S.S. Dannaway Associates Joins Coffman Engineers

Honolulu, Hawaii, May 3, 2016 (Newswire.com) - ​​​​Coffman Engineers, Inc. (Coffman), a mid-sized, multidiscipline engineering firm is pleased to announce the joining of Honolulu-based fire protection engineering firm S.S. Dannaway Associates, Inc. (SSDA) through an asset acquisition.

SSDA is the Pacific Rim’s leading fire protection engineering firm. They bring to Coffman 14 staff members and more than 30 years of experience through offices in Honolulu and Guam. Coffman has more than 360 employees with eight office locations serving clients across the U.S. and overseas. The two firms share core markets, clients, and values in providing technical excellence and service in a positive work environment. The combined capabilities allow Coffman to provide clients with significantly bolstered fire protection capabilities as part of their diverse multidiscipline engineering services.

"We are privileged to provide SSDA employees a great place to work, commitment to their career growth, and support for SSDA clients with the excellence in services they have come to expect."

Dave Coffman, Founder and Director

Coffman Engineers Founder, Dave Coffman said “I am particularly excited about the fire protection engineering growth at Coffman with the addition of Sam Dannaway and his staff. We have a great deal of respect for the successful business Sam has built, their technical capabilities, and their dominance in the Pacific Rim fire protection market. We are privileged to provide SSDA employees a great place to work, commitment to their career growth, and support for SSDA clients with the excellence in services they have come to expect.”

Founder and President of S.S. Dannaway, Samuel S. Dannaway said “All of us at S.S. Dannaway Associates are thrilled to join the Coffman team. We are very excited that our fire protection group will play a key role in fulfilling the Coffman commitment to providing quality fire protection engineering throughout the United States and important International markets.”

The fourteen members of SSDA became Coffman employees on May 1st and will remain in their current office location at 501 Sumner Street. SSDA founder and President Samuel Dannaway, PE, FSFPE will become Vice President, Fire Protection Technology at Coffman. He will continue to support his project commitments and the strategic companywide fire protection effort including mentoring other engineers. Other SSDA partners Robert T. Bigtas, PE and Jay T. Higashi, PE will become Principals at Coffman and lead the Pacific Region fire protection group. All SSDA employees will continue to support their clients and contractual commitments with the same staff and additional multidiscipline capabilities offered by Coffman.

The addition of the SSDA staff brings Coffman’s Honolulu presence to more than 40 multidiscipline engineers and support staff and also grows the companywide fire protection engineering group to 40 professionals located across the country.

About Coffman Engineers

Coffman Engineers is proud to celebrate 37 years of providing clients with multidiscipline engineering services including civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, process piping, instrumentation and controls, corrosion control engineering, project management, commissioning, and land survey services. The firm’s successful history is propelled by their guiding principles of lasting creativity, results, and relationships. Coffman Engineers offers clients an unwavering commitment to excellence in our services through offices in Anchorage, Alaska; Bozeman, Montana; Hagatna, Guam; Honolulu, Hawaii; Oakland and Los Angeles, California; and, Seattle and Spokane, Washington. For additional firm information, please visit www.coffman.com or follow us on Twitter @CoffmanEngineer.

About S.S. Dannaway Associates, Inc.

S.S. Dannaway Associates, Inc., the Pacific Rim’s leading fire protection engineering and building code consulting firm, was founded in 1985 by President, Samuel S. Dannaway, PE, FSFPE. With a staff of fourteen, S.S. Dannaway Associates maintains offices in Hawaii and Guam, and serves clients throughout the Pacific Region including Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Guam, Alaska, and Antarctica. S.S. Dannaway specializes in developing successful code-equivalent strategies, acceptable to code authorities, for the architect or developer. Design work for fire protection systems includes automatic sprinklers, clean agent extinguishing systems, carbon dioxide, foam and dry chemical fire extinguishing systems, fire protection water supplies, fire alarm and detection systems, and smoke control systems.

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Source: Coffman Engineers, Inc.