John Collins Email & Phone Number

Webster, NY, US

Webster, New York

Bison Engineering provides structural and civil engineering services to homeowners, contractors, and small businesses. Specialties include - Structural framing design; Foundation design; Retaining wall design; Building evaluations and condition studies; Load bearing wall determinations for removals and design of replacement headers and posts (typical for.

Rochester, New York

• Civil and structural engineering for commercial, municipal, state, and institutional clients. This work also included historic renovation work, building condition surveys, and development of New York State.
• Project Manager and structural engineer for a new 48,500 sf highway garage project with estimated $4.5 million construction cost.
• Design of concrete foundation repairs, steel railings, hatches, and their connections to an existing 200,000 gallon steel elevated water storage tank for the Town of Waterloo, NY per AISC and OSHA.
• Structural inspection and associate report on existing mausoleum structure for the Village of Seneca Falls, NY The structure was approximately 48 feet by 28 feet, and constructed of reinforced concrete with heavy stone.

• Engineering review and permitting of utility scale wind energy facilities. Writing and review of environmental impact statements and other New York State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) documents. Developed.
• Published the article “A New Approach for Developing Noise Regs” (The Daily Record, 6/29/09) on current regulation of wind turbine noise and recommendations. (See the link under My Websites)
• Consultant to municipalities on several high-profile, highly controversial wind power projects up to $250 million estimated installed cost.
• Produced a wind energy feasibility study of municipal buildings for the Town of Greece.
• Wrote NYSERDA grant application which won the Rush-Henrietta School District $270,000 for energy conservation improvements.
• Developed the Town of Victor Wind Energy Conversion System law to regulate private wind turbines.

• Civil and structural engineering for commercial, industrial, municipal, state, institutional, and wireless communications clients. This work also included historic renovation and condition studies. Environmental.
• Engineering for projects ranging in scale up to a $4.1 million wastewater treatment plant expansion.
• Civil engineering and project management of several projects for campuses in the State University of New York system, most notably SUNY Geneseo, which lead to retention of this important client.
• Design of several pedestrian bridges, and one pre-stressed adjacent concrete box beam NYSDOT bridge.

• Engineering for electric transmission structures, miscellaneous equipment, hydropower and coal power plants. Project management, technical review of designs by consultants, construction inspection, and construction.
• Updated company-wide transmission department structural standards and installation procedures for guying and structure reinforcement.
• Performed annual dam and penstock structural inspections.
• Wrote and presented several hydropower project reports to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission representatives.
• On-Site Project Manager/Project Engineer for multi-year, extensive stabilization and repair project for the Kent Falls Dam in Plattsburgh, NY

Msce, Civil Engineering

Bsce, Civil Engineering