It is not too late to register and participate in the most important activity of the year: ACEC Legislative Visit Day. The big day is Wednesday, May 15^th, and it is a full day of networking, meals, political engagement, and smoozing.  If you care about the consulting engineering and land surveying industry in California, you don’t want to miss this opportunity. No other event provides us the access and exposure to the politicians that impact our business on a daily basis.

If that is not enough, you also get a behind the scenes look at the Capitol and some great photo opportunities! (see above).

The day kicks-off with a Welcome Breakfast at 7:30 am at the Citizen Hotel. The breakfast will be followed by legislative office visits to the Capitol, a policy luncheon back at the Citizen Hotel and more legislative office visits after lunch. Additionally, ACEC-CA will offer a special “Legislative Training Session” for first and second time attendees. Our day ends with a reception honoring legislators, state officials and staff from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at Brasserie Capitale.

Use this link to register:  https://www.acec-ca.org/event/LVD_2019

Join our team, we need you!

At our April Membership Meeting, we were joined by over 20 young professionals from firms around the region, who had the chance to meet new colleagues and mingle with some seasoned veterans of the engineering, surveying and geotechnical industry.  They also had the pleasure of listening to some wise words and sage advice from a diverse panel of industry professionals.  Our Young Professionals Forum panel included:

· Nancy Walker – Vice President and California Water Market Lead – Kleinfelder
· Lynn Toth, PE – Land Development Engineer – City of Rocklin
· Tom Sell, PE – Vice President – Sage Engineers / Gannett Fleming
· Scott Lillibridge, PE – Assistant Vice President and Sacramento Office Manager – Rick Engineering

Meeting attendees heard from each panel member about some of the challenges they have faced in their career, and what they learned from those experiences.  Each of those experiences and challenges have led them each to achieve great accomplishments in their profession.  The panel members generously shared those experiences with the audience to help guide our up-and-coming professionals.  The panel members provided their perspective on the important qualities, skills and characteristics necessary to build a lasting, rewarding and successful career.  The young professionals had the opportunity to ask questions and engage in a dialogue with our panel members, which I’m sure will help each of them navigate tough decisions down the road.

Please welcome the newest member of the Sierra Chapter, GHD.   GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. We provide engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services to private and public sector clients.

Established in 1928 and privately owned by our people, GHD operates across five continents – Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America – and the Pacific region.  Our local office in Roseville employs over 40 people.  Globally, we employ more than 10,000 people in 200+ offices to deliver projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics across the entire asset value chain. Driven by a client-service led culture, we connect the knowledge, skill and experience of our people with innovative practices, technical capabilities and robust systems to create lasting community benefits.

Welcome to the Chapter, GHD!

SAGE Engineers has been a trusted advisor in maintaining critical water resources infrastructure in Northern California for over two decades. Now backed by the strength and multidisciplinary resources of global infrastructure firm Gannett Fleming, our services and staff resources have expanded. Our combined technical expertise provides a full suite of engineering services few other firms can match.

Gannett Fleming is a global infrastructure firm that provides planning, design, technology, and construction management services for a diverse range of markets and disciplines. With 2,500 highly qualified individuals across a global network of more than 60 offices, we are united in our passion to deliver excellence. We play a part in shaping infrastructure and improving communities in more than 65 countries, specializing in transportation, environmental, water, energy, and facility related projects.

Serious about quality, Gannett Fleming’s Quality Management System (QMS) defines the processes used to execute every project across the firm, regardless of scope or scale. We follow these processes from project development through project closeout and every step in between to deliver successful projects for our clients. What’s more, our project execution processes comply with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Developed by the Project Management Institute, the PMBOK is THE industry standard for world-class project execution and management.

Our QMS also is certified to the ISO 9001:2015 Standard for Quality Management Systems. We verify consistent companywide adherence to our QMS through intensive internal audits in each of our worldwide locations, as well as external audits performed by independent ISO-certified registrars.

Across markets and geographies worldwide, clients depend on our expertise to solve their most critical project challenges. Our technical knowledge, local relationships, and broad experience fuel our ability to provide innovative, transformative outcomes that improve our communities and sustain our world.

With every project, every day, we pledge our unyielding commitment to Excellence Delivered As Promised.

Tom Sell, Vice President, Principal Engineer
Gannett Fleming, Inc.
D: (916) 677-4775     C: (916) 521-1102

There has been some change in plans.  Instead of having Public Agency Excellence Award event in June as originally planned,  the Sierra Chapter Board has decided to combine this event with our Engineering Excellence Award in Fall. 

We hope this will make the event more attractive and promote participation of the consulting community and the agencies.  We will announce the winners of the Public Agency Excellence Award before the event.  Our apologies for any inconvenience or disappointment caused by this change. We will keep you posted of the details of the event.  If you have previously submitted a nomination, you do not need to re-submit.

Mark your Calendar!  Save the Date!  Saturday, June 22nd, 2019.  Sierra Chapter’s 24th Annual  Summer Social, the “official passing of the gavel event.”

This is our annual party to celebrate the past year and look forward to the coming year. This is the only event that spouses and significant others are not only invited, but encouraged to attend so that we can just have fun and enjoy the event together.

Dress is casual . We will install new Chapter Officers and Board Members, and say farewell to the 2018/2019 President, Debanik Chaudhury.

We promise to keep the evening casual with fun, good food and drinks.  We also and guarantee to keep the meeting short and/or entertaining.

Soon you will be receiving an official invitation with all the details.

We look forward to seeing you on June 22nd!