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.TOP NEWS
The big local transit projects the Biden administration wants to fund
Route Fifty
The Biden administration wants to boost major bus and rail projects in six states as part of a spending blueprint it delivered to Congress.
The new projects that the U.S. Department of Transportation included in its budget request would be in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, Memphis, Tennessee and San Antonio.
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.NJSME NEWS
It's Renewal Time!
NJSME
Have you sent in your membership renewal? Are you a non-member that wants to take advantage of all the NJSME has to offer? Join us today – and keep the organization strong!
If you did not receive your 2022 renewal notice, or would like to join as a new member, please send an email to info@njsme.org. You can also find our membership info at https://njsme.org/join-njsme/.
If you pay your dues by voucher/ purchase order, please send them in for signature. Comments, Questions, Concerns? Call us at 609-393-0102.
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NJSME In-Person Meetings Resume April 6th
NJSME
After two years of virtual meetings, we are proud to announce we will be holding our Spring General Membership Meeting in-person at the Pines Manor in Edison on Wednesday April 6th. Registration details and the full agenda will be advertised in the days ahead – we very much look forward to seeing all of your faces again!! Planned topics will include NJDOT Local Aid and the NJ Infrastructure Bank’s Transportation Program.
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Future Leaders Scholarship Application
ASFPM Foundation
The ASFPM Foundation has opened a new application period for the 2022 Future Leaders Scholarship (FLS). Applications are due by April 18, 2022. We need applicants! The ASFPM Foundation needs the ASFPM Chapters help.
Please share this news with your members, any organizations, colleges or universities that you or your chapter are associated with, including national associations, STEMs, student groups, NGOs, and businesses. WE CAN ALL SHARE WITH AT LEAST ONE ORGANIZATION!
Most important:
- The FLS is up to $20,000 per year for two years available to a student entering their junior year in a 4-year undergraduate degree program or entering the last two years of a 5-year or dual degree undergraduate program. The scholarship will pay tuition and living expenses.
- The FLS is for any degree program that supports the Foundation’s vision of reducing the risk and impacts of floods on people and communities. The FLS is not just for engineers.
- Visit the FLS page for details. An online application is required. A PDF of the application is available here and it is also attached. Application deadline is April 18, 2022.
Email asfpmfoundation@flood.org with any questions regarding FLS. We truly need your help. Please share.
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Request for Proposals — Consulting Engineering and Inspection Services
Municipality of Princeton
The Municipality of Princeton (“Princeton”), by issuance of this Request for Proposals (“RFP”), hereby solicits proposals from qualified Professional Engineering firms to provide the following consulting civil engineering services on an as-needed basis. Princeton may select multiple firms to establish a pool of qualified consultants from which to choose for services on specific projects or assignments.
- Capital Infrastructure Construction Administration and Inspection Services. Interested firms that respond to this RFP (“Respondents”) shall have extensive experience, background, and qualifications in conducting inspection of municipal infrastructure projects for municipalities of similar size, economic condition, infrastructure, and regulatory requirements as Princeton.
- Municipal Land Use Site Development Application Review Services. Respondents shall have extensive experience, background, and qualifications to review site plan development applications, to prepare reports to appropriate boards of jurisdiction, and to provide testimony at board and committee meetings.
- Municipal Land Use Site Development Construction Inspection Services. Respondents shall have extensive experience, background, and qualifications in conducting inspection of approved site developments for municipalities of similar size, economic condition, infrastructure, and regulatory requirements as Princeton.
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FHWA Request for Innovation Ideas
U.S. DOT
Thank you for your continuing leadership, partnership and support of the Every Day Counts (EDC) program, a State-based model that identifies and deploys proven, yet underutilized innovations that make our transportation system adaptable, sustainable, equitable and safer for all. From the final reports of the EDC rounds, it is clear we are making a positive difference.
We are now actively soliciting ideas for proven, market-ready, and transformative innovations to promote in the next round of EDC. We want to collaborate with you to build on the success of Every Day Counts to broaden the focus beyond project delivery to include innovative but underutilized practices or technologies that enhance roadway safety for all users, support sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and/or address equity as part of project planning and delivery. FHWA’s “innovations of interest” were chosen with the idea that every day counts – and when it comes to safety so does every road user, when it comes to sustainability so does every ton of greenhouse gas emitted, and when it comes to equity so does every community. We look forward to your feedback on those innovations of interest but also challenge you, our EDC partners, to send us even more potentially transformative innovations that could make our transportation system more resilient, sustainable, equitable and safe for all.
The door is now open through April 11, 2022 for you to send us proven, market-ready, transformative innovations that could be part of the next round of EDC.
The EDC Call for Ideas website provides instructions for submitting ideas and provides an opportunity to comment on the innovations of interest.
Thank you again for your leadership, your partnership, and your continued commitment,
Helene
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.STATE OF NEW JERSEY NEWS
NJ Transit completes installation of bus charging infrastructure for pilot program
Mass Transit
New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit) finished installing eight electric vehicle chargers (EVCs) at the Newton Avenue Bus Garage in Camden, New Jersey. The agency has committed to transitioning its bus fleet to 100% zero emissions by 2040 and the installation of the EVCs is a step closer to deployment of NJ Transit’s first battery-electric buses later in 2022.
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LS Power Grid unveils New Jersey offshore connection plans
reNEWS
Transmission company LS Power Grid has unveiled plans to bring power generated from New Jersey offshore wind farms into the state's onshore electrical grid.
Responding to the state's request for proposals on this initiative, the LS Power subsidiary's plans were shared publicly for the first time during a meeting hosted by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU).
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NJ clean energy goal affordable, if it imports out-of-state power
WKXW-FM
New Jersey’s goal for 100% carbon-free electricity by 2050 is attainable and affordable, particularly if the state is willing to use a significant amount of power generated out-of-state, says a new Princeton University study. A study published on March 14 and detailed that day for the Senate environment committee by Princeton University energy system engineering professor Jesse Jenkins finds that it’s feasible to transition to clean energy options and reduce costs for the bulk electricity supply by 5% to 25% while doing it.
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Maximizing turbine performance with automatic lubrication solutions
Windpower Engineering
When it comes to the equipment inside wind turbines, performance and reliability can’t be compromised. Turbines are often in remote locations like mountaintops and offshore outposts. They must be built to withstand very harsh and dynamic operating conditions. They’re relentlessly pounded with weather extremes including oppressive heat, freezing cold, hail, rain, snow and the very wind they’re designed to harness.
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Making the best decisions on air, water and energy products relative to hydrogen combustion
POWER Engineering
Power plants are planning very large investments in generators fueled by hydrogen, methane, mixtures or ammonia. While hydrogen has the environmental advantage of zero carbon emissions, it has many disadvantages in terms of physical characteristics and safety. The demand on the valves, compressors, burners, NOx control and other air, water, energy (AWE) products and services is greater than when handling methane alone.
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