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Texas Section Update

Contact your Texas Section Director, Brad Hernandez at[email protected] for more information.

You can still REGISTER!   ASCE TEXAS SECTION FALL 2012 CONFERENCE, Construction Institute Annual Summit, and the International Conference for Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction (ICSDEC) will be held in Fort Worth, Texas November 7–10, 2012 at The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas --- “Where the Centennial Begins.” Sign up online at www.texasasce.org.

Some Reasons to come:

• 12 CPD Seminars relevant to your career!
• Over 200 papers / presentations
• 34 Countries represented from all over the world!
• Texas Infrastructure Report card unveiled on Courthouse steps
• Jointly held with Construction Institute and ICSDEC
• LID Design Competition Finals Event on Wednesday Night!
• Public/Private Partnerships plenary session
• Keynote speakers
• Dinner at Reata and Improv Comedy Show
• 18-hole Golf Tournament at Texas Star Golf Course
• Exhibitors & Networking
• 4 Saturday field trips & tours: Segway Tours of Trinity River, UTA’s College Green, North Tarrant Express/DFW Airport, Cowboys Stadium/River Legacy Park
• Awards luncheon honoring your Texas peers!

Angela Matthews and Brad Hernandez will be representing the Dallas Branch at the outgoing and incoming Board of Direction meetings at the Fall Conference.  As Texas Section Directors, we provide the following in representing the Dallas Branch at these Section Conferences. 

• We will be presenting the Branch report on our past and planned Dallas meetings luncheons, financials, YM and outreach activities, technical seminars, and the Branch president’s vision/goals accomplished and planned.
• The Dallas Branch has submitted for the Section approval revised Bylaws that have been reviewed by a task committee and the Dallas Branch Board of Directors.   
• The Dallas Host committee for the Dallas Centennial Conference will also be presenting preliminary information such as Theme, Schedule, Budget, and Events.

CENTENNIAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE   INVITE all of your civil engineering friends to join ASCE!   The TEXAS SECTION has a goal to reach 10,000 members in 2013.  Each new member you bring to ASCE TX Section, you’re entered in a monthly drawing for $100 Prize and the $2013 grand prize!  There are many more prizes --- see the Texas Section website (www.texasce.org) for more details. 

TEXAS SECTION OFFICER NOMINATIONS for the 2013-2014 are dueNovember 2!  Contact Region 6 Governor and Section Nominations Committee Chair, Nancy Cline, PE ([email protected]) to nominate a qualified peer!