 The Construction Group provides practicing civil engineers, resident engineers, construction managers, contractors, environmental engineers, and attorneys associated with the construction industry with a forum to discuss current issues affecting the construction industry. The Construction Group also organizes technical lectures and a seminar to help acquaint the engineering community with the state-of-the-art means, methods and materials utilized on various construction projects including public works capital projects in the metropolitan area and beyond. At the end of every calender year the Construction Group makes recommendations to the ASCE Met Section Board of Directors for the Construction Achievement Award and the Design/Build Award.
The Construction Group is always looking for new members and ideas for future lectures. Please feel free to attend one of our upcoming events shown in the calendar on the right or contact any of the Construction Group officers.
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On November 16, 2011, the Construction Group hosted a pair of lectures related to building structures at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan.
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On May 18, 2010, the Construction Group hosted lectures on "Hudson Rail Yard Platform Challenges," "Construction Law - Understanding Construction Contracts and Construction" and "Structural Rehabilitation for Urban Agriculture as Green Roofs" at the Ketch Restaurant in Lower Manhattan.
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Dr. Ferrara Presenting Self Consolidating High Preformance SFRC .
On October 28, 2010 the Met Section Construction Group welcomed Dr. Liberato Ferrara of Politecnico di Milano in Italy for a technical lecture on "Self Consolidating High Performance SFRC: from Material Concept towards Structural Applications." Dr. Ferrara is a Professor of the Department of Structural Engineering at Politecnico di. Milano. He presented his lecture to over 30 engineers and students at the New York City College of Technology Atrium Amphitheater in Brooklyn.
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The rehabilitating and widening of Runway 13R-31L at JFK Airport is no small task. At 14,572 feet in length—the second longest commercial runway in North America—the "Bay Runway" will require 208,000 yards of Portland cement concrete (enough to pave the field of every stadium in the National Football League with two feet of concrete), 200,000 tons of asphalt concrete (the weight of six Titanics), and 195,000 dowel bars (enough to stretch from JFK all the way to Orient Point on the East End of Long Island).
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