Otak/Triad/DLR/Greenworks

Otak, Inc. has announced the addition of a landscape architect and an urban planner to its staff. Chris Brandt, who was hired as a landscape architect in Otak’s Carbondale office, joins the firm with 12 years of experience in client, project and contract management, with an emphasis on sustainable design and stormwater use. Brandt has worked on projects such as the Chase Medical Center, Building B Plaza and stormwater garden, and site planting and stormwater design for the 10 Coburg Medical Office Building — both in Eugene, Ore. — and the site planting and design for the rooftop parking garden at Seattle Children’s Hospital in Seattle, Wash. Urban planner Sally Foster has joined Otak’s Lake Oswego headquarters. While earning a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Foster received the David Crane Award for Excellence in Urban Design in May 2009. Foster was also short-listed for the Urban Land Institute’s Urban Design Competition in January 2009.

Three Triad Associates employees – Roy Lewis, Michael Moody, and Brian Hansen – have earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) designation after recently passing the examination. Roy Lewis, PE, is a Triad vice president and has been with the company for 21 years. Michael Moody, PE, joined Triad in 2005. Brian Hansen, EIT, was a summer intern in 2006 and was hired full time two years ago.

DLR Group has added five new professionals to their architectural staff: Informational Technologies professional Brian Timian; intern architects Amy Brown, Laura Bartunek, and Chelsey Olsen; and high school intern Shelby Hintze. Timian joins as the new network administrator. He has worked in the IT field for seven years, with previous experience at biotech company Zymogenetics. Intern architect Amy Brown is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Interior Design in 2006. She earned her LEED certification in 2006. Intern architect Laura Bartunek graduated in 2007 from the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts and Architecture. She is currently working to earn her Master’s Degree in Architecture from Harvard. Intern architect Chelsey Olsen earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Arts and English from Macalester College and a Master’s in Architecture from Iowa State University. She recently interned in Shanghai, China. High school summer intern Shelby Hintze will be a senior at Marysvile-Pilchuck High School this fall. She will be working and gaining experience in public relations and marketing, a career she hopes to pursue after college.

Jason A. King, ASLA, LEED™ senior associate with the Portland-based firm of GreenWorks PC, has been appointed by the (USGBC) to serve on the Sustainable Sites Technical Advisory Group (SS TAG). King was selected out of a nationwide pool of 124 applicants for 8 open Sustainable Sites TAG positions based on his expertise with vegetated roof design; decentralized stormwater design; habitat restoration; native and adaptive plants; sustainable site strategies; brownfield development; and reduction of urban heat island effect.