Penn State student Keaton Zang says he doesn’t drink alcohol because of genetics. His family is predisposed to alcoholism and he has stated that he would rather not risk becoming an alcoholic himself.
However, Zang (junior-computer scientist) said he doesn’t mind being around people who drink and is often the designated driver when he goes out with friends.
Although it’s “much harder to make friends and connections at Penn State” because a lot of people drink at parties or bars to socialize, he said there’s no shortage of sober people in college.
Although Penn State’s party reputation is at odds with the interests of a sober student, Zang said he doesn’t see himself going anywhere else for school.
Zang comes from a Penn State family, with several college-educated family members. For Zang, that, combined with Penn State’s computer program, sealed the deal.
As for Dan Boell, he said he abstained for various reasons.
Boell (first-year civil engineering student) said drinking was “never that rebellious thing for [him]because ever since he said he could make it to 21 at an early age, the challenge of getting booze never interested him.
He said he chose not to drink for other reasons, as he had witnessed firsthand the effects that excess alcohol could have on individuals, which caused Boell to be afraid of be black drunk.
Boell said staying sober can be a slight social challenge, playing various Penn State clubs helps offset that.
He said he chose Penn State for similar reasons to Zang’s — citing more than seven members of his family who graduated from Penn State, and wanted to take advantage of the state’s prevailing tuition.
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For Keeley Boell, Dan’s sister, she said her uncle died of alcoholism and she saw the effect it had on her immediate family.
Keeley (Junior Biomedical Engineering) said she prefers to avoid alcohol and people who drink completely when possible.
“If you need alcohol to have fun, you’re not having fun,” Keeley said.
For her, sober fun comes from places like Penn State’s AURORA Outdoor Orientation Programs, which bans alcohol, and she’s also a member of the Society of Women Engineers.
Although she said it might keep her out of some social storylines, Keeley said she met her roommate and best friend because she wasn’t a drinker.
This best friend is a member of Penn State ROTC and therefore needs to be in a sober environment to risk losing her scholarship, which for Keeley is an ideal roommate.
Keeley said she chose Penn State for similar reasons to her brother, Dan. They both looked at in-state tuition, engineering programs, and family ties.
However, Keeley said she is also interested in the location of State College and the university’s alumni network.
“I don’t like cities,” Keeley said. “I knew I would be hiking in the mountains, and that’s awesome.”
For Lamar Cooley-Russ, a graduate student, he prefers to be in the “right frame of mind” and sees drinking as a way to “potentially put [himself] in a vulnerable place.
“The taste doesn’t seem to be very appealing either, as I’m pretty content with soft drinks,” said Cooley-Russ (cybersecurity graduate).
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Cooley-Russ said he was “the epitome of ‘just chilling'” in reference to his social life.
He said he was happy with the friends he had made and didn’t feel the need to use alcohol to expand that group.
Peer pressure to drink doesn’t get to him, Cooley-Russ said.
“If someone put that kind of pressure on me, they’re probably not the kind of people I want to hang out with,” Cooley-Russ said.
Cooley-Russ said he was unaware of Penn State’s party culture when he applied, then found out about it after witnessing it firsthand.
He visited Penn State through Upward Bound Math-Science, a program that brings underrepresented students to Penn State. He said he came to like the campus and its students, which led him to decide to enroll.
For Aviauna Beckett, she doesn’t drink for medical reasons, but it hasn’t had much of an impact on her social life, and most people don’t ask why she doesn’t drink.
Beckett (a sophomore in biochemistry) didn’t have a “particularly strong affinity” for Penn State, but one of her close friends was present, so she followed them, and although they weren’t close anymore, she did. said she had no regrets about her decision.
“I would be sad if I didn’t have the same experiences as everyone else, but it’s for the best,” Beckett said.
For Daniel Godzieba, it’s a matter of taste. He doesn’t like the taste of alcohol, so abstaining from drinking was an easy decision.
Godzieba (a graduate in Physics) said he doesn’t mind being around alcohol or people who drink, as he has been around it all his life.
For Godzieba, he chose Penn State because of its proximity to his hometown and its graduate program.
“Parties were a complete nullity in my consideration.”
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LEWISBURG — Bucknell University has hired Brad Putman as Dean Richard E. Garman of the College of Engineering following a nationwide search.
Putman will start at Bucknell on July 1.
Putman has served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at Clemson University’s College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences since 2016. Putman has served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at Clemson since 2005.
Putman earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in civil engineering at Clemson. Putman was first named acting associate dean for undergraduate studies at the college in November 2016, becoming permanent associate dean in August 2017.
Putman “led the development of a strategic plan for undergraduate education in the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Science; the establishment of a new recruitment grant for engineering students; deployment of a college-wide survey to assess the motivation, identity and sense of belonging of engineering students; and creating interdisciplinary opportunities for engineering and computer science students,” according to a statement from Bucknell.
Putman is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Engineering Education, and Chi Epsilon. He succeeds Pat Mather, who left last August to become dean of Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University. Professor Erin Jablonski, chemical engineering, has served as acting dean of the college since Mather’s departure.
]]>MOUNT DESERT — It will cost up to $475,000 to replace two old, inadequate culverts that carry water from Denning Creek under Beech Hill Cross Road.
Director of Public Works Tony Smith described the existing culverts as “woefully undersized and in very poor condition”.
“These conditions contribute to flooding, pavement sinkholes and pavement washouts. Existing culverts also have a negative impact on the passage of animal life through them.
The city received a $125,000 grant from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) last year to help pay for culvert replacements. This is the highest number of DEP awards for “Municipal Waterway Crossing Improvements.” This amount includes $10,000 that Mount Desert has already spent as part of the $35,000 cost of project design, permitting and tendering services.
Smith and civil engineering consultancy VHB of South Portland prepared design and tender documents for the Denning Brook project and provided them to six qualified contractors in January. None of the six made an offer.
Smith then contacted RF Jordon & Sons Construction of Ellsworth, which is currently the general contractor for the Main Street improvement project in Northeast Harbor.
“We discussed pricing with them and came to an agreement on a negotiated price of $418,913, versus the engineers’ estimate of $380,000, a difference of 10%,” Smith said in a note. to City Manager Durlin Lunt. “Lately, VHB has been seeing bid prices 20-30% higher than their estimates and those of other companies.”
Smith said DEP is seeing similar cost increases with other projects in the state.
The Denning Brook project will follow the guidelines of the state’s Stream Smart program, which encourages the construction of culverts that “maintaining fish and wildlife habitat while protecting roads and public safety.”
“The DEP told me that the price we negotiated with RF Jordan for lack of receiving offers is acceptable under their program guidelines,” Smith said.
VHB will bill the city $43,500 for construction contract administration and inspection services, and Smith added $12,000 to the budget to cover contingencies. That brings the total cost to $474,913.
The select committee voted unanimously in late February to allow Smith to sign contracts with RF Jordan and VHB for agreed prices subject to voter approval at the May 3 annual town hall meeting.
“Four hundred thousand for a culvert seems insane to me,” said Select Board member Geoff Wood, who asked how he could explain the cost to people who ask. The short answer: This is a very big project.
Smith said one of the new culverts under Beech Hill Cross Road will be a 6ft high, 15ft wide concrete culvert.
“And we have to mimic the creek bed inside that culvert,” he said. “There is a way to determine the size of stones so insects and invertebrates can rest along the way.”
The other culvert to be replaced, which Smith says is rotting, is 4 feet high and 5 feet wide.
A group of structural engineering researchers based in Iran have lost at least five papers for problems with data – and a data sleuth says more appear flimsy too.
Four of the articles appeared in Construction and building materials between 2018 and 2020 and were written by a changing cast of characters with two constants: Mansour Ghalehnovi and Arash Karimipour, both from the Department of Civil Engineering at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad. Karimipour’s LinkedIn profile lists an affiliation with the University of Texas at El Paso from 2019 through January of this year.
The newspaper, an Elsevier headline, says it began investigating the documents after a whistleblower raised questions about the integrity of the data. In some cases, for example, data from one article was found in other articles but was presented as demonstrating different material. The authors have also used images from other researchers or the internet without proper attribution.
Here is the notice for “Experimental Study on Bending Behavior and Ductility Ratio of Steel Fiber Recycled Coarse Aggregate Concrete Beams” of 2018:
Following receipt of complaints from whistleblowers, an investigation of this document and related documents was conducted. The editor no longer has confidence in the scientific integrity of this article.
The test program reported in this article is the same as that reported in Construction and Building Materials, 2019, 204, pp. 809–827. Primary test results were standardized differently in each article. Material properties and blend designs were reported differently although they are the same.
The review goes on to identify images found in at least half a dozen other publications:
having different and unrecognized specimen designations in both cases. Such a practice of renaming specimens has the effect of distorting scientific records and seemingly inflating the amount of data available. …
The XRD spectra in this article have been published in other articles by the same author group, sometimes reported as representing different materials.
He concludes :
Communication with a co-author, Jorge De Brito, raised further concerns about the integrity of this work as he expressed that he no longer had confidence in its content.
The other three articles, “Mechanical and durability properties of rubberized concrete reinforced with steel fibers”, from 2020, “Shear behavior of concrete beams with recycled aggregates and steel fibers”, from 2019, and “Influence of steel fibers on the mechanical properties and physical performance of self-compacting concretes made with waste and fillers”, as of 2020, carry similar notices.
A fifth article, “Shear and Bending Performance of Low-, Normal-, and High-Strength Concrete Beams Reinforced with SMA, GFRP, and Steel Longitudinal Bars,” has been removed from Artwork earlier this month with the following notice:
The editor no longer has confidence in the scientific integrity of this article because similar images have been used in various articles in multiple journals claiming varying conditions, which violates our publication policies. The article mentioned above has duplicate photos in the article itself, which are labeled as different specimens with different concrete strengths. These same photos overlap with other published articles, in particular Construction and Building Materials, 2019, 204, pp. 809–827; Construction and building materials, 2018, 186, pp. 400–422 and Magazine of Concrete Research, 2021, 73, 12, pp 608–626. These papers all consider experiments with concrete beams with recycled aggregates and steel fibers, some with jacketed concrete. There should be no overlap in the specimens between these and the paper mentioned above. Figure 7 is captioned to lead the reader to believe that these are photos of the rebar used, the three types used in the specimens. All of these photos are taken from other sources on the Internet, some of which are copyrighted, with no attributes.
Karimipour and Ghalehnovi have at least three other articles with De Brito that have appeared in MDPI journals. Two of these articles mention Karimipour as being affiliated with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso – which is not an actual institution, although the University of Texas at El Paso of course is.
Meanwhile, pseudonymous detective Artemisia Stricta, whose work has led to dozens of retractions and who reported some of the group’s articles to Construction and building materialscopied us from an email sent on March 6, 2022, informing the editors of nine journals – the Cleaner Production Journal; Building Engineering Journal; Works; Cement and concrete composites; The mechanics of materials; Materials; Applied Science; Concrete Research Magazine; and Artwork – “apparent misconduct in publication (falsification, plagiarism and self-plagiarism)” in your journals affecting ten articles. All of the articles implicate Karimipour and De Brito, and most implicate Ghalehnovi.
Karimipour and Ghalehnovi did not respond to requests for comment.
De Brito, the editor of Building Engineering Journal and a professor from the University of Lisbon, told us he was blindsided by the retractions:
I first became aware of these issues when I received a retraction notice for another CBM item [Editor’s note: which has not been retracted] and the next day when one of the whistleblowers tipped me off about it. It is one of my junior colleagues who did not have the decency to warn me BEFORE denouncing, leaving me in a terrible situation.
I exchanged emails with Prof. Ghalehnovi about this and gathered a lot of information from these and other articles that I co-authored with him and Arash Karimipour (AK).
I am satisfied that Professor Ghalehnovi did not willfully participate in any wrongdoing and that the issues with these and other documents were entirely the responsibility of AK.
I am also convinced that there was nothing radically wrong ethically in the first articles that AK published with either of us and that at some point AK understood that he could dramatically increase his post rate by cheating, but never told us about it.
Therefore, I believe the first two articles should NOT have been taken down as they were the first to be published and none of the material in them has been published elsewhere, and they are also the result of experimental work honest and traceable made under the supervision of Professor Ghalehnovi.
Additionally, there are other perpetrators involved who have nothing to do with these issues, and they are being mistreated.
Do I also have to remove the other papers? De Brito hesitated:
It’s not for me to decide. I have not analyzed each of them, using the means used by whistleblowers. However, as soon as I understood that I could not trust AK, I informed the editors of all my articles with him of my loss of confidence. In my opinion, each article must be analyzed individually by the journals’ own organs. I believe most of them will be clear upon fair examination, but that’s just a guess.
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RAPID CITY – Warren was born on September 4, 1938 to Margaret (Peg) and Loy Fisk. He died on March 2, 2022. He was the youngest of three children. Her early childhood was spent in Nebraska City, NE.
His father was originally a motorboat operator turned surveyor for the US Army Corps of Engineers and in 1946 he moved his family to SD to begin work on the Fort Randall Dam. Warren grew up in Pickstown, which was a singularly unique community that was built, occupied and managed for the sole purpose of building the dam. Warren lived there until he graduated from high school in 1956. He began his career in surveying during his high school days – working for Northwest Engineering on the grading/paving at the top of the dam. He had wonderful memories and had made many lifelong friends.
He married his high school sweetheart Janice Ishmael in the fall of 1957. They moved to Pierre where Warren continued his surveying career working for the Corps of Engineers on the Oahe Dam. His daughter Janelle was born in Pierre in 1961 and soon after they moved to Rapid Ville where Warren attended the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. In 1965, he obtained a degree in civil engineering. During his studies and after graduation, he worked with Kirkham, Michael & Associates, Bell Galyardt & Wells and Bell Galyardt & Associates.
He made Rapid City his home and his son Ron was born there in 1968. Warren’s engineering career took him to projects in Omaha and Sioux City where he worked on large commercial stockyards. In Rapid City, he worked on designs for the Rapid City Main Sewer as well as portions of Interstate-90.
He loved the challenges of engineering, but his real love was surveying. In 1974 he created his own company – Fisk Engineering. He worked on numerous residential, commercial and federal projects over the next 26 years. One of the highlights of his surveying career was working with a local company to study the stability of Mount Rushmore.
Warren’s love of surveying extended to mentorship and service to the profession. He was a founding and life member of the South Dakota Society of Professional Land Surveyors (SDSPLS), serving as president in 2007. Concurrently, he served on the South Dakota Board of Technical Professions (SDBOTP) from 1985 to 2005. In As part of his service at SDBOTP, he became a member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering & Surveying (NCEES). He was the first South Dakota to serve as president of this national organization (1995-1996) and received the NCEES Distinguished Service Award in 1998. As president of NCEES, he and Jan have traveled to Canada, Mexico, China, Hong Kong and nearly every state in the union. They enjoyed their time traveling and met great people and made lifelong friends at NCEES. Locally, he served on the Pennington County Planning Commission from 2007 to 2010.
He semi-retired in 2001 and worked with Ron and Janelle in their surveying firm. He was a welcome addition and a valuable asset to the office for the rest of his life.
Warren was a man of faith and a member of the First Baptist Church. He taught a Sunday morning adult Bible course (The Builders) for over 40 years. He lived his life well and was loved and respected by his family, friends and colleagues. He will be remembered as a man of intelligence, kindness and a great spirit.
Warren was predeceased by his parents Loy Fisk and Margaret (Wilcox) Fisk; brother Glenn; sister John; mother-in-law Ida Kluth, brother-in-law Francis Uecker; and his sister-in-law Judy Dougherty. He is survived by his wife Jan; his daughter Janelle (Leon) Finck; son Ron Fisk; grandchildren Ashton (Matt) Wire; Erryn (Brian) Rucker; Ethan Fisk; Kyrianna Dodge; great-grandsons Weston and Noah Wire; brothers-in-law Daniel Miller and Wayne Dougherty; and his sister-in-law Sylva Jean Uecker, as well as several nieces and nephews and their families. He was also considered a family member of Roland and Ann Hatwan and an older brother to their children – Pat, Dale, Jeanie, Lori, Karen and Kathy.
A celebration of life will be planned this summer. Condolences may be sent to PO Box 8154, Rapid City, SD 57709 and in lieu of flowers or memorials, donations may be made to the Pickstown & Fort Randall Museum Foundation c/o Art Trautman – Treasurer, 2675 Whitetail Lane, O’Fallon, Missouri 63368.
The author is an analyst at NH Investment & Securities. He can be contacted at [email protected]. — Ed.
January 2022 data shows yy increases for domestic construction orders and the value of construction completed. Overall, domestic construction orders rose 6%, with non-housing and civil engineering orders offsetting the slowdown in housing orders. Despite the enforcement of the Serious Accident Prevention Law, the value of completed construction increased by 19% year-on-year.
January domestic construction orders totaled W13.7 billion
Looking at the domestic construction data for January, overall domestic construction orders came in at 13.7 tn W (+6% YoY). By project owner, the public sector posted W2.3tn (+36% yy) and the private sector posted W11.4tn (+2% yy). By type of construction, housing orders totaled 5.8 tn W (-9% yy), while those for offices and shops climbed to 2.8 tn W (+40% yy), for factories and warehouses at 1.7 tn W (+14% yy), and for civil engineering at W2.7tn (+18% yy). Growth was achieved for all types of construction, with the exception of dwellings. Sluggish housing orders are attributed to tighter reconstruction/redevelopment regulations and a slump in the housing market.
January value of completed national construction totaled 11.2 trillion won
The value of completed national construction reached 11.2 tn W (+19% yy) in January 2022. By type of construction, the figure is divided as follows: residential construction 5.2 tn W (+20% yy), non-residential construction 3.3 tn W (+24% yy), and civil engineering W2.7tn (+13% yy). Growth in residential construction has been spurred by a steady rise in the number of housing starts since last year. For reference, housing starts in 2021 recorded 584,000 units (+11% yy), but housing starts in December 2021 proved tepid at 820,000 units (-23% yy).
The value of the completed construction has increased (yy) despite the application of the law on the prevention of serious accidents
January is a slow season, so the value of completed construction for the month tends to be low. However, despite the slow construction progress of some projects due to both an accident (collapse) at the Gwangju Apartment construction site and the enforcement of the Serious Accident Suppression Law , the amount of residential construction completed for January 2022 reached 5.2 trillion won. For reference, the amount of residential construction completed during 2Q21~3Q21 averaged W5.4 billion, with the number of construction sites increasing during this period in response to an upward trend in the number of construction starts.
According to data from the Korean Customs Service, the import price of bituminous coal increased by 9% mm to USD 143/tonne in January. By estimating a sharp rise in the cost of bituminous coal to over 8,000 W/tonne (+119% YoY) for 1Q22, we believe that the deterioration in the profits of cement players is inevitable in the short term, despite the rise cement sales volume. In the medium/long term, however, continued increases in cement prices to reflect rising costs should offset this negative.
]]>Tammy Griffin joined Architecture Liollio as an administrative assistant. She has 19 years of experience as a paralegal.
Blake Dressler was promoted to president of the Charleston market at First trusted bank. Previously, he was senior vice president and senior commercial lender. He has over 13 years of experience in the banking sector. He holds a bachelor’s degree from University of South Carolina.
misty antonacci was promoted to consultant at Knowledge Capital Group. Previously, she was a project coordinator. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a minor in women’s and gender studies from the University Charleston College.
Stacy Gregg joined South Carolina State University as Purchasing Manager. She has approximately 26 years of experience in public procurement. Previously, she was responsible for purchasing at University of South Carolina. She holds a bachelor’s degree in management and English from the University of South Carolina.
William O’Neal was promoted to vice president of SeamonWhiteside. He is based out of the Mount Pleasant office. He is a civil engineering team leader and has been with the company for 16 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Clemson University
Philippe Mullinnix was named partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. He is based in the Charleston office and focuses his practice on health care. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history and government from Furman Universitya master’s degree in history Clemson University and a law degree University of South Carolina School of Law.
Robin Harget joined the Urban Land Instituteof the South Carolina District Council as Executive Director. She has over 20 years of experience in the residential development industry. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual media from The American University.
Tobin Cowart joined Alcami Corp.. as Senior Director of Technical Services. He is based in North Charleston. Previously, he was Director of Technical Services at Exela Pharma Services LLC. He has over 28 years of experience in the development and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products.
Bryan Jenerette joined Agent-owned real estate as an agent based at the North Main Street office in Summerville. He holds an associate degree in wildlife and forestry from Horry-Georgetown Technical College.
Jennifer Coalson, Lakisha Kershaw and Sandra Caceres Miller we’re joining Caroline One Real Estate as sellers. They are based at the Trolley Road office in Summerville.
]]>(The Center Square) – Met Council South West Tram Green Line Extension encountered more problems.
FOX 9 reported Residents of condos in Calhoun Isles in southwest Minneapolis discovered on Sunday that a water main serving the Kenilworth Tunnel construction site had failed, resulting in flooding in their basement parking lot. .
The project had been on hiatus since late January.
“It sounded like Minnehaha Falls,” Vanne Owens Hayes, president of the condo association, reported FOX 9. “I stood at the end of the ramp and watched. The sound you heard, you swore you were at Minnehaha Falls because he was coming so fast.”
At a January 2018 Metropolitan Governance Legislative Committee hearing, the Calhoun Isles Condominium Association said the construction and operation of the project jeopardize their property and the well-being of residents.
Metro Transit’s senior communications specialist Trevor Roy told The Center Square in an emailed statement on Wednesday that the public transit operator was investigating the flooding and estimated the budget increase would be between 450 and $550 million.
Roy said the route through the Kenilworth Corridor required a half-mile tunnel because there was not enough space for freight trains and light rail to run side-by-side with the Cedar Lake Trail. He said the secant wall was implemented to mitigate potential ground settlement that could have resulted from the sheet piles.
The project’s completion date has been pushed back to 2027, four years behind schedule. Challenges have included modifying construction methods to include a retaining wall for the Kenilworth tunnel, adding construction of the Eden Prairie town center station, and constructing a protective wall between the BNSF rail tracks and LRT tracks.
Minnesota lawmakers are considering several bills to give the project more control. State Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, proposed that the Minnesota Department of Transportation take over the project.
The Reason Foundation’s deputy director of transportation policy, Baruch Feigenbaum, told The Center Square in a phone interview on Wednesday that building rail projects along freight rail lines involves additional costs.
He said civil engineering best practice includes a pre-construction assessment to determine if there is any groundwater that needs to be mitigated.
“It seems they weren’t aware of some of the groundwater that was in the area as well as how drilling for the project would affect the structure of some of the buildings, and I don’t know. not quite how a competent entrepreneur wouldn’t be aware of these things,” he said.
Feigenbaum said Minnesota ratepayers should be aware that there are often hidden costs and cost overruns on rail projects. He encouraged Minnesota policymakers to consider rapid transit by bus plans on shared use and right-of-way with cars and trucks in the future to limit costs and disruption, especially as he predicts that transit ridership will not return to levels before the pandemic.
“If we’re lucky, transit ridership may be back to 80% of what it was by 2025, but I don’t think even that is realistic,” he said. declared. “These are the types of projects that we just don’t really have the funds for, and when you see the other disruptions that are happening due to construction, there are real effects on people’s lives that make it an even worse choice of financing, in my opinion.
He said that any type of problem encountered during construction will increase costs.
“Apart from stopping work on the line in order to figure out what’s going on with this building, someone is going to have to pay to fix this building,” he said. “And it’s not going to be the people who own it there. It will be the taxpayers of Minnesota.
Wendell Cox, a transportation analyst who has consulted for private and public sector high-speed rail in six countries and served on Amtrak’s Reform Board in 1999, told The Center Square on Wednesday in a statement sent by e-mail that even if he did not follow the project, he is not surprised by the cost overruns.
“[Cost overruns are] fairly normal in transit rail projects (and they often fall short of ridership projections),” he wrote. “The new reality of public transit, with the exodus to remote work (some suggesting three-day downtown work weeks…with the other two at home) and dramatically reduced ridership does not only illustrates the difficulty these projects face.”
]]>Mills spent six years at Keltbray where he worked with current Barhale Managing Director Martin Brown and now joins Barhale’s Board of Directors in his new role as Director of Engineering.
He will be joined on the board by Andy Dodman who has been promoted to director of health, safety, environment and quality (HSEQ).
Dodman joined Barhale in 2001 as a senior site officer before becoming a safety advisor a year later. He became head of group security in 2008 and later led the integration of the security function into a wider HSEQ portfolio.
Barhale Managing Director Martin Brown said: “Owen will bring valuable expertise and experience as we further strengthen our civil engineering business through the restructuring of our engineering services, expand our rail offering and enhance our capabilities. with our main customers in the water sector.
“He brings 15 years of high-level engineering know-how to Barhale. Equally important, his knowledge of best-in-class engineering processes is second to none and he will lead how we implement a more proactive and assured approach to our engineering services across our operations.
“Having previously worked with Owen, I had first-hand experience of his professional expertise and ability to work with clients to both influence and implement value engineering solutions and design-to-cost principles. . He will prove to be a great addition to the Barhale team and will play an important role in the strategic development of the business.
Andy Dodman will oversee company safety and welfare
“Andy has been instrumental in not only developing the HSEQ function within the business, but in raising awareness and best practices for every member of our team.
“Tunneling and civil engineering are often carried out in harsh environments and require care, discipline and vigilance at all times. Andy has made these qualities second nature and as a result our HSEQ performance speaks for itself. It is only fitting that he be the person who represents and leads the HSEQ function for both the company and the board.
Billing itself as “the largest firefighting museum in the world,” the Hall of Flame Museum in Phoenix celebrated its 60and anniversary in December 2021. The Hall’s five galleries feature thousands of artifacts, including more than 130 wheeled vehicles depicting the profession of firefighters in colonial times.
Fire station spoke with General Manager Chuck Montgomery and Curator Mark Moorhead to better understand the hall’s past, present and future.
Read the story at firehouse.com/21250534.
Online applications are being accepted through March 1, 2022 for the 2022-2023 Sarbanes Fellowship Program, Alan Patrick Sondej Memorial Scholarship Fund, and Motorola Solutions Foundation Enhanced Scholarship Initiative, which provides aid financial support to spouses, life partners, children and stepchildren of firefighters honored at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial.
To be eligible, children must be 29 or younger currently and 21 or younger at the time of their firefighter parent’s death. All applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent or must be in their final year of high school. Applicants must be pursuing or plan to pursue an undergraduate or graduate degree, certification program, or professional training at an accredited institution and must be enrolled or plan to enroll as full-time students or part-time.
For more information, visit firehero.org.
Beth Tubbs of the International Code Council (ICC) has been named the 2022 President of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). As Principal Engineer in the Codes and Standards Development Department, she was a key engineering resource and contributed to the existing International Building Code, International Fire Code, International Building Code and ICC Performance Code.
Tubbs has been a member of the SFPE since 1995, was elected a Fellow of the SFPE in 2010, and has served on and/or chaired numerous committees and councils of the SFPE. She holds degrees in fire protection and civil engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
For more information, visit sfpe.org.
The NFPA and State Farm Insurance have announced that the application period for Community Wildfire Preparedness Day funding is open. Up to 100 participants from across the United States are eligible to receive $500 prizes to complete a planned wildfire risk reduction project on the day of the event, May 7, 2022. 25, 2022.
For more information, visit wildfireprepday.org.
Verizon’s response team deployed more than 1,000 times to more than 700 communities across the United States in 2021.
During these deployments, the team provided public safety agencies with nearly 9,000 Verizon Frontline devices and solutions, including repeaters, mobile hotspots, routers, smart devices and drones, at dozens of deployable satellite solutions, such as satellite Picocells on trailers. The number of solutions delivered in 2021 exceeds the previous year’s mark by more than 3,000 and represents a new high for the team.
Verizon’s response team provides on-demand emergency assistance during crisis situations to government agencies, emergency responders, nonprofits, and communities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Team members set up portable cell sites, Wi-Fi hotspots, free charging stations, and other Verizon Frontline devices and solutions that enable communications and/or improve network performance .
For more information, visit verizon.com/business/solutions/public-sector/public-safety.
February 2, 1978, Chester, PA—Wade Dump Fire kills 20 first responders from cancer
February 7, 1904, Baltimore—The Great Baltimore Fire destroys over 1,500 buildings
February 7, 2009, Victoria, Australia – Black Saturday bushfires kill 170 people
February 14, 1995, Pittsburgh – Bricelyn Street house fire kills three firefighters
February 14, 2000, Houston – McDonald’s restaurant fire kills two firefighters
February 15, 1999, Lake Worth, TX – Fire at Precious Faith Temple Church kills three firefighters
February 18, 1969, Crete, NE – Anhydrous ammonia train derailment kills nine
February 20, 2003, West Warwick, RI – Station nightclub fire kills 100
February 23, 1991, Philadelphia – Meridian Plaza skyscraper fire kills three firefighters
February 24, 1989, Orange County, FL – Lake Buena Vista Souvenir Shop fire kills two firefighters
Courtesy of NFPA
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