The Water Environment Federation (WEF), an international organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the global water environment, recently named architectural, engineering, planning and consulting firm HDR's J. Michael Read as vice president. The WEF Board of Directors voted to elect Read to the role at the WEFTEC 2003 conference in Los Angeles. After serving for one year as vice president, Read will become president-elect in October 2004 in New Orleans and president in 2005 in Washington DC.

Read, a vice president and engineering department manager for HDR's Portland, Ore., office, has been a member of WEF since 1980. He has served as a WEF director and executive committee member and chair of the Long Range Planning Committee. In addition to his WEF positions, Read chairs the Constitution and Bylaws Committee for WEF member association Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA) and is a former PNCWA president. Read becomes the second HDR executive to serve on the WEF board. James E. Abbott served as President from 1988 to 1989.

Paula Crandall has been hired as a senior property manager for Lorig Management Services of Seattle. Crandall's responsibilities comprise the leasing, operations, management and staffing for projects including collegiate housing and properties managed for the National Development Council and the Housing and Urban Development office in Seattle.

Crandall brings to Lorig 22 years of property management and leasing experience in residential, office, R&D, industrial and retail real estate.

Two Oregon residents have been chosen by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) board of trustees to serve as honorary members. They join five other new honorary members throughout the United States.

The local members chosen are the Honorable Earl Blumenauer, U.S. House of Representatives of Portland, Ore., and Nancy Callister Buley, director of marketing for J. Frank Schmidt & Son Company in Boring, Ore.

Honorary membership is one of the highest honors the society may bestow upon non-landscape architects. The new honorary members will be inducted during the ASLA mid-year meeting in May.

Bellevue, Wash., homebuilder Quadrant Corp. recently announced the promotions of Michele Jackson to advertising manager, Scott Mcallister to graphic design manager and Teresa Heaton to merchandising coordinator.

In her new position, Jackson will oversee the production and implementation of Quadrant's print, radio and television advertising campaigns.

As graphic design manager, Mcallister will be responsible for developing design concepts and reviewing all design and production materials for Quadrant's print, broadcast and electronic advertising and marketing.

In her new position as merchandising coordinator, Heaton will assist with merchandising Quadrant's model homes and sales offices.

Chris Raftery has rejoined general contractor Lease Crutcher Lewis after an 11-year absence.

Raftery is senior project manager for the Bellevue, Wash.'s new city hall, a $66 million project the firm that was awarded two weeks after Raftery returned.

Raftery brings expertise in project management, and in the field as a superintendent. Much of his construction background has been design-build, with direct oversight of the design process.

At Lewis, Raftery's job will be two-fold: he will be a senior project manager, helping multiple project managers manage their projects, and also serve as a key preconstruction resource for other Lewis projects - bringing his full range of expertise while focusing on structural concepts.

Kirkland, Wash., Triad Associates, a land development consulting firm, recently promoted Mitch Evans to project surveyor and Zane Nall to survey field manager. David Manning has been hired as the marketing manager and Claudia Malone as human resources manager.

Evans is currently using his topographic and boundary surveying expertise to help Yarrow Bay Development establish a 157-acre single-family housing community in Kent, Wash. Nall will lead Triad's 12 surveying crews using his 15 years of field surveying and AutoCAD drafting experience.

Malone joins Triad Associates after six years as an independent human resources consultant. Manning is responsible for improving the company's ability to provide land development solutions to clients.

The Oregon Building Congress (Portland, Ore.) recently honored five individuals for their contributions to education and the development of the industry's future workforce. The honorees are:

• Congressperson of the Year: Loretta Young, City of Portland, for her financial support of OBC's construction academy program within Portland Public Schools directed at youth of color and young women;
  
  
• Contractor of the Year: Russ Batzer, Batzer, Inc., for spearheading OBC's entry into southern Oregon with its Construction Academy programs for students and Summer Math workshops for teachers, helping OBC become a statewide organization;
  
  
• OBC Past President Award: Doug McClain of the Harver Company and
  the Wall and Ceiling Contractors Association of Oregon and southwestern
  Washington for serving as OBC president during 2002;
  
  
• Educator of the Year: Tim Mosterdyke, Scappose High School, for outstanding teaching in the Portland Public School's Construction Academy program for women and youth of color.
  
  
• Vocational Instructor of the Year: Ralph Shaeffer, retired sheet metal instructor who inspired OBC's Math Workshops in which 99 percent of the 300 attending teachers have rated in the upper 20 percent of all their professional development experiences.

The American Society of Civil Engineers recently installed its newly elected officers, two of which are from the Northwest.

William P. Henry, marketing manager of Seattle's Schaaf & Wheeler Consulting Civil Engineers, was elected president-elect, and Gregory DiLoreto, general manager of the Tualatin Valley Water District in Beaverton, Ore., will serve as director of District 12, representing sections and branches in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Alaska and Oregon.

Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 133,000 civil engineers worldwide.

The Associated General Contractors Oregon-Columbia Chapter has hired Kevin Bredesen as labor relations manager. Bredesen's addition to the chapter's team renews an emphasis on the partnerships between the Oregon-Columbia Chapter, its union membership, and union leaders.

Ding Ye, a design engineer at engineering firm Reid Middleton in Everett, Wash., recently received his Washington Civil Engineering Professional Engineer's license.

Ye has more than seven years of experience in civil, environmental and construction engineering. He recently provided civil engineering design for the Green River Community College Technology Center, the Snohomish County Campus Redevelopment and the Ault Field Sewage Lagoon Closure on Whidbey Island, Wash.

Seattle's Dexter + Chaney, developer of software for the construction industry, has hired Perry Levine as the company's western regional account manager. Levine is responsible for selling Forefront Construction Management Software to heavy/highway and general construction company prospects in Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

Paras General Contractors Inc. of Spokane, Wash., recently hired Cody Crawford to fill the position of project engineer. Crawford is a recent graduate of the University of Colorado at Pueblo and has a degree in facilities management and technology studies.

Paras Concrete Contractors, a division of Paras General Contractors, has promoted Zac Leonard to the position of concrete superintendent. Leonard has been with the organization since 1994 and has worked in the positions of laborer, carpenter, cement finisher and foreman.