PND Engineers

PND Engineers is an Anchorage-based civil, structural, marine and geotechnical engineering firm founded in 1979. It built its reputation on cold-region and Arctic marine work, where short open-water seasons, sea ice loading and permafrost make conventional coastal design assumptions unusable. The firm developed and licenses the OPEN CELL SHEET PILE bulkhead system, now used at ports across Alaska and the Lower 48. PND served as engineer of record for Phase 1A of the Port of Nome Modification Project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers program that will give the country its only deep-draft Arctic port, covering the causeway extension, sheet-pile dock section and armor stone protection. Beyond marine work, the practice covers water resources, surveying, transportation and industrial site engineering, with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Palmer, Seattle and Houston.

PND’s Anchorage headquarters sits at 1506 West 36th Avenue, and it now anchors a nine-office network. Juneau and Palmer cover the rest of Alaska; Seattle, Federal Way and Kennewick cover Washington; Portland, Houston and Vancouver, British Columbia round out the map. Every office runs under a named coordinator rather than a regional manager, so a client in Palmer talks to David Bentti, PE, SE, and a client in Houston talks to Wade Lundberg, PE, SE. Dempsey Thieman, PE, SE, is president.

The firm draws a line between three declared specialties and the general services that support them. Waterfront, coastal and arctic engineering are the specialties. Civil, structural, geotechnical, hydrology and hydraulics, land surveying, environmental consulting, construction engineering, and contract administration and construction support are offered as general services, which is how PND can carry a marine project from RFP through construction completion without handing off the site work.

OPEN CELL is not the only technology PND has developed and trademarked. SPIN FIN piles are offered where a foundation needs to exceed conventional pile capacity, and the firm also designs customizable partially penetrating wave barriers meant to protect infrastructure while limiting environmental impact. Applications and pricing for OPEN CELL and SPIN FIN are handled as their own intake category on the contact form, alongside project consultation, careers and media inquiries. That form accepts an RFP or drawing upload up to 50 MB, which is a practical detail for anyone shopping a marine or arctic scope.

PND publishes a corporate brochure and a company timeline as downloadable PDFs, and lists recognition from AIA, ASCE, ENR, NCSEA, NSBA and PDCA. The stated values are plain enough to hold the firm to: integrity, quality engineering, client satisfaction, technical innovation and employee loyalty. Hiring runs through the careers page, which posts open roles and a separate internship track.