AMEC-BCI, a Lakeland based engineering firm, recently honored Vice President Richard M. Powers for his 30 years of exceptional service to the company. Powers, who is a certified professional geologist, joined AMEC-BCI on March 16, 1981. At the Lakeland company, he is responsible for the corporate management of AMEC-BCI and serves as principal-in-charge for geological, hydrological and environmental engineering projects. During his tenure at the firm, he has participated in numerous projects involving disposal of waste materials from heavy minerals, mining and processing of phosphate, limestone, sand and copper. He has conducted numerous site investigations, drilled extensively in many extremely difficult access locations and supervised earthen dam, reclamation, gypsum stack expansion and dredging construction projects.

Powers has directed projects dealing with ground water pollution control and remediation, gypsum stack expansion design, permitting and construction, dredge and fill permitting, surface and ground water permitting, and life-of-mine waste disposal planning and annual water balance projections. Additionally he has completed reclamation design projects, roadway corridor studies and foundation stabilization projects, and has utilized/developed state-of-art hydraulic dredging and sediment dewatering techniques to restore several fresh water lakes.

Lakeland, FL (March 2, 2011)
AMEC-BCI, a Lakeland-based engineering firm, recently hired Mark J. Frederick, as project engineer for its civil engineering and water resources group. Frederick is a professional engineer and certified floodplain manager with more than 10 years of diverse engineering experience in stormwater management system design and watershed model development. At AMEC-BCI, he works on a variety of civil site development and stormwater projects.

A 2005 graduate of Purdue University, Frederick has a bachelor’s of science degree in civil engineering. He is the current Florida Engineering Society (FES) Ridge Chapter president and has been the chapter coordinator of the FES MATHCOUNTS program for more than three years. He has also served on various committees within the organization and received the Young Engineer of the Year Award through the local chapter in 2008 and 2009. Frederick is actively involved in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He was the recipient of the 2011 ASCE Ridge Branch Young Engineer of the Year Award. He is also involved in local young professionals group, Lakeland EMERGE.