The City of Alexandria’s sewer system covers 15.4 square miles, of which less than 6% (540 acres) is served by a combined sewer system dating back to the early 1800s. During wet weather after the capacity of the sewer system is reached, combined sewer flows (mixture of sanitary sewage and stormwater) discharge to the surrounding waterbodies through four outfalls located in the Old Town area of the City. These discharges, or combined sewer overflows (CSOs), typically occur 60-70 times per year. There are over 800 combined sewer systems nationwide.
The City has developed a Long Term Control Plan that proposes approximately $360 million of infrastructure to comply with a 2017 CSO State Law. This law requires the City to significantly reduce the number and volume of CSOs to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA’s) CSO Policy and local total maximum daily load (TMDL) for bacteria. Additionally, this law mandates the City to complete construction by July 1, 2025.
Please join the Join the American Society of Civil Engineers-National Capital Section (ASCE-NCS) and Environmental Water Resources Institute (EWRI) National Capital Chapter at the Hilton Arlington on Tuesday, April 17, 2018, as Erin Bevis-Carver presents on:
The history of the City’s combined sewer system
City’s existing program for reducing impacts of CSO discharges
Overview of the City’s Long Term Control Plan and Clean Waterways Program
WHEN: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10 One (1.0) Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be awarded for attendance.
About the Speaker: Ms. Erin Bevis-Carver, PE, is a Civil Engineer in the Sanitary Infrastructure Division of the City’s Department of Transportation and Environmental Services. In her role, she is responsible for the planning of capital projects for both the City’s separate sanitary and combined sewer system, compliance with the City’s Combined Sewer System Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) Permit, and plan review for development and redevelopment projects. Erin is a Professional Civil Engineer with twenty years of experience. She has been with the City of Alexandria’s Department of Transportation and Environmental Services since 2010.
Join us for our signature event of the year. The NCS Annual Awards Banquet gives us an opportunity to recognize and celebrate local excellence in projects, engineers, and students who have contributed to our profession and our community. Recognized parties include ASCE-NCS Outstanding Civil Engineering Project of the Year, Sustainable Project of the Year, Meritorious Service and Community Service Award winners, NCS Student Scholarship Award recipients, Outstanding Graduating Seniors from local civil engineering universities, and members of the NCS who have achieved Life Member or Fellow or Distinguished Member status during the past year.
This year's banquet will also feature a keynote address from ASCE National President-Elect Robin Kemper. Ms. Kemper will highlight ASCE's Strategic Initiatives that encourage engineers from all around the world who are pushing the limits of ingenuity and innovation in unexpected, imaginative, and amazing ways. ASCE's grand dream is for civil engineers to be global leaders in building a better quality of life for mankind. In this presentation, President-Elect Robin Kemper will share how this dream can be achieved as well as describe the ways in which each engineer can contribute.
Ms. Kemper will explain the leading role of ASCE in advancing the civil engineering profession. She will also touch on the following focus areas of ASCE:
Sustainable Infrastructure - Maintain and modernize America's deteriorating infrastructure as well as make our communities sustainable
ASCE Grand Challenge - Significantly enhance the performance and value of infrastructure projects over their life cycles by 2025 and optimize investments
Raise the Bar - Increase education requirements for engineering licensure to better protect the public in the future
WHEN: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018, 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $55 (thru March 15), Walk-In (pending availability)$65, Life Members $35, Students $20
Robin A. Kemper, PE, LEED AP, F.SEI, F.ASCE and ASCE President-elect has over thirty-five years of diverse and extensive structural engineering experience in design, analysis, and forensics, focused mainly on buildings. Robin currently is a Risk Engineer with Zurich North America. She works for both the Professional Liability and Construction Properties Risk Engineering Groups providing technical support to construction project policies, developing best practices, and investigating losses on construction projects. Robin has a passion for Engineering Ethics and since 2011, in her spare time, Robin has given over 20 presentations to various engineering groups.
The National Capital Section is pleased to announce the November Section meeting will feature an update and discussion by Turner Construction Company and A+F Engineers on the new home of DC United, Audi Field.
Currently under construction, the 20,000-seat stadium is located on a 13-acre former industrial site in Southwest DC known as Buzzard Point. To enable construction, the team has performed substantial utility relocation, demolition, and 30,000 CY of contaminated soil removal and replacement. Presently, structural work is underway which is comprised of 6000 tons of structural steel framing with 600 pieces of precast stadia. This structure sits atop approximately 300 auger cast piles and 4200 CY of grade beams reinforced with over 1000 tons of rebar. Heavy construction work will eventually give way to the installation of a natural Bermuda grass playing field that is currently being grown on Maryland’s eastern shore.
The completed stadium will feature 31 luxury suites, a bike valet, and 500,000 SF of mixed-use /retail, and possibly on-site renewable energy sources, as the project is pursuing LEED gold certification. In addition to soccer, the facility is designed and built to host football, lacrosse, concerts, and other entertainment and community events.
With a groundbreaking on 27 February 2017, utilizing a design-build delivery model, this complex project is has a very tight timeline; substantial completion is scheduled for mid-July 2018. Join us this month to find out more about current progress and challenges faced in design and construction.
A webcam currently records work on the jobsite: http://www.audifielddc.com/stadium-webcam/.
The Project Team consists of:
General Contractor: Turner Construction Company
Owners Representative: Legends Project Development
Architect: Populous with Marshal Moya
Structural Engineer: A+F Engineers
Geotechnical Engineer: Haley Aldrich
MEP Engineer: M-E Engineers and Limbach
Civil Engineer: WSP – Parsons Brinckerhoff
WHEN: Tuesday, November 14th, 2017, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10 One (1.0) Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be awarded for attendance.
Please join the ASCE-NCS on Tuesday, October 17 as Darryl K François, Chief of the Engineering and Technical Review Branch of the Office of Renewable Energy Programs, and Daniel P O’Connell, PE, GE, M.ASCE, Geotechnical Engineer with the Office of Renewable Energy Programs will discuss the engineering design challenges, energy production technologies and ongoing and planned projects in Maryland, Virginia and beyond throughout all the shorelines of the United States. They will be discussing their agency’s mission to manage development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf energy and mineral resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.
Wind energy has been used by humans for thousands of years. For example, windmills were often used by farmers and ranchers for pumping water or grinding grain. In modern times, wind energy is mainly used to generate electricity, primarily through the use of wind turbines.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10 One (1.0) Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be awarded for attendance.
Mr. Darryl François is responsible for managing the regulatory framework that governs the development of renewable energy projects on the US outer continental shelf. His responsibilities include policy development and management oversight of the review of technical and engineering design aspects related to offshore renewable energy projects. In addition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Mr. François’ 37 year career with the US Department of the Interior includes service with the US Geological Survey, Minerals Management Service and Indian Affairs in the analysis of energy, environmental, technology, and economic development issues across the Department’s spectrum of public land management. He received his BS in Physics from Bradley University and his MS in Geophysics from the Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Daniel O’Connell has been with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management since 2013 and is responsible for reviewing engineering studies and plans for offshore renewable energy projects on the Outer Continental Shelf, updating federal regulations and managing research activities. With a BS Civil Engineering from Brown University, O’Connell had 38 years of experience as a Geotechnical Engineering consultant in New England, California, and the Mid-Atlantic prior to joining Federal Government. O’Connell has been an American Society of Civil Engineers member since 1981 and is now Life Member.
Please join the ASCE-NCS on Tuesday, September 19 as Tiffani Jenkins, Superintendent and Acting Deputy Director of Maintenance of Way Engineering Work Planning Group presents about the SafeTrack program!
The SafeTrack program is an accelerated track work plan to address safety recommendations and rehabilitate the Metrorail system to improve safety and reliability. The program began in June 2016 with a goal of achieving three years’ worth of maintenance work in a single year. The program provided expanded maintenance windows on weeknights, weekends, midday hours and through a series of 16 “Safety Surges”- long duration track outages for major projects in key parts of the system. Through the conclusion of the SafeTrack program, WMATA was able to renew over 1/3 of the Track and Structures infrastructure significantly reducing rail defects and providing a noticeably smoother and quieter ride for customers. Through the coordination of the program WMATA was also able to provide access for the accelerated improvements of other critical components such as its tunnel lighting, signaling systems and power cable upgrades. WMATA has already seen the benefits of the program result in reductions in smoke/fire incidents and Rail Service Interruptions. Using many of the lessons learned from the SafeTrack program WMATA has begun the work to institutionalize the improvements made in work planning and execution through the generation of its six (6) new preventative maintenance programs and the annual maintenance and construction planning processes.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10 One (1.0) Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be awarded for attendance.
Tiffani Jenkins is a degreed Electrical Engineer with a focus on operational maintenance coordination and planning. She joined WMATA in 2005 as a Power Engineer working with the Metro Matters traction power upgrade program. She has since worked throughout WMATA’s organization holding such positions as Safety Operations Manager, Maintenance Control Center Superintendent and most recently as the Project Manager for the Safe Track Program. Ms. Jenkins has provided oversight for a variety of programs throughout the course of her career at WMATA ranging from Dulles Phase 1 extension safety certification program to the management of the Maintenance Operations Control Center and Track Access groups. She currently oversees the new Maintenance of Way Engineering Work Planning group as the Acting Deputy Director.
Please join the ASCE-NCS on Tuesday, May 23, as Gary Ball, Director of Real Estate Service for Madison Marquette presents this exciting topic about the Wharf on Southwest Waterfront!
The Wharf is reestablishing Washington, DC, as a true waterfront city and destination. This remarkable mile-long neighborhood along the Washington Channel of the Potomac River brings dazzling water views, hot new restaurants, year-round entertainment, and waterside style all together in one inspiring location. The Wharf, situated along the District of Columbia’s Southwest Waterfront just blocks south of the National Mall, is easily accessible to the region.
When complete, The Wharf will feature more than 3 million square feet of new residential, office, hotel, retail, cultural, marina, and public uses, including waterfront parks, promenades, piers, and docks, designed by one of the most impressive lineups of architects in the nation. The Grand Opening period for Phase 1 begins in October 2017 and Phase 2 delivers in 2021. Development of The Wharf is led by PN Hoffman and Madison Marquette.
WHEN: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017, 6pm - 8:45pm. WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10 One (1.0) Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be awarded for attendance.
Gary Ball joined Madison Marquette in 2015 with 31 years of construction experience in the Washington area. Gary is involved in all aspects of oversight and coordinating construction of Madison Marquette development projects in the Mid-Atlantic area.
His primary assignment is the Wharf project with Phase I set to complete in October 2017 and Phase II planning now underway.
Prior to joining the Wharf project, Gary served as a Project Executive at Turner Construction, 2009 to 2013, where he was responsible for the base building commercial market for the Business unit. Gary’s projects at Turner included the 14 story Nuclear Regulatory Commission building at White Flint, NICOE medical center at Ft Belvoir, Renovation of the South Baggage basement at Dulles Airport, Kincora Village Safety Center, Renovation of the IMF Concordia, a 110 room extended stay hotel, and the Monty, and a 17-story Residential tower in Bethesda, Md.
Previously as a Vice President at Davis Construction, Gary was responsible for multiple large base building projects including the 670,000 SF ATF headquarters building in NOMA, the 1M SF Potomac Yards Land Bay A & B project for the EPA and the 600,000 SF Potomac Yard Land Bay E West project. Gary worked with Davis from 1985 through 2008 and was responsible for over 4M SF of build-to-suit, base building, specialty and interior projects with a construction cost in excess of $2B.
Actively engaged in the community, Gary sat on the Mayor’s Advisory Committee for the Department of Parks and Recreation. He also chaired for DCBIA’s Community Services Corp which provides community services to Washington DC by rebuilding a city park yearly for 7 years.
Gary began his career in 1980, having graduated from Montana State University, as an active duty Army officer with the Army Corps of Engineers where he served for just under 6 years before joining Davis Construction.
If you drive a car in the DC area, then you are almost sure to have driven either within or alongside the 495 | 95 Express Lanes. Besides knowing that you have to pay a toll to use the facility, what else do you know about the Express Lanes network in Virginia?
Did you know that in 2007, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) finalized a long-term partnership agreement with a consortium led by Transurban that would design, build, operate, finance and maintain the $2 billion 495 Express Lanes? By partnering with the private sector, VDOT was able to deliver improvements more quickly and with fewer tax dollars, provide new travel choices, and reduce impacts on the community and the environment. The partnership enabled Virginia to leverage private capital to translate every one dollar of state taxes into four dollars of transportation improvements. Again, in 2012, VDOT finalized a long-term contract with 95 Express Lanes, LLC, where Transurban and its partners made a substantial upfront equity commitment to fund construction of the new 95 Express Lanes. Through this partnership, Virginia was able to leverage private investment to deliver a nearly $1 billion project for only $82 million.
In an effort to extend the Express Lanes network, VDOT recently approved the $460 million 395 Express Lanes project which, once constructed, will extend the 95 Express Lanes for eight miles north to the Washington, DC line. The 395 Express Lanes will reduce congestion in the I-395 corridor, increase capacity by adding an additional HOV lane to create three reversible lanes on I-395, and extend the benefits and travel options of the 95 Express Lanes further north. Early construction activity is expected to begin in the summer of 2017 with completion currently scheduled for late-2019.
Transurban is an Australian-based company that manages and develops urban toll road networks in Australia and the United States. Transurban currently has 13 roads in their Australian portfolio and two roads in the state of Virginia.
Join us on April 18 to learn more about Transurban and the Express Lanes in Virginia, including projects that are currently under construction and future projects on the horizon!
WHEN: Tuesday, April 18th, 2017, 6pm - 8:45pm. WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10 One (1.0) Professional Development Hour (PDH) will be awarded for attendance.
Karl A. Rohrer is the Head of Delivery - North America for Transurban, responsible for leading Transurban's delivery of new toll and managed roadways in the North American market. He is active in establishing and executing the overall business strategy for North America, serves as a key liaison with contractors, government, industry and other stakeholders, and engages internal teams to safely deliver major new infrastructure and capital maintenance projects. Prior to joining Transurban, Karl served as the Deputy Project Director (Phase 2) of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), and has held previous roles as Senior Project Manager for Parsons Corporation and Project Development Manager of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project for the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT).
Join us on March 21 at the Hilton Arlington for the National Capital Section’s (NCS) signature event of the year. This event gives us an opportunity to recognize and celebrate local excellence in projects, engineers, and students who have contributed to our profession and our community. Recognized parties include the ASCE-NCS Outstanding Civil Engineering Project, Sustainable Project of the Year, Meritorious Service and Community Service Award winners, NCS Student Scholarship Award recipients, Outstanding Graduating Seniors from local civil engineering universities, and members of the NCS who have achieved Life Member or Fellow status during the past year.
The finalists for the ASCE- NCS 2017 Outstanding Civil Engineering Project are the US Army Corps of Engineers’ 17th Street Closure and the MGM Resorts International’s MGM National Harbor.
The 17th Street Closure is a removable structure that can be erected in the event of high water. It attaches to the floodwalls on both sides of 17th Street and consists of aluminum panels between steel posts. Tis replaced the existing levee, in place since the late 1930s, which consisted of an earthen berm that runs parallel to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It required construction of a temporary closure of sandbags, Jersey barriers, and an earthen dam across 17th Street when river flood conditions were imminent. Post-Katrina federal standards require that a more reliable levee system be in place. Recognizing the need to move quickly, while still successfully meeting engineering and design needs, numerous federal and local agencies collaborated over a two-year period to develop a new approach for the 17th Street Closure. The levee elements are designed to seamlessly blend with the setting of the National Mall.
MGM National Harbor uses timeless design, high-end service, public art and spectacular amenities combine to create a new generation of resort experiences: MGM National Harbor, the first luxury gaming destination in the Capital Region adding an exciting new aspect to the culture of the Capital. A fast track construction process required study of options on how best to accomplish design features within the time and money allotted for construction. 3D modeling was used to create architectural, structural and construction models for coordination. Each sector of the project had a dedicated team consisting of design professionals and contracting team that met weekly and as needed to coordinate and solve any problems that arose.
The finalist for the ASCE- NCS 2017 Sustainable Project of the Year is the Nutrient Management Facility (NMF) located in Alexandria, VA. The NMF includes 18 million gallons in tank capacity with associated pumps, chemical analysis equipment, and an extensive odor control system. It also includes a lit, regulation athletic field located on top of the process tanks, created as a community amenity. The facility was designed to preserve floodplain functions by avoiding new development within the floodplain. Acres of impervious surface were replaced with vegetated areas to restore infiltration and water quality functions. A fish and sediment barrier was removed, which improved aquatic habitat connectivity, and a crucial wooded riparian buffer was expanded, enhancing the natural habitat.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 21st, 2017, 6pm - 8:45pm. WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $55, Walk-In (pending availability)$65, Life Members $35, Students $20
Picture an expanded tunnel, originally built in 1872, running right through southeast Washington, DC carrying double-stack trains. With a 42-month schedule, 20,000 truckloads of soil excavated and 10,000 hours of noise and vibration monitoring completed, the first double- stack train passed through Phase I of the completed tunnel project just before Christmas. The expanded tunnel will allow trains to move freight between key ports, manufacturing centers, and customer markets. It is not just track and tie construction but extensive geotechnical, pile driving and other structural work as well as street deck removal and replacement where required.
WHEN: Tuesday, February 21st, 2017, 6pm - 8:30pm. WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10
Charles (Chuck) Gullakson is the Assistant Vice-President – National Gateway for CSX Transportation, and the chief engineer leading a cross functional project team for the Virginia Avenue Tunnel Reconstruction Project in Washington, DC. Chuck joined Chessie System Railroads in 1983 as a draftsman shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has served in a number of engineering positions for Chessie and CSX during his 34-year career in the railroad industry, rising to his current role as the Assistant Vice-President – National Gateway. While working full-time, Chuck returned to further his education earning an MBA through the University of Florida’s executive program in 2004, and then again earning a Master of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, graduating in December, 2016. Chuck is a registered professional engineer in the State of Illinois.
What if you could save millions and put pipes in the ground that last 30% longer? That’s what the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) is doing with its strategy of switching to zinc-coated ductile iron pipes wrapped in a V-Bio Enhanced Polyethylene encasement to help enhance the life of the pipes and prevent corrosion. Additionally, WSSC is using an innovative procurement strategy to acquire those pipes. WSSC is among the largest water and wastewater utilities in the country, and it is the largest water utility in Maryland. With a network of nearly 5,600 miles of fresh water pipeline and over 5,400 miles of sewer pipeline, the WSSC service area includes nearly 1,000 square miles in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties, Maryland, and serves 1.8 million residents.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 24, 2016, 6pm - 8:30pm. WHERE: Hilton Arlington - 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia FEE: Early Registration: $45, Walk-In (pending availability)$55, Life Members $25, Students $10
Keith Tyson, PE, is Technical Services Group Leader for the Engineering and Construction Team at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC). The Technical Services Group provides engineering consulting services for the Commission with an emphasis on in-house design, construction contract specifications, cost estimates, environmental monitoring and regulatory compliance. Additionally, the group performs WSSC’s surveying and property acquisition, manages the GIS system and maintains all engineering records.
Welcome to the website of the National Capital Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a professional society for civil engineers. ASCE was founded in 1852, represents 130,000 members of the civil engineering professional worldwide, and is America's oldest national engineering society.
The National Capital Section was founded in 1916 and currently has more than 3,100 members. The section is located in Region 2 (link to region 2: http://region2.asce.org/). The National Capital Section serves the District of Columbia; the counties of Montgomery and Prince Georges in Maryland, except College Park in Prince Georges County; the counties of Fairfax and Arlington, and City of Alexandria in Virginia. The National Capital Section's mission includes:
To advance the professional knowledge and improve the practice of civil engineering for our members and those we serve.
To advocate for our profession with those whose actions affect us, and to educate those whose actions and responsibilities could benefit from a better understanding of the contributions of civil engineers.
To improve our community through effective community outreach programs, local involvement and educational efforts.
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Robin A. Kemper, PE, LEED AP, F.SEI, F.ASCE and ASCE President-elect has over thirty-five years of diverse and extensive structural engineering experience in design, analysis, and forensics, focused mainly on buildings. Robin currently is a Risk Engineer with Zurich North America. She works for both the Professional Liability and Construction Properties Risk Engineering Groups providing technical support to construction project policies, developing best practices, and investigating losses on construction projects. Robin has a passion for Engineering Ethics and since 2011, in her spare time, Robin has given over 20 presentations to various engineering groups.
The National Capital Section is pleased to announce the November Section meeting will feature an update and discussion by Turner Construction Company and A+F Engineers on the new home of DC United, Audi Field.
Please join the ASCE-NCS on Tuesday, October 17 as Darryl K François, Chief of the Engineering and Technical Review Branch of the 
Mr. Darryl François is responsible for managing the regulatory framework that governs the development of renewable energy projects on the US outer continental shelf. His responsibilities include policy development and management oversight of the review of technical and engineering design aspects related to offshore renewable energy projects. In addition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Mr. François’ 37 year career with the US Department of the Interior includes service with the US Geological Survey, Minerals Management Service and Indian Affairs in the analysis of energy, environmental, technology, and economic development issues across the Department’s spectrum of public land management. He received his BS in Physics from Bradley University and his MS in Geophysics from the Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Daniel O’Connell has been with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management since 2013 and is responsible for reviewing engineering studies and plans for offshore renewable energy projects on the Outer Continental Shelf, updating federal regulations and managing research activities. With a BS Civil Engineering from Brown University, O’Connell had 38 years of experience as a Geotechnical Engineering consultant in New England, California, and the Mid-Atlantic prior to joining Federal Government. O’Connell has been an American Society of Civil Engineers member since 1981 and is now Life Member.
Tiffani Jenkins is a degreed Electrical Engineer with a focus on operational maintenance coordination and planning. She joined WMATA in 2005 as a Power Engineer working with the Metro Matters traction power upgrade program. She has since worked throughout WMATA’s organization holding such positions as Safety Operations Manager, Maintenance Control Center Superintendent and most recently as the Project Manager for the Safe Track Program. Ms. Jenkins has provided oversight for a variety of programs throughout the course of her career at WMATA ranging from Dulles Phase 1 extension safety certification program to the management of the Maintenance Operations Control Center and Track Access groups. She currently oversees the new Maintenance of Way Engineering Work Planning group as the Acting Deputy Director.
Gary Ball joined Madison Marquette in 2015 with 31 years of construction experience in the Washington area. Gary is involved in all aspects of oversight and coordinating construction of Madison Marquette development projects in the Mid-Atlantic area.
Karl A. Rohrer is the Head of Delivery - North America for Transurban, responsible for leading Transurban's delivery of new toll and managed roadways in the North American market. He is active in establishing and executing the overall business strategy for North America, serves as a key liaison with contractors, government, industry and other stakeholders, and engages internal teams to safely deliver major new infrastructure and capital maintenance projects. Prior to joining Transurban, Karl served as the Deputy Project Director (Phase 2) of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), and has held previous roles as Senior Project Manager for Parsons Corporation and Project Development Manager of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project for the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT).
The 17th Street Closure is a removable structure that can be erected in the event of high water. It attaches to the floodwalls on both sides of 17th Street and consists of aluminum panels between steel posts. Tis replaced the existing levee, in place since the late 1930s, which consisted of an earthen berm that runs parallel to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It required construction of a temporary closure of sandbags, Jersey barriers, and an earthen dam across 17th Street when river flood conditions were imminent. Post-Katrina federal standards require that a more reliable levee system be in place. Recognizing the need to move quickly, while still successfully meeting engineering and design needs, numerous federal and local agencies collaborated over a two-year period to develop a new approach for the 17th Street Closure. The levee elements are designed to seamlessly blend with the setting of the National Mall.
MGM National Harbor uses timeless design, high-end service, public art and spectacular amenities combine to create a new generation of resort experiences: MGM National Harbor, the first luxury gaming destination in the Capital Region adding an exciting new aspect to the culture of the Capital. A fast track construction process required study of options on how best to accomplish design features within the time and money allotted for construction. 3D modeling was used to create architectural, structural and construction models for coordination. Each sector of the project had a dedicated team consisting of design professionals and contracting team that met weekly and as needed to coordinate and solve any problems that arose.
The finalist for the ASCE- NCS 2017 Sustainable Project of the Year is the Nutrient Management Facility (NMF) located in Alexandria, VA. The NMF includes 18 million gallons in tank capacity with associated pumps, chemical analysis equipment, and an extensive odor control system. It also includes a lit, regulation athletic field located on top of the process tanks, created as a community amenity. The facility was designed to preserve floodplain functions by avoiding new development within the floodplain. Acres of impervious surface were replaced with vegetated areas to restore infiltration and water quality functions. A fish and sediment barrier was removed, which improved aquatic habitat connectivity, and a crucial wooded riparian buffer was expanded, enhancing the natural habitat.
Charles (Chuck) Gullakson is the Assistant Vice-President – National Gateway for CSX Transportation, and the chief engineer leading a cross functional project team for the Virginia Avenue Tunnel Reconstruction Project in Washington, DC.
Keith Tyson, PE, is Technical Services Group Leader for the Engineering and Construction Team at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC). The Technical Services Group provides engineering consulting services for the Commission with an emphasis on in-house design, construction contract specifications, cost estimates, environmental monitoring and regulatory compliance. Additionally, the group performs WSSC’s surveying and property acquisition, manages the GIS system and maintains all engineering records.
