AHBL is pleased to share promotions of key individuals on the AHBL team. The following team members have been promoted to Associate Principal: Nicole Stickney, AICP, a senior planning project manager in our Tri-Cities Office, Christopher Dodos, PLS, a survey project manager in our Tacoma Office, and Tyler Duncan, PLS, a survey project manager in our Tri-Cities Office.  Two of our senior structural engineers have been promoted to Senior Associates: Andrea Sauter, PE/SE, DBIA, a senior structural project manager in our Seattle Office and Andy Pflueger, PE/SE, a senior structural project manager in our Tacoma office.

These staff members have consistently provided excellent customer service, strong project management, and technical excellence in their respective fields. Each brings enthusiasm and passion for planning, surveying, and structural engineering projects respectively and will continue to manage a diverse portfolio of projects for the company and mentor AHBL staff to become our next leaders.

Nicole Stickney, AICP has been promoted to Associate Principal within the Planning Department at AHBL. With 16 years of experience in land use planning, Nicole is a skilled and versatile planner, adept in all aspects of the field. She has contributed to a wide variety of planning and economic development projects for both public and private-sector clients across Washington State.  Nicole brings specialized expertise in policy development, municipal code writing, environmental analysis, and development review. She has a proven track record of successfully navigating Washington’s Growth Management Act (GMA) and Shoreline Management Act (SMA), ensuring compliance and strategic planning outcomes.  A strong communicator and facilitator, Nicole excels in group engagement, public presentations, and in advancing high-profile projects. She has also trained planners, local officials, and the public on planning-related topics as a guest speaker at the Washington State Department of Commerce’s “Short Course on Local Planning.” During her nine years at AHBL, Nicole has consistently delivered award-winning work, and she remains dedicated to advancing both long-range and current planning initiatives across the state.

Christopher Dodos, PLS has been promoted to Associate Principal within the Survey Department at AHBL. Chris began his career as a high school teacher after graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. in Russian and concentration in Environmental Engineering. He has over 11 years as a land surveyor and is licensed in the State of Washington and State of Oregon as a Professional Land Surveyor. His expertise includes preparing topographic, boundary and post-construction as-built surveys and construction staking. Chris is responsible for project scheduling in the field and office, managing the development of topographic and A.L.T.A. surveys, boundary line adjustments, records of survey, short and long plats, right-of-way surveys, and various formats of boundary surveys. He has been instrumental in growing our survey department’s clientele and staff capabilities in the Puget Sound Region through client cultivation and staff mentorship during his 10 years with AHBL.

Tyler Duncan, PLS has been promoted to Associate Principal within the Survey Department at AHBL. Tyler’s career began 18 years ago at AHBL after graduating from WSU with his bachelor’s degree. Tyler’s experience at AHBL has been as a surveyor in various capacities, rising through the ranks and is currently serving as AHBL’s Tri-Cities Survey Project Manager, where he coordinates and calculates survey projects, and supervises office production of staff and field crews. Having produced maps for hundreds of projects throughout the Pacific Northwest, Tyler brings a comprehensive understanding of the level of detail required to support engineering, architectural design, and construction projects. He is responsible for in-house production of survey maps and exhibits, topographic surveys, performing boundary calculations, writing legal descriptions, and leading on-call survey projects. Tyler has been instrumental in growing our Tri-Cities office, as well as mentoring our survey staff to serve clients in Eastern Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

Andrea Sauter, PE/SE, DBIA Andrea Sauter, PE/SE, DBIA has been promoted to Senior Associate within the Structural Engineering Department at AHBL. Andrea has 22 years’ experience as a structural engineer working on a wide variety of project types, including K-12 schools, higher education facilities, medical office buildings, tribal and Veterans Administration facilities. This work has included new construction, tenant improvements, and seismic evaluation and retrofit. Andrea is a skilled communicator and is well versed in BIM and computer analysis methods. She enjoys developing practical solutions to structural engineering challenges using a wide range of structural materials and framing systems, including mass timber construction. She is a DBIA certified professional and has considerable experience with pull planning, target value design, and other Lean Design principles. Andrea’s role as a senior associate will include providing client-focused structural solutions, utilizing her DBIA certification to evolve our Progressive D/B and D/B portfolios of work, as well as mentoring the structural engineering staff in our Puget Sound offices.

Andy Pflueger, PE/SE, DBIA has been promoted to Senior Associate within the Structural Engineering Department at AHBL. Andy has 27 years’ experience working on a broad range of project types including military facilities, commercial office and industrial buildings, mixed-use developments, educational facilities, and public buildings. In addition to new construction, Andy has developed seismic upgrades for numerous facilities and has extensive experience with steel and post-tensioned concrete construction. He brings extensive experience with the process and standards of federal government projects, including the design-build method of project delivery and Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) design and design of buildings to resist progressive collapse. Andy is AHBL’s expert on structural analysis software and leads AHBL’s BIM team and the development of structural CAD/BIM standards. Andy’s role as Senior Associate will include continued support of his clients in the mixed-use, commercial, and industrial markets and our Federal IDIQ and MATOC projects throughout Washington State. Andy provides leadership in Puget Sound Region by mentoring staff and participating in the Structural Engineers Association of Washington – SW Chapter.

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