When: Thursday, February 23, 2012
- Registration: Begins at 11:30 a.m.
- Lunch & Program: Noon

Topic: Impacts NASA has made on the average American life
Speaker: Bryan Palaszewski, NASA John H. Glenn Research Center

The Cleveland Section, the Akron-Canton Section, the Central Ohio Section and the Ohio Council of Sections of the American Society of Civil Engineers invite you to:

The January Legislative Breakfast

Presented by
Representative Steven C. LaTourette
14th Congressional District
US House of Representatives

Friday, January 27, 2012

Crowne Plaza Hotel
5300 Rockside Road, Independence, OH

7:30 AM to 8:00 AM Registration
8:00 AM to 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM to 9:30 AM Presentation and Q&A

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The page also includes links to the ASCE National website which provides employment assistance with hundreds of job postings and additional resources.

I hope that everyone had an outstanding holiday season and are now ready as I am looking forward to the exciting upcoming ASCE events over the next six months, including dinner meetings for the months of January and April, lunch meetings for February, March and May and concluding with the June golf outing.

The January 2012 newsletter is now available for download.

Guy Nordenson from Guy Nordenson and Associates will present on January 18, 2012 at 5:30 PM in Knowlton Hall Auditorium (KN 250). This event is presented in cooperation with the Knowlton School of Architecture.

Topic: Caisson Failure Case Study
Joint Meeting Between SEAoO and ASCE

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

Bill will present his expert witness testimony in a case involving a caisson failure resulting in approximately 6” of settlement and significant damage to the building. The presentation will cover the many problems contributing to the failure and the “red flags” that went unaddressed by the parties involved, including the structural engineer, geotechnical engineer and inspection agency. The presentation will close with an interactive discussion on how lessons learned can be applied and preventative measures taken to protect your own projects. SEAoO and ASCE are pleased to invite you to join us for this valuable seminar.

In November our luncheon meeting was held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center where it was a pleasure to hear the speakers Michael Bongiorno of DesignGroup and Ryan Hoffman of Heapy Engineering discuss the innovative design strategies of the structure and its surroundings. They did an excellent job at presenting what key factors were taken into consideration for the Center to meet the LEED Gold certification.

The December 2011 newsletter is now available for download.

Topic: Replacement of the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge
Joint Meeting Between ACI and ASCE

(Online registration and payment available, see bottom of page.)

The Jeremiah Morrow bridge carrying I-71 over the Little Miami River near Lebanon is being replaced with an all-concrete, segmental, cast-in-place bridge using the balanced cantilever method with form travelers. The Jeremiah Morrow (named after Ohio’s ninth Governor) is the highest bridge in Ohio (240’) and one of the longest at 2,230’. The existing, twin steel deck trusses were built in 1964/65 at a cost of $5 million. The existing bridges are being replaced in two phases. The first of two concrete segmental bridges is currently being constructed in the median between the existing bridges. The existing bridges are very narrow (only 30’ wide); the new bridges will each be 55’ wide with provisions for 3 lanes of traffic in each direction. The new bridges will cost $88.1 million. HNTB Cleveland is the designer and Kokosing Construction is the contractor.