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NJSME
Sustainable Jersey, the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers Univeristy, the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority and Together North Jersey are offering free training and technical assistance to municipal officials, staff and the public to support implementation of complete streets at the municipal level.
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NJSME
Entries are now being accepted for the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers 2018 Municipal Project of the Year Awards Program. The intent of this program is to give recognition to municipal engineers and engineering consultants to municipalities who have contributed to the public health, safety and welfare by way of designing projects or implementing programs which are of an outstanding nature.
In order for an entry to be eligible, the project must have been located in the State of New Jersey, and the engineer who name appears on the entry must:
- have been the officially appointed municipal engineer for the city, township, or borough in which the entry is located
- have been the municipal engineer or consulting engineer to the municipality in responsible charge of the project/program
- have submitted with entry a resolution from the governing body or a written endorsement from the named municipal administrator for which the work has been completed, naming the engineer in responsible charge of the project or program and consenting to the submission of an award application. (Only applies to consulting engineers who are not the named municipal engineer.)
- have signed and sealed the plans and specifications (if there are any) for all entry categories except Category F (Municipal Construction Management Projects) and Category G (Municipal Projects Involving Intergovernmental Cooperation)
Click here for more information on the program. Please send completed entries by 5 p.m. ET, Friday, Sept. 7, to Lori Lee. All other inquiries can be directed to either Todd M. Hay or Tim Kernan.
NJSME
Mark your calendars! NJSME will continue offering continuing education credits for PEs at our general membership meetings in 2018. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 12.
We pride ourselves on offering low cost options and relevant topics for our membership. If you would like to recommend a topic or speaker for one of these meetings, please email Vice President Tim Staszewski with your suggestions. Further, to help subsidize our meeting costs, we rely on meeting sponsors who can participate in our meeting with a tabletop display and brief remarks for a relatively small contribution. Any potential sponsors should also be directed to Tim via the email above, or they can call NJSME at 609-393-0102.
NJ.com
The 19th Century Glimmer Glass Bridge linking Brielle and Manasquan is not only a rare example of early drawbridge technology, but also remarkably safe, say historians and others who oppose a plan by Monmouth County to replace it.
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NJ.com
With a lengthy highway construction project looming that could turn one of the Northeast's worst traffic bottlenecks into the stuff of post-apocalyptic fiction, local officials whose towns could be overrun by frustrated motorists say they're still in the dark on some aspects of the plan.
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Observer
It's no secret that President Donald Trump is no fan of the Gateway Tunnel Project. But now two local transportation agencies are taking steps that they hope will help ease the president's enmity to the $14.5 billion plan. As NJSpotlight reports, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will now take the lead in grant applications and environmental work for the rail tunnels under the Hudson River.
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WSYR-TV
The New York State Department of Transportation announced that $19 million was awarded towards the construction of Central New York's first Inland Port in the Town of DeWitt. The Central New York Inland Port will allow for containerized freight to be moved between the Port of New York and New Jersey and the existing CSX rail-freight terminal in the Town of Dewitt.
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Construction Dive
Engineering News-Record's second-quarter Construction Industry Confidence survey has revealed that construction executives are positive about the industry's short-term prospects despite the persistent labor shortage and increasing material prices but are more cautious when it comes to the long-term. The index's second-quarter reading fell three points to 70, but a mark of 50 or higher still indicates market growth.
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Safety+Health
A new OSHA public service announcement campaign featuring Secretary of Labor R. Alexander Acosta places a spotlight on the increase in trench-related worker deaths.
According to the agency, 23 construction workers were killed in trench collapses in 2016, exceeding the combined total from 2014 and 2015.
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CNBC
Drone use is skyrocketing in construction work, at a rate even higher than agriculture and manufacturing, data shows. The unmanned aerial vehicles are easier to maneuver than conventional vessels used to take shots. Construction worker Ryan Moret explained to CNBC how he began using a DJI Phantom 4 for his aerial photography at sites.
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Engineering News-Record
The construction unemployment rate worsened slightly in June from May and year-earlier levels but the industry did add 13,000 jobs during the month, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says. The BLS employment report for June, released on July 6, shows that construction's jobless rate rose to 4.7 percent last month, from May’s 4.4 percent and the June 2017 rate of 4.5 percent.
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Construction Dive
Design-bid-build (DBB) is the most widely used project delivery method in the United States, according to the Lean Construction Institute of America and other groups. Under this method, an owner contracts separately with a designer, who provides complete design documents, and a contractor, who provides the most attractive price bid to execute that design.
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CNBC
America relies on a vast network of infrastructure — airports, roads, bridges, freight rail, ports and electric grids — to keep the $18 trillion economy humming. But many of the systems currently in place were built decades ago, and economists say delays and rising maintenance and safety costs are now inhibiting our nation's economic performance. It's an issue that President Donald Trump has set his sights on with a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan to address the crisis.
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