Announcements

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The September 2009 Newsletter has been published. Click on the NEWSLETTERS tab to download a copy.

Our October Meeting, entitled "Greener Design Through Smarter Material Specification" was on 10/29/09 at the Burlington Sheraton in the Diamond Ballroom. It was attended by 30 VTASCE Engineers that listened to Mike Mota from CRSI talk about a new design concept for concrete slab floors for commericial buildings which use less concrete to increase span widths thus decreasing the carbon footprint. We also listened to John Cross from AISC discuss the life cycle of structural steel and how it positively affects environmental and economic sustainability. It was a great meeting.

Our November ASCE meeting will be a joint meeting with NHASCE held on November 12, 2009. The topic is "Improving Health in the Upper Valley: A Look at the Lebanon Combined Sewer Overflow Separation Project and Tour of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center." The tour will be at 3:30pm at Dartmouth Hitchcock and the dinner meeting will be at the Hotel Coolidge. The RSVP is on November 5, 2009 to Jeffrey Bjrz. Please download the announcement here. I hope that you can attend.

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Best Regards,

Amanda Hanaway Corrente, A.M. ASCE

2009-2010 President, VTASCE

President's Message

I hope everyone is having a great summer. I am very excited to kick off my term as President of our Section. Since officially becoming President I have been very busy with all things ASCE related. You may have even received a few emails from me in the past couple of months. I have been working hard to transition into the Presidential role with a lot of assistance from Shawn Kelley, your Past-President.

VTASCE has experienced considerable growth since Shawn became president and I would like to focus on that effort and continue to grow our section. This year we have the largest Board of Directors in the history of the Vermont Section. We even have to rewrite our Bylaws to provide clarification for all of the new positions. This is incredibly exciting because the more people we have on board, the more value we can provide to our members. If you would like to become more involved, even if it is a minor role, we would love to have you fill an active role. There are so many opportunities to help, especially with something you feel strongly about. Currently, our Section does not have active chapters for any of the National Institutes, such as the Geo-Institute, the Construction Institute, Architectural Engineering Institute, Structural Engineering Institute, etc. If you would like to take an active role in our Section and you are passionate about one of these disciplines, we could start an active chapter in Vermont.

Nationally, there has been a push for diversity in ASCE. I am currently the official contact person for our Section regarding information from National. I have posted information and updates about diversity programs to the Diversity Outreach Program Section of the September 2009 newsletter.

As far as Vermont news is concerned, I have a few updates for everyone. First of all, there is a new home for Vermont Orthophotography. Starting July 1, 2009, the VCGI Imagery Program began distributing orthophotos for free via download from their website: www.vcgi.org/dataware. More details are attached at the end of the September 2009 newsletter.

For those of you that couldn’t make it to our last meeting, Mike Barsotti, CWD’s Director of Water Quality and Production, gave a tour and presentation of the Champlain Water District’s Peter L. Jacob Water Treatment Facility. More information about this speaker and facility is included in the VT ASCE Section New section of this newsletter and pictures from the tour will be uploaded to the website shortly.

We also swore in the new VTASCE Board of Directors at this meeting. A brief bio of the new Board of Directors members is attached at the end of this newsletter and contact information for all of the board members is included in the end of the September 2009 newsletter.

Our next meeting was on September 25th at the VSE Annual Golf Outing, which VTASCE co-sponsors annually. More information about this and the October Meeting, which is currently in the planning stages, is provided in the VTASCE Meeting section of the September 2009 newsletter. Also, make sure to check out the Upcoming Events section at the very end of the September 2009 newsletter to see what other societies and other ASCE chapters are doing.

Lastly, it is with my sincerest regret that I inform you that Jean-Guy Beliveau, a former President of VTASCE and professor at the University of Vermont, lost his fight with cancer on Friday July, 17, 2009. I was fortunate enough to work with him on the Board of Directors of both VSPE and VTASCE, as well as have him as my mentor and academic advisor while studying at UVM. He was an incredible role model and will be missed greatly. A tribute was held on Friday, September 18, 2009 in the Ira Allen Chapel at 2:00 p.m. More information about the tribute and about the memorial fund established in his honor is provided in the VT ASCE Section News section of the September 2009 newsletter.

Hope to see you all at our first official dinner meeting on October 29, 2009.

Respectfully,

Amanda Hanaway-Corrente, A.M. ASCE

2009-2010 President, VTASCE