Mr. Almes is a licensed Professional Engineer and earned his BSCE and MSCE degrees from West Virginia University. Prior to joining McKim & Creed, Mr. Almes spent 4.5 years as Vice President for an international consulting firm and two years as the Director of Remediation and Construction Services for WM's Corporate Energy and Environmental Services Division. For most of his career, he practiced as a consulting engineer and specialized in civil and geotechnical engineering with an emphasis in industrial site development, earthen dams and containment dikes, solid and industrial waste, natural gas pipelines and associated facilities, coal combustion residuals (CCRs) and coal refuse disposal (combined coal refuse and slurry impoundments) facilities. Mr. Almes has more than 33 years’ experience in operations, project management, design, engineering, permitting, construction management, and construction quality assurance/certification. Most of the Mining and Power Generation related projects throughout his career have involved coal mine/processing wastewater treatment, coal handling facilities (railyards and unload facilities), and processing/conveyance/disposal of CCRs and fine/coarse coal refuse materials at sites in Kentucky, West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana, Alabama, Virginia and the Carolinas. He also provided engineering support to large energy companies for facility geotechnical evaluations and design services in support of the closures, expansions and, in one case, conversion of three existing coal-fired power stations to biomass fuel burning facilities located in Virginia (Hopewell, Southampton and Altavista Power Stations). Mr. Almes completed a 2-year long Engineering / Construction Peer Review project for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Office of Inspector General (TVA OIG) following the Dec. 2008 CCR Impoundment Failure in which a major dike failure occurred on the north slopes of the CCR dredge pond at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant (KIF) facility located in Harriman, Roane County, Tennessee. This failure resulted in the release of approximately 5.4 million cubic yards of CCR material spilling onto adjacent land and into the Emory River. TVA's CEO directed the TVA Office of the General Counsel to contract with a firm to perform a root cause analysis of the spill, and AECOM Technology Corporation (AECOM) was commissioned with the task. In January 2009, to assist TVA OIG with technical aspects of this review, Mr. Almes and team were retained to independently peer review AECOM’s root cause analysis and provide other observations about CCR management practices at TVA. In July 2009, following completion the first two TVA OIG reports, Mr. Almes testified as a key witness on a five-member panel (other individuals represented the TVA, TVA OIG, US EPA, and AECOM) before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment in Washington, D.C. Mr. Almes and team also assisted in the preparation for (and attended) one subsequent congressional hearing in December 2009 to provide updates related to the ongoing Kingston failure clean-up efforts. From 2009-2011, Almes’ team completed over a dozen additional Peer Review Reports for engineering, environmental and construction related items at 7 Coal-Fired Power Plants and 5 Hydroelectric Dams within the TVA fleet.

Mr. LaLuzerne is responsible for expanding the firm's remote sensing capabilities, focused on operational strategies for aerial and mobile lidar as well as photogrammetry. Considered a subject matter expert in remote sensing for transportation projects, Mr. LaLuzerne has served as the project manager and surveyor of record for design surveys of hundreds of corridor miles of FDOT roadways. Mr. LaLuzerne serves on committees to help develop best practices and standards with FDOT’s Central Office integrating surveying technology into the transportation design workflow. He is experienced leading large continuing service contracts and districtwide contracts, managing multiple assignments simultaneously.

Mr. Lawry leads our Industrial and Alternative Project Delivery group, working on projects across the industrial space from conceptual design through construction and commissioning. His experience includes design and construction of projects in the power, steel, automotive, chemical, food, refining, and mining industries. He has been the design team leader on a magnitude of designbuild projects, coordinating design information between disciplines, acting as a liaison between the design and construction teams, writing specifications and scopes of work, and leading construction phase services that include the review of all shop drawings and field support of the contractor.