From aprich at edg.net Thu Mar 1 16:02:55 2012 From: aprich at edg.net (Rich, Adam) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:02:55 +0000 Subject: [Central Ohio ASCE] ASHE & ASCE March 27th, Dodridge Street Bridge Presentation and Tour Message-ID: <02EBCBAFDA5C1147A6E07A5940FDF4E518E8D0C3@HOMBX1.edg.net> ASHE & ASCE - Dodridge Street Bridge - Presentation and Tour Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Registration: 11:30 am Lunch: 12:00 pm Program: 12:20pm Tour following Program (you are required to bring your hard hat, safety vest and appropriate footwear) The Fawcett Center 2400 Olentangy River Road Columbus, OH 43210 Speakers: James A. Pajk, P.E., Franklin County Deputy Engineer, Bridges Richard Engel, P.E., Vice-President, E.L. Robinson Engineering of Ohio, Inc. The Dodridge Street Bridge is a three span, arched, reinforced concrete girder structure, spanning the Olentangy River in Columbus, Ohio. The bridge project is being built during the 2011 and 2012 construction seasons. A short presentation will discuss Franklin County's approach to the structure type determination and some of the design challenges affiliated with this project. A tour of the project site will take place immediately after the presentation for those interested. Attendees will be required to drive to the site and bring their own hard hat, safety vest and appropriate footwear for walking the site. The site is located approximately 5 minutes from the Fawcett Center. Maps and directions as to where to park will be given at the meeting. Menu: Lasagna, country style green beans, bread, spinach salad with assorted dressings. Coffee, Water and Iced Tea Vegetarian or dietary restricted meal choice available (please specify during registration) PDH credit: A certificate for one (1) Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be issued at the conclusion of the program. Cost: $20 - ASCE, ASHE Members and Guests $10 - Students & ASCE Life Members Reservations: Please register and pay online (Starting Approximately - March 6) with a credit card at www.centralohioashe.org or call 614-525-3030 Prepayment is encouraged online via PayPal or mailing a check (payable to ASHE Central Ohio) to: Central Ohio ASHE c/o Franklin County Engineers Office 970 Dublin Road Columbus, OH 43215 Registration is due by 5 PM on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Please note: Late registrations and walk-ins may not be accepted. Registration fees may still be required for no-shows and registrants canceling after March 21, 2012. Payment: The preferred method of payment is online before March 21, 2012 (see above) or on the day of the event by cash or check. If you need to pay for multiple registrations, please pay by check. Checks should be made payable to ASHE Central Ohio. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: March 2012 ASCE Central Ohio Newsletter.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 3419357 bytes Desc: March 2012 ASCE Central Ohio Newsletter.pdf URL: From peter at centralohioasce.com Mon Mar 12 20:02:19 2012 From: peter at centralohioasce.com (Peter Narsavage) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:02:19 -0400 Subject: [Central Ohio ASCE] 2012 T.H. Wu Distinguished Lecture - The Risky Journey to the Future in Water Resources Message-ID: 2012 T.H. Wu Distinguished Lecture The Risky Journey to the Future in Water Resources Date & Time: Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm Location: Room 100 Scott Lab - 201 W 19th Avenue, Columbus OH 43210 Dr. Lewis E. (Ed) Link Research Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Maryland http://ceg.osu.edu/events/2012/02/2012-t.h.-wu-distinguished-lecture The nation, or at least our profession, is awash with talk about integrated watershed management and the goals inherent in its execution. From a historical perspective we know that the practice of focusing on local water issues often does little to achieve watershed scale, i.e., ?systems? goals, and in fact can make their achievement more difficult. One part of the equation is that policy remains lacking is this area. We seem unable to break out of the conundrum of just talking about systems approaches and the big picture and continue to address issues one project at a time at the local level. Another part of the equation is a lack of understanding of risk, and in particular the sources of risk and the inherent uncertainty. While risk is often mentioned in association with natural hazards, it can also be used to examine watershed services. The ability to assess and mitigate risk is growing, but our profession is only now embracing risk as a key attribute in decision making. It is appropriate that this lecture focus on risk, since T.H. Wu has been a pioneer in developing risk concepts to address engineering problems. Today, the Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Bureau of Reclamation and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are collaborating on portfolio-level risk based asset management strategies and tools to better address watershed-level decisions. The dilemma is that tools are emerging on the one hand to allow relatively coarse screening level estimates of risk, and on the other hand, to conduct sophisticated assessments of individual structures or components of structures, but there is a broad gap between these capabilities. Ironically, this is where applications of risk thinking and knowledge will pay the greatest dividends for the broadest set of stakeholders. In the end, a risk assessment is only as good as the information input, and those inputs (meteorological, hydrological, geotechnical , economical and sociological) are at times hard to get and also uncertain. The lecture highlights spanning the gap between local and watershed knowledge and needs and how the challenges of spanning that gap are being played out on a big stage that includes the Central Valley of California, New Orleans, The Mississippi River Basin, Canada and the Netherlands. These activities include the use of pioneering applications of risk for large geographically distributed systems, conduct of long term sensitivity analyses to understand when current policies and practice will no longer be sufficient to deal with social and environmental change, coping with the need to concurrently deal with uncertainty in design and achievement of resilience, and dealing with the nuts and bolts of getting reasonable inputs to support these critical analyses and decisions. The big questions are where do we stand with regard to this quest and what is yet to be done? Dr. Link served as Director of Research and Development and Principal Scientific Advisor, US Army Corps of Engineers. Previous assignments with the Corps included Director, US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Assistant Chief, Coastal Engineering Research Center and Chief, Environmental Systems Division, Environmental Laboratory. He retired in 2002 and worked as a senior advisor to Toffler Associates conducting strategic futures studies for government and industry before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland. Dr. Link served as Director of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, performing the principal forensic analysis of the Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans. He teaches courses in Natural Hazards and Natural Disaster Risk Assessment and Mitigation in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University Honors program and is a member of the Program and Project Management faculty. Dr. Link serves as Engineering Advisor to Live Better Magazine and on the Board of Directors of Turner Engineering Corporation. He is currently serving as one of five international advisors to the Netherlands for the development of their new Delta Model, an approach to provide sustainable and climate-resistant water management for the next century. He serves on the National Research Council Committee on Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience and recently co-led assessments of the National Dam Safety Program and the Unified National Program for Floodplain Management. He is a Certified Professional Hydrologist and has published over 100 technical papers and reports. Dr Link received the 2006 McGraw Hill Engineering News Record Award of Excellence and the 2010 Gold Order of the DeFluery from the U. S Army Engineer Association. This lecture is free, and preregistration is encouraged. Reserve your space by contacting Carol Scott at scott.30 at osu.edu - 614-292-3533. One (1) PDH credit will be offered for attending the entire lecture and a certificate will be provided Scott Laboratory is located at: http://www.osu.edu/map/building.php?building=148 Parking is available at Tuttle Park Place Garage: http://www.osu.edu/map/building.php?building=088 From aprich at edg.net Thu Mar 15 09:54:44 2012 From: aprich at edg.net (Rich, Adam) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:54:44 +0000 Subject: [Central Ohio ASCE] ASHE & ASCE Joint Luncheon - Tuesday March 27th, Dodridge Street Bridge Presentation and Tour Message-ID: <02EBCBAFDA5C1147A6E07A5940FDF4E518E8DC6C@HOMBX1.edg.net> Just a friendly reminder to register by next Wednesday, the 21st, if you are planning on attending this luncheon. Central Ohio Members, ASHE and ASCE are cosponsoring a presentation and tour of the Dodridge Street Bridge on Tuesday March 27th. This event is open to all and registration is currently open. Register online at: http://www.centralohioashe.org/register.php. Register by phone at: 614-525-3030 Prepayment via PayPal online or a mailed check is strongly encouraged. The registration deadline is Wednesday, March 21st. [ASHE March Luncheon Flyer.jpg] Regards, Scott D. Seaman, PE, Secretary American Society of Highway Engineers - Central Ohio Section Post Office Box 88 Worthington, Ohio 43085-0088 web: www.centralohioashe.org email: Secretary at CentralOhioASHE.org The mission of the American Society of Highway Engineers is to provide a forum for members and partners of highway industry to promote a safe, efficient and sustainable highway system through education, innovation and fellowship. W.E. Stilson Consulting Group, LLC 355 E Campus View Blvd ~ Ste. 250 Columbus, Ohio 43235 ?614.847.4670, x-205 Office W.E. Stilson Consulting Group, LLC is not a successor to and has no relationship with Stilson and Associates, Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From aprich at edg.net Thu Mar 22 15:52:52 2012 From: aprich at edg.net (Rich, Adam) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:52:52 +0000 Subject: [Central Ohio ASCE] ASCE Central Ohio >>> April Dinner Meeting - OSU Medical Center - OSU and OU Student Chapters Message-ID: <02EBCBAFDA5C1147A6E07A5940FDF4E518E8E1C9@HOMBX1.edg.net> Date & Time: Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 4:30pm Registration Begins Location: The OSU Ohio Union, 1739 North High Street, Tanya R. Rutner Room Topic: OSU Medical Center Expansion Project & OSU/OU Student Chapter Presentations (Joint Meeting with the OSU and OU Student Chapters) (Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.) The presentation will focus on the construction of the OSU Medical Center Expansion Project (OSUMCEP). Some of the unique aspects of the OSUMCEP "ProjectOne" will be discussed. The students from OSU and OU will each give a short presentation on the activities they have been participating in over the past year. Speaker: Nigel Carter (Turner Construction), OSU and OU Student Chapters Time: Registration begins at 4:30 Dinner begins at 5:00 Menu: Buffet of Braised Beef Tips and Vegetable Lasagna, Spanish Rice and Mashed Potatoes, and Caesar Salad CPD Hours: A certificate for one (1) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hour will be issued at the conclusion of the program. Cost: $20 - ASCE Members and Guests $15 - ASCE Life Members $10 - Students Reservations: Please email (or phone in) reservations to Adam Rich at register at centralohioasce.com or (614) 918-2476 or register and pay online with a credit card. Registration is due by 5 PM on Friday, April 13, 2012. Please note: Late registrations and walk-ins may not be accepted. Registration fees may still be required for no-shows and registrants canceling after April 13, 2012. Payment: The preferred method of payment is online before April 13, 2012 or on the day of the event by cash or check. 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