Alaska Professional Design Council
a forum to coordinate and implement the efforts of its member societies
R&M Consultants, Inc. has expanded their service lines to include Environmental Services in their Fairbanks office, with the hiring of Erica Betts, CESCL. Erica’s expertise as an Environmental Specialist includes a focus on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance. To read the full press release on Erica’s position, click the link below.
Ahtna is please to announce they are the recipient of the 2020 Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Small Business Award. This award recognizes SAME sustaining member firms that “achieve outstanding results in support of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, and Navy as well as company support for the professional development of its employees through participation in SAME education and activities.”
Ahtna will be honored with this award during the SAME small business conference, held virtually from November 4th through 6th. To read the full press release, click the link below.
PND is please to welcome Michael Ulmgren, EIT & Cameron Klatt, EIT to their staff.
Cameron is a lifelong Alaskan and has joined PND’s Geotechnical Team after earning his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Montana State University, and a Master’s degree in geotechnical engineering from the University of Washington.
Michael was previously a research professional at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he conducted wave & storm surge modeling, shoreline change modeling, and sediment transport studies.
To read the full press release and learn more about Michael & Cameron, click the link below.
In preparation for the 2020 Election on November 3rd, the APDC board created a questionnaire to give to legislative candidates. The content of the questionnaire was sourced from the APDC member organizations, and included nine questions relevant to the industries represented by the board. Some of these questions touched on the State budget, State infrastructure, UA system, the national movement for professional deregulation, and climate change.
After a few weeks of circulation, we received responses from twenty candidates. To read the compiled version of the responses (organized alphabetically by candidate’s first name), click here. To read the responses by candidate, please review the links below.
Candidates for the Alaska House of Representatives:
Candidates for the Alaska Senate:
As we welcome the arrival of autumn, APDC has returned from our summer break and ramped up our activities to help continue to support our design community.
We are now entering the seventh month of pandemic related disaster in our country and the end may or may not be in sight (depending if you watch FoxNews or MSNBC). Funding and budgets (locally, state-wide, and federally) remain a closely watched item – will there be more CARES funding? How will our state recover when we were already in a fiscal crisis? Can local businesses and systems survive? This is at the forefront of many conversations and concerns and APDC will continue to monitor the situation and advocate for our community.
This year, in advance of the November elections, we are hosting a candidate questionnaire. All of the member organizations have been asked to submit questions that we will compile into a questionnaire for the candidates. We can learn their position on items important to our professional community ahead of voting. Stay tuned for answers from the candidates!
Finally, but definitely not least, I’d like to announce our new Secretary/Treasurer: Kelsey Davidson! We had to adjust our officers for the remainder of this term due to unforeseen circumstances where our President-Elect had to step down from her duties. Our current Secretary/Treasurer, Will Webb, has moved into the President-Elect role and we’re happy to welcome Kelseyas our new Secretary/Treasurer!
Take Care!
Erica Jensen,
APDC President
Alaska Professional Design Council 