Speaker: Representative Dean Arp, North Carolina General Assembly

Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020

Topic:  Civil Engineering Perspective in the NC General Assembly

Presentation: Not available

Summary: Representative Arp is with the North Carolina General Assembly representing Union County which is near Charlotte. Representative Arp earned a civil engineering degree from The Citadel. He also received his Master of Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Representative Arp is a small business owner and president of Arp Engineering in Monroe. Representative Arp is a licensed engineer in forty different states. He also serves on the Advisory Board for William States Lee College of Engineering. In 2014 Representative Arp was presented with the 2013 Legislator of the Year Award by the Professional Engineers of North Carolina. Representative Arp serves on six committees. He is the Vice Chair of the Energy and Public Utilities Committee.

Speaker: Andy Padiak, PE, McAdams

Date: Thursday, May 21, 2020

Topic:  West Cabarrus Street Redevelopment Project

Presentation: Watch online

Summary: Andy Padiak has been working at McAdams for over 15 years on commercial projects throughout the Triangle. He received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He moved to Raleigh to start his career and obtain his master’s degree in civil engineering from NC State University. Andy and his team served many clients on notable projects such as the Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Cathedral, the new Wegmans Retail Center at Midtown East, and student housing projects such as Stanhope and The Standard on Hillsborough Street.

Andy and his team have been hired by the Kane Realty Corporation. Kane Realty has been busy over the last 15 years developing many projects at North Hills East. McAdams has been very fortunate to provide civil engineering, land planning, and surveying services for every project at North Hills and North Hills East. Some prominent projects that have been built are the Captrust Tower, Bank of America Tower, Hyatt House Hotel, AC Marriott Hotel, Park & Market Building that includes a two-story Harris Teeter, Park Central, The Cardinal Senior Living Center, and many more. Kane Realty is planning the development for the West Cabarrus Street project.

Speaker: Joe Milazzo II, PE, Regional Transportation Alliance

Date: Thursday, April 21, 2020

Topic:  Triangle Mobility Update

Presentation: (see above video)

Summary: Joe Milazzo serves as the executive director of the Regional Transportation Alliance and he is the voice of the regional business community on transportation. RTA’s mission is to deliver business leadership to get our region moving faster. Joe will provide an overview of the regional business community’s engagement on key mobility issues in the Triangle market, including freeways, intersections, regional transit, and air service.

Location:  Joe gave this presentation using remote viewing software.

Speaker: James Niehoff, PE, Nova Engineering

Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020

Topic:  Geotechnical Failures – Lessons Learned

Presentation: PDF

Summary: Jim Niehoff is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with NOVA Engineering & Environmental. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from Georgia Tech and is a registered professional engineer in 12 states. He has served as a geotechnical consultant on over 4,000 projects covering all 50 states as well as in 10 foreign countries during his 42-year career. Some of his notable projects include the Olympic Stadium in Atlanta, the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the Ritz Carlton Residences in Honolulu, and the Omni Convention Center Hotel in Louisville. While he primarily works on projects involving new construction, he has served as an expert witness on over 40 projects involving geotechnical failures. He is the author of over a dozen technical papers and articles relating to geotechnical engineering. He served on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Geotechnical and GeoEnvironmental Engineering of the ASCE for 10 years and is a Life Member of the ASCE. He currently serves on both the Shallow and Deep Foundation Committees of the Geo-Institute.

Speaker: Kevin Boyer with the City of Raleigh

Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020

Topic:  Green Stormwater Infrastructure

Presentation: PDF

Summary: Forthcoming…

Speaker: Fleming Herring with Clancy & Theys

Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Topic:  Overview and Update on the Smoky Hollow Project in Raleigh

Presentation: Not available

Summary: Approach and process for the overall Smoky Hollow project which consists of 2 phases. Phase 1 is the Peace and West project along Peace Street, which includes construction of a new Publix grocery store. Phase 2 is the office building and residential/parking project between Harrington and West Streets just south of the Peace project.

Fleming Herring, PE, is a Project Executive at Clancy & Theys, where he has worked for over 12 years. He is a resident of Raleigh, NC, graduated from NC State's Civil Engineering program in 2005, and has a wife with 2 young children.

Speaker: Jacob D’Albora, Associate Vice-President at McVeigh & Mangum Engineering, Inc.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2019

Topic:  Modular Construction

Presentation: PDF

Summary: Off-site and modular construction. The process of planning, designing and fabricating building elements at a site other than the final location, creating a more rapid and efficient construction of a permanent structure.

Speaker: David Evans - Assistant Director, NCBELS

Date: Thursday, September 26, 2019

Topic:  Ethics in Professional Practice from the Board's Perspective

Presentation: PDF

Summary: The program will touch on the regulation of the engineering profession and the Rules of Professional Conduct through examples of how engineers find themselves in ethical dilemmas. There will also be a discussion of the consequences for committing violations.

Speaker: David joined the staff of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors in 1998. As the Board's Assistant Executive Director he supervises investigations of engineers, surveyors and corporations as well as non-licensed practice. David also oversees business licensure and compliance; continuing professional competency; license applications and renewals; and the Board's regular program of enforcement and education.

David previously conducted criminal investigations in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Investigator. He is a past Chairman of the Committee on Law Enforcement for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying and currently serves on the Law Enforcement Advisory Group. David has a B.A. in History and Social Science from Eastern Connecticut State University.

Speaker: Melissa Lindsley - Marketing Director with the American Galvanizers Association

Date: Thursday, August 15, 2019

Topic:  American Galvanizers Association - A Presentation of Design, Parking, Bridge, and Sustainability Applications of the Hot-Dip Galvanizing

Presentation: PDF

Summary: She plans to discuss the longevity and benefits of using galvanized steel.

Speaker: Ms. Lindsley develops the marketing initiatives of the AGA and is recognized as a leading voice for the galvanizing industry in North America. She educates architects, engineers, fabricators, owners, and other specifiers about the technical aspects and benefits of hot-dip galvanizing.

Speaker: Doug Taylor, Stewart Transportation Practice Leader

Date: Thursday, July 18, 2019

Topic:  U-5817: I-77/Williamson Road Interchange Improvements

Presentation: PDF

Summary: Because of the need to address the congestion in the I-77/Williamson Road area, NCDOT split some projects out from larger projects for acceleration. U-5817 is one of those projects, it extends Fairview Road over I-77 to improve connectivity in the area and give commuters another option to avoid the I-77/Williamson Road interchange area

Speaker: Doug Taylor has 35 years of engineering and progressive leadership experience focused in staff development, change management, policy/program development and supervision. He recently served as Assistant State Roadway Design Engineer with NCDOT, managing projects in Divisions 10 through 14. His responsibilities included managing the designs and schedules of highway projects, changes in staff, outsourcing project work to private engineering firms and delivering highway projects on budget and on schedule. He is well-versed in AASHTO, Complete Streets, value engineering and context sensitive guidelines with an emphasis on innovative solutions. Before serving as Assistant State Roadway Design Engineer, he served as both Project Engineer and Project Design Engineer with NCDOT.

As Transportation Practice Leader with Stewart, Doug is responsible for planning and design services for NCDOT, municipal and private clients. Disciplines within the Transportation Practice include NEPA planning, community studies, public involvement, roadway and bridge design, pedestrian bridges, erosion control, traffic management, and utility coordination. Doug's goal is to continue to elevate the Transportation Industry and Stewart's influence in the Transportation Industry.

Speaker: Brent Niemann, Strata Solar

Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019

Topic:  Utility Scale Photovoltaic Solar Farm Development & Construction

Presentation: PDF

Summary: Please join Strata Solar Civil Engineer Brent Niemann for a discussion about utility scale solar farm planning, entitlement, design and construction.

Speaker: Brent has been working on utility scale solar farm design and construction with Strata Solar since 2012, with a focus on entitlement and permitting. Prior to joining Strata, he spent 16 years as a consulting engineer and developer in single and multi-family residential and commercial projects throughout the state of North Carolina. He is a native of the Triangle area, from nearby Zebulon, and is a current resident of Wake Forest with his wife Holly and their two children. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University and Professional Engineering licenses in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Speaker: Elaina J. Sutley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Kansas

Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Topic:  An Overview of the Longitudinal Community Resilience Study of Lumberton, NC following 2016 Hurricane Matthew

Presentation: PDF

Summary: In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew caused catastrophic flooding to Lumberton, North Carolina, an inland city in Robeson County with approximately 21,000 people. Impacts from the flooding included all 42 schools in the county, serving 24,000 children, closing for three weeks, and more than 5,000 people placed in shelters or temporary housing by FEMA. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-funded Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning initiated a longitudinal community resilience study of Lumberton. The first field study was performed approximately one month after Hurricane Matthew, and collected data on damage to residential structures, and household dislocation. The second field study was performed approximately one year later to collect data on recovery progress for the same housing samples, and a new sample of businesses. The city was severely impacted again by 2018 Hurricane Florence, after which the Center returned for a third time to document damage to the housing and business samples. At the time of this ASCE meeting, the fourth field study will be on-going. This presentation will provide an overview of the project, the longitudinal study, and recent findings on Lumberton's progress towards recovery after successive flood events.

Speaker: Dr. Sutley is an assistant professor in structural engineering at the University of Kansas. Dr. Sutley's research is at the nexus of structural engineering, social science, and public policy, with an emphasis on woodframe buildings and housing. She incorporates holistic metrics of sustainability and resilience into her research, and focuses on developing interdisciplinary science, particularly with respect to hazards and disaster research. Dr. Sutley has extensive background in seismic design and retrofit, full-scale experimental testing, and numerical modeling of light frame wood buildings. Dr. Sutley is part of the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning. Dr. Sutley currently serves as the chair of the Structural Engineering Institute's (SEI) technical activities committee on the Design of Wood Structures, and as chair of the National Science Foundation's Natural Hazard Experimental Research Infrastructure (NHERI) User Forum committee.

Speaker: Shamar Drake with Skanska

Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019

Topic:  Onsite Tour of the Pratt School of Engineering Building

Presentation: None

Location:  Duke University

Summary: Opening in November 2020, Duke University's newest academic building will provide 150,000 square feet of collaborative, interdisciplinary space for learning and discovery. Housing new education, research, and entrepreneurship initiatives of the Pratt School of Engineering, the building will bring together departments, faculty, and students from across the university to improve human health, advance computing and intelligent systems, and pave the way toward a more sustainable future.

Speaker: Caroline Lindquist, Planning Specialist with the City of Raleigh

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019

Topic:  Dorothea Dix Park Master Plan Update

Presentation: PDF

Summary: We’ll learn about the revisions to the Dorthea Dix Park project.

Speaker: Caroline Lindquist is a Planning Specialist for the Dorothea Dix Park Project at the City of Raleigh. Previously, Caroline worked for the solar energy company Cypress Creek Renewables. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a major in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Energy and Sustainability and a minor in City and Regional Planning. Her studies focused on green infrastructure, the mental health benefits of green space in cities, and biophilic design. Caroline is also a graduate of the DISC* Program at UC Berkeley which focused on Design and Innovation in Sustainable Cities. She has studied renewable energy policy and sustainable community design in Spain and Germany through the UNC Burch Fellowship Research Group.

Speaker: Joe Puckett, PE, with Stewart Engineering

Date: Thursday, January 17, 2019

Topic:  On Site Tour of the The Dillion Project in downtown Raleigh

Presentation: N.A.

Summary: With construction completed in 2018, the Dillon serves as the focal point of the revitalization of the warehouse district in downtown Raleigh. The presentation will center around Stewart’s design perspectives, challenges faced during design and construction, and experiences working on the project.

Speaker: Joe Puckett is the studio leader for the landscape architecture and civil engineer practice areas at Stewart.

Speaker: Tom Caldwell, PE, with MBP

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018

Topic:  NCEER - A New Service Organization

Presentation: PDF

Summary: NCEER is a new State-sponsored team of 15 North Carolina engineers who are trained and qualified to serve at disaster sites as North Carolina first responders. This concept is an outgrowth of the FEMA Structures Specialist (StS) role on Urban Search and Rescue teams.

The NCEER engineers are on-call with the North Carolina Emergency Management Division. They can be called up and assigned to NC Search and Rescue teams, local fire departments, or any other public agency that is facing an infrastructure disaster.

Speaker: Tom Caldwell is a Civil and Structural engineer. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1984 and earned his Masters at NC State. He is Chief Engineer at Atlas Engineering in Raleigh, where his primary work is in assessing damaged structures, and designing structural repairs.

Tom has served as an emergency response engineer with FEMA since 1997, and was recently selected to serve on the FEMA IST. Mr. Caldwell has been serving North Carolina agencies at emergency sites since 2005, and he is currently a member of NCEER and NC USAR Team TF8.

Speaker: Stacie Phillips, PE and Betty White, PE, with Kimley-Horn

Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018

Topic:  Transit Technologies in the Triangle

Presentation: PDF

Summary: Wake, Orange, and Durham Counties have all passed sales tax referendums for transit improvements. These funds are now being put into action through the Durham-Orange Light Rail Project, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), and Transit Signal Priority (TSP) projects in Chapel Hill and Raleigh. Betty and Stacie will provide background information on these technologies and discuss details of current and upcoming projects in Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

Stacie Phillips, PE - Stacie is a Senior Project Manager at Kimley-Horn with 14 years of experience in transportation design, operations, and safety. She is the president of NCSITE and a member of the Transportation Research Board Signal Systems Committee and chairs the multimodal subcommittee.

Betty White, PE - Betty is a Transit Practice Builder at Kimley-Horn with 11 years of experience in light rail, streetcar, and BRT design throughout the United States. She is currently leading the Raleigh Downtown Transportation BRT Study and Kimley-Horn's efforts in the Chapel Hill BRT project.

Speaker: Dr. Morton Barlaz, Dean of Civil Engineering, NCSU
NC State's Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018

Topic:  2018 Update on our Teaching and Research Programs

Presentation: PDF

Summary: Dr. Barlaz has been the head of NC State's Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering department since 2010 and has been on the faculty since 1989.  He presented an update on the department's faculty, its three undergraduate degree programs, and current research. He also spoke about the department's move to Fitts-Woolard Hall on Centennial Campus in 2020.

Speaker: Mark Landis at Schnabel Engineering and Kevin Lugo at MBP

Date: Thursday, August 16, 2018

Topic:  Restoration of Hope Mills Dam

Presentation: PDF

Summary: The original Hope Mills Dam, located in southeastern North Carolina, was constructed in the late 1830s to provide power to four nearby cotton mills. The dam was breached and rebuilt between 1923 and 1924. The second dam overtopped in 2003. A third dam was constructed five years later, but in 2010, it failed as well. The design-build team, which was selected in 2014, elected to remove the remains of the 2008 structure and build a new dam and labyrinth spillway. Mr. Landis and Mr. Lugo will talk about some of the challenges encountered during the construction to include water management of a 100-year flood and, 10 days later, a 500-year flood at the site.

Mark Landis, PG, PE – Mark is the Lead Engineer in the Greensboro Office of Schnabel Engineering.  He has an undergraduate degree in Geology and a Master of Civil Engineering. Mark has over 35 years of experience in geology, geophysics, and geotechnical engineering.  Mr. Landis is currently the PM on Asheville’s primary water supply dam upgrades and a new 1100-acre offline storage reservoir in Virginia. Mark was the Engineer-of-Record for the Hope Mills dam reconstruction.
 
Kevin Lugo, PE, CCM – Kevin is a Vice President in the Raleigh Office of MBP. He has an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. Mr. Lugo has over 25 years of varied engineering and management experience in heavy construction (power, highways, bridges, subways, water treatment, and utilities) and buildings (higher education, K-12 schools, hotels, plants, offices, housing, and military facilities).

Speaker: Tommy Rose, Metalplate Galvanizing, Southeast Regional Sales Manager

Date: Thursday, June 21, 2018

Topic: Galvanizing 101

Presentation: N.A.

Summary: This presentation covers everything from the galvanizing chemistry and longevity expectations to QC and defect identification.  This will be a good opportunity to better understand steel construction from a fabricator's perspective.

Mr. Rose has been in the galvanizing business for 18 years: two years as a Plant Foreman and 16 years in sales.  He has hosted over 70 galvanizing seminars in the last 16 years for over 1,600 architects, engineers, steel fabricators, and end users. He served on the Board of Directors for the American Galvanizers Association from 2008-2016, served as President from 2012-2014, and is currently the Market Development Chairman. Since 2012, he has served on the Board of Directors for the Association for Metallically Stabilized Earth and for the past year he has served on the T-8 Sub Committee on Galvanizing for AASHTO (Bridge Committee).