The ASCE June Planning Meeting will be held on Tuesday June 19th 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 2013-Spring 2014.

Everyone is invited. Please RSVP to Mark Seidelmann at Mark.Seidelmann@stantec.com by Tuesday June 11th if you will be attending.

Appetizers Provided

Topic: Engineers Without Borders - Las Pilitas project in El Salvador

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

This presentation will be on the Central Ohio chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA and the Las Pilitas project in El Salvador. The project consists of a street and drainage system for an isolated residential area at the edge of the small town of San Pedro Puxtla. The street, which is now nearly complete, connects the Las Pilitas neighborhood to the rest of the town, eliminates unhealthful exposure to contaminated drainage, and allows safer access to the residences in the rainy season. Engineering challenges on the project included routing of floodwater, disposal of large boulders, limited space and difficult access. Completion was further complicated by local perceptions, language, politics, and funding. The project has received partial funding from both the Central Ohio Section and ASCE national.

The meeting will also include award of this year’s Civil Engineer and ASCE Section Engineer.

Topic: Becoming the Engineering Leader of Tomorrow
with ASCE President-Elect Randy Over

Vision 2025 inspires us to create a sustainable world and enhance the global quality of life. Learn about ASCE’s progress in sustainability, raising the bar, and advocating for infrastructure renewal. Find out how you can make a difference.

Topic: Becoming the Engineering Leader of Tomorrow
with ASCE President-Elect Randy Over

Vision 2025 inspires us to create a sustainable world and enhance the global quality of life. Learn about ASCE’s progress in sustainability, raising the bar, and advocating for infrastructure renewal. Find out how you can make a difference.

Topic: Geospatial Integration for Remediation and D&D Project at PORTS

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) was constructed by the United States Atomic Energy Commission to provide enriched uranium for the nation’s nuclear defense system and later for use in commercial nuclear power reactors. The plant enriched uranium from 1954 until 2001. Fluor-Babcock & Wilcox (FBP) under the supervision of the DOE started the process of the demolition and remediation of the remaining structures including the gaseous diffusion process buildings and remaining support facilities.

The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has played a critical role since the beginning of the remediation and Decontamination and Decommissioning (D&D) part of the project. This presentation will give an overview of the challenges to implement and develop an enterprise GIS that can serve the environmental/remediation, engineering and maintenance groups. Furthermore it will show the current use and future implementations of geospatial technologies at the site to achieve a more integrated GIS. This presentation will also show how data sharing/standardization are playing a key role at the site.