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1/23/2012 — The American Council of Engineering Companies Washington awards Aqua and the Boeing 767 Production Line Relocation (both MKA projects) Gold awards in their categories; these projects now advance to the ACEC national competition

1/1/2012 — The Lincoln Park Zoo South Pond Addition (MKA project) receives a 2011 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design

12/7/2011 — Attention College Students!! MKA representatives will be at several career fairs this winter at colleges around the country. Click here to see our career fair list. Be sure to stop by and say hello!

11/29/2011 — Shelley Clark, MKA Principal, attends the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) CenterBuild Conference in Phoenix, Arizona

11/28/2011 — The White House honors the ACE Mentor Program of America with one of eight 2010 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring; MKA started the Washington chapter of the ACE program ten years ago

11/15/2011 — The University of Washington Medicine Lake Union, Phase 2 (MKA project) is presented with an Award of Merit at the 2011 Design Awards for the American Institute of Architects, Northwest and Pacific Region

11/10/2011 — Robert Baxter, Senior Associate at MKA, attends the American Institute of Steel Construction and Pacific Northwest Steel Fabricators Association’s T.R. Higgins Lecture, “Special Concentrically Braced Frames Gusset Plate Connection Design,” in Seattle

10/31/2011 — Waldo is found in MKA's civil engineering department!

10/25/2011 — The Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects holds its annual Honor Awards for Washington Architecture, recognizing several MKA projects: University of Washington's Paccar Hall (Merit Award); Peninsula College Maier Hall, Admiral Live/Work Residence, and Kenmore Library (all Commendations); and the Samsung International Hospital (Citation)

10/20/2011 — At the Green Building Congress 2011 in New Delhi, India, Don Davies, MKA Principal, presented “Climate-Conscious Building Design: New Approaches to Embodied-Carbon Optimization"

10/13/2011 — Ron Klemencic, MKA President, presented “Performance Based Seismic Design -- Lessons Learned” at the International Workshop held by the Complex-Shaped Super Tall Buildings Integrated Design Research Team

10/10/2011 — Ron Klemencic, MKA President, presents "Architecture & Engineering as One" and "Seismic Design Guidelines for Tall Buildings" at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat 2011 World Conference, "Why Tall: Green, Safety & Humanity," in Seoul, Korea

10/6/2011 — MKA Chairman and CEO Jon Magnusson presents the inaugural public lecture for the newly created Structural Engineers Foundation of Washington (SEFW), entitled "Behind-the-Scenes Stories of Seattle’s Latest Generation of Landmarks"

9/12/2011 — MKA Principal Don Davies participates in a Life Cycle Assessment for Washington workshop, hosted by the University of Washington Carbon Leadership Forum

9/1/2011 — The University of Washington Paccar Hall project (new home of the Michael G. Foster School of Business) and the North Seattle Community College Resource Center (both MKA projects) are both certified LEED Gold

8/20/2011 — "Team MKA" (consisting of employees Andy Fry, Wyatt Henderson, Derek Beaman, Amy Haaland, Adam Theiss, Krzysztof Zaleski, Janet Ranf, and John Hooper) participates in the Covey Run for Seattle Children’s Hospital; MKA employees supported the team with contributions totaling more than $1,200

8/14/2011 — Drew Kirkpatrick (MKA engineer) participates in the Lake Stevens Half Ironman, a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride, and a 13.1-mile run, finishing in 6:15:47

8/11/2011 — MKA Principal Greg Briggs presents Tacoma's LeMay Car Museum (MKA project) to an in-house group of architects at SRG Partnership in Seattle

8/1/2011 — Several buildings at City Creek Center earn LEED certification: The Promontory (Tower 1), The Regent (Tower 4), and Richards Court (Towers 6 and 7) all earn Gold, while City Creek itself receives a Silver for LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND), one of the first mixed-use projects in the country to do so

8/1/2011 — The Design/Build Institute of America announces that The San Jose International Airport Terminal Area Improvement Project (including MKA’s work on Terminal B and Concourse) will receive a Design/Build Excellence Award at its annual conference in October

7/30/2011 — Danny Currit (MKA engineer) is one of 244 participants who complete the White River 50 Mile Endurance Trail Run near Crystal Mountain Ski Resort at Mount Rainier, scaling an 8,700-foot climb in elevation over the 50 miles, and finishing in 09:54

7/27/2011 — MKA design engineer Ian McFarlane and civil design engineer Carly McArdle guest lecture at a University of Washington School of Architecture course, with Ian discussing "A Candid Conversation about the Future of BIM" and Carly "Civil Engineering and BIM"

7/25/2011 — The MKA softball team wins first place in its co-rec division, and brings home a towering trophy to show off in the office

7/22/2011 — Food Lifeline completes another successful Food Frenzy campaign, resulting in $350,000 in revenue raised (7% increase over 2010), 2,900 volunteer hours contributed, 23,000 food items donated, and in total, 1,050,000 meals provided for hungry children; MKA participated in the fund-raising campaign with bake sales, wine raffles, trivia contests, and tournament-style games around the office during July

7/21/2011 — MKA Director of Civil Engineering Drew Gangnes presents "Green Roof Hydrology" to several architects at a Columbia Green Roof seminar in Seattle

7/1/2011 — The Anchorage Museum Expansion project in Alaska (MKA project) is awarded LEED Certification

6/25/2011 — MKA design engineers Janet Ranf and Adam Theiss finish the Seattle Rock & Roll Half-Marathon race, Adam with a time of 1:38:02 and Janet at 1:58:47

6/24/2011 — MKA Principal Don Davies presents “Climate-Conscious Building Design: New Approaches to Embodied-Carbon Optimization,” at the 3rd Annual Sustainable Building Materials and Construction Technologies Conference in Shanghai; Don also chairs the "Innovative Construction Technologies" session at the conference

6/23/2011 — MKA Senior Associate Mike Jewsbury presents an overview of the Lurie Children's Memorial Hospital project (alongside colleagues from AEI and Power Construction) at the Healthcare Engineering Society of Northern Illinois meeting in Chicago

6/23/2011 — MKA Principal Brook Jacksha presents an overview of site sustainability features for the U.S. Land Port of Entry project in San Ysidro, California, at the Carbon Leadership Forum in San Francisco

6/1/2011 — Chicago's 155 North Wacker (MKA project) is one of the "battlegrounds" in the upcoming movie, “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”; many scenes were filmed on location, and MKA even did tenant improvement work for rigging loads for camera equipment in the building lobby

6/1/2011 — The Lincoln Park Zoo South Pond Addition (MKA project) is named Best Small Project by the Structural Engineers Association of Illinois in its 2011 Excellence in Structural Engineering competition