El Segundo, CA—Partner Engineering and Science, Inc., announces that Agatha Kim and Dominic Juego have joined the firm’s growing staff of registered professionals in the headquarters’ office.
Kim joins Partner as a Project Manager. Working with lenders, private owners, municipalities, manufacturers and oil refineries, Kim oversees the investigation and remediation of soil and groundwater contamination, asbestos and lead containing materials as well managing issues related to the removal of underground storage tanks. Kim works closely with her clients to ensure regulatory compliance mandated by local, count, state and federal agencies. A registered professional engineer in California and Nevada, Kim graduated from California Polytechnic State University with a BS in Environmental Engineering with an emphasis on water and wastewater treatment.
Juego joins Partner as a Staff Engineer responsible for reporting to Partner’s lender clients in the Southwest Region on the physical condition of commercial properties in connection with a purchase and sale or refinancing. Juego has more than a decade of experience conducting property condition and physical needs assessments, construction loan monitoring and seismic evaluations on all property types. His responsibilities include the evaluation of construction materials and building systems, as well as capital replacement cost projections. Juego earned a BS in Architecture from Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila, Philippines.

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