ESWP YMF Teed Off Summer at Top Golf
The ESWP Young Member Forum (YMF) teed the summer off with their first Top Golf Outing with over 40 attendees. Networking was in full swing at this event with 20 different engineering companies exchanging business cards and swinging a golf club. Top Golf Pittsburgh is the new trendy activity for all ages, located in Bridgeville, PA.
Topgolfâs mantra is, you donât have to be a golfer to have a good time here, and in fact, its target audience is non-golfers. They can come in to eat and drink and not touch a club. This was the perfect location for ESWP YMF to host an event and we look forward to visiting Top Golf Pittsburgh again in the future.
The event was sponsored by Advantus Engineers, LLC, Business Transition Advisors, Inc., E. Holdings, Inc., Elevator Management Services, Gannett Fleming, HDR, KU Resources, Inc., McKim & Creed, Michael Baker International, Sanitaire, a xylem brand, and Total Equipment Company.
We hope to see you at ESWPâs Young Member Forumâs next event. View the complete list here.
Scenes from the evening…..
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IBC 2019 Highlights
The 36th Annual International Bridge Conference (IBC) was held June 10-12, 2019 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD.
The IBC brought together more than 1,000 bridge owners, engineers, government officials, bridge designers, construction executives and more from the US and abroad. We had more than 20 different countries represented this year, as well as more than 40 states from the United States. Our furthest traveled attendees came all the way from Australia.
We started the conference off on Monday, June 10th with three Special Sessions at 8:00 AM. These Special Sessions included Construction, New Technology and Bridge Asset Management.
The official start and welcome happened during our Keynote Session. Our Keynote Speakers did an excellent job kicking off the start of the 2019 IBC!
We were pleased to welcome our Featured State, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). WSDOT organized a Session for Monday afternoon, which included 6 presentations on some of their ongoing projects, as well as a large display in our Exhibit Hall.
The 3-day conference had over 80 presentations and 13 continuing education workshops that were conducted. Not to mention, we had 10 Posters and 5 Bridging the Gap Theatre Presentations. The Posters and Bridging the Gap Theatre were new additions to this yearâs conference, along with the Outdoor Demonstrations in our Outdoor Exhibit space.
The Exhibit Hall is one of the main attractions at the IBC and was a great opportunity to network with the various vendors and fellow attendees. We would like to thank our 2019 Exhibitors for their continued support as IBC attendees always enjoy strolling through the Exhibit Hall learning about the latest technologies, products, and services the bridge industry has to offer.
In addition to all the other excitement, the IBC Attendees were able to get an exclusive sneak peak of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Rehabilitation on Tuesday, June 11th. We couldnât have asked for better weather for this outdoor tour! The tour began with a brief project introduction and overview, which was presented by the Kiewit Construction team and Federal Highway Administration in the Kiewit Field Office. This introduction was then followed by the guided walking tour on the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
We also held our Annual IBC Awards Dinner on Tuesday, where the winning projects were recognized and presented with an Award. We were pleased to have Dr. Karl Frank, P.E., our 2019 IBC Roebling Award winner, attend the dinner and provide us with a brief presentation of his outstanding achievements.
We want to thank all the IBC attendees, sponsors, presenters, exhibitors, and committee members for contributing to another successful conference.
We hope to see everyone for our 37th Annual IBC in Pittsburgh, PA June 8-11, 2020.
For Attendees of the MSCI Engineering Sustainability Conference, Bi-Annual Event Feels Like a Homecoming
âA Climate for Changeâ was the theme at this yearâs Engineering Sustainability conference,
hosted by the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) at the University of Pittsburgh with the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research at Carnegie Mellon University. The conference dealt with something unique for a technical conference: It spent time talking about not only the âwhatâ of sustainable innovations, but the âhow.â How do you get people to actually change their perspective about sustainability? How do you create a climate where such changes can be successful? Read the full article here…..
PE Magazine Coming Soon…..
The Spring issue of the Pittsburgh ENGINEER focuses on Engineering Emergency Response, and is filled with several interesting articles, with Guest Editor Cheryl Moon-Sirianni, P.E., District Executive for PennDOT District 11-0! Here is a preview of Cherylâs Guest Editor columnâŚ. âThe phone rings at 5:00 a.m. and a co-worker is on the line explaining that a roadway has just slid onto multiple apartment complexes. Once it is determined everyone and everything is safe, a normal person may immediately feel overwhelmed and anxious, but to an engineer this is the ultimate adrenaline high. Engineers are problem solvers by nature and there is nothing that gets the blood flowing more than an emergency. In addition, there is no greater opportunity for egos to be placed aside and for the ultimate in team building and cooperation to occur. In this Pittsburgh Engineer edition, you are going to read about some recent emergencies that regional engineers have had to deal with over the past few years. Emergencies exist in many forms and what is obviously the common theme is that you really canât prepare for most of them.â âŚlook for your copy coming in the mail!
Lennon, Smith Souleret Engineering News!
Lennon, Smith, Souleret Engineering, Inc. (LSSE), a 93-person civil engineering and surveying firm founded in 1985, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Rabell Surveying and Engineering, LLC on May 1, 2019. Rabell Surveying and Engineering, LLC will now be Rabell Surveying and Engineering, A Division of LSSE. We welcome the Rabell Team to our LSSE Family and look forward to our continued growth in the municipal and private clients for both Surveys and Civil engineering.
Robert L. Rabell, P.L.S., P.E., founder of Rabell Surveying and Engineering, LLC, will remain with LSSE in the position of Senior Engineer/Chief of Surveys of the Erie County Branch office. Matthew L. Swanson, P.L.S. will manage the Erie County Branch office. Matthew has 22 years of experience and was a partner with Rabell Surveying and Engineering, LLC.
Lennon Smith Souleret Engineering, Inc.âs Headquarters is located in Coraopolis, PA, and with the addition of Rabell Surveying and Engineering clients, the LSSE Team now serves over 75 municipal clients located throughout western PA and Ohio, including townships, boroughs, sewer and water authorities, higher education and utilities. LSSE also serves the commercial and residential site development market and has completed civil site design and permitting of over 4 million square feet of Industrial Park distribution centers, commercial sites and residential subdivisions comprising over 4,500 residential units. Rabell Surveying and Engineering, A Division of LSSE offers similar land surveying and civil engineering services to individuals, developers, municipalities, authorities, architects and contractors in the northwestern PA and eastern OH area since its founding in 1981.
The acquisition furthers LSSEâs strategic business planning objectives established in 2008. The acquisition will allow the LSSE Erie County office to grow and offer a broader range of civil and related environmental services including specialized sewer/infrastructure evaluation, hydraulic modeling, water and wastewater facilities planning and design, GIS and municipal project grants/administration services. It will also allow this office to meet the growing needs of its municipal and commercial clients. LSSE is owned by Kevin A. Brett, P.E., Ned Mitrovich, P.E. and Jason E. Stanton, P.E.
ESWP Member Company News!
Goethals Bridge Replacement Project Wins National Recognition Award in the American Council of Engineering Companies 2019 Engineering Excellence Awards.  A prestigious distinction honoring projects that have achieved top awards for excellence in state competitions. The new Goethals Bridge project won the Engineering Excellence Diamond Award in the category of Structural Systems.
Metcalf Award Winner Visits ESWP!
2019 Metcalf Award recipient Mark Magalotti visited ESWPâs Pittsburgh Engineersâ Building to attend our continuing education event, and stopped by the Board Room for this photo opp looking over the list of Metcalf Award Recipients. Great seeing you here, Mark!
ESWP Program Highlights with Mark Compton and Jennie Granger
80+ ESWP Members’ and their guests enjoyed lunch and heard from Mark Compton and Jennie Granger, some of the highlights……
The Pennsylvania Turnpikeâs CEO says the turnpike is facing a catastrophic money crisis, especially if the General Assembly requires the turnpike to continue to fund PennDOT $450 million out of tolls each year.
âIf we are asked to continue these payments beyond 2022, catastrophic is also a word I would use as we talk about the state of the turnpike,â Mark Compton said in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
Compton and Deputy PennDOT Secretary Jennie Granger spoke at the Engineers Club at a program sponsored by the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Airport Corridor Transportation Association.
KDKA money editor Jon Delano moderated the discussion and his full report can be found here.
Student Outreach Event
ESWP 1st Vice-President Dave Borneman, and Rucha Shah of Arcadis participated as judges in the âSea, Air & Land Challengeâ event at Seneca Valley High School on April 25, 2019, where Innovation and teamwork were keys at this robotics and engineering competition. Dave and Rucha volunteered as part of ESWPâs Student Outreach Initiative.
PARSONS News!
PARSONS was awarded a 2019 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Design Award for the Georgia Northwest Corridor Express Lanes project in the Best Main Span more than 150 feet category.
The PCI Design Awards showcase the creative and innovative uses of precast and prestressed concrete in a wide variety of structures. The program demonstrates how designers are continuing to use high-performance precast, prestressed concrete to achieve sustainable, more cost-effective, aesthetically pleasing, and quickly constructed projects.