Author: Alaska Professional Design Council

Coffman Engineers announced in October the launch of their Project Management Group, within their Anchorage Office. Rob Wasserman, formerly the Senior PM in the Structural Engineering Department has been promoted to Department Manager for the PM Group

Additionally, Coffman is pleased to announced the hiring of Jason Moncrieff as Senior Project Manager, to the Project Management Group.

To read the full press release regarding the launch of the Project Management Department and the promotion of Rob Wasserman, click here.

To read the full press release regarding the hiring of Jason Moncrieff, click here.

Coffman Engineers announced two new hires to their Electrical Engineering Instrumentation & Controls Department, within their Anchorage office in November:

Jason Vukovich is an Instrumentation & Controls designer with over 10 years of experience in Alaska.

Ronald Pearson, PE is a Professional Chemical Engineer, with over 13 years of experience engineering the oil & gas industry.

To read the full press release, click here.

Coffman Engineers is pleased to announce Zack Wright obtained American Petroleum Institute (API) 653 Aboveground Storage Tank Inspector certification in September, 2019. Zack also holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is a NACE certified CP Technician (CP-2).

The addition of his API 653 certification supplements Coffman’s ability to provide integrity solutions to clients. The API 653 certification allows Zack to perform and oversee tank inspection activities, including repair recommendations, oversight of non-destructive testing (NDT) per applicable codes, and prepare inspection reports for clients. Zack has already put his certification to use by supporting Alyeska Pipeline on both an ongoing API 653 tank inspection and future planning for four API 653 tank inspections. His certification also helped obtain new work with the North Slope Borough developing API 653 tank inspection, API 570 piping inspection, and CP Monitoring programs for their eight fuel storage tank farms as part of a three-year program. Congratulations to Zack! Please feel free to reach out to him if you have any questions about API 653 Tank Inspections.

In his honor and memory, Dale’s family established the Dale Nelson Civil Engineering Memorial Scholarship, which is currently gathering funds through the University of Alaska Foundation in a holding account. Current funding has reached $22,000, and it is hoped that the $25,000 level needed for an endowed scholarship will be reached soon.

If you are able to contribute, you may do so online (select “Other” as designation and write “Dale Nelson Memorial Scholarship Fund” in the comment section), by check, or wire transfer. See the attached for more information, including ways to contribute and biography of Dale.

The Engineering Excellence Awards program was created to increase the public’s awareness of what engineer’s do, and to recognized firms and projects of distinction. Participation in the program will provide your firm invaluable public relations and marketing.

The Awards will be featured in several E-Week publications, will be displayed at the public venue during E-Week, and be part of the program at the Banquet.

There are ten different categories, and the “intent to enter” deadline is November 27th.

For the full description of the awards, click here.