 The International Group was developed to create a forum within the Metropolitan area for showcasing and learning about international projects, their designers, design and construction methods, international design codes and standards, and ways that we can interact within the international marketplace. One way this is accomplished is through free technical lectures that we offer throughout the year to ASCE members and to the general public. Prominent civil engineering projects across the globe have been discussed at previous seminars organized by the International Group.
The International Group invites all Met Section members with an interest in international civil engineering works of all disciplines to join in the group's efforts, to help develop its lecture and seminar series, and to aid in offering hospitality and assistance to Met Section visitors. The group has also prepared a pocket-size booklet titled A Guide to Civil Engineering Projects In and around New York City that describes many of the world's foremost civil engineering projects—bridges, tunnels, highways, skyscrapers and buildings, airports, water supply, and environmental systems—that are located in New York City and its environs.
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When ownership of the Panama Canal was transferred from the United States to Panama in 1999, Panamanians inherited a lot of national pride, but assumed the responsibility of maintaining a canal that was expected to reach its capacity between 2009 and 2012. Expanding the canal to serve for another hundred years would have entailed a massive civil engineering project carrying initial estimates of more than $20 billion in costs (exceeding the country's Gross Domestic Product).
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On May 26, 2010, Alaedin Majlesi, P.E., a Senior Associate of STV, presented a seminar entitled "Design and Rebuilding the Kappock Street Retaining Wall – NYC." Al Majlesi has thirty years of extensive infrastructure and roadway design experience.
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 On April 14, 2010, Dennis Poon, managing principal of Thornton Tomasetti, presented a seminar entitled "The Tallest Tower in China – Shanghai Tower." In addition to overseeing the structural engineering of the Shanghai Tower, Mr. Poon is working on other notable high-rise projects in Asia, including the 151 Incheon Tower in Korea and the Ping An Tower in China.
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 On March 29, 2010, Dr. Robin Sham, Global Director of Long Span and Specialty Bridges for AECOM, shared his first-hand experience in some of the largest bridge projects in the world in a presentation on "The Art and Science of Bridge Engineering."
His lecture included a discussion on the world's two longest cable-stayed bridges—Sutong Bridge in China and Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong—and a suspension bridge, Tsing Lung Bridge in Hong Kong.
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