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President's Message - May 2013

Posted by jen on 05/06/2013 12:00 am  /   President's Message

Howdy!! I had a great time at the 24th Annual ASCE Dallas/Fort Worth Golf Tournament at Tour 18 golf course in Flower Mound on April 29th. It could not have happened without our volunteers and sponsors. It was an outstanding opportunity to network, have fun and raise money for the G.B. Mann Scholars...

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Dallas/Fort Worth ASCE Golf Tournament

Posted by jen on 04/17/2013 12:00 am  /   Announcement

It's not too late to sign up for the 2013 DFW ASCE Golf Tournament. Visit to pay online and reserve your spot in the tournament. Flyers and payment information are also available at the link above if paying by check.The tournament is hosted by the Dallas Branch and will be held at Tour 18 Golf Cour...

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President's Message - April 2013

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   President's Message

Howdy!! I had a great time Celebrating and learning about the past 100 years of the ASCE Texas Section a few weeks ago at the Spring Centennial Conference in Corpus Christi. I enjoyed being able to hear from so many of the past Texas Section Presidents and listen to them tell their stories of how ...

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April 2013 Main Speaker

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Keynote Session

Speaker: Thom Powell, AIA LEED AP BD+C Topic: "The Perot Museum of Nature and Science - A Wide View of Substainability" Mr. Powell currently is the Sustainability Consultant for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in collaboration with mOrphosis and the Executive Architect on the AT&T Perf...

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April 2013 Technical Seminar

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Technical Session

Technical Speaker: Joetta Dailey, CPESCTopic: Proactive Watershed Planning for Lewisville Lake Implementing the Hickory Creek Watershed Protection Plan and developing a regional, multi-entity approach to watershed management. Joetta Dailey will give an overview of the grant received by the Cit...

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April 2013 Meeting Sponsor is Binkley & Barfield - C&P, Inc.

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Meeting Host

Continuing the vision to expand our presence in Texas and further enhance our services, Binkley & Barfield, Inc. acquired C&P Engineering, Ltd., based in Richardson, Texas, in January of 2012. With the local firm now known as Binkley & Barfield – C&P, Inc., the new relationshi...

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Texas Section Awards Given to Dallas Branch Members

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Awards

We are pleased to announce that the Dallas Branch was very well represented at the conference! We’d like to congratulate the following people for being recognized as Texas Section Award Winners at the Honors Luncheon: Roger Behgam, P.E. with URS was presented with the Professional Serv...

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Earth Day Dallas

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Announcement

Earth Day Dallas (April 20-21 10am-6pm, Free Admission) The ASCE Dallas Branch will be participating in Earth Day Dallas on April 20-21 in Fair Park. Partnering with The University of Texas at Dallas Department of Geoscience the “3D Dallas” project was born. The project uses laser sca...

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Texas Section Report - April 2013

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Texas Section

Contact your Texas Section Director, Brad Hernandez, P.E. [email protected] for more information. ASCE TEXAS SECTION SPRING 2013 CONFERENCE AND CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN CORPUS CHRISTI: MARCH 19-23, 2013 The Spring Conference was held last month in Corpus Christi as the Texas Section hono...

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Civil Engineering Club Update

Posted by jen on 04/01/2013 12:00 am  /   Membership Update

The past couple club meetings have been focusing on Geotechnical Engineering. First, the students experimented with making stronger subgrades for their piles of bricks. It was demonstrated that a lone pile of sand cannot support many bricks, but if we use just a few paper towels as a sort of geogr...

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