The NextEnergyAlternative Fuel Infrastructure was partially funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to test and demonstrate emerging alternative fuel production and storage  systems, including hydrogen, natural gas, bio/synthetic-fuel development platforms for vehicular and on-site power.

NextEnergy Engineer of Record:

Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. is a leading planning, design, and management firm of the built environment with offices in Detroit, Michigan, Birmingham, Alabama, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Juarez, Mexico. Offering clients a comprehensive range of facility services, market specialties include the industrial, research and technology, commercial, education, health care, and public sectors.  In 2006, AKA was selected as a winner of the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in the greater Detroit area and was also named one of Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For.

In addition to working with NextEnergy on their Laboratory Build-Out and Alternative Fuels Platform, AKA has recently completed a hydrogen storage, generation and dispensing facility for a North Dakota Power Cooperative, and is presently engineering a biodiesel production facility in Detroit, MI.  Working in conjunction with DMA Technical Services, Inc., AKA offers design engineering, safety engineering and project management services for a wide range of sustainable and renewable energy applications, with a special focus on alternative energy infrastructure.

For more information on Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., its people, services and projects, please visit www.albertkahn.com. For specific information on projects completed in the research and technology arena, go to Markets, Research & Development.