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Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 30, 2012

Bury+Partners is pleased to welcome the newest addition to our leadership team in the Austin office, Todd Janssen, P.E. Mr. Janssen joins the team as Principal and will focus his efforts on our private development clients.

Todds experience and leadership in the private development world will be a tremendous asset to our clients, as well as to the professional development of the talented group of young engineers he will lead, said President Paul Bury.

For more than 25 years in his professional career, Mr. Janssen has been primarily focused on the land planning, design and development of master planned communities in Texas and California. As a development engineer for over 10 years, his experience includes all aspects of site selection, entitlement and construction activity related to the delivery of well over 20,000 finished lots in multiple jurisdictions.

He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Geology and Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University, and began his career as a Geologist in the petroleum consulting field. Prior to his arrival at Bury+Partners, Mr. Janssen served as Managing Partner at Trio Investments. He also worked previously with Waterstone Development, Meritage Homes, Pacific Summit Partners, Pulte/Del Webb, PBS&J and Carter & Burgess.

Mr. Janssen is an active member of the Real Estate Council of Austin and the American Society of Civil Engineers, and he also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Hill Country Christian School of Austin.

About Bury+Partners:

Bury+Partners is a dynamic, diversified design and consulting firm with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Temple, Texas. Founded in 1984, the company has more than 250 employees serving the civil engineering, MEP, landscape architecture, planning, survey, and traffic and transportation needs of public sector and private development clients. It has been named one of the 100 Fastest Growing Design Firms in the Country and is ranked number 316 on the 2012 Engineering News Record list of Top 500 Design Firms.

Berkeley, CA (PRWEB) April 24, 2012

Oakland luxury real estate company, The Grubb Company, serving Berkeley, Oakland and Piedmont, recently celebrated Bernard Maybecks 150th anniversary by touring of one of Maybecks largest East Bay homes, the Guy Hyde Chick House in Oakland. A luminary of American architecture, Maybeck is described as independent, visionary, dramatic and eclectic, and is particularly prized in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the majority of his masterworks can be found.

The character and soul of a Maybeck is truly unique, and I wanted our agents to experience the details that make Maybeck a true pioneer of todays green living movement, DJ Grubb of The Grubb Company said.

Art collector Foster Goldstrum, who has been the owner and loving caretaker of this showcase for more than 30 years, was generous in providing a private tour. Mark Wilson, an architectural historian whose new book Bernard Maybeck Architect of Elegance was published last August, joined the group to share his insights into the full body of Maybecks work.

Shortly after touring the Guy Hyde Chick House, The Grubb Company was asked to list one of Maybecks most unusual homes, the Kennedy-Nixon house, also known as the Maybeck Recital Hall, on the north side of Berkeley.

The Kennedy-Nixon house has had only three owners. Built by the the Nixon family in 1914 as a live-in studio, it was designed to include a recital hall, a waiting area for students parents, a reception room with a small kitchen and an upstairs sleeping quarters. The recital hall, with its cathedral windows and clear-heart unfinished redwood paneling became well known for its pristine acoustics.

When Ms. Nixon died in 1980, jazz pianist Dick Whittington purchased the property with the intent of creating a commercial concert venue. Over the next 15 years, Concord Records recorded 42 solo piano recitals and 10 jazz duets in the Maybeck Recital Hall. Finally, in 1996, Gregory Moore, a young music composer, became the new owner after Dick Whittington put the Maybeck Recital Hall on the market.

I believe that the house tells you about living in it, such as the way the sun moves through the house throughout the day, encouraging me to move with it, Moore said. After a while, I realized that without thinking about it, I started each day in the kitchen, moved to the living room and ended up in the Recital Hall at the west end of the house. Even after 15 years, there are things I learn about the house that surprise me.

Angela Grubb, who will be representing Moore, sees this opportunity as an honor.

What better way to celebrate Maybecks 150th anniversary than to help one of his homes find its new owner, Angela Grubb said.

To learn more about Bernard Maybeck and his works, look for one of these books: Bernard Maybeck Architect of Elegance by Mark A. Wilson, 2011; Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect by Sally Byrne Woodbridge, 2006; and Bernard Maybeck. Artisan, Architect, Artist by Kenneth H. Cardwell, 1996.

For more information about The Kennedy-Nixon House or any of Berkeley’s real estate companys, The Grubb Company, products or services, call 510-338-4445 or 510-339-0400, or view the luxury real estate company on the web at http://www.grubbco.com.

About The Grubb Company

The Grubb Company is a full-service agency with experience in real estate in Piedmont, Oakland, Berkeley and Kensington. It has an attentive support staff of transaction coordinators and a full marketing team to help complete business.

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