Magnusson Klemencic Associates

3/1/2010 — The Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas (MKA project) receives a National Award at the American Institute of Steel Construction’s IDEAS2 Awards Program

2/28/2010 — Aqua (MKA project) receives the 2009 Skyscraper of the Year Award from Emporis

2/25/2010 — MKA Principal Terry Palmer moderates the “Reconstructing, Renovating & Revitalizing Airports in Turbulent Times” session at the ACC/AAAE Design and Construction Symposium in Atlanta

2/15/2010 — MKA Engineer Brad Cameron received the Jacobsen Extra Miler Award from Jacobsen Construction, for performing in an “extraordinary and effective way” on the City Creek Center project in Salt Lake City

2/5/2010 — MKA Principal Don Davies chairs the “Advances in Structural Engineering” session at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s 2010 World Conference in Mumbai, India

2/3/2010 — MKA Principal Terry Palmer gives an airport terminal blast protection presentation at a lunch meeting for HOK’s San Francisco office

2/2/2010 — MKA Principal Terry Palmer presents “Beauty and the Beast,” a seminar on performance-based and architectural blast-protection methods to the City of San Francisco Project Managers group

2/1/2010 — Attention college students! Meet representatives from Magnusson Klemencic Associates as they attend several career fairs across the country from now until March

1/22/2010 — The American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington holds its annual Engineering Excellence Awards, recognizing MKA with a Gold Award for the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas (in the Structural Systems category) and a Gold Award for the Magnuson Park Wetlands and Athletic Fields project in Seattle (in the Water Resources category); both projects now advance to the national ACEC competition

12/15/2009 — MKA Principal Jay Taylor serves as a structural consultant in a Design Critique for the graduate University of Washington Architecture 500 class

12/6/2009 — MKA Engineer Amy Haaland completes the Las Vegas Rock ‘n Roll Marathon in 3:28:02, placing 51st overall for the women and 9th in her division

12/5/2009 — Northwest Construction Magazine recognizes several MKA projects as “Best of” winners for 2009: ShoWare Center, Kent – Best Recreation; Four Seasons Hotel and Condominiums, Seattle – Best Hospitality; Everett Community College Gray Wolf Hall, Everett – Best Education; and Boeing 18-26 Office Refurbishment, Kent – Best Contemporary Renovation

12/3/2009 — MKA Chairman/CEO Jon Magnusson presents “BIM -- Behind the Curtain” with Bob Tindall of Callison at the ICSC CenterBuild Conference in Phoenix

12/1/2009 — MKA Engineer Brian Taylor presents “Green Roofs: Restoring Urban Landscapes One Roof at a Time,” at the Washington Turf and Landscape Show in Seattle

12/1/2009 — Several MKA projects receive awards in November: 300 North LaSalle and 155 North Wacker in Chicago are recognized by the Chicago Architectural Foundation; the Conrad Prebys Music Center at the University of California San Diego received an Award of Merit for Public Works Building Construction at the 2009 AGC Build San Diego Awards; the Prebys Center also received a Commendation at the Seattle AIA’s Honor Awards for Washington Architecture; the Washington Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) recognized West 8th as Office Development of the Year, the Four Seasons Hotel and Condominiums in Seattle as Mixed-Use Development of the Year, and 1521 Second Avenue as the Multi-Family Development of the Year

11/25/2009 — The T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial Bridge at the Museum of Flight (MKA project) featured as AIA Project of the Month in the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

11/18/2009 — MKA President Ron Klemencic presents “Succeeding Abroad: Insights into International Practice,” at a Build Boston seminar sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects and the American Institute of Architects in Boston

11/18/2009 — MKA engineer Matt Streid presents a case study on the 300 East Randolph/Blue Cross Blue Shield to the University of Illinois Chicago structures class on November 18

11/15/2009 — California Construction Magazine recognizes Arterra in San Francisco (MKA project) as Best of 2009 for Multi-Family Residential in Northern California, and Solair in Los Angeles (MKA project) as recipient of an award of Merit in the “Best of” competition for Multi-Family Residential in Southern California

11/15/2009 — 340 On the Park (MKA project) in Chicago receives LEED Silver

11/12/2009 — The Boeing 4-20 Wing Assembly Line (MKA project) in Everett, Wash., wins a Distinguished Project Award from the Northwest Construction Consumer Council

11/2/2009 — The T. Evans Wyckoff Memorial Bridge at the Museum of Flight (MKA project) wins a Merit Award in the $15 million and less category of the American Institute of Steel Construction’s IDEAS2 Awards Program

10/31/2009 — A day of fun Halloween activities ensues at MKA, with interesting costumes, lunch-time visits from young trick-or-treaters (MKA family members), and a pumpkin-carving contest won by MKA engineer Krzystof Zaleski, who impressed the judges with his bat jack-o-lantern

10/30/2009 — Two MKA projects earn LEED Gold: Seattle’s 2201 Westlake and the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills

10/24/2009 — The International Code Council holds public hearings in Washington, D.C., on development of the 2012 building codes; MKA Principal John Hooper testifies regarding the 2012 International Building Code, while MKA Senior Associate Peter Somers testifies regarding the International Existing Building Code

10/22/2009 — Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce publishes an article by MKA Director of Civil Engineering Drew Gangnes on the trend-setting Low2No sustainable design competition in Finland

10/1/2009 — Expedia Tower (MKA project) in Bellevue, Wash., receives LEED Gold certification

9/25/2009 — MKA places #9 overall and #3 in mid-size firms (51 to 299 employees) in Structure Magazine’s “Best Firms to Work for” competition

9/5/2009 — MKA Principal Don Davies finishes #200 out of 5,000 entrants (and #47 in his age group) in the Jungfrau Marathon in Switzerland with a time of 4 hours, 2 minutes, 59 seconds

9/2/2009 — Congratulations to MKA's soccer team, which placed first in its division of Seattle's Co-Rec summer soccer league

8/1/2009 — ShoWare Center in Kent, Wash., and the Floyd & Delores Jones Playhouse Theater Renovation at the University of Washington in Seattle (both MKA projects) have recently been awarded LEED Gold

7/24/2009 — MKA participated in a Food Frenzy competition and raised almost $2,500 and gathered 6,782 cans for Food Lifeline; part of the festivities was a canned-goods sculpture competition, and MKA’s six teams created some amazing structures, including “Basket Case,” “Can Dam Hunger,” “Tree House,” “Bridge from Hunger to Prosperity,” “A Trip to Seattle Center,” and the competition winner, “Rosemary vs. the Pea Serpent”

7/1/2009 — Fifth and Madison, the Cobb Building Renovation (both MKA projects), and Mosler Lofts (for which MKA's civil team provided sustainability consulting), all in Seattle, have received LEED Silver certication; Renzo Piano's California Academy of the Sciences project in San Francisco (for which MKA did a design review) received LEED Platinum. Also, MKA recently calculated that 44% of its 2008 project revenues were for projects targeting or receiving LEED certification