Masonry Magazine February 2008 Page. 51
News
Skelly and Loy Hires Four
Skelly and Loy Inc. has added four people to its staff. Sara J. Stees joined the firm's Environmental Services Group as an environmental specialist. Stees is responsible for regulatory analysis, permit application preparation, agency coordination, and data analysis and management.
Skelly and Loy's Engineering Services Group hired Dr. John W. Peters as a senior mining specialist. Peters has extensive experience in the mining industry. He managed mining operations at a lead/zinc mine and served in several senior engineering positions, including chief mining engineer. He also managed the total engineering program for a large uranium complex consisting of seven operating mines and a mill.
Bruce P. Willman has joined Skelly and Loy's After Market Services Group. Willman has more than 30 years of experience in soil science and agronomy. He provides supervision and technical oversight to projects involving soil science evaluations and hydrogeologic interpretations in the areas of wastewater treatment disposal; waste treatment, disposal, and remediation; wetlands identification, delineation, mitigation, and construction; water resources management and land use planning and environmental soil and site assessments.
Luke E. Smeltz has also joined the firm's After Market Services Group as a soil scientist. Smeltz has more than 20 years of applied experience in soil and groundwater characterization and remediation; soil mapping, classification, and interpretations for on-site waste and wastewater disposal, beneficial land use.
Rocky Mountain Masonry Institute
Increases Free Seminars
Rocky Mountain Masonry Institute (RMMI) now will offer a series of free monthly Lunch-n-Learn seminars for engineers. The seminars are specifically geared to the professional needs of the target audience, and the topics are based upon information requests from architects and engineers. All seminars will be taught at RMMI in Denver.
The free Lunch-n-Learn seminars for engineers will be on the first Wednesday of every month. Mike Schuller, president of Atkinson-Noland, will present the first eight seminars. The eight-seminar series will constitute a course in masonry engineering basics aimed at practicing engineers who have never had a college-level masonry design course. There may be some information of interest to architects and contractors, but it will mainly concentrate on engineering design, with example problems, etc. Students who attend all of the lunchtime seminars will have the basic information they need to design reinforced masonry following current building codes. IMAS