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Josh Yacknowitz named Seattle office leader

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Rebecca Maloney Rebecca Maloney Americas Press Office ,Boston
15 September 2017

Joshua Yacknowitz, PE, LEED AP, has been appointed the new Seattle Group Leader. He steps into the position previously held by Cormac Deavy, who moved to the United Kingdom to assume the role of Arup’s Buildings West Leader. 

Arup’s recent work in the region includes major expansion programmes at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Pike Place MarketFront, the University of Washington West Campus Utility Plant, and the Washington State Convention Center. The Seattle office also provides niche-market engineering applications, including large-scale public artworks at the Seattle Museum of History and Industry and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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I’m excited to have this opportunity to contribute to the success of such a dynamic practice. Arup’s Seattle office has doubled in size over the past three years, and the city is such a nexus for technology and manufacturing — I look forward to building our team in ways that will allow us to better serve this expanding, forward-thinking market. ”

Yacknowitz Josh Joshua Yacknowitz Principal

With a strong background in managing interdisciplinary teams of design consultants, Josh has played central roles in numerous high-profile projects around the world. From a facility to house the world’s largest neutrino detector experiment for Fermilab/CERN in South Dakota to a major interdisciplinary laboratory facility for Columbia University to land ports of entry at various locations for the GSA to manufacturing facilities for Procter & Gamble in the Americas and East Asia, he has delivered diverse projects with both consistency and innovation.

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Josh is eminently qualified to head up our Seattle office. He will look to diversify our business by growing prime agency work with local clients in the sectors he knows so well from his experience as our Americas Region Science and Industry Business Leader. ”

Andy Howard Andy Howard Principal