PROGRAM ARCHIVES

Tara Hoke is the General Counsel at ASCE and a member of the Virginia bar. Her responsibilities for ASCE include legal consultation in the areas of employment, tax, corporate, contract, antitrust, intellectual property, real estate, and construction law. Ms. Hoke oversees ASCE's professional conduct committee, and writes a monthly column A Question of Ethics, which is published in Civil Engineering magazine. Tara serves as a Council member for the Committee on Publication Ethics, a nonprofit organization established to provide guidance to journal editors and publishers on publication ethics.

YMG is hosting a Lightning Lectures Night for all of SEAMW!  Seven presentation with 20 image slides, each shown for 20 seconds.  Presenters speak alongside the presentation, with the slides automatically set to change every 20 seconds. 

The night is going to be a fun, casual way to showcase the young engineers in our local structural community.  So come out and support these young engineers as they present on a wide array of topics relevant to structural engineering!

Photos from last year’s event are available here.

The what, why, and how of performance based design. Discussion will involve the more mature field of seismic performance based design, as well as the developing fields of fire, wind, and flood performance based design.  Presented by Dr. Ali Ashrafi, Associate Principal at Thornton Tomasetti.

Did you ever wonder what happens to your BIM model once the contractor acquires it? Join Brian Krause, Clark Construction’s Director of Virtual Design and Construction, and Rose Rodriguez, PE (ADTEK Engineers) and your fellow BIM-savvy engineers to discuss this and expected BIM L.O.D.

Cash management - what does it mean to you? Timothy Cummins will discuss improving your cash position, managing cash receipts and disbursements, improving your billing cycle and much more!

This month’s meeting will be a panel discussion on Risk Management in Construction Administration. Anticipated areas of discussion include CA responsibility and obligations, Means and Methods, Site Visits and Safety, Submittals and Delegated Design, and RFI’s.

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Panelists will include:

• Joseph Cooch, Attorney with Lee & McShane, PC

• Lauren Martin, Claims Consultant with CNA Insurance

• Mark Tamaro PE, Senior Principal and DC Office Director with Thornton Tomasetti

• Mat Daw PE, Principal with Keast & Hood