August 2014

Great outreach event or other activity? Let the whole Region know! If you’re a local ASCE leader and your Section, Branch, Younger Member Group, or Student Chapter has staged any special events, engaged in outreach from grade-school kids to lawmakers, done charity work, fund raising or anything of the sort, let ASCEnews Weekly know and we may include it in next month’s Region report. You may already have written about it and posted pictures in your newsletter, website, or social media. Share the details and any photos at asce.org/localnews. Got questions? Write to submissions@asce.org. See the other Region reports for August If you live adjacent to a Section in a different Region, or are merely interested in the other Region reports for August, click on each to view them:   Region 1   Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section, Buffalo Section, Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers Section, Ithaca Section, Maine Section, Metropolitan Section, Mohawk-Hudson Section, New Hampshire Section, New Jersey Section, Puerto Rico Section, Rhode Island Section, Rochester Section, Syracuse Section, Vermont Section Region 2   Central Pennsylvania Section, Delaware Section, Lehigh Valley Section, Maryland Section, National Capital Section, Philadelphia Section, Pittsburgh Section Region 3   Akron-Canton Section, Central Illinois Section, Central Ohio Section, Cincinnati Section, Cleveland Section, Dayton Section, Duluth Section, Illinois Section, Michigan Section, Minnesota Section, North Dakota Section, Quad Cities Section, Toledo Section, Wisconsin Section Region 4   Arkansas Section, Indiana Section, Kentucky Section, North Carolina Section, South Carolina Section, Tennessee Section, Virginia Section, West Virginia Section Region 5   Alabama Section, Florida Section, Georgia Section, Louisiana Section, Mississippi Section   Region 6   New Mexico Section, Oklahoma Section, Texas Section Region 7   Colorado Section, Iowa Section, Kansas City Section, Kansas Section, Nebraska Section, South Dakota Section, St. Louis Section, Wyoming Section Region 8   Alaska Section, Arizona Section, Columbia Section, Hawaii Section, Inland Empire Section, Montana Section, Nevada Section, Oregon Section, Seattle Section, Southern Idaho Section, Tacoma-Olympia Section, Utah Section Region 9   Los Angeles Section, Sacramento Section, San Diego Section, San Francisco Section Region 10   All International Sections, Branches, and Groups Missed last month's Region 1 update? See the July edition of  News Around Region 1  Share this page via social media and email:

REGION 1 NEWS ASCE Region 1 Governor Porter, active in Rochester Section, passes away Russell Porter, P.E., LEED AP, M.ASCE, Region 1 governor and chair of the Rochester Section’s State and Regional Affairs Committee, has died at 62 following a battle with cancer. From construction inspector to senior project manager and senior project engineer, Mr. Porter worked for various consulting engineering firms in upstate New York, the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), and Wegmans food markets. Mr. Porter was a former Rochester Section president and served on its career guidance committee. He also served as past chair, secretary, and delegate to the New York State Council and as a delegate and secretary to the Region 1 Assembly and Board of Governors. Besides ASCE, Porter was also a member of the Institute of Traffic Engineers and served on its Awards Committee. Learn more about the life and contributions of Russell Porter in ASCE News.  Section website>>

BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SECTION Geotechnical engineering giant at MIT, a 2013 OPAL award-winner, Ladd dies Acclaimed for his contributions to the teaching, research, and practice of geotechnical engineering while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles “Chuck” Cushing Ladd III, Sc.D., P.E., D.GE, NAE, Dist.M.ASCE, has died at age 81. Mr. Ladd was honored by ASCE in 2013 with the Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) lifetime achievement award in education. He contributed to many geotechnically oriented ASCE committees in the 1980s and ’90s. Read more about Mr. Ladd’s contributions in ASCE News.  Section website>>

METROPOLITAN SECTION New York State’s bridge inspection chief wins ASCE’s Government Civil Engineer of the Year The director of the New York State Department of Transportation’s Structures Evaluation Services Bureau since 1991, Sreenivas Alampalli, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, is the recipient of ASCE’s Government Civil Engineer of the Year Award for his professional achievements, leadership in professional and technical societies, and humanitarian and professional development activities. Alampalli manages structural inspection, inventory, safety, and management programs, ensuring the preservation, integrity, and safety of bridge and other structural infrastructure in New York State. He also has received ASCE’s Charles Pankow Award for Innovation in 2000, and the ASCE Henry L. Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research in 2013. Discover more about Alampalli’s award-worthy accomplishments in ASCE News. Section website>>

METROPOLITAN SECTION Pavilion in Queens built with bricks made of mushrooms Designers conduct extensive testing to incorporate 10,000 bricks “grown” from mushrooms into a pavilion for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program in New York City’s Queens. Consider the novel building material in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.

METROPOLITAN SECTION New museum in Staten Island to celebrate lighthouses A location steeped in the history of lighthouses will be the site of a museum dedicated to the structures as well as a mixed-use development project. See what’s in store in ASCE’s online edition of Civil Engineering magazine.