Chris Ramsey, P.E. is the new team leader of the Geo-Structural Design Group for AMEC Environment & Infrastructure, Inc. at the Nashville, Tenn., office, a key portion of the office’s strategic operations. Ramsey holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and is licensed in four states. The group focuses on deep foundations, landslide stabilizations, retaining systems and general building components. Based in Nashville, the group currently services clients across North America. Combined, the company and this group are licensed to practice throughout United States and Canadian Provinces. Ramsey is a member of the DFI Deep Foundat ions for Landsl ide/Slope Stabilization Committee. Founded in 2003, Geo- Ins t rument s , Inc . celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year. The company, founded by Pi e r re Gouvin, i s headquartered in Narragansett, R.I., and has regional offices in Seattle, San Francisco and Northern Virginia. Geo- Instruments focuses on providing cost- effective, accurate and precise real-time data collection and delivery for geotechnical instrumentation, information technology, construction and engineering. Specializing in the manufacture of custom equipment, Geo-Instruments provides innovative solutions. The company also produces unique data acquisition systems designed to collect data from remote and hard to access locations. Drilltools announced the appointment of two new territory managers. Tim McGinnis, based in Latrobe, Pa., will focus his support in the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Scott Laurance, based in Redding, Calif., will focus support in the Western U.S. and Canada. Both Laurance and McGinnis have held various positions in the auger drilling industry as well as with heavy construction equipment manufacturing groups for well over 20 years. Drilltools, a DFI member company and an ADSC member company, has manufacturing and headquarters located in Kilgore, Texas just east of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Stevens Institute of Technology has formed a strategic partnership with Langan Engineering & Environmental Services to provide expertise related to flood mapping and deliver engineering solutions to help protect coastlines and urban areas threatened by sea level rise. Stevens is an academic author i ty on coas tal , oceanographic and maritime engineering, and home to the Center for Maritime Systems, which focuses on assessing, predicting and mitigating the damage of natural and man-made disasters to coasts. Langan provides civil, geotechnical and environmental consulting, with particular expertise in waterfront communities and port cities. Since Hurricane Sandy caused unprecedented damage to the New York metropolitan region, Stevens faculty and Langan leaders have conferred about the many technical issues affecting real estate and development projects in the area. For example, as a result of the devastation, Advisory Base Flood Elevation Maps for the New York and New Jersey coastlines have been released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). These maps are an intermediary step to help homeowners and businesses re-build before official revised FEMA Flood Maps are issued. The partnership will provide Langan with greater access to technical expertise in the fields of coastal flood protection, and in turn will allow research derived by Stevens to be applied to properties most affected by storm surges and flooding in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Florida, the San Francisco Bay area, and California coast. Atlas Copco CEO Ronnie Leten marked the company’s 140th anniversary by ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York’s Times Square on earlier this year. The bell signified the beginning of the day’s trading and the start of a year-long anniversary celebration for Atlas Copco. Maureen Ellis, an employee celebrating more than 40 years with Atlas Copco in the U.S., joined Leten at the event. Atlas Copco began with an idea in 1873 that the country should become more self- sufficient in railroad building. Over the years, development, technical innovations and competition drove the company to diversify. Atlas Copco now serves customers in over 170 countries. Today, Atlas Copco has 109 locations in the U. S. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • JULY/AUG 2013 • 87
