Taber Consultants Names New President, 2 VPs

WEST SACRAMENTO--Taber Consultants has named Frank Taber as president and Tom Skaug and Eric Nichols as vice presidents.

Taber, Skaug and Nichols will continue to oversee the firm's professional engineering and geologic services.

Andy Taber moves from his post as president into a new role as chairman/CEO.

Ray Taber, founder and original namesake of the company, will retire from active participation on the board of directors to act as chairman emeritus.

Frank Taber assumes his post as president after 27 years of working as a staff and project engineer, and as VP and principal geotechnical engineer for the last six years.

Skaug brings 20 years of experience to his role as vice president. He has been with Taber as senior engineering geologist and manager of environmental geology for 14 years.

Nichols, also a senior engineering geologist, has been with the firm for 14 years.

Carter & Burgess Hires Rehermann

SACRAMENTO--Clint Rehermann has joined Carter & Burgess Inc. as a senior survey technician in the firm's Sacramento survey unit.

Rehermann, an engineer in training, comes to Carter & Burgess from Marysville-based Genesis Engineering, where he worked for five years as an engineering technician specializing in calculating drainage and grading plans, earthwork calculations for balancing cuts/fills on project sites and CAD drafting.

Also a surveyor in training, Rehermann previously worked for North Coast Engineering in Paso Robles as a senior engineering technician.

Yaussi Joins Turley & Associates

SACRAMENTO--Michele Yaussi has been hired as marketing manager at Turley & Associates, a Sacramento-based mechanical engineering firm.

In her new position, she is responsible for the overall management and coordination of marketing activities including business development, proposal generation, media relations and promotional activities.

New Associate Principals at M+L

OAKLAND--Carlos Chang and Edward X. Qi have been promoted to associate principals at San Francisco-based structural engineer Middlebrook + Louie.

Chang has managed the structural engineering work at Oakland's Elihu M. Harris State Office Building.

Qi has managed several large building projects in Asia and the United States, and has co-authored several papers on special seismic systems.

Kahler New at Smith-Emory

SAN FRANCISCO--Monica Zsutty Kahler has joined Smith-Emery Co., a construction materials testing and inspection firm, in its San Francisco office. She will assist with marketing and project management functions.

Kahler has 19 years of testing and inspection experience throughout the Bay Are. She has been involved in estimating and managing testing and inspection services for large-scale offices, condominiums, hotels, hospitals and schools.

McCarthy Promotes Jennemann

SAN FRANCISCO--McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has promoted Stephen A. Jennemann to project director and chief of McCarthy's Northern Pacific Division, Education Services.

Jennemann is responsible for procuring and managing education projects in the K-12 and higher education sectors.

As a project director, he will be responsible for the success of all field operations, including coordination and supervision of subcontractors, scheduling, job safety, budget and quality control.

Jennemann's current education services projects include McCarthy's efforts at the Hillsborough City School District. He is a 20-year McCarthy veteran and has 25 years of construction experience.

Morlin Management Appoints Senior VP

SAN FRANCISCO--W. Gardner Combs has joined Morlin Management Corp. as senior vice president.

Combs will be responsible for generating new business and overseeing the Northern California Region for Morlin Management. He has extensive experience in project development, negotiation of purchase and sale documentation, and the operational requirements of major developments.

Combs previously served as the president of Northwest Asset Management Co. Inc., an independent, third-party management company in Northern California that he co-founded in 1983. Combs was responsible for all aspects of corporate administration, including oversight of accounting, client reporting, development of corporate human resources policies, corporate identity and sales.

Harwood Joins Tucker Sadler as PM

SAN DIEGO--Hamilton Harwood has joined Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects as project manager.

He previously spent three years as project manager for Hoch Associates in Fort Wayne, Ind.; five years as project architect for The Troyer Group in South Bend, Ind., two years as job captain for UC San Diego; three years as draftsman for Krommenhock/McKeown in San Diego; and three years as project architect for Noble Design in San Diego.

Harwood has 17 years of architectural experience.

MBH Hires Tobias for Retail Studio

ALAMEDA--MBH Architects has hired Mitchell Tobias as account director for the Alameda-based firm's new Specialty Retail Design Studio.

His architectural career spans 16 years, with that time split between interior design projects and exterior architecture.

Tobias earned a Master's degree in Architecture in 1988 from UC Berkeley.

Johnson Appointed Office Manager at RBF Consulting

CAMARILLO-Darin Johnson, a vice president at Irvine-based RBF Consulting, has been named manager of the firm's Camarillo office.

He has served as project manager/engineer on local agency roadway design projects, freeway improvement projects, and freeway concept planning studies in Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Orange counties.

Ware Malcomb Hires Olguin, Baird; Promotes Gabrielian

LOS ANGELES-- Ware Malcomb has hired two new employees and promoted another in its Los Angeles office.

Patti Olguin and Kristen Baird join the Irvine-based firm as project managers and Garine Gabrielian has been promoted to project manager.

As project manager in the Interiors Group, Gabrielian is responsible for project management, design, client relations, construction documents and construction phase services.

Olguin also works in the Interiors Group. She has 16 years of experience in a wide variety of office, retail, entertainment and hospitality projects.

Baird is part of the Health Care Group. She has 10 years of experience in health care, commercial office, corporate headquarters and residential facilities.

Bantle Joins HGA

SAN FRANCISCO--Minneapolis-based HGA Architects has hired Genevieve Elise Bantle as a project manager in its San Francisco office.

Bantle most recently served as a project designer and project manager for The Design Partnership in San Francisco, where she oversaw work at California State University, Monterey Bay, and various juvenile justice facilities in California.

She also worked at the San Francisco office of design/builder McClier Corp. as an assistant project manager responsible for organizing business practices and the workflow of $900 million worth of international projects.

Krusi Appointed President at Tyco

LONG BEACH--Alan P. Krusi has been named president of Tyco Infrastructure Services, a unit of Tyco Engineered Products and Services.

In this new assignment, Krusi will be located at TIS' global headquarters in Long Beach.

Prior to joining TIS, Krusi was president and chairman of San Francisco-based O'Brien Kreitzberg; executive vice president for Los Angeles-based Dames & Moore Group (construction services); president of construction services for San Francisco-based URS Corp.; and chief executive officer of RealEnergy Inc.