NPS Pinal Inc. - Civil Engineers

NPS Pinal Inc. - Civil Engineers
An Arizona Nonprofit Corporation since 2019
859 NORTH LAFAYETTE
MESA AZ 85201
480-389-4583

• No owners
• Part-time freelancers
• Small, self-managed companies

Expertise

NPS Pinal Inc. is a registered Arizona civil engineering firm with particular expertise and experience in:

• Flood control including FEMA floodplain revisions
• Grading and Drainage plans in Pinal County, especially for Pinal County approval
• Architectural team civil works including AIA layer naming standards, sub-consultant coordination, and sheet set coordination

About NPS

NPS Pinal Inc. is a member of the self-managed family of engineering companies founded by Tom Haws (currently including NPS Maricopa Inc. and NPS Agua Fria Inc.) that comprise a successfully exciting experiment in the following organizational foundations:

• No owners. Each company is a non-stock (not-for-profit or non-profit) business governed by a board of directors elected by the NPS Global sole member who is the founder or a successor. Project profits that accrue are periodically and democratically distributed to all colleagues (workers).
• Part-time freelancers. There are no salaries paid. All compensation to colleagues is for hourly part-time contract work.
• Small, self-managed companies. Every company is a single team of 6-8 colleagues. All colleagues manage their own work and profitability to the greatest extent possible following self-managing companies like Buurtzorg, Morning Star, and Sun Hydraulics. We all write our own project invoices, pay each other monthly, and manage the corporate accounting together.

Talent

Tom Haws (CEO)

Thomas Gail Haws graduated from Brigham Young University in Utah with a Bachelor of Science and started working in civil engineering in 1991. He has been a registered civil engineer in the State of Arizona since 1996 with a special focus on flood control. He was born in Mesa, and he has practiced mostly in central Arizona starting with subdivision drainage reports and water system mapping and through the decades including paving; grading and drainage including watershed studies (HEC-1, SWMM, and DDMSW), erosion protection, and scour calculations; water plans and models (EPANET); sewer line plans and models, treatment plant elements, and lift station plans and models; flood irrigation plans and models; and floodplain revisions and certificates (HEC-RAS 1D and 2D) for large and small subdivisions, single homes, roads, utilities, and commercial, government, utility, and mining sites. He is also a programmer (including of popular calculators on the web using the LAMP/JS stack and customizations for AutoCAD using Visual LISP), blogger, and semi-professional vocal musician/arranger/composer.

Antonio Lins

Antonio Lins is an engineer and GIS technician in Brazil since 2011. He graduated with a Bachelor degree in Surveying Engineering in 2010 from University of Pernambuco (Brazil). Since graduation date, he has been working with focus in GIS and civil engineering design. He worked for several civil engineering companies in Brazil, Angola and US, working in a team to design infrastructure projects such as highways, commercial/residential development and soil erosion control.

He has been traveling around the world and working remotely since 2016. Despite traveling he enjoys playing chess and doing sports such as surfing.

Paige Brue

Paige is a registered civil engineer/professional engineer (P.E.) in the State of California and a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM). She has been working in the field of stormwater management and drainage engineering since 2012. Paige’s expertise lies at the intersection of the built environment and the natural world. She has been involved in a variety of projects throughout her career including highway drainage projects, hydraulic modeling for dams and spillways, stream stabilization, floodplain mapping, fluvial studies, environmental compliance, stormwater best management practice (BMP) design, and watershed planning. Paige holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering from Purdue University with a Minor in Soil Science. In her free time, Paige enjoys running, surfing, hiking, reading, gardening, and traveling with her husband.

Sam Wachira

Samuel Wachira is an engineer-in-training (civil/structural) in Kenya. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree in 2015. Before graduating, he interned at a water and sewerage treatment company where he helped in maintaining daily operations and carrying water quality tests. Also, he interned at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development where he assisted in carrying out structural and infrastructural design and supervision. Since graduating in 2015, he’s worked for a renowned private firm in Kenya for 6 years. He’s worked on institutional, government, residential and commercial projects. He’s proficient at using Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Revit Structure, Robot Structural Analysis, HEC-RAS, and HY-8. His design experience encapsulates watershed analysis, retention calculations, flood-limits analysis, grading and drainage, scour calculations and soak-pit (dry well) design and 2d flow-modeling. It was in April 2017, when Samuel was hired by Tom Haws via Upwork. This presented an opportunity to harness his huge potential and expand his horizon in the practice of civil engineering. He loves basketball, swimming, traveling and won’t pass up a chance to make acquaintance at opportune moments.