] Allan J. Smolko, P.E., F.ASCE, a senior project manager with the city of Goodyear, Arizona, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Smolko has over 39 years of continuous service to government public works infrastructure development. He started his career as a consultant and designer in Pennsylvania and then transferred to Arizona in 1989. In Arizona he continued to provide design consulting services throughout the state on rail, aviation, facility and highway projects. He also contributed to similar projects in New Mexico, California, and the state of Washington. Smolko joined the city of Phoenix in 2000, where his work focused on municipal public works facilities, specifically solid waste projects including landfills, transfer stations, and composting.
He played a significant role in the continued development of the city of Phoenix’s Public Works Solid Waste facilities and landfills, which include the North Gateway Transfer Station and Material Recovery Facility, SR85 Landfill, and the Resource Innovation Campus (RIC). One of the five components of the RIC is the 27th Avenue Compost Facility, a 110,000-ton-per-year facility generating a product from waste and diverting green waste from landfills. Smolko was the city’s project manager for the RIC and played a lead role in the 27th Avenue Composting Facility, earning the recognition of being the first solid waste project in North America to achieve Envision Certification, that being Envision Silver.
Currently working for the city of Goodyear, Smolko continues his career developing sustainable capital improvement projects for facilities and horizontal infrastructure through the Engineering Department’s Project Management Division.
Smolko’s ASCE activities started at the section level as the newsletter editor and section secretary in the 1990s. He served as Arizona Section President in 2003 and continued his ASCE service as part of the ASCE Region 8 Formation team, assisting in the creation of the regional governess formation from the society’s zone governess system. Smolko’s last ASCE office held was as a Region 8 Governor.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and is currently licensed as a professional engineer in Arizona and California. He is the first licensed architectural engineer in Arizona.
