General Membership and BOD Dinner
Wednesday February 15, 2017
General Membership and BOD Dinner Meeting
- Honoring of Past Presidents.
- Tim Fleming Scholarship Foundation Award Presentation.
Speaker: TBD
Month: November 2016
President’s Message
By the time you read this, Halloween will be over except for the reminder of the added weight from all the candy we’re told not eat. And the election to end all elections will be coming to a close. We can only hope that future candidates look back on this election and make a decision to not only be professional and qualified for the office they choose to run for, but keep in mind the importance of their future constituents.
The beginning of November brings a time of change and usually the end of pleasant temperatures. We start to feel the effects of the rain and colder temperatures and if you’re a Game of Thrones fan “Winter is Here”. I have no idea what exactly that means, but my wife tells me to get with the times. All I know is that my golf game will suffer over the next several months unless I take a trip to warmer climates.
Our next meeting will be a dinner meeting on November 16th at the Hilton Sacramento West with Sergio Escobar (DWR) as guest speaker. His topic of speech will be on the California Water Fix project which was previously known as the Bay Delta Conveyance project. In addition to a great speaker, we will have a presentation by theCitrus Circuits Robotics Team at the beginning of the meeting. Citrus Circuits is based in Davis and is open to all high school students in the Davis area. The team encourages STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education in the community. They finished in first place at the 2016 World Champions in Robotics Competition which they’re working towards repeating in 2017.
There will not be a chapter meeting during the month of December so be sure to watch for the December edition of the monthly newsletter for some light hearted reading. After the upcoming November 16, 2016 meeting, the next Sierra Chapter General Membership Meeting will be our Annual Joint Lunch Meeting with APWA on January 6, 2017 which is the first Friday in January. The location has not yet been determined. APWA has held their lunch meetings at the Red Lion Woodlake for a number of years, but Red Lion has unexpectedly decided to close the facility next month for renovations. February will be our 5th Annual Past Presidents and Tim Fleming’s Scholarship Award Dinner and should be on everybody’s calendar. This event launches the new calendar year and is a good opportunity to catch up with most of the past presidents and hear their stories from the good old days. Any of the Sierra Chapter lunches or dinners is a good time to bring your favorite young engineer for a chance to interact and enjoy our camaraderie.
Sergio Escobar, P.E—Conveyance Office Chief, Calif. Dept. of Water Resources (DWR) November Meeting Speaker
Mr. Escobar has a B.S. in Civil Engineering and over 26 years of experience in the design and construction of civil water infrastructure projects, including over 19 years at the supervisory and managerial levels.
Sergio is currently the Conveyance Office Chief and leading the Department of Water Resources activities for the technical work associated with the improvement of water conveyance in the Delta. Sergio provides oversight, technical guidance, and functional supervision of multi-disciplinary staff. He is a member of the Design and Construction Enterprise which is charged with planning and implementing the efforts of the California WaterFix project facilities.
His presentation will provide a summary of the conceptual engineering completed for the California WaterFix (CWF) and an update on the current status of CWF. The CWF will make physical improvements to the state’s 50-year old water delivery infrastructure. The new system will improve, protect and maintain: ecosystem health; water quality; and water supplies so that the SWP and CVP are capable of reliably delivering water within a stable regulatory framework. The current system is outdated and unreliable, and dependent on levees that put clean water supplies at risk from earthquakes and sea level rise.
Ray Leftwich, City Engineer—City of Lincoln. Meeting Recap
Our speaker for the October 19th meeting was Ray Leftwich. Ray is a lifetime California resident serving as the City Engineer in Lincoln. Ray talked about the advantages and disadvantages of working with consulting engineers for municipal projects, and explained why the City of Lincoln uses a mixed model with in house engineers supervising the work of consulting engineers. Ray then discussed upcoming capital improvement projects the city will need to meet its growth over the next 50 years. (The population of Lincoln is expected to triple in this time period.)
He also answered questions about the maintenance of existing infrastructure and his thoughts on how to get future growth to pay for transportation infrastructure.
An ACEC Company Profile – Mott MacDonald
Opening opportunities with connected thinking
Mott MacDonald is a $2 billion engineering, management, and development consulting firm. We’re involved in objectives like these:
- Solving some of the world’s most urgent social, environmental, and economic challenges.
- Helping governments and businesses plan, deliver, and sustain their strategic goals and businesses plan, deliver, and sustain their strategic goals.
- Responding to humanitarian and natural emergencies.
- Improving people’s lives.
Our expertise by sector includes buildings, communications, defense, education, environment, health, industry, mining, oil and gas, power, transportation, urban development, water, wastewater, and more. Our skills encompass planning, studies and design, project finance, technical advisory services, project and program management, management consulting, and beyond.
For every project, we create the blend of talent needed to create the right result. Appropriate. Cost-effective. Carbon- and resource-efficient. Safe, easy, and fast to deliver and operate. Reliable and resilient.
10 things you can expect from Mott MacDonald
- Restless curiosity: We like challenge, change, and to be always learning. We are independent thinkers, constantly curious about the world and how to make it better for everyone.
- Creativity: We bring together the brightest minds to inquire, problem solve, invent and achieve the best outcomes.
- Human focus: We never lose sight of the human impact of our actions and the responsibility that this entails.
- Respect: We are inclusive, respecting the environment and everyone with whom we work, valuing all people and cultures equally.
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- Partnership: We are at our best when we work with our clients to help define and solve problems, and deliver solutions.
- Leadership: We want to be at the leading edge of everything we do – so our clients get the best results.
- Collaboration: We develop trust-based relationships that allow us to do our best work.
- Commitment: We aim to turn obstacles into sustainable solutions for our clients and the lives they touch, by maintaining unswerving focus on their needs.
Sacramento International Airport (SMF) Terminal Modernization Program
Mott MacDonald provided civil and structural design services for:
- Parking lot modifications, and roadway and bridge lighting.
- Landside roads, roadway signage, site grading, and terminal area drainage.
- Automated people mover guideway.
- Gate services including fueling, HVAC, and potable water.
- Airside passenger boarding bridges.
- Jet blast fencing.
- Bid package evaluation for Design-Bid-Build vs. Design-Build options .
Corridor Express (ACE) Equipment Storage and Maint. Facility, Stockton, CA
As prime construction management consultant, we provided pre-construction services, contract administration, resident engineering, inspection, estimating, cost control, scheduling, document management, materials testing and commissioning services for this award winning project.
