group manager. In this role, Schwiethale oversees a specialized team of engineers and designers dedicated to health care projects for such clients as Banner Health, Centura Health, Children’s Hospital Colorado, HealthOne, Kaiser Permanente, SCL Health and University of Colorado Health. Schwiethale has been with the firm since 2011 and holds a degree in architectural engineering from Kansas State University. Steve Wilensky joined RNL Design, an architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, planning and urban design firm, as director of urban and transit planning. In his new role, Wilensky will lead design efforts and oversee planning for the firm’s urban and transit planning practice in North America. The firm’s transportation practice is the largest practice at RNL and has a staff of more than 120 in offices in Denver, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Wilensky has a broad range of urban design experience and a portfolio of award-winning work in the U.S. and Canada. Throughout his career, he has managed and provided design leadership on a variety of multidisciplinary projects involving multimodal, transportation engineering, urban design, landscape architecture, bridge architecture and public process. His work can be seen in public transit projects across North America, including the Green Line in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Southeast Extension Light Rail in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and, in Colorado, the I-225 Light Rail Corridor, T-REX, the 28th Street Corridor in Boulder and the Highland Bridge. Wilensky is a registered landscape architect and also is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Colorado and a graduate of the University of Minnesota. David Moore, PE, joined Manhard Consulting, a civil engineering and surveying firm, as senior project manager. Moore will be based in the Westminster office and provide project management and site design to a wide variety of clients, with a focus on land development, structural design, mining, and oil and gas. In addition, he will manage the engineering group and expand the structural division of the firm. Prior to joining Manhard Consulting, Moore served as chief operations manager for Alliance Engineering, where he was responsible for business development and management of the operation. His 37-year career includes extensive experience in project management and broad knowledge of the Rocky Mountain region. Moore received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the West Virginia University Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Chris Strom and Jeff Bayer joined Epic Construction Inc. Strom joined the construction firm as business development manager with more than 20 years in the construction industry. Previously, he was with Maxwell Builders for more than 11 years. Bayer, also previously at Maxwell, joined the firm as project manager. Bayer has more than 35 years in the construction industry both on the owner’s side as well as on the contractor side. Byron Zick, Mario Siciliano, Kevin Gzym and Kristin Tedford joined Davis Partnership Architects. Zick is a licensed architect in Colorado and Texas. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma and his graduate degree from the University of Idaho. He brings over nine years of experience in multifamily and single-family housing and small commercial design. Zick is supporting efforts in our commercial practice group. Siciliano also joins Davis Partnership as a licensed architect. He received his undergraduate degree from Ohio University and graduate degree from Miami University in Ohio. He brings seven years of experience as a project architect working on higher education, and sports and recreation projects. His architectural experience also includes working in Washington, D.C., and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Siciliano will be working with the architecture firm’s higher education studio. Gzym is a University of Colorado Boulder graduate and has experience in award-winning single-family, multifamily, town home and small commercial projects. He is a licensed, independent real estate broker. Gzym will be assisting the commercial practice group. Tedford received a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Miami. She adds over two years of architectural experience in education while working in Boston. She is an architect intern who will be working with Davis Partnership’s sports and recreation, and higher education studios. Brandon E. McNellis joined Consilium Design as its latest landscape and urban designer. He brings 15 years of academic and professional experience to the land planning, landscape architectural and urban design firm. He has worked with a wide range of Colorado geography, including plains, foothills and mountain regions. He attended Fort Lewis College and received his Bachelor of Agricultural Science from Colorado State University. In 2014, McNellis earned his master’s degree in urban design from the University of Colorado Denver. Cuningham Group Architecture Inc. named Thomas Fridstein, FAIA, LEED AP, as chief operating officer. The former director of development and executive director of Cuningham Group China, Fridstein brings more than 30 years of experience in the development and design of buildings, urban spaces and interior environments and the management of large architectural organizations. Based in Cuningham Group’s Denver office, Fridstein now oversees all of the company’s day-today operations and manages the firm’s performance. Fridstein has worked in 26 countries and has completed signature projects in China, Europe, South America and the United States. He previously managed major architectural firms, including leading one of the world’s largest architectural practices at AECOM. He has also served as executive principal at Perkins Eastman, CEO of Hillier Architecture, senior director of design for international real estate company Tishman Speyer Properties and partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Fridstein also has been the managing principal responsible for many large-scale, mixed-use developments, including the 4 million-squarefoot Broadgate development in central London, the 88-story Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, the 48-story Bertelsmann Building in New York’s Times Square and the $2 billion Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas.