Rooted in Alaska Focused on its Future

Kuna Engineering, LLC (Kuna), has been serving the needs of rural Alaskan communities since 1981. A multi-discipline architecture, engineering, planning, surveying, and environmental consulting firm, Kuna provides a full range of services from multiple business lines.

our firm

We are a full service engineering, architecture, surveying, and environmental sciences firm with approximately 60 staff members operating out of offices in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Utqiaġvik.

Kuna is a minority-owned business with a primary NAICS code of 541330. In addition to our work as a prime contractor, Kuna supports large contractors through our multi-disciplined service lines, providing qualification for minority preferences included in federal contracting.

Alaska Native Ownership

Kuna is a 100% Alaska Native-owned company and our team has served as a subsidiary of NANA since 2005. NANA is owned by more than 14,000 Iñupiat shareholders. The Iñupiaq values of honesty, integrity, commitment, and respect are the touchstones of every project and Kuna’s commitment to these values guides how we conduct business:

  • Honesty and Integrity Govern Our Activities
  • Commitments Made Will Be Fulfilled
  • Everyone Will Be Treated with Dignity and Respect

Using these principles as a guide, Kuna strives to improve the quality of life for our shareholders by maximizing economic growth, protecting and enhancing lands, and promoting healthy communities with decisions, actions, and behaviors. To these ends, we empower Kuna employees and those we work with to cultivate a work environment built on respect, trust, and cooperation.

As a minority-owned, small business with a primary NAICS code of 541330, Kuna Engineering supports large prime contractors with small business sub-contracting requirements for federal work. In addition, Kuna services total small business set-asides with the federal government with architecture, engineering, surveying, and environmental service lines.

what is kuna?

Our firm name is derived from Northwest Alaska’s Kuna Formation – the name of the geologic formation that hosts the Red Dog zinc-lead-silver deposit. Red Dog is one of the largest zinc deposits in the world.

The name comes from the exposure of the shale formation along Kuna River, a small stream with headwaters in the Brooks Range.