Al Adelgren

Experience

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  Wastren Inc.

  Sept 1996 - Jan 2001

  Lead Site Engineer

  While with WASTREN Inc., I held several varied roles, and was responsible for both cost reduction and business process improvement initiatives, as well as facilities engineering and planning activities.Value Engineering Specialist:General Management core staff for DOE Grand Junction Office (GJO) site. Created an innovative GJO site-specific Process Review effort, a cost reduction initiative that crossed all organizational boundaries, engaged all staff levels, and shared savings to all employees. The Process Review integrated traditional VE and USAF IDEF0 techniques, and evaluated more than 180 department and enterprise level processes and systems, and achieved 11% fiscal year budget reduction. VE program support to DOE-Headquarters.Lead Site Engineer:Responsible for 35 structures and 62 acres, including strategic planning, budget forecasting, and project management. Preparation of GJO site including former uranium mill and laboratories for transfer to local control. Decommissioned and demolished or renovated for reuse several formerly utilized radiological facilities including laboratories, ore mill buildings, and radiological instrument calibration structures.General Manager; Kestrel Alliance:Wholly owned subsidiary established to foster employee entrepreneurial ventures. New ventures included workplace health and safety, facilities maintenance, energy management, and management consulting services. As GM, my role was to assist other members with their strategic planning, business development and marketing, and proposals efforts. In this capacity I aided other Kestrel members to pursue and expand new ventures. The most successful ventures eventually spun off into separate entities.Personal ventures included program planning and VE workshops for several government agencies.- Master planning for mixed use public facility environmental remediation, and replacement structure.- VE facilitation for large municipal projects located in AZ, CA and NY. Show less

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  Robinson, Stafford & Rude, Inc.

  Feb 2002 - Oct 2003

  Vice President

  Planned and led value engineering reviews of capital construction projects for several government agencies. Preparation of qualification packages and proposals for new clients, and relationship building to recover past government agency clients.Representative Projects (partial list):- Landmark parks improvements- Visitors centers in Federal recreation areas- Water treatment and storage facilities- Wastewater treatment and recycling plants- Multi-building operations / training complexes- Stormwater infrastructure planning- Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection upgrades- Municipal district stakeholders partnering- Forensics Biology / Criminology Laboratories- Large bore tunnel storm water management- Fleet heavy fire / emergency services vehicle maintenance and parking / storage facilities- Airfield improvements, military heavy fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft- Hydroelectric dam improvements; threatened fish species protection features- Inner city interstate highway corridor widening and replacement bridges planning- Commuter Rail, Multi-Modal Transit Centers (rail / bus / ferry and rail / bus / park-ride)- Former petrochemical manufacturing site environmental remediationClient agencies (partial list): - Office of Management and Budget, City of New York, NY- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (multiple districts)- City of Austin, TX- International Boundary Water Commission- City of Portland, OR- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service- City of San Diego, CA- Bureau of Land Management- Pima County (Tucson), AZ- Sound Transit, Seattle, WA- Missouri Department of Transportation- Environmental Protection Agency Show less

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  San Juan Construction

  Apr 2003 - Jan 2006

  Mechanical Division Manager

  Managed all activities related to mechanical / plumbing systems and site utilities including estimating / quantity surveys, sourcing, procurement, and quality control reviews. Responsible for mechanical systems integration with other disciplines as well as concurrent projects.Representative projects: Airfield and port improvements, heavy maintenance facilities, operations centers, multi-unit housing, civil infrastructure, morale-wellness facilities, dining facilities, fuels handling systems and storage, solid waste management / incinerator, and digital airfield surveillance radar. Remote sites projects at Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), and Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. Member of management team chartered to restructure business systems and practices; formalize business development; and standardized document controls and project management systems.Key Accomplishments:- Pushed forward construction materials and equipment though an extended supply / logistics chain (min 7 weeks transit) to remote island work sites, thereby allowing field crews to accelerate projects completion. Show less

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  Jacobs

  Jan 2006 - Mar 2007

  Logistics Manager / Project Manager

  Logistics Manager, St. Mary’s Medical Center, Grand Junction, CO. The $261 million Century Project expansion included a new 14-story tower, major site utilities work, and existing spaces renovation. The $13 million Central Utility Plant (CUP) expansion included a utilities tunnel across several major entries, and close proximity to emergency entrance. Planned on campus helipad relocation, with temporary soft-side maintenance hangar. Monitored construction activities to avoid disruption of air-ambulance, emergency department / ambulance drive, medical office building access, and materials management operations.Key accomplishment:- Together with constructor, developed an alternate construction phasing plan for new utilities tunnel that retained full access to four high traffic pedestrian entrances including pharmacy, only access drive to Central Plant and Receiving Docks, and Emergency Department ambulance drive.Project Manager, Denver Health & Hospital Authority, Denver, CO. As Project Manager, managed renovation projects as part of $400+ million bond program. Remodel of new admissions area in main building. Design completion and City interface for conversion of former Masonic Lodge into a materials management center with receiving dock, connected to main building by a under street tunnel. Show less

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  Community Hospital of Grand Junction

  Mar 2007 - Jun 2008

  Hospital Representative, New Facilities Construction // Interim Director, Facilities Management

  Colorado West Healthcare System d/b/a Community Hospital of Grand JunctionHospital Representative, New Facilities Construction Responsible for planned Health Care Village (HCV) development. The HCV included a full service 64-bed in-patient hospital, medical office buildings, central support facility, utilities, and community healthplex on a 40-acre green-field site. • Concept development and stakeholders interface.• Conceptual estimating and phase planning for construction program exceeded $200 million.• Program review, including retention of owner’s representative, as well as architect reselection and construction manager selection via integrated project delivery team process.• Prepared annualized cash flow projections based on HCV phased development.Assumed role of Interim Director, Facilities Management (Oct ’07 – Jun ’08)Responsible for facilities management, 24/7 maintenance, safety and security for 46-bed hospital campus with two medical office / mixed use buildings and ancillary facilities, plus off-site out-patient day surgery facilities. • Managed facilities “Environment of Care” per JCAHO guidelines.• Enforced OSHA workplace safety compliance, and implemented necessary corrective actions.• Prioritized capital improvements plan to mitigate several years of “deferred maintenance” which resulted in frequent systems and major equipment failures.• Management of owned facilities leased to medical services providers.• Planning and constructability reviews for remodel and renovation projects.• Updated emergency management / preparedness plans and staff training to conform with FEMA/JCAHO guidelines.• Liaison with local emergency management council, emergency response planning and drills.• Weekly coordination with local LEOs, Fire / EMS, hospitals, and other agencies.Per CWHS board request served as President, Doctor's Clinic Building, Inc.; for profit subsidiary that owns professional office buildings and operated two commercial pharmacies. Show less

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  Self - Independent Consultant

  Jun 2008 - Aug 2009

  Independent Consultant

  Providing project management consulting, value engineering, and support services to professional organizations and community based resources.

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  PBS&J, an Atkins company

  Oct 2008 - Sept 2011

  Sr Estimator / Scheduler III

  MEMA Technical Team - Mississippi Recovery Office (MSRO), Biloxi, MS: Review of project bid packages, change orders, pay applications and other documents on behalf of MS Emergency Management Agency for FEMA grant funding requests related to Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts.Deputy Project Director for the Mississippi Alternative Housing Pilot Project (MAHPP); Biloxi, MS. The MAHPP is now in the permanency phase where cottages are being placed on permanent foundations based on flood zone and local jurisdictional requirements. Foundations are wood piles set in concrete pier footings or dry stack CMU blocks conforming to HUD standard 3285. Responsible for Operations, which includes scheduling as well as construction inspections.Performing conditions assessments of approximately 600 buildings on three DoD installations located in NJ and VA. Prepared project scopes and ROM cost estimates to repair and restore buildings to meet code requirements for current or intended use.Value engineering services for municipal and state level agencies. VE efforts have included airport expansion, waste water reclamation plant for irrigation reuse, and highway maintenance projects. Used VE Job Plan as template for LEED review of planned military airfield heavy aircraft parking apron repairs and related construction work.Key Accomplishments:- Completed more than 600 buildings / systems conditions assessments, and developed more than 1300 corrective action project scopes with cost estimates.- Acting on behalf of MEMA, acheived 100% acceptance rate by FEMA for recommendations for reimbursement of Hurricane Katrina reconstruction costs incurred by local agencies. Show less

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  ECC

  Sept 2011 - Dec 2015

  Value Engineering Manager / QC Mechanical

  Quality Control - Mechanical and Direct Deliveries Coordinator (on site):Large USACE special use project located near Wiesbaden, Germany. Duties include QC review of subcontractor technical information; sourcing and procurement of specialized equipment and consulting services from vendors throughout Europe, UK, and USA; and coordination of direct deliveries of bulk materials / high value equipment to the project's secure construction site.Value Engineering Manager (global):Planning and facilitation of internal value engineering and client partnering workshops for construction projects and business infrastructure. VE efforts have encompassed civil works, military and naval construction, alternative energy development, and environmental remedial action projects. VE efforts have also included schedule recovery efforts to mitigate failures of key subcontractors or unplanned / undocumented site conditions. Other duties included serving as subject matter expert / technical writer for several proposal efforts. Successful project captures included military infrastructure, airfield fire/rescue and operations buildings, alternative energy, and disaster recovery / debris removal. Show less

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  A K Adelgren & Associates

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2019

  Independent Consultant

  Providing professional value engineering / value methodology and pre-construction services to engineering design and general construction contractors worldwide.Recent efforts have included planning and leading Value Engineering (VE) workshops to review design-build delivery for interrelated military infrastructure improvements located in Poland (42 projects) and Estonia (6 projects). These projects all had significant challenges due to defined period of performance being constrained by (1) previously planned / schedule multi-national training operations events, (2) environmental regulations, and (3) weather restrictions for concrete placements. Further challenges included several projects being client defined without required user and/or host nation features. Show less

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  Faithful+Gould

  Jul 2019 - Nov 2023

  Value Methodology professional providing VE/VM services globally.

  • Chief Value Manager

    Jul 2019 - Nov 2023

  • Chief Value Manager

    Jul 2019 - Nov 2023
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  Crawford Consulting Services

  Nov 2023 - now

  Expert Services Group