R&M ENGINEERING-KETCHIKAN, INC.
Phone (907) 225-7917
Fax (907) 225-3441
COMPANY INFORMATION
FIRM PROFILE:
In January 1989, the
officers of R&M Engineering, Inc. in
R&M employs four registered engineers, and four registered surveyors, two
field surveyors, two engineering technicians and one lab analyst
year-round. Two of our registered engineers are dual-registered as
surveyors. During the past few summers we have employed up to three
laboratory technicians in our water and wastewater laboratory.
R&M routinely performs projects in many areas of civil engineering,
environmental engineering and land surveying. They include:
Environmental Engineering:
Annually our firm designs and inspects 50 to 100 residential or small
commercial on-site wastewater treatment systems in the Ketchikan, Prince of
Wales Island and Wrangell areas. We have also designed water treatment
systems for residences, small businesses, remote camps, resorts and villages
that are reviewed by the State of
We have performed designs of larger municipal projects in
We have performed sanitary surveys of public drinking water systems in the
Ketchikan area for compliance with State of Alaska requirements. Prior to
working for R&M, Mr. Menzies performed sanitary surveys of large systems,
such as the City of
We have conducted contaminated site investigations for areas of suspected fuel
spills and provided our clients with assistance in complying with ADEC
requirements for sampling, analysis and remediation of contaminated soil.
We have also conducted underground storage tank investigations, removals and
cleanup monitoring and reporting. These projects range from former
logging sites in remote areas to fuel storage tanks at
Level One Environmental Assessments are a growing area of our business.
In the last year we have performed environmental bacteria, heterotrophic plate
counts, five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), total suspended solids (TSS),
chemical oxygen demand (COD) and other tests. Our analysis is often done
in accordance with permit applications and water and wastewater system
designs. assessments on properties such as the
South Coast, Inc. headquarters, Construction Machinery, Inc., a heavy equipment
dealer, Seaward Shipyard, a former shipyard and sawmill site, Taquan Air's
former Waterfront Site and the Gateway Forest Products Veneer Mill and Sawmill
(formerly a portion of the Ketchikan Pulp Mill). or
general land surveying services as the workload requires. We anticipate
acquiring our own GPS equipment within one to two years.
Water and Wastewater Laboratory:
Since 1994 our firm has operated a small water testing laboratory that became
certified for drinking water analysis by the State of
Total and Fecal Coliform Bacteria
Non-Coliform Bacteria
Heterotrophic Plate Count
Five-Day Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)
pH (Soil and Water)
Dissolved Oxygen
Ammonia
Turbidity
Organics (Soil)
Color
Chlorine
Conductivity
We now perform compliance monitoring and testing for ADEC-issued wastewater
discharge permits, drinking water systems and development activities that have
a potential for causing sedimentation of streams and marine waters. We
perform monthly compliance testing of drinking water for a number of clients
and in the past have performed these services for U.S. Forest Service campgrounds
and remote camps. Our work with the cruise ship industry aided them in
performance testing of onboard treatment systems, new and old, in order to
obtain ADEC and Coast Guard certification and compliance. In the summer
of 2001 we conducted monitoring of the waters of
Land Surveying:
Surveying comprises a large percentage of our workload. R&M's
surveying experience and capabilities include residential, commercial and
industrial subdivisions of all sizes, topographic surveys for site
developments, building, utility and road design projects, as-built surveys for
projects of all sizes, and quantities surveys for developments, stockpiles,
landfills and containment areas.
Recent projects include the Wal*Mart project, for
which we performed site topographic, as-built and subdivision surveys. We
are now performing similar tasks for the new
We frequently perform as-built and ALTA surveys related to property sales and
subdivision surveys for land development. We have provided ALTA surveys
for the Plaza Port West Mall and some of the new Spruce Mill Site buildings in
We have provided townsite mapping for the City of
Our survey equipment and computers enable us to provide electronic data files,
including surface models, profiles and cross sections. Global Positioning
Systems (GPS) surveys are conducted with the collaboration of our sister office
in
Civil and Utilities Design:
We recently completed a full site design, including access streets, traffic
control lighting, parking areas, drainage and utilities design for the new Wal*Mart store in Ketchikan. The utilities design
included on-site rain catchment, storage and treatment meeting the Surface
Water Treatment Rule requirements. We also recently completed a large
water transmission line project for the City of
Our firm frequently begins a project by surveying undeveloped land in order to
develop and complete a finished site design for new buildings and
developments. We are currently performing similar work on a new Alaska
State Troopers building and a new elementary school in
We provide structural inspections and analyses of existing buildings and
structures. We also provide structural design for new buildings and
remodels of existing buildings. We recently completed work on U.S. Forest
Service Facilities in Craig and
Geotechnical and Materials Testing:
Our firm has an in-house soils testlab in which we
perform concrete compressive strength testing, soils gradations, proctor
density tests, soils classification, organics content and Atterberg
Limits. We often perform quality control testing of fresh concrete,
including slump and air entrainment tests and casting of concrete test
cylinders. We own two nuclear soil moisture-density meters for in-situ
compaction testing. Some typical projects include
We have conducted geotechnical investigations related to proposed construction projects that includes test pits, borings, and
probing. When necessary we employ R&M Engineering, Inc. of
In addition to regular soils analyses, we have provided training in soils
testing and sampling for construction quality control to U.S. Forest Service
staff prior to field construction seasons.
Marine Engineering and Permitting:
We have provided numerous designs and permit submittals in recent years for
waterfront projects in Southern Southeast Alaska. These projects include
floating docks, piers and pier upgrades, boat launch ramps, and intertidal
fills and abutments. They include a marine railway and boat cradle for large
fishing vessels in Metlakatla, boat launch ramps in Klawock and Coffman Cove,
the Ketchikan Gear Float, the new Craig Ice House currently under construction
and the
Construction Administration and Inspection:
Our firm has completed in excess of 50 million dollars of construction
administration and inspection in
FIRM RESOURCES :
Facilities and Vehicles:
R&M maintains full-time, year-round offices in
Our firm maintains a fleet of five vehicles, two of which are fully-equipped
survey vans. We also have an aluminum workskiff
on a trailer that we can tow to projects in
R&M is equipped with Leica electronic total
stations with on-board data collection capabilities that are used to download
field survey data to the computers in our office. Our office is equipped
with a Windows 98/2000(r)-based network of eleven Pentium computers, laser and
color printers and an inkjet large-format plotter. We have recently
upgraded our software to Autodesk Land Development Desktop Version 3 and
AutoCad 2002 for engineering, surveying and general drafting. The office
computers and software are used for compilation of data, which is then analyzed
and/or used in the drafting of subdivisions, survey plats, engineering designs
or other required work tasks. Survey plats and engineering drawings can
be plotted on paper, vellum or mylar media from
8-1/2" by 11" to 36-inch rolled media. If the need should
arise, R&M Engineering, Inc. in Juneau could be called upon for Global
Positioning System (GPS), aerial photography,
Water and Wastewater Analysis:
Our lab is equipped with three separate incubators, an autoclave sterilizer,
refrigerator, lab-grade weighing and measuring meters and devices, vacuum pumps
and filtration equipment, glassware and other equipment necessary to maintain
an ADEC-approved lab for analysis of drinking water. We have field
sensors for water quality measurements and sampling. We keep sample
containers of various sizes and types for different sample types.
Materials Testing Laboratory:
Our materials testing laboratory is equipped with large curing tanks for
concrete samples. We maintain air entrainment meters and slump cones for
concrete testing and have a large number of soils testing sieves for grain size
analysis. We have several different scales, a large drying oven, a muffle
furnace and a hydraulic press used for compression testing of concrete test
cylinders.
