| Katrina Fund Recipients
To Help in Clean-Up The Washington, D.C.-based Associated General Contractors
of America has announced the establishment of the Hurricane Katrina Construction
Workers Fund to provide financial assistance to construction workers in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama who suffered financially from the disaster.
Many
of the workers who are likely to benefit will be employed to participate in the
clean-up and restoration of the cities and towns suffering damage.
Contributions
should be made to the AGC Education and Research Foundation at www.agc.org/donate
or by mailing a check to: The AGC Education and Research
Foundation
(Hurricane Katrina Construction Workers Fund)
333 John Carlyle
St. Suite 200
Alexandria, VA 22314. Contributions are deductible charitable
contributions.
Chicago Mechanical Contractors Commit to Green Building The
Mechanical Contractors Association of Chicago has committed to training initiatives
in green building with the launch of the Green Building Committee.
The
MCA is working with Chicago's Center for Green Technology and the Chicago chapter
of the U.S. Green Building Council to develop green building training courses
specific to the mechanical construction industry.
The Center for Green
Technology offers classes through Green Tech U based on the Green Building Council's
Leadership in Energy and Environment Design principles.
Two Midwesterners Get
ASCE's 'Highest Accolade' The Washington, D.C.-based American Society of
Civil Engineers recently inducted two Midwesterners into its honorary membership,
the society's highest accolade.
Cecil Lue-Hing, president of Burr
Ridge-based Cecil Lue-Hing & Associates Inc., was nominated for his expertise,
accomplishments and leadership in environmental engineering.
Lue-Hing
has previously served as director of research and development for the Metropolitan
Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago and as vice president of Ryckman,
Edgerley, Tomilson & Associates Inc. He is an invited lecturer at 25 universities
and an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Kumares Sinha, the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson distinguished professor of civil
engineering at Purdue University in Indiana, for his outstanding contributions
to research, education and the practice of transportation engineering worldwide
and for his pioneering research on highway maintenance and pavement and bridge
performance that helped to establish the field of highway infrastructure management.
During
his three decades with Purdue, Sinha has held many positions, including associate
director of the Center for Public Policy and Public Administration and head of
the Transportation and Infrastructure Systems Specialty Group. He currently serves
on the Joint Transportation Research Program run by Purdue and the Indiana Department
of Transportation.
Active honorary membership is comprised of only 183
of ASCE's 137,000 members worldwide.
ARTBA
Tribute Goes to Two Midwest Executives Two Midwesterners have received recognition
from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.
Tom Walker,
executive director of the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association, is a
recipient of the group's highest honor, the ARTBA Award.
ARTBA noted that
Walker has had a distinguished career in both public and private service. His
contributions to policy making at the federal level have directly benefited contractors
in Wisconsin and across the country.
Established 45 years ago, the ARTBA
Award recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions that have advanced
the goals of the association.
James Piekarczyk, county engineer for Kankakee
County, Ill., is the recipient of ARTBA's Ralph R. Bartelsmeyer Award.
Piekarczyk
has been active in ARTBA for nearly 25 years, serving as 2002-03 Transportation
Officials Division president and on the association's board of directors.
He
played a role in developing ARTBA's legislative blueprint for the 2005 reauthorization
of the nation's highways and mass transit programs, known as SAFETEA-LU, which
was signed into law Aug. 10 by President George Bush.
Established in 1983
in memory of Past ARTBA Chairman Ralph Bartelsmeyer, the award honors a public
official who has demonstrated a strong sense of dedication and service to the
association's Transportation Officials Division and the transportation construction
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