Barnhart Inc. Announces 4 Promotions

San Diego-based Barnhart Inc., a general contracting and construction management firm has promoted Anton Greenville and Jim Fisher to vice president, and Steve Radford and Steve Ybarrando to general superintendent of the general contracting division.

Greenville's projects include the San Diego Charger Training Facility, the Cuicacalli Suites and Dining Complex at San Diego State University, MiraCosta College Library and Information Hub, San Diego Convention Center Sails Pavilion Enhancements and a police station in City Heights. He previously was a project manager and has 19 years of construction experience.

Fisher was also was a project manager before his promotion, where he specialized in multiple modernizations of educational and public works facilities. He is currently working on the St. William of York School in Carmel Valley, Bear Valley Middle School of Escondido and modernizations to Mesa Verde Middle, Park Village and Highland Ranch elementary schools in Poway.

Radford has managed crews for construction work ranging from $1 million to $60 million. Major projects include, Westview High School, Terminal 2 Expansion at Lindbergh Field, Coronado Avenue Elementary School, NAS North Island Housing Units, Sharp Rees-Steely Medical Center, GSA Calexico Port of Entry and Howard Lane Elementary School.

Ybarrando's expertise is in cast-in-place concrete and utilities development for difficult sites. He is also experienced with large sites requiring extensive coordination efforts. Ybarrando has supervised projects worth as much as $57 million.

As general superintendents, Radford and Ybarrando will oversee superintendents and crew members as well as subcontractor and trade contractor work on Barnhart projects in the San Diego area.

John Collier Named Principal at Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects

John Collier has been appointed to serve as principal at San Diego-based Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects.

Collier is charged with managing day-to-day company operations, including project management, administrative systems and employee relations.

Collier joined Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects in 2003 as a project manager and subsequently was appointed to associate principal. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a founding design principal for ARCTEC Inc. in Phoenix and Santa Clara.

Previous career experience includes having served as partner of Harding & Collier in Boulder, Colo.; director of design for Peter A. Lendrum Associates, in Phoenix; and architect-at-large for Carlson Associates in Boston.

Collier has 26 years of architecture experience. In 1999, he won the Excellence in Design Award from the city of San Jose for his design of the 525 Race St. project.

Collier earned a master of architecture degree in environmental design from the University of Oklahoma.

Mark Graham Joins RRM Design Group

Architect Mark Graham has joined the public safety team at San Luis Obispo-based RRM Design Group.

Graham will lead 26 employees in the firm's public safety team, which has been involved in 100 fire facility projects in the last 23 years.

Graham has personally been involved with 15 public safety and training center projects completed in the last 10 years. His most recently completed project, the Regional Fire Operations and Training Center for Orange County Fire Authority in Irvine, is a 242,000-sq.-ft. facility on a compact 16.5-acre site. It includes a public services and support center, vehicle maintenance center, material management center, emergency/911 communications center, fire training grounds and structures with a six-story burn tower.

Ferdinand Benito Joins Bilbro Construction

San Diego-based Bilbro Construction Co. has hired Ferdinand Benito as a superintendent.

Prior to joining Bilbro, Benito worked for seven years as a superintendent for E.W. Howell Co. Inc. on Long Island, New York. His New York projects include Cornell University/Weill Medical Center, a Bergdorf Goodman department store, Riker's Island Prison and the Southeast Brooklyn Bus Facility.

Graham Downes Architecture Adds 4

Four design professionals, Justin Martinez, Matthew Buster, Meredith Hoyle and Laura Lisauskas, have joined the creative team at San Diego-based Graham Downes Architecture.

Martinez, Buster and Hoyle are working on the firm's growing portfolio of projects designed for Charlotte Russe, a national women's clothing retailer.

Martinez previously worked as an interior architect for Idi-Paul Schatz in San Diego. Before that, he was a set designer for Red Bull in New York.

Buster most recently served as a CAD drafter for the Whitley Consulting Group in San Diego. He also worked for Peoria, Ariz.-based Ackerman Construction Co. He has a master's degree from the NewSchool of Architecture in San Diego.

Hoyle previously worked as an architect intern with HOK Sport + Event, assisting in construction administration services for Petco Park in San Diego. He also has a master's degree from NewSchool.

Lisauskas is involved with the interior design of the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, a 393-room inn planned for 5th Avenue in the city's Gaslamp District.

She previously worked for Del Mar-based Interspec, a design firm; and Nettle Creek Interiors, a La Jolla-based firm specializing in high-end residential design. She received a degree in architecture in her native Lithuania.

McCarthy Promotes Ross; Hires Newby, Sirls

McCarthy Building Cos. Inc., has hired Brent Newby as preconstruction director and James Sirls as estimator. They will provide preconstruction services for the firm's Southern California division in Newport Beach.

The general contractor promoted Joshua S. Ross from senior estimator to preconstruction director in the Newport Beach office. Ross will work with the estimating team to generate cost estimates, provide value engineering, solicit subcontractors, assist in buyouts, coordinate project bidding and evaluation and develop GMPs.

Prior to joining McCarthy, Newby held positions as estimator, project manager, project superintendent, asst. superintendent, carpenter and labor foreman of health care and parking structure projects.

Sirls previously worked as an assistant project manager and a project engineer. Some of his projects include the Long Beach Airport, Disneyland Resort's Toon Town, California Adventure theme park and Mickey & Friends parking structure.

Ross has held positions such as carpenter apprentice, assistant general field superintendent, assistant project manager, estimator and senior estimator. He has been involved in the preconstruction efforts for some of McCarthy's most notable projects, including the Hollywood & Highland retail/entertainment center in Hollywood, Los Angeles County + USC Medical Replacement Facility in Los Angeles, Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Nikken's corporate headquarters in Irvine.

New Presidents Named by Parson Corp

Pasadena-based Parsons Corp. has named Thomas Roell as president of Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group, a primary business unit of Parsons Corp. that provides governmental clients with full-service engineering and management services in the chemical demilitarization, environmental resource management, construction and fabrication, defense and security and international sectors.

Roell will be responsible for the business unit's worldwide operations, including project execution, business development, technical capabilities and multidiscipline resources. He has 34 years of experience in corporate, project management and business management.

Roell was previously senior vice president/manager of operations for Parsons Constructors and Fabricators, a division of PI&T. Before joining Parsons in 2003, Roell was president of Aliso Viejo-based Fluor Federal Services.

John "Jack" A. Scott has replaced the now-retired Frank A. DeMartino as Parson Corp.'s president and chief operating officer.

Scott has held a succession of senior management positions with Parsons over the past 20 years. Most recently he was the president of PI&T.

PI&T employs over 3,000 people worldwide.

Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo Promotes 5

Newport Beach-based Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo, Architects, Designers, Planners and Consultants has promoted Jim Balding, Rafael Velazquez, Bryan Algeo, Greg Villegas and Roy Bass to associates.

Balding has helped WATG improve project delivery for its clients by implementing the "Revit" building design and documentation system.

Velazquez's projects include the Hilton International Resort and Spa in Sri Lanka, The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla and the Four Seasons Punta Mita in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Algeo's projects include the Four Seasons in Dublin, Ireland; Calistoga Ranch Club and Spa in Calistoga and the W Hotel in San Mateo.

Villegas led the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa from concept to completion. He is currently project architect for the Westlake Village Hotel and Spa.

Bass became leader of the Newport Beach facilities group in 2002.

WWCOT Promotes Hraztan Zeitlian

Santa Monica-based WWCOT has promoted Hraztan S. Zeitlian to director of design.

He currently is involved in several new projects for the Los Angeles Community College District and Los Angeles Unified School District, including Central High School No. 11, which recently received board approval.

During his 15-year career in architecture, Zeitlian has been a project designer for Johnson Fain, Gensler, RTKL and Skidmore Owings & Merrill. He has been involved with the design of 5 million sq. ft. of entertainment, institutional and commercial facilities, including the Irvine Entertainment Center expansion, Cinerama Dome Retail Entertainment Center in Hollywood and AMC Nakama Multi-Cinema in Nakama, Japan.

Zeitlian earned a masters in advanced architecture design from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.