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Davenport Foundation Repair, West Jordan, Utah
Mr. Chance has inspected and presented solutions for hundreds of residential and commercial properties throughout the states of Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada. In addition, he engages in public speaking and educational presentations to large engineering and architectural firms throughout the state. Raised in Salt Lake City, Mr. Chance grew up in the West Jordan area. After finishing high school at West Jordan High, he began working in the construction industry. He continued his education and became an IT technician at the IT Career Academy. He then moved onto construction management. He is the founder of a non-for profit group called Benjamin Smiles, providing and promoting monetary funds to people in need. For more information on his non-profit group, visit www.benjaminsmiles.org. Mr. Chance also enjoys spending time with his children and granddaughter.

BaseCo, Salt Lake City, Utah
Mr. Jefferies is a certified continuing education instructor for foundation repair and waterproofing by Utah Division of Real Estate. He earned a specialty contractor’s license for piers and foundation stabilization. Mr. Jefferies has spent many years in the foundation repair industry. He has inspected thousands of homes throughout Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Mr. Jefferies specializes in both residential and commercial installations with extensive background in push pier, helical pier and micropile installations, especially in Southern Utah’s expansive soils. When he isn’t inspecting foundations or overseeing installations he enjoys traveling with his wife and children and is an avid U of U football fan.

McNeil Engineering, Sandy, Utah
Mr. Roblez is a board certified and licensed structural engineer, lecturer and published technical author. He has worked in the engineering industry since 1984 when he was a “print boy” at the age of 15 for a Salt Lake City company. Mr. Roblez is a co-owner of McNeil Engineering, an award- winning civil/surveying/structural engineering firm. He has been involved with many engineering projects that vary in size from large commercial to small residential and in scope from structural engineering to full design and project/construction management. Mr. Roblez has also has been chosen to appear many times on the local news concerning many different civil engineering issues. Mr. Roblez was recently awarded American Society of Civil Engineers – Utah Section Engineer of the Year award (2017). He serves as the chair of the ASCE Utah Section History and Heritage Committee and the Utah Section State and Government Relations Committee.

Davenport Foundation Repair, West Jordan, Utah
Mr. Shaw started working for Davenport Foundation Repair in 2002 as a foundation crew member, while he was still in high school. After he graduated, he went on a L.D.S. mission to Sao Paulo, Brazil. When he returned home, he returned to Davenport working on the waterproofing and piering crews. Mr. Shaw has attended many different training conferences where he has learned new ways to solve a variety of home repair issues. His experience has helped him gain a vast knowledge of foundation repair, concrete lifting and basement waterproofing. Mr. Shaw was born and raised in Utah and attended West Jordan High School. He attended college at the University of Utah and graduated in 2013 with a degree in Business Administration.

McNeil Engineering, Sandy, Utah
Mr. Warner is a licensed structural engineer in Utah and a licensed professional engineer in six surrounding states. He is active in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Utah Engineers Council (UEC) and the Structural Engineers Association of Utah (SEAU). Mr. Warner has worked as a structural engineer since 2001 and as a construction worker for five years before that to pay his way through school as well as 10 years in the US Army Reserves as a combat engineer. He graduated with a master of science degree from the University of Utah with a geotechnical thesis emphasis. Mr. Warner’s engineering projects vary in construction materials and size and from new construction to retrofitting of existing structures, as well as performing peer reviews of other engineers’ designs for several cities.

Professional Engineer and Owner/Partner at C2it and PEISMr. Tucker, a native of Dandridge, Tennessee, owns and operates PEIS, a structural and forensic engineering firm in his home town, which he started in 2006. Prior to starting PEIS, Mr. Tucker was a partner in Progressive Engineering Group, a structural engineering firm in Knoxville. Mr. Tucker has extensive design experience with cold-formed steel, as he started his career in the metal building industry working as a design engineer for A&S Building Systems in Caryville, Tennessee. In addition to running his engineering firm, Mr. Tucker has been an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville for the past two and a half years. Mr. Tucker teaches CADD Applications in Civil Engineering, Construction Methods and Management, Steel Connection Design, Analysis of Framed Structures, and Structural Systems in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University. Mr. Tucker earned his bachelor’s of science degree in Civil Engineering and master’s of science degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Tennessee, and he is currently pursuing his doctorate in Biosystems Engineering at the University. Mr. Tucker was a longstanding board member of the Tennessee Society of Professional Engineers – Knoxville Chapter and is the current past-president of The Tennessee Structural Engineers Association – East Region. Prior to becoming an engineer, Mr. Tucker was an Arabic Linguist with the United States Army, where he was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in the 101st Airborne Division.

Mr. Fronapfel has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in structural and forensic engineering. Ed’s a Certified Level 2 Infrared Thermographer, Certified 3rd Party EIFS Inspector, Certified Forensic Claims Consultant, Board Certified Building Inspection Engineer, and Certified Building Commissioning Professional. He is a registered engineer in the States of AL, AR, AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MS, MT, MO, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, and WY. Mr. Fronapfel has been deposed nearly 800 times and admitted into trial settings over 125 times. He has been used as an expert in arbitration and mediations over 500 times since the late 1990s. Mr. Fronapfel is an instructor for the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, the College of Contract Management, U.K., Diploma in Structural Forensic Engineering, and he has been an adjunct professor for the Burns School of Real Estate Management, University of Denver, since 2007. Mr. Fronapfel is a Board-Certified Member of the Association of Building Inspection Professionals, a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant through AACE, a Board-Certified member of the International Board of Forensic Engineering and Science and a Member of The Academy of Experts, U.K., and a Fellow Member of ASCE and of NAFE.

President and Principal-in-Charge, BFMJ Structural EngineersMr. Buell has served as both president and principal-in-charge of BFMJ Structural Engineers for over 33 years. During this time he has worked in almost every area of structural engineering with responsibilities including design engineer, project manager, construction administrator, commercial and residential inspector and historic consultant for thousands of projects. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Consulting Engineers Council of Kentucky, Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers, and the Kentucky Board of Housing, Building and Construction. Mr. Buell’s past president/past chairman for the Structural Engineer’s Association of Kentucky. He has served on multiple committees and subcommittees for the Kentucky Building Code Review since 1995 and is the past Kentucky State representative to the National Council of Structural Engineers.

President and Principal-in-Charge, BFMJ Structural EngineersMr. Buell has served as both president and principal-in-charge of BFMJ Structural Engineers for over 33 years. During this time he has worked in almost every area of structural engineering with responsibilities including design engineer, project manager, construction administrator, commercial and residential inspector and historic consultant for thousands of projects. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Consulting Engineers Council of Kentucky, Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers, and the Kentucky Board of Housing, Building and Construction. Mr. Buell’s past president/past chairman for the Structural Engineer’s Association of Kentucky. He has served on multiple committees and subcommittees for the Kentucky Building Code Review since 1995 and is the past Kentucky State representative to the National Council of Structural Engineers.

Geotechnical Engineer
Mr. Cooke’s work experience includes services in the geotechnical, construction, construction testing/inspection and environmental engineering fields. His project experience includes projects as large as 1,400 acres, buildings as large as 1.5 million square feet, “portfolio” work on as many as 75 projects in one package, and linear projects as long as 40 miles. His specific specialties include earthwork and soil issues, construction materials and project performance, forensic analysis of geotechnical and materials issues, large project planning and geotechnical-related construction planning and analysis. He has provided geotechnical engineering on over 1,500 projects in over 15 states.

McCleary Engineering
McCleary Engineering specializes in geotechnical investigations and recommendations for foundation design, retaining walls, slope stability, embankments, pavement design and rehabilitation, subgrade treatments and other engineering services such as drainage studies. McCleary Engineering is Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) prequalified in general geotechnical services, subsurface explorations, structure geotechnical reports and construction inspection categories.
Mr. McCleary has nearly 19 years of construction and geotechnical engineering experience with IDOT. Six years were spent on the front lines of contract administration in construction as a resident engineer on bridge and roadway projects which included construction layout, material inspection and construction practice inspection. For the last 13 years at IDOT, Mr. McCleary was the District #3 geotechnical engineer, working with hands-on subsurface investigations; analysis, design, and inspection of geotechnical engineering projects; and on-the-spot problem solving. He has served on numerous statewide committees involving abutment design, piling, aggregate subgrade, subgrade stability, pavement under drains and pavement rehabilitation. He served on a nationwide Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) pooled fund study on deep soil mixing technology. In 2009, Mr. McCleary left IDOT to work full time at his company, McCleary Engineering. Mr. McCleary is a licensed professional engineer in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Georgia, Montana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Deep Foundations Institute, the Pile Driving Contractors Association and the Illinois Association of Highway Engineers. He is currently serving on the NCHRP Committee for the research of bridge scour on gravel bed rivers.

Mr. Messmer has over 30 years of engineering experience in analysis, design, plan/specification development, and project management/personnel supervision for geotechnical, foundation and structural engineering projects in the transportation, industrial, municipal and commercial fields of civil engineering. Throughout his career he has placed an emphasis on quality control and staff training. Mr. Messmer is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, the American Society of Highway Engineers and the Society of American Military Engineers. He earned his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Messmer was accepted into the Academy of Geo-Professionals in 2013.

Senior Project Engineer/Project Manager, GeoInsight, Inc.
Mr. Nereson has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of New Hampshire (2007) and is a professional engineer in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, and Rhode Island. He possesses a wide range of geotechnical engineering expertise encompassing site characterization, reinforced soil structures, geosynthetics, embankments over soft soils, deep and shallow foundation design, groundwater control, retaining wall design, pavement design and rehabilitation, and construction oversight. Mr. Nereson also performs environmental remediation design and stormwater management, as well as contributing to staff development and corporate strategic planning.

Senior Engineer/Principal, GeoInsight, Inc.
Mr. Penney graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1984 with a degree in Civil Engineering and has spent his last 33 years in private consulting working on geotechnical, environmental remediation, civil site design, and landfill projects. He specializes in the interaction of new and existing structures with soil, groundwater, and bedrock. His work assignments and responsibilities have enabled him to be directly involved in many thousands of investigation, evaluation and design projects throughout New England, and he has served as an expert witness on over 20 litigation cases. Mr. Penney is a professional engineer in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine, and he is a licensed site professional in Massachusetts. He has been with GeoInsight since 1993 and is their director of engineering. In addition to direct senior management of projects and senior peer review, Mr. Penney’s responsibilities include steering GeoInsight’s business activities with a small group of majority shareholders, and working on business development and client management.

Geotechnical Engineer
Mr. Cooke’s work experience includes services in the geotechnical, construction, construction testing/inspection and environmental engineering fields. His project experience includes projects as large as 1,400 acres, buildings as large as 1.5 million square feet, “portfolio” work on as many as 75 projects in one package, and linear projects as long as 40 miles. His specific specialties include earthwork and soil issues, construction materials and project performance, forensic analysis of geotechnical and materials issues, large project planning and geotechnical-related construction planning and analysis. He has provided geotechnical engineering on over 1,500 projects in over 15 states.

Mr. Halcomb has over 17 years of geotechnical and cold regions engineering experience and works for Devise Engineering in Anchorage, Alaska. He regularly oversees geotechnical efforts on projects ranging from several hundred thousand to multi-million dollars in various environments including the arctic, subarctic, and marine. Mr. Halcomb has experience in designing various geotechnical infrastructure including shallow and deep foundations, flexible and rigid pavements for vehicle and aircraft traffic, retaining structures, excavations, and dewatering. Mr. Halcomb is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Geo-Institute. He earned his B.S., M.C.E., M.S. in Arctic Engineering, and an Earthquake graduate certificate all from the University of Alaska Anchorage. 

Michael Perlow Jr., P.E. is a retired civil & geotechnical engineer with more than 45 years of experience in engineering geology, geotechnical engineering and failure investigations. He is a registered professional engineer and a graduate of Lehigh University with BSCE and MSCE degrees. He is also the author of some 35 technical publications and has presented at numerous conferences, seminars, and meetings.
Mr. Perlow retired from full-time consulting in January 2016 and continues to work part-time in retirement. He provides continuing education seminars and webinars on Foundation damage assessment and repair and is completing a three year applied research effort on drilled foundation limit state pile capacity verification along with a book on geo-environmental hazard risk management.
Mr. Perlow has extensive foundation failure assessment-repair experience associated with major sinkhole stabilization projects, utility main breaks and geo-environmental hazard triggered failures. He has directed geologic, geophysical, groundwater quality, and geotechnical investigations for major projects including the $100 million AT&T Solid State Technology Center, Interstate 78 through the Schantz Spring Aquifer in Lehigh County in Pennsylvania, Lehigh Valley Regional Postal Facility as well as the Vera Cruz Road and Macungie sinkhole collapses. He also has extensive marine geotechnical experience with coastal, offshore and university research projects.