Slayden Construction (Stayton, Ore.) has named name Todd Woodley as president. Woodley, a graduate of Oregon State University, has been with Slayden since 1991, and most recently served as executive vice president. Prior to joining the firm he worked as a consultant in capital planning, scheduling and estimating for Pinnell Engineering, and as project manager for Schneider Group in Pittsburgh, Pa.

In addition, Slayden has promoted Steve Flett and Zack Secrest has been promoted to project manager. Flett has been with the company since 1995, as has Secrest.

Stone Equipment Company of Honeoye NY has appointed Alan Thomas district manager for Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Thomas will also cover the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. He will be based in Kent, Wash.

Associated Builders and Contractors Northwest Chapter (Tigard) has named Lisa Gallegos membership director. Most recently, Gallegos served as ABC's apprenticeship specialist.

Jay Halleran and Steve McConnell were made firm partners by NBBJ (Seattle). In addition the firm has named three new principals, 16 senior associates and 24 associates.

Halleran is Director of NBBJ's in-house cost management group. A 1979 graduate of the University of Washington Jay joined NBBJ in 1980, where he has supervised the cost estimating and value engineering on more than 1,000 projects.

McConnell came the firm in 1990 and has led key design and planning for local, projects in the US and abroad. He is a graduate of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and holds certificates in mixed-use and courthouse design from Harvard University.

New NBBJ principals are: Tom Owens, Martin Regge, and Jerry Yin.
New senior associates: Kelly Coller, Kay Compton, Karen Dahlstrom, Scott Dunlap, Duncan Griffin, Gary Harris, Tom Henry, Wayne Hiranaka, Robert Leykam, Margaret Montgomery, Laurel Rech, Robert Smith, Duncan Thieme, Carl Tully, Tim Weyand, and Noel Whorton

New associates: Laurie Bert, Marnie Boomer, Jim A. Brennan, Billy Chen, Phil Duff, Ed Fajardo, Holger Fritsch, Dana Hollingshead, Keith Hui, Midge Hunnicutt, Duane Jonlin, Ross Leventhal, Marcus Lintault, Barney Mansavage, Andrew McCune, Gregory Menikoff, Yachun Peng, Jan Ralkowski, Scott Roaf, Claudia Ross, Tara Schneider, Leslie Synnestvedt, Lisa Tomich, and Natasha Turcinovic.

Roy Glisson, president of Spokane-based All Wall Contracting, was elected president of the Washington State Council, Painting and Decorating Contractors of America (WSC-PDCA) during the organization's annual business meeting February 7, in Ocean Shores Wash.

Joining him as officers for 2003-2004 are vice president Darylene Dennon, Solid Energy, Inc. Woodinville, secretary Marvin Warren, Monty Warren Painting, Inc. Kent, Treasurer Tim Mjelde, BMP, Inc. Seattle, immediate past president Stacey Grund, Tatley-Grund, Inc. (Seattle) and associate secretary Rich Gill, Miller Paint Company Burien.

Lorig Management Services (Seattle) has hired Kevin Grossman to head up the commercial leasing and overall property management at Welch Plaza as well as working on special projects across Lorig Management's portfolio of 1,800 apartments and 400,000 square feet of commercial space.

Grossman brings twenty years of experience in commercial real estate and property management to the Lorig Management Services team. Most recently a property manager for Integrated Real Estate Services,

Grossman has also worked with investors and businesses in making informed real estate decisions including Pinnacle WebWorkz, Inc., Deutsche Bank and the Puget Sound Center. He is also the Deputy Mayor of the City of Shoreline and a Trustee of Shoreline Community College.

Tim Biddick has joined Pacific Fire & Security (Seattle) as business development manager. He brings more than eight years of experience in design and installation as well as sales to his position.

Biddick is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS). He has managed design, installation and sales for RFI Communications & Security Systems and SecurityLink from Ameritech in the Portland area.

Mancong Lin, AIA has joined Emick Howard & Seibert Inc.(Seattle) as a project architect. Lin will work on a variety of financial institution and corporate projects for the firm.

Lin is a licensed architect with 11 years of experience in the Puget Sound area. She has completed a wide-range of projects including commercial, industrial, multi-family residential, and healthcare.

She has been involved in all aspects of project management and design including programming, planning, design, and construction documentation, and construction administration. Previously, Lin worked at GGLO, TRA, and YNA and Associates.

Lin earned a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Qinghua University in Beijing, China.

Candela, Architectural Lighting Consultants (Seattle), has promoted Mary Claire Frazier, IALD, LC to firm principal.

With 18 years experience as a lighting consultant, designer, and instructor and degrees in architecture and psychology, Frazier will join Candela principal Denise Fong in managing
and marketing the firm.

Since joining Candela in 1996, she has developed innovative, award-winning designs for
projects such as Experience Music Project and Auburn and Issaquah libraries.and marketing the firm.

David S. West has been named principal partner in the commercial general contracting firm of Gray Purcell, Inc. (Tigard). West most recently headed his own contracting firm, WestHill Contractors Corp.

Outside of work he serves as second-term president of the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce, and as at-large-board-member of the Sandy Historical Society.

Merritt+Pardini Architects (Seattle) recently hired Maria Resende to work on the firm's Tacoma Convention and Trade Center project.

Resende is a licensed architect in both New York and Washington, with 10 years' experience on educational, institutional, hospitality, commercial and residential projects.

Her project experience includes the Tulalip Casino and the Microsoft Millennium Office Park in Washington, the Smart Money Magazine Offices in New York, and the Hotel Cheyenne Complex in France.

Tejal Mehta has joined Lorig Associates (Seattle) as assistant project manager working on a new apartment-style residence hall for Seattle Pacific University, as well as a housing project on Market Street, near the University of Washington Tacoma Campus.

With more than eight years of project management experience, Mehta has a diverse project portfolio with emphasis in multi-family housing, urban design and historic preservation.

She earned her bachelor's of architecture at the University of Oklahoma and master's in architecture at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Mehta also serves as a board member on the Pioneer Square Preservation Board representing architectural interests.

LMN Architects (Seattle) has promoted Sam Miller principal. Miller has served as project manager for the firm's Seattle Central Library project and is an accredited LEED professional. In addition, Steve DelFraino, Anne T. Herrick, Brian Nagele and Kathleen Stallings were named associates of the firm.