One of our favorite clients, Ned Taft of Alden Lab has passed away at the young age of 59. Ned was a gracious advisor to Silverscape. I’ll never forget how pleased he was and how hard he laughed when I told him I accidentally messed up my fish tank pump and I had a flow problem. His enthusiastic imaginiative ideas and infectious laugh will be missed.

The work at Alden continues. In the 21st Century, Alden is a vibrant, growing organization consisting of engineers, scientists, biologists, and support staff. Much of our work supports the power generating, manufacturing, and process industries. A new generation at Alden Lab, led by Dr. Stewart Cain will continue Ned’s very important work.

Thank you Ned.
Posted by: Caitlin


Ned Taft, Alden Lab explains the plexiglass used in various fishery equipment to Caitlin Jewell, Lauren Dorion and Silverscape team.

This was a blog posting from 2007 that I repost today in his memory.
"One of my favorite client visits was our trip last summer to see Alden Lab. Alden provides precision flow meter calibrations, fluid mechanic equipment tests and hydraulic engineering. We took a tour with Stuart Cain and Ned Taft, the two managing principals of their firm.

Although Alden had a wonderful library of historical photography from their projects, our design team brought their cameras to capture their beautiful campus and the experiments. It was a fascinating day. We learned about Alden's work with the EPA for fish protection & passage, visited a number of air and gas modeling experiments and spent time with their staff learning about the important research happening at Alden.

Understanding our clients’ passion is a core element of our process. It's what I love about our work."