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NJSME
The New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers will host the 2017 NJSME Annual Luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 15, from noon-2 p.m. at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Tickets are $75 each.
Register online here. Registration deadline is Thursday, Nov. 9.
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NJSME
The NJSME 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.
We would like to thank the 2017 NJSME luncheon sponsors:
Click here to find out more information on how you can become a sponsor for the luncheon.
NJSME
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has recently posted a new chapter to the NJ Stormwater BMP Manual. This chapter is 9.8 – Blue Roofs. The BMP Manual can be reached through NJDEP's Stormwater Index or directly here.
As with the revised and new chapters posted over the last few years, this new chapter incorporates the new format engineered to clarify design requirements, explain functionality and illustrate the movement of stormwater through a particular BMP, along with new graphics, enhanced tables, simplified charts and improved examples. All artwork was prepared by staff to reflect the current requirements and enhance the text with multiple views of key components.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions about this new chapter.
Fire Engineering
New Jersey homeowners have been fighting Gov. Chris Christie's plan to build protective sand dunes since he announced the effort months after Superstorm Sandy. They've lost at almost every turn. But five years after the storm, the latest challenge brought by homeowners objecting to the state's intention to seize privately owned land for the dune and beach widening project might have the best chance of succeeding out of the half-dozen that have gone before judges, thus far.
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MyCentralJersey.com
Touting its central location, transportation access, diversity, school system and other attributes, Old Bridge has entered the national competition to become the future home of Amazon's second corporate headquarters in North America.
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NJ.com
The amount of containers that traveled through the Port of New York and New Jersey grew 9 percent from 2014 to 2016, driving job growth and increasing income and tax revenues from the ports, according to a recently released bi-annual report. The growth in cargo and jobs translated into increases in personal and business incomes, which in turn boosted local, state and federal tax revenues, according to the report, which was compiled jointly by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority, a regional panel of county officials who review federal funding of transportation projects, and the New York Shipping Association, a port industry group.
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Daily Voice
The deadliest highway in New Jersey runs right through several municipalities in Bergen and Passaic counties. According to data from the New Jersey Department of Transportation and State Police, the Garden State Parkway is the deadliest in the state, with 32 fatalities occurring on the highway last year, NJ.com reports.
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NJ Spotlight
Gov. Chris Christie has been dogged throughout his two terms in office with questions about his commitment to mass transit and infrastructure investment. And now, both leading candidates who are vying to replace him this year are promising they will bring altogether new approaches to the state's thorny transportation issues.
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WNBC-TV
Five years after Sandy was supposed to have taught the U.S. a lesson about the dangers of living along the coast, disaster planning experts say there is no place in America truly prepared for climate change and the tempests it could bring. That is true even in New York and New Jersey, where cities and towns got slammed by deadly floodwaters that rose out of the Atlantic on the evening of Oct. 29, 2012.
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Engineering News-Record
The Trump administration is launching a pilot program that seeks to expand the use of aerial drones, a move that could increase that spread of the aircraft in the construction industry. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Oct. 25 that directs the U.S. Department of Transportation to set up the new test program, approving arrangements with at least five states, localities or tribal groups that submit proposals for wider use of unmanned aerial systems, or UAS.
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Governing
Superstorm Sandy roared into New York City in October 2012 pushing a wall of water ashore just half an hour after high tide. The combined 14-foot "storm tide" inundated the city, flooding 51 square miles, or about a sixth of its total land mass. It cut off power, knocked out natural gas lines and overwhelmed streets, tunnels and bridges.
In one place, between 30th and 34th streets in Midtown Manhattan, water from the swollen Hudson River spilled into the cavernous underbelly of Pennsylvania Station, arguably the most important transportation hub in North America. As the water approached, officials at Amtrak, which owns the station, confronted a gut-wrenching choice: Should they allow the seawater to flood the tunnels under the Hudson, each fragile and more than a century old, and potentially split the northeast rail corridor in half for years? Or should they force the seawater into Penn Station, where it would wreak severe damage on the railroad’s busiest passenger facility?
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Engineering.com
In order to successfully solve problems, engineers must be creative. An inventive mindset is essential for them to design new products and services or improve upon those that have already been created. Engineers need to constantly innovate in order to continue to drive economic and societal successes. But, how can creativity be measured objectively? Researchers at Penn State and the University of Maryland aim to find out and plan to use a $399,999 grant from the National Science Foundation to evaluate how creative ideas in engineering design are gauged, in order to create a unified measurement system.
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