We are excited to announce that the Eastern Branch will be hosting a screening of MacGillivray Freeman Films and ASCE's new IMAX film Cities of the Future on Saturday, April 13th! Thanks to MacGillivray Freeman, this screening will be free of charge and open to all ASCE members and their families. We are hosting this screening jointly with the Future City Competition North Carolina organization and will be inviting K-12 students in the Raleigh/Durham area.

Following the screening, there will be a pizza luncheon in the adjacent Venture Hall at Marbles with a Future City planned activity, Future City model showcase, a short presentation, and vendor booths following the movie in the Venture Hall until 3:00 pm. This will also be free for ASCE members and families.

Note that this free showing and luncheon at the Marbles IMAX is separate from the Marbles Kids Museum and does not include admission to the Museum. Although we highly encourage you to come early or stay late to check out the Museum, it will be at an additional cost. 

Who: ASCE Members and families, including NC State and Duke Student Members, Future City NC, local K-12 students

What: ASCE's IMAX Film Cities of the Future (40 minute runtime)

Where: Marbles Kids Museum IMAX Theater at 201 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC

When: Movie on Saturday April 13th at Noon

Pizza Luncheon directly following starting at 12:45 pm until 3:00 pm

RSVP: All RSVPs will be taken online. Please sign up by April 8th!

About the movie: Narrated by award-winning actor John Krasinski, Cities of the Future highlights the visionary solutions engineers are developing to meet the pressing challenges of a changing world and forge a brighter, more sustainable future. 

From electric flying cars and aerial highways to smart buildings, greener infrastructure and the revolutionary concept of beaming solar energy down from space, Cities of the Future offers an inspiring vision of how we might live 50 years from now. Integrating state-of-the-art CGI with live-action IMAX cinematography, the film unveils the profound changes already taking place in some of the world's great cities: from a teeming Los Angeles vying to be fossil-fuel free through the LA100 initiative; to Amsterdam, where bicycles now outnumber people; to lush Singapore, where a million trees mixed with modern engineering marvels have turned a sweltering island into a sustainable oasis.

Questions: Please contact Mary Beth Liles with any questions.

Please join us for the January Lunch Meeting at Dilworth Neighborhood Grille Thursday, January, 25 2024 with registration/socialization beginning at 11:30 am.  We apologize due to increases in catering and room rental charges we have increased Meeting fees by $5.  The board is currently looking at other locations in the Charlotte area to consider for future meetings.  We welcome any suggestions or recommendations and as fees is one factor for looking at options we are also looking at other factors like service, access, parking, and overall convenience of the location for members to attend during lunch hours.

Topic: Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s Capital Development Program Updates

Presenter:  Ashton B. Watson, P.E., C.M., ACE – Airport Engineering Program Director

Bio:  Ashton Watson has worked for the Charlotte Douglas International Airport for 8 years, and for the City of Charlotte doing Capital Project Management for nearly 8 years with the Department of Transportation (CDOT). He has directed and managed more than 40 projects within the Airport’s Capital Development Program on both the airside and landside, totaling over $1B. He has overseen planning, design and construction of major and complex multi-million dollar runway, taxiway, drainage, and lighting improvement projects. Mr. Watson is experienced with projects involving traffic and transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems, digital message signs, pavement rehabilitations, rigid and flexible pavement, complex design and construction phasing, fuel facilities, drainage improvements, airfield geometries, airfield lighting, and federal funding. He has been involved with many projects requiring significant coordination with numerous parties, including internal customers, FAA, ATCT, Airline tenants, other tenants, and various review agencies, which speaks to the key to his success = Collaboration!        

   Education and Certifications:

• B.S. Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte - 2006

• M.S. Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte - 2009

• Registered Professional Engineer, North Carolina P.E. # 036863

• Certified Member (C.M.) – American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)

• Airport Certified Employee-Operations (ACE-Ops) – American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE)

Selected Experience:

• 4th Parallel Runway Program

• North End Around Taxiway Program (NEAT)

• Deice Pad, Taxiway F Extension, & South Crossfield Taxiway

• Taxiway M Rehabilitation (Award Winning)

• Taxiway C North Rehabilitation (Award Winning)

• Concourse A Building and West Ramp Expansion

• RWY 18L/36R Rehabilitation (twice)

• RWY 18L/36R C4 Highspeed Taxiway Exit

• South Cargo Ramp Expansion

• Airport Entrance Road (Josh Birmingham Parkway Realignment)

• Energy and Communication Infrastructure throughout the Airfield

• I-85/I-458 CLT Airport Re-Branding and Wayfinding Signage Updates

• Berewick Town Center/Outlet Mall/Dixie River Road

• Midtown-Metropolitan Redevelopment

• 3rd Ward Redevelopment: Knights Ballpark and Romare Bearden Park

PDH: 1 Hour

Cost: $25 for Members; $30 for Non-Members

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PayPal: For member registration, click here.

For non-member registration, click here.

PayPal payment alone does not guarantee registration for this event. Please RSVP to let us know in advance if you can attend the meeting by clicking the RSVP link presented in this e-mail.

If paying at the door Credit Card by Square is preferred. For PayPal registration and payment, please see below:

Please select either the member or non-member registration price by clicking on one of the two links above. The link will direct you to a payment page, at which time please select the number of registrations you would like to pay for (if you are registering more than one person). Then, either log in with your PayPal account to check out, or click on the “Don’t have a PayPal account” tab to open a credit card payment window. Once your payment information is entered, on the next screen please indicate that you would like to include specific instructions for your purchase and include the names of the people you are registering. This will ensure that we have an attendance list of everyone planning to attend.

Please note – refunds will not be available to anyone that does not attend the meeting and does not request a refund at least 24 hours before the meeting date.  Please contact our Treasurer, Robert Price rprice@2mnext.com  with any questions regarding paying for your registration via PayPal.

Come join ASCE NC for its 100-year celebration! We will be hosting a conference at NC State on Friday, October 6th. The conference will include a light breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We will have guest speakers, awards, and our scholarship presentation. A total of 5 professional development hours (PDHs) will be awarded.

The fees, which includes parking, all meals, and two drinks during dinner, are as follows:

• General admission including ASCE members - $40

• Life members/Young members/Past NC Section Presidents/Government Employees - $30

• Students - NO CHARGE

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The sessions will be at two locations:

• We will begin at 9am with breakfast at Duke Energy Hall in the James B. Hunt Library at NC State at 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606.

• The evening session (dinner) will be at the Talley Student Union at 2610 Cates Ave, Raleigh, NC 27606.

How to get there.

From Partners Way

• Enter the library building.

• Continue straight past the yellow stairs to the back wall.

• The elevator is on your right.

• Take the elevator up to the second floor.

• Exit the elevator and continue straight across the lobby.

• The Duke Energy Hall is in front of you.

From the Oval

• Enter the library building.

• Continue straight across the lobby.

• Turn right before you reach the stairs.

• The Duke Energy Hall is in front of you.

Agenda:

• 9:00: Welcome and breakfast and networking (Duke Energy Hall in the James B. Hunt Library at NC State. 1070 Partners Way, Raleigh, NC 27606)

• 9:45: Opening remarks

• 10:00: Guest speaker

• 11:00: Campus tour

• 12:00: Lunch and scholarship presentations.

• 1:00: Guest speakers

• 3:00: Break time

• 3:10: Guest speakers

• 5:00 – 5:30: Travel to Talley Student Union, 2610 Cates Ave, Raleigh, NC 27606 – Coastal Ballroom of Talley

• 5:30: Drinks and remarks

• 6:00 – 7:30: Dinner and awards

The campus tour will be the Fitts-Woolard Hall which is the new home for Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering. Walking of several floors will take place. Please keep this in mind.

We can accommodate dietary restrictions as needed.

Attire is business casual. We also have hotel rooms blocked off near the event venue at the TownePlace Suites, Raleigh-University area. You must book by September 15th and the cost per night is $145 before taxes. Details can be found at Marriott’s special registration page.

More information on parking and directions will be provided at a later date.

Cancellation Policy: You can cancel up to 2 weeks prior to the event. (September 22nd) You can also transfer your reservation to someone else up to 1 week before the event.

If you have any questions please contact Chas Webb, NC Section President at Charles.webb@raleighnc.gov or at 919-996-3519.

Sponsors: We’d like to thank our sponsors for their help and support.

The South Carolina Section of ASCE is hosting a one-day Fall Conference on September 22, 2023, from 8AM-3PM, at the Cooperative Conference Center at 169 Laurelhurst Avenue, Columbia, South Carolina 29210. Up to 6 PDHs will be available for attendees. THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD IN SOUTH CAROLINA, NOT NORTH CAROLINA.

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When: September 22, 2023, 8AM-3PM

Where: Cooperative Conference Center at 169 Laurelhurst Avenue, Columbia, South Carolina 29210

What: Speaker topics include General Civil, Water Resources, Transportation, and Structural/Design. There is no registration cost for speakers/presenters.

Fee: $95.00

If you are interested in presenting, please contact Renee Gardner and Cherri DeFigh-Price.

If you are interested in being a sponsor or exhibitor, please contact Kevin Morgan:

• Sponsorship cost is $200 and includes company advertisement on posters and program, and one attendee ticket. Sponsors can sign up here.

• Exhibitor cost is $400 and includes company advertisement on posters and program, two attendee tickets, and an 8' x 8' space with power supply in the main corridor to use for your display. Exhibitors can sign up here.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Lydia Mignogna.

Please join us for the 27th annual Eastern Branch Golf Tournament! All net proceeds from this event will do directly to the ASCE NC Section Scholarship Fund. This event will be capped at 40 participants. (As of 2023-08-17, we have filled 39 of 40 registrations!)

Location: Country Club of North Carolina, 1600 Morganton Road, Pinehurst, North Carolina 28374

Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2023

8:30 AM Registration

9:00 AM Shotgun Start

The format will be a scramble and benefits the scholarship fund.

Cost includes golf, lunch and drinks, range balls, and fun.

Reserve Your Spot Now

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Join us for a celebration at the historic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. A park ranger will talk about the history at about 3pm on July 15, 2023. It will be followed by a discussion about the new Jug Handle bridge in Rodanthe.

Location: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, 46379 Lighthouse Road, Buxton, North Carolina 27920

Although we are working on hotel blocks and a restaurant, dinner and lodging will be on your own unless notified otherwise.

ASCE In North Carolina is turning 100! Our humble beginnings started in Durham in 1923. Now 100 years later we are having a year-long celebration. We will start by having a plaque dedication on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Friday, June 16th at 2:00. We will be celebrating at the Visitor's Center in Asheville. 195 Hemphill Knob Road, Asheville, NC 28803.

We will meet at 2:00pm at the Visitor's Center. We will say some words, look back on the history of civil engineering in North Carolina and look to the future. We will then have a dinner at Pack's Tavern in downtown Asheville. Dinner will be at approximately 6pm. Pack's Tavern is located at 20 South Spruce Street, Asheville, NC 28801.

Dinner will be covered by ASCE for ASCE members only. Lodging and travel will not be covered.

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ASCE National will be holding a virtual forum where members will have the opportunity to meet the President-elect candidates. 

When: April 25, 2023, 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register: https://asce-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2mkrljRiQnCaqTkoJuAPZw

ASCE National will be holding a virtual forum where members will have the opportunity to meet the President-elect candidates.

When: April 24, 2023, 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register: https://asce-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JVbdcIOdRk6HwMW_bNigOQ

The Cans for Brews food drive and August social will be coming up on Saturday, August 13th! 

The Eastern Branch’s YMG is bringing back their summer food drive. They will be collecting food until Saturday, August 13th, when we will be wrapping up with our August Social at Oak City Brewing Company in Knightdale (616 North First Avenue, Knightdale, North Carolina 27545) from 2:00pm to 5:00pm on Saturday, August 13th.

If you think your company would be interested in working with the Eastern Branch’s YMG to donate food, please contact them.

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AEG is holding a dinner meeting at Clouds Brewing in Raleigh on April 14, 2022. ASCE members can pay the same rate as AEG members. Visit their site to learn more.

AEG is holding a dinner meeting at the Whitewater Center in Charlotte on January 27, 2022. ASCE members can pay the same rate as AEG members. Visit their site to learn more.

The Conference has been scheduled for October 15, 2021, from 9am until 12pm, and it will be a virtual event.

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Join us as we hear from several speakers across a variety of civil engineering disciplines. On the day prior to the conference, all registered attendants will receive a link on how to attend the conference. Please check your spam folder as well for this link.

Speaker List:

• 9am: Pegah Ghasemi - Microbially-induced Carbonate Precipitation

• 10am: Joe Milazzo - Triangle Transportation Updates

• 11am: Tripp Ford - Aggregate Pier History, Design, and Applications

In the week following the conference, you will receive your PDH certificate.

For more information, please contact Chas Webb at Charles.webb@raleighnc.gov.

We are excited to announce that this year's Fall Conference will be held virtually on Friday, November 13, from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM. 

There will be four presentations with the opportunity to earn up to 4 PDHs.

Schedule

9:00 - 9:55 AM - Planes, Trains, and Rocket Ships, Elyse Mize
Elyse Mize is an environmental specialist at Kimley-Horn with 11 years of experience supporting a diverse range of federal, state, and local government clients. Elyse is passionate about informed decision-making and adding value to the environmental review process. She focuses on enhancing the client experience and providing innovative solutions to technical, logistical, and managerial challenges. Elyse has provided environmental analysis for a broad range of projects, specializing in commercial space transportation.

10:00 - 10:55 AM - Application of False Claims Acts to Highway Projects, Tim Wyatt, PE
Tim Wyatt is a construction lawyer with Conner Gwyn Schenck, focusing on construction disputes involving geotechnical issues and highway projects. He is also a professional engineer and member of ASCE. He is the author of several Transportation Research Board legal reports, including NCHRP Legal Research Digest 79, "The Effectiveness of State False Claims Acts in Protecting State Transportation Funding."

11:00 - 11:55 AM - Resilience at NCDOT, Colin Mellor
Colin began his career at NCDOT in 1994. Since then he has worked both as a public servant and in private industry as a geologist and a geophysicist, gradually changing paths through environmental coordination and permitting roles to NEPA analysis and environmental policy. Currently with NCDOT's Environmental Policy Unit he oversees NEPA project compliance for the eastern half of the state and is one of NCDOT's technical leads on Governor Coopers Climate Change-focused Executive Order 80.

12:00-12:30 - Break

12:30 - 1:30 - When Is The Last Time You Did Something For The First Time, Hugh Scott, PE
Hugh C. Scott IV is a Professional Engineer and graduate of the University of New Hampshire's Civil Engineering (BS & MS) program. Hugh has 18+ years of field-based technical support, sales, and management experience in forensic/design engineering, precast concrete, construction, and renewable energy industries. Hugh's newest focus on strategic marketing, social media platform implementation, and professional coaching/training has brought him full circle and back onto the ASCE-NH Section Board as President. As a ASCE-NH Section Past-President (2012/13) Hugh is excited to be back into an ASCE leadership role and serving the Civil Engineering community.

A meeting link and detailed agenda will be provided to those that register.

Cost

The registration fee for the event is $30. All proceeds from the event will go towards the North Carolina Section's scholarship fund, which provides up to four scholarships annually to students here in North Carolina.

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Please join your fellow ASCE members in Wilmington at the Hotel Ballast for the Annual Spring Technical Seminar on May 17, 2019. Up to six professional development hours are available from six technical tracks. Lunch is included in the registration fee.

PRELIMINARY Schedule (subject to change, updated 2019-05-10)

Sponsorships for the conference are also available which include up to 3 registrations, booth exhibit, and a feature with your company's logo in the in our brochure!

ASCE Members: $95.00
ASCE Life Members: $30.00
Non-members: $125.00
Presenters: No Charge
ASCE Student Members: No Charge
Sponsor: $500.00

Hotel Accommodations: The Hotel Ballast has very limited availability for booking overnight stays. We have blocked off 15 rooms at a discounted rate of $179 for May 16th. Contact us for the reservation code. Book online at www.hotelballast.com, enter the requested date and a screen will pop up with a box to confirm the group code. The cutoff date is Friday, May 17th, but rooms are limited so reserve as soon as possible. If you have any trouble, please let me know.

If you are interested in presenting at the conference please send Stephanie Pluta an email.

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The ASCE NC Section cordially invites you to the 2018 Spring Technical Seminar on May 4, 2018. This schedule is not yet complete, but you can view what's currently planned.

Download PDF of Schedule as of 2018-04-12

Please join your fellow ASCE members alongside faculty and students at the the North Carolina A&T Alumni-Foundation Event Center for the Annual Spring Technical Seminar.  Up to six professional development hours are available from six technical tracks.  Lunch is included in the registration fee.

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If you have any questions, please contact Kyle Freehart.

The North Carolina Women in Engineering Conference will be held on March 8, 2018, in Greensboro, NC. This conference is a collaboration between the Professional Engineers of North Carolina, Society of Women Engineers (Charlotte Metro Chapter), and the Women in Transportation (Charlotte Chapter).

Connect, inspire, and collaborate with women engineers across North Carolina. Spend the day learning from innovative women who have helped transform the engineering industry. Relax and unwind with our unique art activity social (at an additional cost). Join the force of women engineers in North Carolina and register today!

We are pleased to announce that this year's ASCE Fall Conference will be held on October 26, 2017, in Charlotte, North Carolina, at UNC Charlotte's Center City Campus.

When:  Thursday, October 26, 2017, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT

Where:  UNCC Center City Campus at 320 East 9th Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

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The conference will offer several technical tracks including presentations related to Transportation, Geotechnical, Structural, Water Resources, Engineering Management and Construction Materials.  Some of our topics include: 

• Climate Change and Resiliency Planning
• Geochemical Testing & Modeling for Closure of Coal Combustion Residual Impoundments
• KPMG 2017 Global Construction Survey
• Threats to Professional Licensure
• History and Repair of Buffalos's Sinkhole in Hickory, NC
• Technical Tour: CATS Blue Line Extension 

This year our Technical Tour will be of the Charlotte Authority Transit Systems (CATS) Blue Line Extension (BLE) of the light rail service currently under construction. This 9.3-mile alignment extends from 7th Street Station in Center City through the NoDA (North Davidson) and University areas ending on UNC Charlotte's Campus.  

View the Schedule (Updated 2017-10-25)

There are a limited number of slots available for the CATS Blue Line Extension Tour and has an additional fee of $15.  The tour will run from 8AM to 10AM prior to the start of the Conference on October 26, 2017.  Please be sure to include the optional tour in your registration signup in order to secure your spot. Students will have the option of signing up for the bus tour only if you are unable to attend the rest of the conference; but, you must sign up and show up! 

A sponsorship at the Annual Meeting is a great way to get your company in front of future engineering clients and decision-makers.  Sponsorship will include 5 registrations, company logo included on the agenda, and mention during our lunch program. Please contact Mr. David Harris for any additional questions.
 
Keep an eye out for additional information on parking and technical agenda.  We hope to see you in Charlotte this year for a great Fall Conference!