October 2016 Vol. 71 No. 10
Business
Rafael Ortega Establishes Aurora Technical Services, LLC
Aurora Technical Services LLC is a Houston-based civil engineering consulting firm. Owned and operated by Rafael Ortega, P.E., the firm provides engineering expertise focused on water and wastewater pipelines. Specific areas include: planning plus preliminary engineering, detail design, specialty consulting, condition assessment plus asset management, construction management, and inspection services.
Ortega is nationally known as one of the leading engineers in pipeline engineering, condition assessment and rehabilitation. With more than 35 years of experience serving clients from California to Florida and the Great Lakes to Texas, he opened Aurora Technical Services in 2015.
Ortega has spent his entire career serving municipalities and agencies on some of the largest and most complicated water and wastewater systems in the U.S. This experience, coupled with serving on multiple national standards committees and pipeline-focused organizations, has taught him to successfully meet project challenges requiring a high level of expertise, current and relevant technical aptitude, and knowledge about how to construct the project.
Prior to starting Aurora Technical Services, Ortega served as a vice president and director of Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam (LAN) Inc.’s Large Diameter Infrastructure Division. With LAN for more than 33 years, he led the firm’s team serving the city of Houston’s high-profile Surface Water Transmission Program and oversaw the design of more than 500 miles of large diameter pipelines including nearly 100 miles of tunnels. This work has involved route alignment studies, project-specific phasing plans to mitigate potential operational impacts, detail design including development of technical specifications, coordination with the general public in order to address community concerns, and constructability reviews.
In addition, Ortega’s designs have included various materials such as steel, PCCP, ductile iron, PVC, HDPE and FRP, as well as different installation methods, including open cut and trenchless construction such as HDD, microtunneling, TBM, augering/bore-and-jack and pipe insertion.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Aurora Technical Services, (281) 453-7700, auroratechservices.com
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