C.S. Davidson, Inc., an employee-owned consulting engineering firm with offices in Lancaster, Gettysburg and York, is pleased to announce that structural engineer Albert A. Ponterio, P.E., has received a Hall of Fame Award for a paper he co-authored in 1982 entitled “The Influence of Chain Friction on Anchor Pile Design.”  The Hall of Fame Award recognizes technical papers that have had a significant and long term impact on the offshore oil and gas industry. The award, sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and their Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute, is given at the Offshore Technology Conference, an annual technical conference for the oil and gas industry.

Ponterio’s paper contained a procedure for analyzing the effect of heavy anchor chains in the design of deepwater mooring and anchoring systems for floating deepwater facilities. The procedure has been used worldwide on moored deepwater structures since it was presented in 1982.

Mr. Ponterio co-authored the paper with two colleagues while he worked at Brian Watt Associates, Inc. as a structural engineer designing offshore reinforced concrete oil exploration and production structures.  He left the oil industry in 1984 to provide structural engineering and project management services for the commercial, industrial and residential sectors. He joined C.S. Davidson in 2010 as a Project Manager, and now provides structural engineering expertise for a wide variety of building and industrial projects.