Tom Goett has been promoted to project manager for PCL Seattle.

Goett joined PCL in June 2005 as a project engineer on the Bellevue Community College Building D Renovation and Addition project. He has been in the construction industry for nineteen years with ten years experience in the field as laborer and labor foreman and nine years experience in construction administration.

Interface Engineering, a mechanical and electrical consulting engineering firm in Portland, has promoted controller and associate principal Beverly Markstrom to principal/partner. She becomes one of the few female principals of an engineering firm in Portland. Markstrom becomes one of eleven principals at Interface. Before joining the firm in July 2000, Markstrom was controller at Land Tech, Inc., a Portland civil engineering firm.

Anne Whitacre is now a fellow of CSI, because of her service to the Institute and the profession.

HDR's Portland office has hired four new staff members, and another staff member has relocated to the Portland office from Seattle.

Wade E. Hatthorn relocated to Portland as the assistant department manager, with responsibilities for operations in both Portland and Seattle. Prior to the transfer, he was responsible for HDR's Washington operations.

New hires include: Jeanne LeJeune, water marketing manager for Oregon and Southwest Washington; Don Owings, P.E., senior project manager; Deborah Redman, senior planner/project manager; and Richard Steinbrugge, P.E., senior project manager.

Walker Macy has expanded the firm's expertise by adding landscape designer Noel Lau to its team. After graduating from the University of Oregon Landscape Architecture program, Lau has worked for nearly six years on a variety of resort, mixed-use, retail, residential and commercial development projects. Along with his passion for well-designed sustainable spaces, Lau is also an artist, serving as a muralist and sign painter for McMenamins.

Otak Inc., a planning, architecture, design and engineering firm, announced is has named one new principal and promoted 16 other professionals to senior associate or associate.

Greg Mona, who was promoted to principal, has 27 years of experience as a civil engineer, the last 20 of which have been in management positions.

Otak also promoted six professionals to senior associate and 10 to associate. The new senior associates are Kay Van Sickel (Lake Oswego), Tonya Finley (Lake Oswego), Sinan Gumusoglu (Lake Oswego), John McCarty (Carbondale) and Julie Morales (Lake Oswego). Otak's new Associates are Gwynne Berkeley (Lake Oswego), Corey Charon (Bend), Keith Damann (Kirkland), John Gonzales (Lake Oswego), Katie Kersten (Lake Oswego) Kerry Lankford (Lake Oswego), David Ojala (Kirkland), Heather Robinson (Lake Oswego), Darrin Stairs (Lake Oswego) and Linda Van Winkle (Lake Oswego).

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Portland, announced that Anne Whitacre has been named a Fellow by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI). Fellowship is among the top honors granted by CSI.

Fellows are nominated by colleagues for notable contributions to the commercial building and design industry including the advancement of construction technology, improvement of construction specifications, education of peers, and service to the Institute. The CSI Jury of Fellows is responsible for final selections.

As the specifications writer for ZGF's Seattle office, Whitacre is one of 8 people in the Seattle metropolitan area ever to receive this honor.