Frederick Henry Tack III, P.E., ENV SP, BC.WRE, F.ASCE, the national treatment technical practice leader for Consor Engineers, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Tack is a civil engineer with more than 24 years of experience and started as a technician and civil designer prior to becoming a registered civil engineer, licensed in Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and Washington. Serving as a national practice leader, he is responsible for providing technical leadership and expertise across various treatment processes, facility design and planning, driving innovation and best practices, and supporting the firm's market strategy within the national treatment sectors for water treatment, wastewater treatment, water reuse, and resource recovery.
While at ASU, he served as a co-captain of the ASU ASCE Steel Bridge Team and as the educational outreach chair. During his early career, his experiences provided him with the opportunity to engage in the field-to-finish design and delivery of water distribution, wastewater conveyance, drainage and stormwater, roadway and structural municipal infrastructure, hydrology and hydraulic modeling plus residential, commercial, and light industrial private infrastructure.
Later, he served as a project manager, project director, associate, and as a Regional Team Leader for GHD over 12 years, where he developed and led multidiscipline teams of engineers, operators and technicians in planning, engineering, operations, and management of water resource and treatment infrastructure, and providing solutions in asset and maintenance management, condition assessment, environmental health and safety, master planning, and sustainability across the western U.S. and beyond.
Tack has supported the profession in many capacities over the years and through a variety of roles across multiple organizations including ASCE, EWRI, NSPE and WEF, among others. He is continually promoting engineering through outreach and mentorship with the Friends of Civil and Environmental Engineering (FOCE2) and as a guest lecturer at ASU, as an industry advisory council member for the Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science Program at the University of Phoenix and through ongoing involvement with ASCE.
He is a past-president of the NSPE-AZ Chapter, past-President of the Phoenix Branch of ASCE, past-chair of FOCE2, past-Chair of the ADEQ Onsite Wastewater Advisory Committee, and past-chair of the EWRI Desalination and Water Reuse Committee. He is currently the chair of the Arizona Water Association Water Treatment Committee, chair of the Tri-State Seminar Wastewater Treatment Track, president-elect of the Arizona Section of ASCE, and serving as a co-chair for the State Infrastructure Report Card update.
He has provided over 60 industry presentations, including conference proceedings, and led or co-authored 8 peer-reviewed articles or journal publications. Among others, he has achieved over 26 regional and national project awards and was the recipient of the Arthur Sidney Bedell Award from the AZ Water Association in 2024, the Arizona Civil Engineer Distinguished Service Award from the ASCE Arizona Section in 2019.
Tack earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with a minor in urban planning, and a master’s degree in civil, environmental, and sustainable engineering with an emphasis on water quality from Arizona State University.
