Mounds View, MN - Empirehouse, Inc., a glazing specialty contractor, recently announced the move into their new location at 5200 Quincy Street, Mounds View, Minnesota.  The newly remodeled facility is conveniently located off the intersection of Interstate 35W and County Road 10 and houses their expanded fabrication plant and offices.

As a third generation company, Empirehouse has been in business since 1950 and is a Women Owned business. They specialize in commercial, educational, ecclesiastic and industrial curtainwall, storefront, and window projects.  For more information about Empirehouse, visit their website at www.empirehouse.com or contact Alana Sunness Griffith at 763-412-4512.

Saint Paul, Minnesota – American Engineering Testing, Inc. (AET), a leading engineering consulting firm, announces that Joe Bentler of its Saint Paul office has earned his professional engineering license in Minnesota.  Joe has been with AET since May 2004. His primary consulting areas include: wind energy projects, Trunk Highway 212, cone penetration test analysis, geotechnical instrumentation and slope and retaining wall stability analysis. 

In September 2007, Mr. Bentler presented a paper based about his Master’s research on instrumentation of cantilever retaining wall performance at the 7th International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics (FMGM) in Boston.  Mr. Bentler is a native of Glenwood, Minnesota.  He earned his Bachelor of Science in 2002 and his Master of Science in 2004; both degrees are in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota.  During school he worked as a research assistant in the rock mechanics laboratory of the Civil Engineering Department.

Duluth, Minnesota – American Engineering Testing, Inc. (AET), a leading engineering consulting firm, congratulates Greg Prom on earning his Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (CHMM) Certification. Prom attended Bemidji State University where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1995.  He majored in Environmental Science, with an emphasis in Biology. 

Greg is an Environmental Scientist for AET.  He conducts a variety of investigations including Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), corrective actions design and remedial investigation for Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) sites, pre-demolition asbestos and hazardous materials surveys, and conduction mold and indoor air quality surveys.  Greg is originally from Pengilly, MN.  He currently resides in Duluth, MN with his wife Sarah and children Sienna and Ryker.

AET is an employee-owned corporation, providing professional services to public and private sector clients since 1971.  AET's 300 engineers, geologists, scientists and certified technicians investigate, analyze, monitor and test to assist owners, developers, municipalities, consultants and contractors with their design, construction and restoration projects. 

AET office/laboratories are located in the following cities: Florida:  Palatka, Bonita Springs - Minnesota:  Chanhassen, Crosby, Duluth, International Falls, Mankato, Marshall, Rochester, Rogers, Saint Paul - Wisconsin: Eau Claire, Hudson, Menomonie, Schofield - South Dakota:  Beresford, Pierre, Rapid City.