News

This is my last APDC president’s message. I’m looking forward to Kelsey Davidson’s leadership over the upcoming year!

As a group, we are tracking several bills of interests to our member organizations – we’re supporting HB 61 to license commercial interior designers, HB104 to raise Alaska’s meager gas tax to help support road maintenance and construction, HB 148 to adopt the latest coordinate system from NGS; and opposing HB218/SB169 which places restrictions on fire damper inspection personnel and HB277 which implements high fee on end of year license renewals. During our fly-in to Juneau last month, we had 15 participants talk to our elected officials about these items, the ASCE report card, and the need for sustainable operating and capital budgets. It was inspiring to see our efforts lead to several beneficial amendments to HB218 while we were in Juneau. I would encourage you to take a few minutes to reach out to your own state legislators to encourage action on these items before everything “resets” in Juneau with the elections this fall.

Thank you for your continued support of APDC. As always, if you would like to be more involved in our legislative outreach, please contact me or Colin Maynard (akbosco@aol.com), our Legislative Committee (LC) Chair, to be included in our bi-weekly LC meetings during the legislative session.

-Will Webb, PE

Clayton Krueger, from the Anchorage office of Coffman Engineers has just earned his second professional engineering license, in mechanical engineering. Krueger’s first license was in chemical Engineering.

Kreuger currently serves as a facility engineer with Coffman, helping clients optimize and expand planning, operations, and maintenance. To read the full press release from Coffman, click here.

In February during the APDC Legislative Fly-In in Juneau, ASCE Alaska Chapter Members released the Report Card for Alaska’s Infrastructure during a lunch & learn with legislators. The presentation highlighted key factors that lead to the overall GPA for the state of C-, as well as the specific grades by category for various types of infrastructure including aviation, bridges, railroads, and waste water systems to name a few.

You can learn more about the report card, and specific grades to infrastructure categories by visiting the following link, to the Alaska Infrastructure Report Card website.

R&M Consultants, Inc. is please to announce that Travis Ross, PE has joined their team as a Senior Geotechnical Engineer in the firm’s Earth Sciences Department. Travis has more than 20 years of experience in geotechnical engineering, and will be managing and performing this work in collaboration with R&M’s various service groups.

To read the full press release from R&M, click here.

Coffman Engineers is pleased to announce Mary Dempsey’s achievement on earning Professional Civil Engineering Licenses in both Alaska & California. Mary joined Coffman in 2020, and works to lead industrial projects in the project management department. To read the full press release, click here.