Location: Anchorage Salary: 80,000 – 110,000; DOE Job Type: Full-Time, this position offers a competitive salary and benefits along with the opportunity for significant challenges and rewards. Description: BELL is expanding operations in Anchorage, Alaska and is actively seeking a motivated individual to join our Civil Engineering Department. The Professional Civil Engineer will manage and be responsible for …
BELL recently completed a surveying support project for the expansion of the Municipality of Anchorage (AWWU) Archive Building located on E 94th Court Anchorage, Alaska. Our team lead the effort for design surveying, construction staking and as-built. We also provided additional services as requested: civil engineering (existing site/demolition plan, civil site plan, grading, drainage, AG-21, erosion control, and construction details), mechanical design, and our 3D laser scanning capabilities. By scanning the whole building, inside and out, we were able to create a “Google Street View” of the project building and location. This was an accelerated schedule and was completed 60 days from NTP.
In March, BELL was contracted out by LocationSmart, a firm in Southern California specializing in location technologies spanning indoor and outdoor use for any device. They have tested the accuracy of cell phone 9-1-1 calls all over California, and this year they made their way up North. Our Anchorage crew conducted indoor geodetic surveys of 15 different buildings in and around the Anchorage Bowl. This project consisted of determining the precise coordinates and elevation of selected test locations within buildings identified by LocationSmart. LocationSmart set up bases of eight different cell phones and called 9-1-1 simultaneously while we tested points. The cell phones reached a controlled, automated number specifically designed to conduct these experiments. The crew successfully collected and verified points from the following buildings:
In the Alaska Business Monthly April Issue, BELL was featured in the 3D laser scanning article. Check it out below:
In 2014 BELL was hired by an architectural firm to 3D laser scan the interior of the newly constructed Exhibit Hall at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center located in Soldotna, Alaska. There had been some changes in the design during construction so the client requested BELL to scan the interior of the newly constructed space in order to capture the changes and including the HVAC routing so that they could make sure the proposed exhibit would still fit in the space. Bell provided the client with laser scan data and dimensioning of some critical areas.
Design of this 21,552 SF 2 story facility (with 11 residential units on the second floor) included electric water heater electric heat convectors, PEX plumbing for potable water, bathroom & kitchen exhaust fans, and natural ventilation for the residential units and mechanical ventilation with electric heat convectors for the first floor that is waiting on tenant improvements. Design also include public spaces, central laundry room, and mechanical spaces.
Design for this approximately 13,000 SF museum and cultural heritage center included a complete HVAC system to include tight humidity and temperature control, as well as four staged biomass boilers with a back up fuel oil boiler located in a separate boiler building. The new boiler system, also serves an existing facility on the project site. Design also included all required plumbing. This facility includes display areas, archive room, office space, loading/unloading area, and a meeting/craft area.
The project consisting of a 67,000-square foot facility on Alaska’s North Slope that included a 20,000-square foot aircraft hangar, 47,000 square feet of offices, 24 individual living quarters, a full commercial kitchen, and cargo handling facilities. This facility also includes a medical facility and indoor ambulance storage. The design allowed for: 65,000 gallons of fire water storage; hydronic heating systems; constant volume ventilation systems; in-floor radiant heat for living areas and offices; and, snow melt for entries, the hangar door, and all overhead doors. Since the facility is located in an area with no water distribution, domestic water storage and on-site waste disposal were also provided; these two systems require special design considerations to provide domestic water at the proper pressure, they also provide lift stations to remove the waste from various areas throughout the facility.
F. R. Bell & Associates, Inc. 801 West Fireweed Lane, Suite 201 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 PH: (907) 743-3415 FX: (907) 743-3480 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BY ANY OTHER NAME: CMH CONSULTANTS TO BECOME BELL ANCHORAGE, AK – (March 11, 2016) – F. Robert Bell and Associates (BELL), a full-service engineering and surveying firm in Anchorage, AK, …