Oil Patch Bits: PND Engineers opens Houston office

PND Engineers Inc. said it has opened a Houston, Texas, branch effective July 15. The office is located on Sam Houston Tollway West, providing a convenient, strategic base for honing PND’s focus on design opportunities in the energy industry and on marine facilities.

Wade Lundberg, PE, formerly with PND’s Seattle office, has relocated to the area to establish the office. He will be joined by PND Vice President Kenton Braun, PE, who will make the move from Anchorage to serve as the Houston office coordinator, and Feifei Bai, PE, who also will relocate from Anchorage.

PND’s decision to base a full-time staff in the Houston area was in response to the company’s expanding role in engineering oilfield and waterfront projects for key clients with offices there.

“We saw this as an opportunity to expand upon existing relationships and to build new ones within PND’s key markets in the area,” Braun said.

The new office is at 10497 Town and Country Way, Suite 210, phone 832-930-4830. For more information, contact Lundberg at [email protected] or Braun at [email protected].

PND Engineers Inc., founded in Anchorage more than 35 years ago, is a full-service engineering firm that provides civil, structural, arctic, marine, geotechnical and coastal engineering; hydrology; surveying; environmental permitting; project management; and construction inspection services for a wide range of projects. The firm currently employs 130 individuals, more than half of whom are registered engineers or land surveyors. In addition to its new Houston branch, PND has offices in Palmer, Juneau, and Seattle, and also is parent company to PND Engineers Canada Inc. in Vancouver.