Colorado Real Estate Journal - December 16, 2015
Elaine Kanelos joined integrated design firm DLR Group as national workplace business development leader. Kanelos brings more than 20 years of experience working in the architectural and engineering industry across the nation. She will be based out of the firm’s Denver office. Working with the global-sector leader, Kanelos will ensure that clients are aware of the breadth of core and shell, interior design, and energy and engineering services in which the firm specializes. She also will collaborate with each of the firm’s studios to identify progressive clients that would most benefit from partnerships with the leaders and strategists at the firm. WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services organization, appointed Michael Unger area manager for Colorado/ Wyoming. In his new position, Unger will be responsible for overseeing the operations of the transportation and infrastructure group in the firm’s Denver and Colorado Springs offices. Unger has more than 25 years of engineering experience serving public and private clients throughout Colorado. Prior to joining the firm, Unger managed the Colorado operations of a national consulting engineering firm. He previously served as Western regional manager for an international firm, with responsibility for the infrastructure business unit in the Western U.S., and as project manager for a significant infrastructure project in Abu Dhabi. Unger received a Bachelor of Science in architectural engineering from the University of Colorado. Tim Harris was named client relations manager in the Denver office of WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff. In his new position, Harris will lead efforts to expand business opportunities with new and existing clients throughout Colorado and Wyoming. Harris retired from the Colorado Department of Transportation following a 33-year career. He most recently served as chief engineer and was responsible for leading the agency’s engineering and maintenance divisions. He also served as CDOT’s regional director for the Pikes Peak region and Southeast Colorado. He previously managed CDOT’s contracting office, with responsibility for all construction, design, maintenance and funding contracts. Harris received a bachelor of civil engineering degree from Georgia Tech University. He is a licensed professional engineer in Colorado. Himmelman Construction Inc.,a privately held commercial general contractor, added Karen Irwin as the company’s new vice president of marketing and business development. Irwin will have oversight of the strategic direction for all marketing and business development initiatives, including driving revenue growth for the company and building new relationships within existing and new markets. Irwin comes to HCI with more than 10 years of marketing, business development, advertising, public relations and brand management experience within the architecture, engineering and construction industry. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Central Michigan University. Mary Morissette, FAIA, LEED AP,joined Page, a multidisciplinary architecture and engineering firm, as a principal. As a senior leader in the Denver office, Morissette is responsible for operational management, quality control, staff development, strategic planning, and implementation of best practices. She also will play an active role in business development and marketing. Throughout her career, Morissette has focused on institutional clients, primarily working on complex health care, judicial and educational facilities. The scope of her projects has exceeded 2 million square feet and construction costs of more than $1 billion. She oversees project delivery from the site and building master-planning phases through construction and occupancy, and has extensive experience in historic renovation and new construction. She has won numerous design and honor awards, including the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse at the Denver Justice Center, a LEED Goldcertified facility that won both AIA Colorado and AIA Denver design awards as well as an AGC Golden Hardhat award. The renovated Byron G. Rogers U.S. Courthouse won an AIA Denver design award, AGC Golden Hardhat award and a GSA national environmental award. Representative clients include the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Huntsville District, University of Colorado Hospital, University of Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, HealthONE Colorado Swedish Medical Center, Denver Health Medical Center, General Services Administration, State of Colorado, the city and county of Denver, the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. Previously, Morissette worked for Jacobs as a senior architect assisting the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Construction & Facilities Management with the administration of construction for a new 2-million-sf, $1.2 billion medical campus in Aurora. Her duties included cost evaluation, technical review, quality control, and design and construction coordination. Prior to that, she served as managing principal for Leo A. Daly in Denver. She earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Today, she is licensed in Colorado and Virginia, although she received her initial licensure in Texas. DHM Design, a planning and landscape architecture firm, recently made several promotions at its Denver and Durango offices. At its Denver office, Eileen Kemp was promoted to associate principal. She has been at the firm since 2001 and her leadership of the company’s federal-sector efforts are “key” to its current and future success. Kemp has worked for many years on National Parks Service contracts and has been integral to winning on-call contracts in the northeast, southeast and intermountain regions. She has been directly involved in many of the NPS projects, including Grand Canyon Visitor Center, Dinosaur National Monument Visitor Center and Comfort Station and Yellowstone Canyon Lodging, which opened this summer. Michaela Kaiser was promoted to senior designer. She has worked on projects, including the Pikes Peak Summit Complex and Silverthorne Parks master-planning process. Additionally, the Denver office added Geoff Taylor, who will mange 3-D graphics and visualization for projects across the firm. Taylor has 10 years’ experience in Seattle, where he was a senior design visualization specialist and project manager at Parsons Brinckerhoff. Within its Durango office, Katie Feeney was promoted to senior associate. The diversity of her project experience includes the completion of the Oklahoma City Whitewater Park package, the Durango Animas River put-in projects, a streetscape project in Ridgway and ongoing work in Three Springs. As a licensed landscape architect, she has an interest in master-planned projects, having built DHM’s portfolio with larger water-related projects throughout the country. She has led the preparation of several master plans and has worked to help design and execute multiple successful community engagement processes.