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NJSME
The Annual Awards Luncheon, as part of the NJ League of Municipalities Conference, is attended by over 200 municipal engineers and elected officials. What a great way to get your company name out there in front of such a great target audience!
The luncheon will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
Click here to find out more information on how you can become a sponsor for the luncheon.
NJSME
Applications for the Certified Municipal Engineer (CME) Program are now being accepted. The program was created in 1987 by action of the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers (NJSME) with the creation of the New Jersey Municipal Engineering Institute (NJMEI)
and the appointment of the NJMEI Board of Governors, who are
charged with running the program.
The CME program consists of a series of 10 seminars and workshops devoted to the many areas of practice of municipal engineering. Instruction in the program is based on current engineering practices. The instructors, who volunteer their time, are drawn from the ranks of professionals who the NJMEI Board of Governors have recognized as expert in their particular specialty to present current, practical engineering information.
The deadline for applications is Friday, Sept. 1.
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NJSME
The New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers and Monmouth County PE Society will host the 2017 Golf Outing on Wednesday, Sept. 20, at Pebble Creek Golf Club in Colts Neck.
The event features an 8 a.m. shotgun start and a 1 p.m. luncheon. A continental breakfast is scheduled for 7 a.m.
Registration is $125 per golfer. For all interested in sponsorships, a hole sponsor can be purchased for $75, and a gold sponsor can be purchased for $150. All are asked to RSVP and have payments sent by Friday, Sept. 1.
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NJSME
The intent of the NJSME 2017 Municipal Project of the Year Awards 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.
All applications will be accepted until Friday, Sept. 8.
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NJSME
NJSME will have a general membership meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 13, at the Ellora (2863 Woodbridge Ave.) in Edison. Save the date!
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NJ Spotlight
A coalition of environmental groups yesterday stepped up efforts to ban oil and gas drilling in the Delaware River Watershed, the source of drinking water for 16 million people in four states. Hoping to avert the lifting of a moratorium on fracking, the technology used to drill for natural gas in the Delaware River Basin, the organizations began delivering to four governors and the Army Corp of Engineers petitions signed by 63,674 people calling for a permanent ban on the drilling.
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News 12 New Jersey
Gov. Chris Christie is denying accusations that he is withholding funds from New Jersey Transit after it was announced the agency would have to use money from its capital fund to pay for day-to-day operations. The $500 million in question is typically earmarked for maintenance and improvements. NJ Transit has had to take money from the capital fund for the last few years. Christie says that this is OK since the money is interchangeable.
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Montclair Patch
It will be up to a package of 12 proposed spending bills to keep the U.S. government open for business during the 2018 fiscal year. But how will the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations' proposed bills affect the lives of New Jersey residents? According to Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (District 11), the veteran Republican congressman who chairs the committee, there are several ways that the bills will help the Garden State, including $900 million for the Gateway transportation project, millions in funding for state universities and a $28 million boost to the state's Superfund hazardous waste clean-up program.
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NJ Spotlight
The challenge of winning public support for a campaign to upgrade New Jersey's aging network of water pipes is as big as its multibillion-dollar price tag, but that didn't stop advocates making their latest bid to win hearts and minds. Jersey Water Works, a collaborative dedicated to renewing the state's creaking water infrastructure, is urging its members to focus on how to build popular demand for the overhaul that would stop leaks of billions of gallons of treated drinking water and prevent raw sewage pouring into rivers during rainstorms.
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News 12 New Jersey
The Hoboken City Council has approved plans to improve the city's electrical grid and is considering plans to improve the city's water structure. The plan for the electrical grid involves merging two old and flood-prone PSEG substations. The substation on Marshall Street will be decommissioned and combined with the substation on Madison Street.
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NJ Spotlight
Angel Sanchez isn’t like many graduates. It's not just his age — he's 38 — it's also the path he took to get a certificate that will help him find a good job. He spent decades in prison for dealing drugs, until he signed on with the prisoner reentry program run by former Gov. Jim McGreevey. Sanchez marched with almost 100 other graduates from several different jobs initiatives, including NJ Build and the National Career Institute, after completing a program that trains them to apply for positions in New Jersey's 21 union construction trades.
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The Associated Press via New Jersey Herald
New York's governor is headed to Washington to meet with U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao amid New York City's ongoing transit troubles. In a statement, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday's meeting would focus on long-delayed plans to build a new Hudson River tunnel to relieve congestion on busy rail lines coming from New Jersey and beyond.
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Engineering News-Record
Often in today's fast-paced construction industry, critical path method (CPM) schedules are used as a tool to sequester project float as a hedge against potential project risks. Float is how long a specific task can be delayed without causing disruptive delays to key tasks that follow it. The practice of sequestering float violates a major tenet of most construction contracts, one that calls for schedule float to be shared among the contracting parties.
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Engineering.com
With the Internet of Things (IoT) — and its manufacturing cousin, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) — on the rise, concerns about cybersecurity are rising too. Last year, the Department of Homeland Security identified the manufacturing sector as the leading target of infrastructure cyberattacks. Manufacturers are well-aware of the risks, with a report from BDO showing that 92 percent cited cybersecurity concerns in their 2016 SEC disclosures.
Now, a survey of nearly 600 cybersecurity professionals has found that 60 percent of respondents believe a major breach of U.S. infrastructure will occur in the next two years. They also don't believe that the relevant defense and government agencies are prepared to respond. The findings come from Black Hat, a conference of cybersecurity researchers and enterprise information security professionals.
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