Pacific Region

Pacific Regional Representative NIRAJ DANGORIA dangoria@stanford.edu Assistant Dean, Facilities Planning and Management Office of Facilities Planning & Management Stanford University School of Medicine 300 Pasteur Drive M039 Alway Building MC 5132 Stanford, CA 94305-5132 650.725.6781 650.725.9641 Fax

Canada
Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon Territory

USA
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming

Outside North America
American Samoa Guam, Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, North & South Korea, Northern Mariana Islands, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Other Pacific Rim countries, western Mexico (Baja California North and Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa)

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Coming up next in the Pacific region…

Registration Open!
2008 Pacific Symposium
"Public Private Partnerships"
October 22, 2008
University of Colorado Denver
Denver, CO (USA)

Call for Proposals!
2009 Pacific Regional Conference
"Strategies for the University Presidents Climate Commitment" Traversing from LEED™ to Carbon Neutrality
Boulder, CO (USA)
March 23–25, 2009

Past Regional Events

Do you have a topic of interest you would like to see at one of the Pacific regional events?
Please let us know by using the online Pacific Topic Registery form or download the PDF form.

Current Pacific Regional Sponsors

Pacific Sponsorship Application (PDF)
Sponsorship Opportunities (PDF)

Partner

Gilbane Building Company, www.gilbaneco.com
Gilbane Inc. (www.gilbaneco.com) is a full-service construction and real estate development company comprising Gilbane Building Company and Gilbane Development Company. More

Platinum Level

Perkins + Will, www.perkinswill.com
Since 1935, Perkins+Will has collaborated with globally recognized clients to set worldwide standards for design innovation and exceptional service. More

Gold Level

Stantec, www.stantec.com
Stantec provides professional design and consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, surveying, economics, and project management. We support public and private sector clients in a diverse range of markets. Our services are offered through over 8,500 employees operating out of more than 125 locations in North America. More

Silver Level

Alfa Tech Cambridge Group, www.atcginc.net
At Alfa Tech Cambridge Group (ATCG) our philosophy is to provide clients with the best, forward-thinking solutions to create facilities that operate at the highest efficiency, most cost effectively, and while providing the utmost flexibility for the future. Our services include; Mechanical, Electrical, Technology, Project & Construction Management, and Commissioning. More

Anshen + Allen Architects, www.anshen.com
Anshen+Allen is the leader in architecture for healing, learning and discovery. Founded in 1940, Anshen+Allen brings a 65-year history of successfully programming, planning and designing award-winning academic research and instructional buildings, medical and science centers. More

Architectural Resources Group, www.argsf.com
Founded in 1980, Architectural Resources Group, Inc. (ARG) is 50-person, full service architectural practice founded in San Francisco with offices in Pasadena and Portland. More

Arup, www.arup.com

Cannon Design, www.cannondesign.com
Cannon Design's renowned higher education practice encompassing the planning and design of new facilities, as well as master planning, renovation, preservation, and adaptive reuse, applies decades of expertise and innovation to the design of academic and library buildings, student-life and residential facilities, laboratories, sport and recreation venues, and performance spaces. More

Degenkolb Engineers, www.degenkolb.com
Degenkolb Engineers is an employee-owned company with a staff that has grown steadily to over 140 people. Founded in 1940, the firm provides a wide spectrum of structural engineering services to major universities, school districts, government entities, architects, healthcare institutions, historic building owners, Fortune 500 companies and other corporations. More

Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, www.dpsdesign.org
Dekker/Perich/Sabatini provides comprehensive architecture, interiors, landscape design, planning and structural engineering services to a variety of public and private clients. Founded in 1959, we have offices in New Mexico, Nevada and Texas and a staff of more than 200. More

DES Architects + Engineers, www.des-ae.com
DES Architects + Engineers are creative and award winning experts in the design of sustainable educational buildings and campuses. For the expedition of the design process, we have all relevant disciplines under one roof: Architecture, Interior Design, Graphics, Landscape Architecture, Structural and Civil Engineering. More

Hornberger + Worstell, www.hornbergerworstell.com
Hornberger + Worstell is an award winning architectural practice serving a broad range of clients and project types. Since its inception in 1980, our firm has focused its expertise in hospitality and academic projects. More

Interface Engineering, www.ieice.com
Interface Engineering is a leading-edge mechanical and electrical engineering firm known for innovative resource use and breakthrough engineering solutions. More

Kwan Henmi Architecture/Planning, Inc., www.kwanhenmi.com

Parsons, www.parsons.com
Parsons is a premier full-service engineering and construction firm that provides technical and management solutions to public and private sectors worldwide. We are a leader in such diverse arenas as education, healthcare, infrastructure, environmental, communications and military markets. More

Rutherford & Chekene, www.ruthchek.com
Established in 1960, Rutherford & Chekene is one of Californiaís foremost engineering practices providing structural and geotechnical engineering. Rutherford & Chekeneís staff of 85 provides multidisciplinary services that are of particular value to clients requiring cost-effective solutions to challenges involving the interface of the building with the site. More

Sundt Construction, Inc., www.sundt.com
Sundt Construction was founded in 1890, and has been working on higher education campuses since the 1960s. More

Swinerton Management & Consulting, www.swinerton.com
Swinerton Management & Consulting, Inc. (SMC) is committed to Sustaining Environments for Academic Excellence by providing a full range of Program, Project and Construction Management Services to assist Community Colleges in the organization, management and execution of their Capital Improvement Programs and Construction projects. More

VBN Architects, www.vbnarch.com
VBN Architects's design approach is provocative, energetic and forward-thinking; challenging our educational clients to explore the possibilities that will lead to solutions focused on success. More

Watry Design, Inc., www.watrydesign.com
Using a unique, collaborative process, developed over the firm's thirty year legacy, Watry Design, Inc. is redefining parking. Within one integrated process, our highly skilled architects, engineers, and parking planners create sustainable solutions specifically tailored to your parking needs. More

WRNS Studio, LLP, www.wrnsstudio.com
WRNS Studio provides architecture and planning for education, healthcare, transportation, urban mixed-use and high-density residential. The firm has a strong reputation for high quality sustainable design, contextual engagement and client responsiveness. WRNS Studio was established in 2005 by architects Jeff Warner, John Ruffo, Sam Nunes and Bryan Shiles after practicing together for ten years at their former firm. More

Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP, www.zgf.com
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF) is an architecture, planning and interior design firm with offices in Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York. Total staff currently numbers 487. The broad-based practice of the firm includes projects ranging from educational facilities, museums and healthcare and research buildings; to large, complex office buildings and corporate campuses; to airports, civic centers and regional transportation systems. More

Bronze Level

BBI Construction, www.bbiconstruction.com
BBI Construction is a leading general contractor providing exceptional service to clients throughout the Bay Area since 1974. We provide a variety of services to suit the needs of our clients, including preconstruction, general contracting, design-build, and construction management. More

Beverly Prior Architects, www.bparch.com
Established in 1986, Beverly Prior Architects is a thirty person, full-service architectural and planning firm. We specialize in public and community-based projects that contribute to the livability and sustainability. More

Biggs Cardosa Associates, Inc., www.biggscardosa.com

CSW Stuber-Stroeh Engineering, www.cswst2.com
CSW/Stuber-Stroeh Engineering Group is a proud and active sponsor of the Society for College and University Planning. Since 1954, CSW/Stuber-Stroeh Engineering Group (CSW|ST2) has provided Civil Engineering and related design services throughout Northern California. More

DLR Group, www.dlrgroup.com
DLR Group is an integrated design practice comprising architecture, engineering, planning and interiors professionals from across the world. With offices located across the United States, DLR Group combines national experience with local expertise to give our clients the unique benefit of global design innovation delivered with regional sensitivity and immediate responsiveness. More

Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc., www.forell.com
Forell/Elsesser Engineers is an award-winning structural and earthquake engineering firm with substantial experience in the design of new and rehabilitated facilities of all types of construction. We have experience in all aspects of structural engineering and seismic design, including cost-effective and innovative design solutions. The firm has been in continuous practice of structural and earthquake engineering for more than 45 years. More

Guttmann & Blaevoet Consulting Engineers, www.gb-eng.com

Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc., www.henneberyeddy.com
Established in 1992, Hennebery Eddy Architects is committed to serving higher education clients. From our 30-person studio in Portland, Oregon we develop innovative, responsible solutions to the complex design and planning issues facing our clients. More

HMC Architects, www.hmcarchitects.com
HMC Architects is a nationally recognized leader in the design of education facilities that support student-centered learning. More

KlingStubbins, www.klingstubbins.com
KlingStubbins is an internationally recognized design firm with over sixty years of experience on a wide range of projects. We are over five hundred people strong, with offices in Cambridge, MA; Las Vegas, NV; Philadelphia, PA; Raleigh, NC; San Francisco, CA; and Washington, DC. More

Lease Crutcher Lewis, www.lewisbuilds.com
Lease Crutcher Lewis has been a northwest general contractor since 1886 and has offices in Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Toronto. The firm provides preconstruction, construction management, general contracting and design-build services for clients in education, multi-family residential, commercial office, healthcare and financial services markets. More

Lionakis Beaumont Design Group, www.lbdg.com
Beyond Design
Lionakis is dedicated to being your firm of choice. More

Mahlum Architects, www.mahlum.com
Mahlum Architects is committed to the highest caliber of design - architecture that is conceptual, enduring and poetic. We are driven by the desire to create elegant solutions to complex problems. More

MVE Institutional, Inc., www.mve-institutional.com
MVE Institutional has over 30 years of experience and is a proven leader in the planning and design of premier educational and institutional work. Our firm has over 160 professional staff with offices in Irvine, Oakland, and Hawaii. More

Opsis Architecture, www.opsisarch.com
Opsis Architecture is committed to design excellence, sustainable practices, and working in an open environment where shared ideas lead to collaborative visionmaking. More

Ratcliff Architects, www.ratcliffarch.com
Ratcliff possesses a passion to contribute to the success of their clients in the context of restoring the world to a sustainable future. With a hundred year legacy in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1906, the firm is a living, adapting organization, dedicated to evoking a world in healthy balance with time, purpose and place. More

Safir Rosetti, www.safirrosetti.com
SafirRosetti (formerly On Line Consulting Services) provides global risk mitigation consulting services for security, fire alarm, and communications technologies. More

Sandis, www.sandis.net
SANDIS is a professional services corporation specializing in civil engineering, surveying and planning. Established in California in 1965, SANDIS plays an active role in building and shaping college and university environments. More

Sasaki Associates Inc., www.sasaki.com
Sasaki Associates is an international planning and design firm that is actively engaged in virtually every aspect of the built environment ñ Planning and Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design, Civil Engineering, Graphic Design and Strategic Planning. More

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., www.sgh.com
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) designs, investigates, and rehabilitates structures and building enclosures. Our staff of nearly 350 employees in five offices around the U.S. includes engineers, architects, and scientists who are led by principals and project managers with an average of 20 years of employment with SGH. More

SMWM, www.smwm.com
Celebrating over 20 years in business, San Francisco-based SMWM and SMWM LLP in New York produce fresh ideas and build innovative, distinctive, and award-winning projects for academic, institutional, cultural and civic clients. More

tBP/Architecture, www.tbparchitecture.com

TEECOM Design Group, www.teecom.com
TEECOM Design Group is a professional licensed engineering firm that specializes in designing telecommunications, security, and audiovisual systems for buildings. More

The Tiburon Group, LLC, www.thetiburongroup.com
The Tiburon Group (TTG) is a consulting firm specializing in Project Controls, Scheduling, Claims Avoidance, Mitigation and Resolution services. In addition, we provide Organizational Effectiveness, Project Management and Best Practice consultation. More

Walker Parking Consultants, www.walkerparking.com
For over 40 years, WALKER PARKING CONSULTANTS has been driven to find creative solutions for our clients' parking challenges. In the process, we've set the pace for an entire industry. How? By designing functional, durable attractive structures that meet the needs specific to each location and type of use. More

WSP Flack+Kurtz, www.wspfk.com
Founded in 1969, WSP Flack + Kurtz is firmly established as one of the industry's premier international engineering firms. WSP Flack + Kurtz provides complete design services in mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and life safety systems, in addition to offering sustainable design services and its own comprehensive information technology and communications, security systems, and architectural lighting design groups. More

Sponsorship list last updated August 11, 2008

Chair
Niraj Dangoria
dangoria@stanford.edu
Assistant Dean, Facilities Planning & Management
Stanford University
School of Medicine
555 Middlefield Rd
Bldg. 110, 2nd Fl, MC-5572
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 725-6781
(650) 721-2630 Fax

Professional Development Co-Chair
Thomas F. Fortier
tfortier@zgf.com
Principal
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects, LLP
320 SW Oak St, Ste 500
Portland, OR 97204
(503) 224-3860

Doctoral Representative
Dominique Laroche
dlaroche@asu.edu
Director, Space Management & Planning
Arizona State University
Office of the University Architect
PO Box 875112
Tempe, AZ 85287-5112
(480) 727-8786
(480) 727-8032 Fax

Membership Chair
John McGuire
john.mcguire@hok.com
Vice President
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc
One Bush Street
Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 356-8519
(415) 882-7763 Fax

Professional Development Co-Chair
David Moore
david.moore@smithgroup.com
Principal
SmithGroup
301 Battery St, 7th Fl
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 365-3418
(415) 495-3223 Fax

Communications Chair
Carlene Nolan Pederson
carlene.nolanpederson@c-b.com
Lead & Project Manager
Jacobs Carter Burgess
300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Ste 10
Oakland, CA 94612-2042
(510) 457-0027
(510) 457-0037 Fax

Corporate Representative
Maureen O'Leary
moleary@mahlum.com
Associate
Mahlum Architects
71 Columbia, Ste 400
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 441-4151
(206) 441-0478 Fax

Bachelor's Representative
Michael Sestric
msestric@easystreet.net
Architect
Michael Sestric Facilities Planning
2237 SE 32nd Place
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 890-3796
(503) 233-3016 Fax

Community College Representative
Deborah Shepley
dshepley@tbparchitecture.com
Principal
tBP/Architecture
2300 Newport Blvd
Newport Beach, CA 92663
(949) 673-0300
(949) 675-2859 Fax

Chair, 2009 Spring Conference
Philip Simpson
philip.simpson@colorado.edu
Assistant Director/Facilities Planning
University of Colorado at Boulder
453 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0453
(303) 492-1275
(303) 492-7186 Fax

Sponsorship Chair
Myrna Esther Wagner
mwagner@swinerton.com
Director, Business Development
Swinerton Management & Consulting, Inc
260 Townsend St
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 984-1287
(415) 984-1345 Fax

Institutional Coordinator
John O. White
jwhite@ucmerced.edu
Capital Planning Director
University of California-Merced
PO Box 2039
Merced, CA 95343
(209) 228-4454
(209) 228-4424 Fax