The ASCE June Planning Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 30th from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Tommy’s Pizza (tommyspizza.com) in Dublin. Please come for pizza and soft drink and to plan our upcoming ASCE and joint professional luncheons and dinner meetings for Fall 2016-Spring 2017.

Everyone is invited. Please RSVP to Chris Nye at cnye@smeinc.com by Wednesday, June 22nd if you will be attending.

Topic: ASCE Initiatives / Section Awards

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The ASCE Board monitors key issues facing the civil engineering profession, addressing those that most demand civil engineers’ attention through “strategic initiatives.” Currently, ASCE pursues three strategic initiatives—Sustainable Infrastructure, the ASCE Grand Challenge, and Raise the Bar. An update on current happenings at the Society level will also be given.

The Central Ohio Section will also present the annual Section and Life Member awards.

Topic: City of Athens Capital Improvement Plan Update
with Optional Tour of recently upgraded Wastewater Treatment Plant

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City of Athens Capital Improvement Plan Update and presentation of largest CIP project in City history.

Afternoon tour of the City of Athens Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrades.

Dinner meeting presentation of Athens Capital Improvements update and presentation of largest CIP project in Athens' history. OU and OSU Student Chapters to give updates on their projects and teams.

Topic: insight2050

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insight2050 is a community-wide effort to provide important data and analysis to help Central Ohio communities proactively plan for our Region’s growth and development over the next 30+ years. In many ways, this growth is expected to be dramatically different from the past, with an unprecedented 81 percent of our region’s future household growth being households without children. The rapid acceleration in both the aging and diversity of our population, along with changing preferences among key segments of our community, will also have profound impacts on the nature and location of our region’s growth.

As insight2050 clearly demonstrates, the manner in which our region grows over the coming decades clearly matters. The region’s predominant growth patterns and types of development will have significant impacts on our future plans for, and investments in, public infrastructure. It will impact the quality of the air we breathe and therefore the health of our residents. It will most certainly affect the amount of land we continue to consume to accommodate this growth, and perhaps most importantly it will likely have substantial impacts upon the long-term economic competiveness of our region.

Topic: Valravn - Building a World Record Breaking Roller Coaster

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Keynote Speaker: Rob Decker
Rob Decker is the Senior Vice President of Planning & Design for the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company.

Mr. Decker will uncover a behind the scenes look at what it takes to design and build the world's TALLEST, FASTEST & LONGEST dive coaster!

Time
11:15 AM – Registration
12:00 PM – Program
1:30 PM – Closing Remarks

Topic: ODOT 2015 Accomplishments and 2016 Initiatives

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Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Assistant Director of Transportation Policy and Chief Engineer will speak to the American Society of Civil Engineers on the department’s accomplishments in 2015 and what ODOT’s stakeholders can expect for 2016. Topics will include an update on ODOT’s current initiatives including the Ohio Bridge Partnership Program and ODOT’s new Asset Management Strategies as well as the impacts of the new federal Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (the FAST Act) on ODOT’s future programs.

Topic: Autonomous Vehicle Operation

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This presentation will discuss the recent developments, ongoing trends, and future implications of automated/connected heavy duty vehicles. Various factors driving the development of vehicle automation will be discussed, including safety and efficiency. Different levels of automation, possible technologies, and an overview of cost versus benefits will be outlined. The talk will include research and implementation examples from around the world, and comparisons with corresponding automation technologies in passenger vehicles will be used to emphasize the importance of automated fleet/commercial traffic.

Topic: Dam Safety Program for City of Columbus, Ohio, Department of Public Utilities Division of Water

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Dams have been constructed, operated and maintained by societies for millennia for a multitude of beneficial purposes. However, the fluid nature of the materials stored behind dams poses hazards to people and structures downstream ranging from engulfment to damage from the sudden release of potential energy stored in the material should the dam fail. Because of the risks associated with these hazards Owners of dams bear great responsibility for the careful construction, operation and maintenance of the structures. And because the consequence of failure can be devastating, organizations such as ASCE, ASDSO*, and ODSO* have developed standards and best practices, and governments have established laws and agencies (FERC*, ODNR etc.) to regulate these activities.

The City of Columbus, Department of Public Utilities, Division of Water owns and operates a portfolio of 10 dams associated with various aspects of the storage and/or treatment of the community’s drinking water. To manage the intricacies inherent with these tasks in a systematic fashion the Division has developed this Program.

Joint meeting with ACI & SEAoO

Topic: I-270/23 Interchange a.k.a "The Trench"

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"The Trench" carries two northbound express lanes that bypass traffic lights at Campus View and Flint Road, spitting cars out near North Woods Boulevard. It is 25 feet deep, about 4,000 feet long and 40 feet wide. Increased population and development in Delaware County have left the I-270/Rt. 23 interchange over capacity. About 150,000 vehicles travel through the interchange each day. ODOT had to either add lanes or give drivers an alternate route. The recently completed trench does both.

Joint meeting with ECC

Topic: Blueprint Columbus

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The Department of Public Utilities is in the process of implementing Blueprint Columbus in targeted neighborhoods to address overflows that occur from the City’s sanitary sewer system during periods of wet weather. Blueprint Columbus focuses on eliminating the source of the problem, which is rain water entering the sanitary sewer. There are four components that make up Blueprint Columbus: lining resident’s sewer lateral, a voluntary sump pump program and redirecting roof water runoff away from the home’s foundation drain. Green infrastructure will be installed on right-of-way property to treat rain water that’s been redirected before it enters the storm sewer system.