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Growing Alongside the Energy Industry: Jim McConville’s 35 years at NAESÂ
When Jim McConville joined NAES in 1991, NAES was still finding its footing in the third-party operations and maintenance business. After completing his MBA at the University of Washington and spending six years as a nuclear test engineer at Puget Sound Naval...
Engineering Services Team Scrambles to Get a New Transformer
At 1:34 am on Thanksgiving Day 2016, NAES staff at a power plant in Kentucky were rudely awakened by an alarm. On first inspection, Plant Manager Steve Holbrook found that the transformer for Combustion Turbine...
Validate Your Assumptions to Avoid Confirmational Bias
by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Manager, Plant Operations, NAES Corporation As plant operators, we often initiate projects aimed at improving performance – but when the results appear to show more improvement than we expected,...
The Catastrophic Loss of a Large Component
A Tale of Two Transformers The catastrophic loss of a large component yields some hard-earned insight by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Manager, Plant Operations, NAES Corporation Public agencies are generally assumed to exist for...
When Communication Goes Awry
by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Manager, Plant Operations Recently at a NAES-operated facility, an environmental services contractor contacted the facility’s asset manager about installing a number of monitoring wells. The contractor proposed several sites...
How We Delivered Value On the Island of Sumatra
by Dan Harmon – Project Manager, NAES Technical Services, with contributions from Operations Analyst Ralph Hecht My job with NAES Engineering & Technical Services has yet again given me an experience I’ll never forget. Earlier...
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