ASCE Richmond Branch Newsletter Volume 4 Issue 12 September 2012

Welcome to the new Richmond Branch ASCE Newsletter! We envision this being a great tool to keep everyone in the loop about all of our news and upcoming events. We welcome all suggestions that would help us further expand and improve our monthly newsletter. Also, please make sure to check out our website at www.ascerichmond.org for all of the information contained in this newsletter! If you have any comments, please contact me at mleckey@dewberry.com. Thanks! Melanie Leckey ASCE Richmond Branch Communications Chair

President's Message

I have a confession. I've officially been out of college longer than I was there. To some of you, this makes me seem old, but others of you may have kids older than I am. Now for the big question - why does this matter? In college, there tends to be a feeling of being invincible. Students are more prone to taking risks because they haven't felt the burn of failure. There's excitement building from trying new things and working to improve

them for next time. Once you've been displaced from the protective bubble, this eagerness and optimism tends to follow you to your first job. I'm sure many of us remember the first time we were trusted with something reasonably important, and the first time we gave a suggestion that was used on a project. Can you remember the last time you felt that way? The further one gets in their career, it seems the more conservative they become. Many times things are done a certain way because that's the way things are done. This doesn't happen every time, of course, but when was the last time you were really excited to work on something? Engineers become bogged down with proposals, contracts, meetings, and all sorts of other tasks that limit the time for trying something new. Now to my point - How many opportunities do you get to try something new in your career? To reach out to someone you wouldn't normally interact with? If you're a new engineer, have you found a mentor to reach out to? For the veterans, have you passed your wisdom on to the next generation and capitalized on learning their cutting edge ways? I challenge you all to use ASCE to push the limits, and to expand your professional world. Come to a luncheon to learn about a topic you know little to nothing about. You never know what you might learn or who you might meet. If you see a younger engineer, seek them out, and vice versa. Both of you may have more to offer each other than either of you realize. Try out an event you might not ordinarily attend. It doesn't hurt to try, and you may find something new you really enjoy.

In This Issue

President's Message

Exciting Upcoming Events

Local News and Projects

Sponsors of the Month

Meet the Board

and Chair

Members!

Click here for our

bio's and contact

information

President - Amy Bird

President Elect - Austin

Clark, P.E.

Vice President - Brooke

Young

Secretary/Treasurer -

Tony Gaynord, P.E.

Past President - Mike

Howell, P.E., S.E.

Communications Chair -

Melanie Leckey

Education Outreach Chairs

- Caleb Lange, Ashley

Johnson, and Josiah

I hope that most of you will consider this and use ASCE to learn and grow within the civil engineering community. If you have any questions or suggestions on things you'd like to try, I'm always available to you. As always, I hope to see you soon!

Exciting Upcoming Events!

September Branch Meeting - Huguenot Bridge Tour

Date: September 18th Time: 11:45AM - 1:00PM Cost: $20 Included: Lunch and 1 PDH Required: Hard hats, eye protection, steel toe boots and Class III safety vests (with 'sleeves') will be required Location: Lunch will be provided during the project briefing at Einstein Bros Bagels (3058 Stony Point Road, Richmond, VA 23235). After lunch, we will travel to the site. Please carpool if possible as parking on the site is limited. Questions: Contact Amy Bird at abird@dewberry.com Maximum Attendance: As this is a live construction site, we must limit attendance to 25. Please sign up today to guarantee your spot!

10th Annual ASCE Golf Tournament and Picnic

Thursday October 11th, 2012

Registration & Box Lunch - 12:00 to 12:45 am Shotgun Start - 1:00 pm Dinner, Prizes, and Awards - 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm Hosted by: ASCE Richmond Branch, Young Members Forum To benefit: ASCE Richmond Branch's Civil Engineering Scholarship Fund and Educational Outreach Efforts Providence Golf Club 1160 S. Providence Road, Richmond, Virginia 23236

Johnson

Government Relations

Chair - Chris Vaught

Membership Chair - Ed

Buchanan, P.E.

Website Chair - Kevin

O'Neill

Young Member Chair -

Justin Watson

For more information and the registration form, please visit our website.

Science Museum of Virginia - Lunch Break Science

PaveDrain Permeable Pavement System Nuts and Bolts Lunch and Learn - 1 PDH September 12, 2012 Noon - 1 p.m. Science Museum of Virginia Lunch Provided by EMCO SiteSolutions

Lunch Break Science Presentation by Dan Bishop of EMCO Site Solutions

PaveDrain Performance Pavement ™

A Viable Solution for Stormwater Management Interactive presentation to include:

What is a P-ACB/M and Why Would I Want It?

Buried Treasure - Keep Stormwater On-Site In The Ground Matching up Geotextiles with the Site Application

What's it take to maintain?

2012 Virginia Engineers Conference

Registration for the Virginia Engineers Conference is now open. On September 18-20 this annual, statewide educational conference, hosted by ACEC Virginia and VSPE, is geared towards all engineers and principals. This year includes a Tuesday afternoon tour of NASA Langley followed by two full days of educational sessions. It will be held at The Williamsburg Hotel & Conference Center. Register for one day or all three days, earning up to 14 PDHs. Go to www.VirginiaEngineersConference.org to sign up!

ASCE Award Nominations

Nominations can be submitted electronically to awards@asce.org You may also submit paper nominations to Honors and Awards, ASCE, 1801 Alexander Bell Drive, Reston, VA 20191-4400; phone: 1/800/548-2723; email: awards@asce.org For a full list of ASCE Awards and their nomination deadlines, please click here.

Local News and Projects

Contech Engineering Solutions Stormwater System In Albemarle County, Virginia

In Albemarle County, near Charlottesville, Virginia, a large

neighborhood model development is completing Phase One construction of a 65-acre site. Stonefield, this 270,000-square-foot retail center with a central plaza and 245 residential units, is scheduled to open in late 2012. The original site plans included nearly 1,200 linear feet of 30-foot-high retaining wall that was necessary to construct two stormwater management ponds. A significant investment was required for the stormwater management portion of the project. So the owner, South Carolina-based Edens, and the engineer, WW Associates of Charlottesville, worked with Contech Engineered Solutions for a more cost-effective solution. After reviewing multiple Contech stormwater management products, the project team chose a treatment train solution that uses Best Management Practices (BMPs) through integration of pretreatment, detention and treatment. This treatment train not only met all regulatory needs and allowed the developer to retain more usable land than alternative options, it even reduced the cost estimate of constructing the ponds by one third! The Contech stormwater management system included:

• A corrugated metal pipe (CMP) underground detention system engineered from 2,411 LF of 138" diameter, 10-gage, Aluminized Steel Type 2 (ALT2) pipe

• A StormFilter™ 8' x 10' x 48' box culvert comprised of 98 filter cartridges, using a variety of sustainable media to remove challenging pollutants

• A Vortechs® 3000 hydrodynamic separator - a high-performance, low-energy swirl-chamber system ideal for very fine sediment removal (down to 50 microns)

• Two temporary sediment basins with outfall pipe

With this stormwater treatment train solution, Contech reduced both production time and logistical costs for the site contractor, Faulconer Construction of Charlottesville, during the early project construction. This was accomplished, in part, by utilizing the Contech Mobile Production Vehicle (MPV®) where Contech manufactured most of the CMP detention pipe on the project site within just five days. The Contech MPV is designed to be an intermodal, self-supporting factory used for quick deployment to produce CMP with diameters from 3' to 16', and up to 35' long, that are ready for installation in as few as four hours. Using the same quality construction levels as Contech plant-manufactured products, the MPV is ideal for remote job sites; projects requiring large continuous pipe production, such as windmill foundation forms, vertical shafts or caissons; support for immediate rebuilding and deployment following a natural disaster; and, sites with limited storage space or restricted traffic patterns, including mines, military bases or airports. Contech is a market leader for stormwater management, wastewater treatment, bridge, structure, pipe, drainage and erosion control products and solutions for the civil engineering industry. For more information on Contech Stormwater Solutions, the Contech Mobile Production Vehicle, the ability to Design Your Own Detention System (DYODS) at no cost, or products and markets served, please contact:

Contech Engineered Solutions

www.ContechES.com 1-800-338-1122

To see pictures of this exciting project, please click here.

ASCE and the Flying Squirrels The Younger Member Group took in a Flying Squirrels baseball game Saturday, July 21. A light mist kept the temperature cool and despite a 10-1 drubbing of the home team, we managed to enjoy the evening filled with good times. Thanks to all those who came out!

Thanks to our Sponsors this Month!