NANA
Commercial Group
Companies Take Action
During COVID-19
Businesses in NANA’s commercial group quickly adapted to
news of the outbreak, continuing to provide quality services
and manage safe operations. Employees worked together to
follow company plans and state and local mandates while
finding innovative ways to care for clients and community.
ENGINEERING
Pogo Mine Awards NANA
Construction Install Contract
NANA Construction was
recently awarded install
contract work for Pogo Mine’s
gravity screen expansion project, with a
crew mobilized to site on April 16. The
project is part of an overall program
to increase production of the mill. The
contract is NANA Construction ’s first
mining-related work outside of Red
Dog, which means NANA Construction
has begun to branch out and build
relationships with other Alaska mining
organizations. The team has received
positive feedback from the client, who
has already added additional scope to
the project. Congratulations, NANA
Construction team, on expanding
your work in the mining industry! •
NANA shareholder Doug Schaeffer works for NANA
Construction at Pogo Mine. Doug lives in Fairbanks
and was requested by name to help support the
gravity screen expansion project at Pogo Mine.
FOOD AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
CONTINUE TO PROVIDE STUDENT MEALS
For NANA Management Services (NMS)
food and facilities management teams,
statewide school closures meant they had
to get creative to provide food services for
their five Alaska school district clients.
After working with each district to plan
menus and packaging and distribution
methods, NMS employees were able to
start offering meals to students as early
as March 16. After weeks of refining
the process, NMS prepared more
than 8,000 meals per day for Alaska
students who were distance learning
at home, with many school districts
offering meals seven days a week.
FROM DINE-IN TO DELIVERY
NMS camp services at the Plaza Café in
the BP tower in Anchorage had to pivot
when most of the building occupants
began working from home. Food Service
Director Eric Quint is now delivering 450
meals per day from the café to BP and Teck
employees who are staying in Anchoragearea
hotels during their quarantine
or R&R before going back to work.
JOINT EFFORT PROPOSES DESIGN FOR
HEALTHCARE SCREENING STATIONS
Kuna Engineering partnered with NANA
Construction on a design-build proposal
to provide temporary, modular healthcare
screening stations in anticipation of
potential capacity issues for COVID-19
containment efforts. These modular
stations were designed with an open
layout to be transported on a flatbed
trailer that can be pulled with a standard
3/4- or one-ton pickup or delivered by
air via a C-130. All units were designed
so multiple units can be assembled
for larger or expandable facilities.
EMPLOYEES STEP UP TO HELP
WITH MASK SHORTAGE
Kuna Engineering employees Sandi
Velleca and Suzanne Taylor joined
with their families to make colorful
and functional masks to help fight the
COVID-19 outbreak. Each mask contains
a pocket for a replaceable filter for added
safety. Sandi, Suzanne and their families
have made more than 200 masks. •
Red Dog Employees Do Their
Part to Stop the Spread of
COVID-19 in Featured Video
Red Dog Operations implemented
significant changes to its travel
policies to protect employees
and communities in the NANA
region from COVID-19, including the
temporary suspension of all outbound
regional travel from the mine site. (For
updated travel measures, see page 2.)
NANA recognizes regionally based
employees at Red Dog for their
commitment to the travel measures, and
we thank them for the selflessness they
demonstrated to safeguard their loved
ones and villages. To honor them, NANA
developed a video that features Red Dog
employees sharing their support of the
travel restrictions for the benefit of their
community Elders, children and others. •
To view this video, visit NANA's Facebook page.
Kiana School meals prepared by NMS are
delivered by snowmachine.
Kuna Engineering employee Suzanne Taylor
(right) makes masks with daughter-in-law
Megan Taylor.
Larry Hanna, NANA’s senior director of Red Dog Operations, filmed participating employees and
helped lead the project – the final version of which was shared across NANA’s social media platforms
and received thousands of views.
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