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Younger Member Forum
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A common perception among young civil engineers starting out in the profession is that they must eventually pursue a management track in order to have a successful career. To provide further insight into this issue, the Younger Member Forum selected "The Management Track" as the topic of its Eighth Annual Executive Forum, which was held at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen in Manhattan on February 26, 2009.
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Structures Group
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The Hamilton Avenue Bridge in Brooklyn—one of four Hanover skew bascule bridges ever constructed—is a unique and complex movable structure. On February 25, 2009, Keith Griesing of Hardesty & Hanover presented a technical lecture to the Structures Group on the challenges involved in replacing this movable bridge during an accelerated construction schedule.
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Geotechnical Group
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Paul B. Pizzimenti presented a Golden Apple to Mr. Smith (Photo by Walter J. Papp, Jr.)
On February 18, 2009, Graham C.G. Smith of Structural Preservation Systems, LLC gave a lecture titled "Urban Geotechnical Challenges: Construction Near Existing Structures" to the Geotechnical Group at the CUNY Graduate Center Recital Hall in Manhattan.
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Geotechnical Group
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Paul B. Pizzimenti presented Golden Apples to Mr. Lacy and Mr. Ellman on February 18th (Photo by Walter J. Papp, Jr.).
The 34th Martin S. Kapp Lecture and the 5th Annual "Meet & Greet" Dinner was held at Il Campanello Ristorante in Manhattan on Thursday, January 15, 2009. The featured speaker, Clyde N. Baker, Jr., of AECOM Technology Corporation was unable to travel from Chicago due to a severe snow storm. Hugh S. Lacy and Roderic A. Ellman, Jr., both Partners with Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, stepped in on very short notice and delivered a lecture titled "Foundations of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge."
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Infrastructure Group
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On January 29, 2008, three speakers from Parsons Brinckerhoff discussed some of the significant geotechnical and design challenges associated with the construction of large rock caverns for four major rail and subway infrastructure projects in Manhattan. The technical lecture was held at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and focused on the underground caverns for the East Side Access, No. 7 Subway Extension, Trans-Hudson Express Tunnel (Access to the Region's Core), and Second Avenue Subway projects.
Mala Ciancia first provided an overview of geologic history in the New York City area and discussed how Manhattan has a tremendous variety of rock types for such a small area—including Mica Schist, Granite, Pegmatite, Gneiss, Marble, Serpentinite, Mylonite, Amphibolite, and Talc Schist—primarily due to its unique location at the junction of three physiographic provinces: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, New England Upland, and Piedmont Province. She emphasized how understanding the site geology is critical to the planning of any underground project and that the investigation for caverns is an iterative process that includes a review of existing data, a field testing program, and a laboratory testing program. She also spoke about faults, foliation, fracturing, and compared the key geotechnical parameters between tunnels oriented in a north-south direction versus those oriented in an east-west direction.
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Met Section
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On February 16, 2009, the Met Section celebrated Engineers Week at the New York Hall of Science in Queens with a variety of interactive activities designed to introduce children to some of the exciting challenges of engineering. The activities were staged in the rotunda of the Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, encircling a unique piece of artwork embedded into a railing that includes 72 scenes of New York City located around a 10-kilometer radius of the museum.
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