Tryck Nyman Hayes to open Valley office

WASILLA -- Tryck Nyman Hayes Inc., an Alaska-based engineering firm that does work for both the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Department of Transportation, is opening a Valley-based office later this month. Ted Trueblood, a civil engineer and the president of the company, says the new office will not only help the company to serve its regular Valley clients, but will also allow the company to expand its services to other potential clients in the Valley.

"It's a whole lot easier to serve our current clients by having an office out here, but without a doubt, the real growth (in Alaska) is in the Valley, and we are looking at this as an opportunity to expand our business," said Trueblood.

TNH opened its office in Anchorage in 1953, and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The company employs 75 Alaskans, and provides a multitude of services, including civil engineering, construction management, landscape architecture, railroad engineering, structural engineering and transportation engineering. Current and recent TNH projects in the Valley include the Chugach Street Rehabilitation, Mat-Su Borough Rail Corridor Study, Wasilla-Fishhook Road Rehabilitation, construction administration for Mat-Su Borough paving projects, Knik Arm Ferry Feasibility study and design and the Big Lake Pedestrian and Bike Path design.

Trueblood, who lives in Wasilla, said the office, located in Suite 309 in the Lakeview Professional Building in Wasilla, will have five workstations and a conference room, and that engineers, surveyors and other TNH employees will work out of the Valley office when a project requires them to be in the Valley. Trueblood also said the Valley-based office will allow some of the employees who live in the Valley to not have to make the long commute to Anchorage on a daily basis. With the office connected to the Anchorage-based network, anyone who stays in the Valley to work will be able to work with the same programs and applications that their counterparts are working on in Anchorage.

"We are hooking the computers up now," said Trueblood. "Our business is highly computerized … if it's bad weather and I stay and work in the Valley, someone can call my phone number and be able to reach me without even knowing I'm not at the (Anchorage) office."

The office is scheduled to be up and running by the end of this month; Trueblood said the company will have an open house sometime in the first part of February.

Aside from the headquarters in Anchorage, TNH has branch offices in Juneau and Kingston, Wash.