Outside the Associated General Contractors of Alaska Fairbanks office at 3750 Bonita Street in Fairbanks sits a 20-foot, 220-pound, completely navigable canoe—made of concrete.
The canoe is well-traveled. The UAF Concrete Canoe team in 2019 placed third in regional competition at St. Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. Building the canoe was a challenge for the team, who crafted it out of a concrete mixture that included polypropylene fibers for strength and glass beads for reduced weight, then topped it with a smooth concrete that was able to be sanded to a smooth, glossy finish ideal for gliding through water.
Fairbanks AGC of Alaska branch manager Emily Braniff says navigating the canoe through Fairbanks was its own challenge. She plans to seasonally decorate it, now that it is permanently parked.
Clark Rosencrans and Marta Kumle recently joined Associated General Contractors of Alaska member engineering firm R&M Consultants, Inc. Rosencrans is R&M’s Group Manager of Special Inspections and has sixteen years of construction, materials testing, and special inspection experience. He has served as a senior special inspector and project manager with responsibility for special inspection and materials testing on a wide variety of public infrastructure projects, including airport, school, harbor, and road facilities. Kumle joins R&M as a senior hydrographer in the firm’s geomatics department. With her skills, R&M now offers hydrographic surveys in support of nearshore and freshwater projects. Kumle has fifteen years of experience in GIS analysis and hydrographic survey.
TOTE, LLC in November announced expansion of its leadership team. Alex Hofeling was named president of TOTE Maritime Alaska, LLC, while Mike Noone, president of TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico, LLC, was promoted as the company’s chief operating officer for TOTE Group, and Kevin D. Kendrick was named president of TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico.
Hofeling served previously as TOTE Maritime Alaska’s vice-president and general manager. He now oversees the entire operations for TOTE Maritime Alaska and is based in the company’s Tacoma, Washington office.
“Alex joined the TOTE organization as a regional sales manager and has rapidly worked his way up through increasing roles of responsibility at TOTE Maritime Alaska,” says TOTE Group President and CEO Tim Nolan. “Alex has been the face of TOTE in Alaska, working closely with our customers, communities, and others to help demonstrate our ongoing commitment to the Last Frontier.”