DCI Engineers Promotes New Associate Principal
The Anchorage office of civil and structural engineering firm DCI Engineers has a new Associate Principal. John Oldfield received the promotion, adding to his portfolio commercial buildings of all construction types. Oldfield’s past engineering work includes the Homer Police Station, KANA Marketplace in Kodiak, and the Medline warehouse in Anchorage. He also co-chairs the in-house steel and aluminum technical committee.
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In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.