Tarlton Promotes Three Team Members

Tarlton Corp. announced the promotions of three team members .  Kim Tompras, LEED AP, was promoted to project manager. Andrew Nelch, LEED AP, and Nathan Hart were promoted to senior project engineers.

Previously a senior project engineer for Tarlton, Tompras recently managed construction of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Process Control Center, a 52,000-square-foot building housing a lab and control center for brewing operations. The design-build project is LEED-registered to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Tompras also is a member of the Tarlton design-build team completing building construction at the Prairie State Energy Campus in Lively Grove, IL, and a railcar unloading and material handling system at the Prairie State Jordan Grove Site in Marissa, IL.

A LEED Accredited Professional, Tompras earned master's degrees in construction management and architecture from Washington University in St. Louis after earning a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She joined Tarlton in 2006 and resides in Frontenac.

Nelch, also a LEED Accredited Professional, served as projectengineer for construction of Pfizer's New Research Building and the Pfizer
Chesterfield Village Site Utilities Master Plan, winner of a 2008 Construction Industry Best Practices Award for safety. He also worked on the Tarlton teams completing the John Henry Foster Co. expansion and transforming a historic church in Maplewood, Mo., into the world headquarters for Moosylvania Marketing, a project that won a 2008 Aon Build America Award from the Associated General Contractors of America.

A Clayton resident, Nelch earned his bachelor's degree in construction engineering from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill. He has more
than a decade of experience in the industry and joined Tarlton in 2006. Hart has worked as a project engineer on several Tarlton concrete projects, including the Lambert International Airport Main Terminal parking garage rehabilitation, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District Gravois Trunk sanitary relief system, SSM St. Mary's Hospital Demun garage repairs, St.
Joseph Health Center garage repairs and BJC Barnes-Jewish Hospital subsurface garage repairs.

A resident of Troy, Ill., Hart started with Tarlton as an intern in 2005 and joined the firm full time after earning his bachelor's degree in
construction management from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2006.

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