Group Mackenzie, a regional consulting firm announces the addition of Laura Pedersen and Linda Myers as senior interior designers. Pedersen is currently working on Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital, Portland, East Police Precinct, Vancouver, Wash. and Pacific Office Automation, Beaverton, Ore. Myers is currently working on Amber Glen, Hillsboro, Ore.; Scholls Business Center, Tigard, Ore.; and Westbrooke Corporate Park, Hillsboro, Ore. Jake Andersen and Lia Hartono have joined the architectural department. Alexis Clemon, Morgan Roush and Min-bae Peter Kim have joined the interior department.

Shea Homes, builder of Trilogy at Redmond Ridge, announced that real estate executive John Adams has joined its team as Northwest regional director of acquisitions and community development. Adams joins Shea Homes after 14 years with Port Blakely Communities. He managed the planning, entitlement process and preliminary development of the Trilogy at Redmond Ridge property prior to its sale to Quadrant in 1998.

Zack Lennon and Scott Foster have joined CLC Associates, an engineering, planning, and surveying firm. Lennon and Foster are both surveyors and will augment the firm's existing professional staff of 23.

J. E. Dunn Construction, Portland, promoted Jeff Dalton, an employee since l990, to vice president of business development and Stephanie Houchins, hired in l996, to marketing manager. As one of the Pacific Region's nine vice-presidents, Dalton will oversee all current and future business development opportunities. Houchins, marketing manager, will be responsible for business development proposals, media relations, advertising, in-house publications, and maintaining the firm's extensive database of projects and photography.

Express Construction has hired Scott Jay as a project engineer and Steve Soran as a superintendent. Jay is the project engineer on The Mercer, a 237-unit mixed-use residential and retail property in downtown Mercer Island, Wash. Soran is working on the retrofit of a former Burger King in Parkland, Wash., to a Starbucks and Taco Del Mar.

Lease Crutcher Lewis, has hired four and promoted one.

Cindy Little has been promoted to project manager in the special projects division in Seattle. Little is a 20-year construction professional, including two years with Lewis. Markus Foerster, P.Eng. has been hired as project manager in Seattle. His initial assignment is to assist the Lewis team at the Bellevue City Hall project. Sara Gerde has been hired as project engineer in the special projects division in Seattle. She is a seven-year professional formerly with Skanska, Conner Development, and Davis Langdon. Sara's current assignments include a major addition at Our Lady of Fatima School and lobby remodels at Bank of America Tower. Tracy Michel has been hired as project engineer in the special projects division in Seattle. She has been in construction for 18 years, including 13 years in similar roles. Tom Callahan recently joined the Tacoma office as project engineer. He brings five years of experience in this role, with Kiewit and General Construction, on projects such as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and Sound Transit's light rail maintenance facility in Seattle.

The Graham Group of US companies welcomes Patrick McCord to its Spokane-based operations. McCord will be working with Graham Construction and Management, Inc. as a project manager. Prior to joining Graham, McCord had served in a similar capacity for the past six years with Panco Construction, Inc., also of Spokane.

The Spokane office of Northwest Architectural Company (NAC) has promoted Brent G. Harding, AIA, and Michael R. O'Malley, AIA, to principal from associate principal and Gregory J. Hoffman, RCDD, to senior associate from associate. Harding, who has been with NAC since 1992, is currently serving as principal designer of the new Mead Elementary School and project manager for the addition and modernization to Lincoln Middle School in Pullman. O'Malley, who originally joined NAC in 1983, is presently serving as project manager for the new InCyte Pathology Laboratory Building in Spokane. He is also working on a number of projects at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Hoffman, an electrical/communications designer and project manager, joined NAC in 1989, helping form NAC Engineering, NAC's electrical engineering division.

Rob Schurman, EIT, recently joined the Seattle office of BERGER/ABAM as a civil engineer. He has over five years of experience focused towards the planning, design, analysis, modeling, and cost estimation of several basin, stream, and wetland restoration projects. Kelly Pitera, PE, was promoted to a Grade IV engineer. Mason, Bruce & Girard combines a unique blend of natural resources consulting firm with forestry, environmental services, and geographic information systems (GIS). Brad Holt offers the new forest certification service, bringing over 27 years of forest and ecosystem management experience with Boise Cascade Corp., including 5 years as forest certification manager. Roger Greene has over 30 years of forest management experience on projects ranging in size from 3,000 to 1.2 million acres. Ellen Voth is a forest analyst and project manager in MB&G's forestry inventory and biometrics group. Sarah Robinson is a GIS technician, expanding MB&G's GIS Service Group to five people. Gayla Reese, CPSM, has joined MB&G as the marketing manager.

Christopher L. Peterson, LEED® Accredited professional, joined Cierra as a senior project manager. Petersen has ten years of experience emphasizing large-scale retail developments and other commercial projects. At Cierra, he will manage the electrical design for the $70 million expansion of the Tulalip Casino in Marysville. The project includes convention facilities, retail, restaurants and a 400-room hotel tower. Cierra Electrical Group is a Seattle electrical engineering firm working in health care and laboratory, civic buildings, commercial, retail as well as design/build.

DCI Engineers, civil and structural consulting engineers, announced the promotion of Craig Crowley in the Spokane office, and Greg Gilda, Mark Moorleghen and Mark Seiser in the Bellevue office to associate.

Crowley has more than eight years of experience providing structural engineering design services for projects in a range of market sectors including: commercial, residential, and educational. Crowley worked in DCI Engineers' Bellevue office before moving to Spokane to help set up the Eastern Washington office. Gilda, who joined DCI Engineers as a project manager in the Bellevue office in 2002, has more than 16 years of experience providing structural engineering design services. A registered engineer in California, Colorado and Washington, Gilda has extensive knowledge investigating and designing repairs for structures damaged from such elements as impact, water, earthquake, and fire. Moorleghen's diverse experience spans over 20 years, and includes both design and project management for commercial, industrial, mixed-use, residential, transportation infrastructure and aerospace facilities, for both private clients and public works entities. Seiser has more than 19 years of experience providing design services as a CAD drafter and has been with DCI Engineers since 1997.