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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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2013 ASCE Life Members

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

At the March meeting, many of our current life members were in attendance. At this meeting we also honored several new life members. Congratulations to our newest life members for your lifetime commitment to the promotion of the civil engineering profession.Photos of the event can be seen here.To ...

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UTA Civil Engineering Seminar

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

The University of Texas at Arlington if offering a seminar entitled “The Philosophy of Engineering for the Burj Khalifa – the World’s Tallest Structure” on Wednesday, April 10 from 4:00-5:00PM. For more information, view the the informational flyer.

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Passing of Dr. Albert H. Halff, Distinguished ASCE Member

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

Dr. Albert Henry Halff passed on March 25, 2013, at his home on Kaua’i, in Hawaii. He was 97 years young. He was born in Midland, Texas on August 20, 1915, to Henry Mayer Halff, a prominent West Texas rancher, and Rosa Wechsler Halff. He was the youngest of four children. His siblings were Hal...

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