{"id":1025,"date":"2017-06-15T18:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2017-11-13T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T22:18:24","slug":"westlakes-bernard-smith-attends-awea-windpower-2017-conference-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/westlakes-bernard-smith-attends-awea-windpower-2017-conference-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Westlake&#8217;s Bernard Smith Attends AWEA WINDPOWER 2017 Conference &#038; Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 17.55pt; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #555555;\">In late May\u00a0Westlake&#8217;s Bernard Smith, PE, PLS, attended the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) WINDPOWER 2017 Conference &amp; Exhibition with Portland Development\u00a0Commission (PDC) and other service providers as part of the &#8220;Pacific Northwest Wind Team.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17.55pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #555555;\">This year&#8217;s conference took place at the Anaheim\u00a0Convention Center in California. Westlake&#8217;s booth\u00a0was part of the PDC clean energy coalition along with several other companies in attendance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17.55pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #555555;\">The conference dovetailed perfectly with other highlights of Bernard&#8217;s schedule this spring and summer, including trips across the Great Plains and Midwest\u00a0to conduct site visits to wind farms where we are providing civil engineering services such as development of a transportation plan for turbine transport, storm drainage management, and site design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17.55pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: #555555;\">The conference was a great success for Westlake, as we were able to\u00a0continue\u00a0to expand our\u00a0knowledge on\u00a0the latest wind energy technologies and make contacts with our PDC group. We\u00a0look forward to\u00a0the\u00a0opportunity to attend another\u00a0WINDPOWER conference\u00a0next year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 17.55pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1026\" src=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20170411_191503359-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20170411_191503359-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20170411_191503359-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20170411_191503359-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1027\" src=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1029\" src=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-2-1-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-2-1-300x96.jpg 300w, http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/wind-2-1.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late May\u00a0Westlake&#8217;s Bernard Smith, PE, PLS, attended the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) WINDPOWER 2017 Conference &amp; Exhibition with Portland Development\u00a0Commission (PDC) and other service providers as part of the &#8220;Pacific Northwest Wind Team.&#8221; This year&#8217;s conference took place at the Anaheim\u00a0Convention Center in California. 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