C. Adrian Arnold - Honorary Member 1993, SEAW President 1977, SEAW Seattle President 1975. April 14, 1931 - November 20, 2013

The son of engineer and SEAW founder Cecil A. Arnold, C. Adrian Arnold graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1949. He attended Washington State University, earning a BS degree in Civil and Structural Engineering. He went on to earn the MBA from Stanford University.

To begin his career, he joined his father at Arnold and Arnold Associates, Consulting Engineers, based in Seattle. They built many waterfront ferry terminals in the Puget Sound area. In 1991 the firm merged with Andersen Bjornstad Kane Jacobs/ABKJ, where Adrian served as Senior Principal and Vice President, heading a bridges and waterfront structural design team. He retired in 2000.

The May 1972 edition of the ASCE Journal of the Waterways, Harbors and Coastal Engineering Division includes his article "Multipurpose Land-Water Transfer Facility," describing the design solution for a facility with a diversity of functional requirements, owned by the Port of Seattle and located at Pier 48, with its principal user the Alaska Ferry System.

Beginning in 1979, Adrian served on the Board of the Consulting Engineers Council of Washington (CECW, now ACEC Washington) as an officer, and as President 1993-94. ACEC honored him as a Regular Fellow.

He served SEAW Seattle as President in 1975, and as SEAW President in 1977, becoming an Honorary Member in 1993.

His colleague Norm Jacobson recalls: "Adrian Arnold and my firm performed a joint venture for the design of the I-90 South Interchange to Rainier Avenue, completed in 1989. We also were both structural engineering subconsultants to HDR for the I-90 Seattle Access project elevated over Royal Brougham Avenue arterial down to 4th Avenue, completed in 1991."

Posted June 2012. Updated November 2013

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