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Your Firm Deserves Exposure With ACEC's Job Board and Engineering Inc.
Are you ready to hire new employees, but don't know where to start? The ACEC Job Board and Engineering Inc. can help. The November/December issue of Engineering Inc. will tackle different aspects of recruitment and retention in the engineering industry. Reserve your ad space before September 27.
This issue is an excellent opportunity to highlight your firm in both Engineering Inc. and on the Job Board. Any firm that places an ad in the magazine will receive a 10% discount on their print ad, and a special promo code to receive a 25 percent discount on Job Board postings—double savings!
Why should you use the ACEC Job Board? Mass market job boards may not have the right candidates. More and more, employers are looking to niche job boards to cover all their recruiting bases. By adding a niche job board, such as the ACEC Job Board, you get direct access to a focused group of qualified engineering talent specific to your needs.
The ACEC Job Board, your source for new employees. For more information, please contact Nina Goldman at 202-682-4325 or by email at ngoldman@acec.org.
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Over 651 Searchable Jobs Posted
Over 3,350 Searchable Resumes Posted
Over 1,400 Registered Employers |
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Last Five "Help Wanted" Open Positions:
Mechanical Engineer—San Antonio, TX
Civil Engineer—Kansas City, MO
Senior Signal Engineer—New York, NY
Project Manager—Carson City, NV
Senior Engineer/Project Manager—Wilmington, DE
A Sampling of Posted Resumes:
Water Resources/Wastewater Engineers—807
Transportation—478
Civil Engineers—1,795
Structural Engineers—658
Environmental Engineers—483
View These and Other Resumes and Jobs on ACEC's Job Board
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Show Your Commitment
to Quality With An OPR; Register by Aug. 31 and Save
Why step up for an ACEC Organizational Peer Review (OPR)? Over 99 percent of peer-reviewed firms agree that the process has helped them attain higher levels of success.
This unique, unbiased outside-in look at your company's business practices by a team of experienced peer reviewers is an affordable, effective way to facilitate positive internal change.
Save the $250 registration fee when you register by August 31. Schedule your review at your convenience for anytime over the next 12 months.
For more information, e-mail skaska@acec.org or click here.
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Understand Evolving Workforce with Titles from the ACEC Bookstore
The New Workforce: Five Sweeping Trends That Will Shape Your Company's Future
Harriet Hankin
Click here to order.
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Bridging the Generation Gap:
How to Get Radio Babies, Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers to Work Together and Achieve More
Linda Gravett & Robin Throckmorton
Click here to order.
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Business of Design Consulting Course on A/E Firm Management,
San Diego, Oct. 24-27
A hugely popular ACEC course for COOs, CFOs, executives, business administrators, managers, principals and project managers at all levels, The Business of Design Consulting delivers state-of-the-art expertise from leading industry practitioners. Intended to help design professionals sharpen their business practice knowledge and management skills to compete more successfully, the course is conducted by leading practitioners who specialize in the A/E environment.
Click here for more information and to register.
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Popular Design And Construction Law Immersion Course Set
Fifty Legal Concepts That Every Engineer Should Know
San Francisco, November 5-6
Fifty Legal Concepts That Every Engineer Should Know is being presented in San Francisco, November 5-6, exploring critical legal issues, developments and relationships in the A/E arena.
Attorneys and well-known consultants Michael Loulakis and Kent Holland will cover a wide spectrum of legal topics including the impact of delivery systems on project management and liability, risk identification and allocation, indemnity and insurance considerations, owner obligations under contracts, and contract administration and disputes.
Click here for more information and to register.
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ACEC/Kansas Reaches ACEC/PAC Goal;
Says "Aggressive" Program Is Critical
Kansas has become the latest Member Organization to reach its 2007 ACEC/PAC fundraising goal.
ACEC/PAC Champion in Kansas Maurice Bowersox |
The Sunflower State joins a growing list of MOs that have hit the goal early this year—Arizona, Kentucky, Montana, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Several states, including Alaska, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Wyoming, are very close to meeting their goals, and many more are making strong runs.
"This was an important priority for Kansas this year, and we couldn't be more pleased that we were able to hit the mark early," said ACEC/PAC Champion Maurice Bowersox of Engineering Resources in Kansas, who worked closely with ACEC/Kansas Executive Director Scott Heidner in promoting support for the PAC.
Added Paul Weida of Black & Veatch: "The issues before Congress—whether they involve repealing the 3 percent withholding mandate, properly funding infrastructure, or reviewing and revising tax and regulatory policy—are critical for industry, requiring an aggressive program to help us meet these challenges. That's why supporting ACEC/PAC is so important."
ACEC/PAC trustees representing each Member Organization have set a national fundraising goal of $700,000 for 2007. Each state has been assigned a specific fundraising target based on membership strength.
Click here to see the progress of each state in achieving its ACEC/PAC goal for 2007 and the name of the PAC Champion leading the state fundraising effort.
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| Enchanting Local Color Night Awaits Fall Conference in Maui Attendees
Honua’ula Production. |
A Local Color Night highlighting the magical Hawaiian history awaits members and guests at the upcoming Fall Conference in Maui, September 26-29.
Guests will dine on island favorites, enjoy tropical drinks, see a stage production of Honua'ula depicting a time when seafaring Polynesians discovered this land of Hawaii.
The Conference also features more than 30 education sessions targeting pertinent business management concerns, such as: The Business Case for Disaster Planning; Staying Ahead of the Curve—Building Information Modeling (BIM); and What Municipal Owners Really Want from their Engineering Advisors.
Attendees will enjoy outstanding general session speakers, the 20th anniversary banquet and celebration of the Council of American Structural Engineers (CASE), and extraordinary networking and social activities.
Organizations co-sponsoring the Fall Conference are: the American Public Works Association (APWA), American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Council of American Mechanical and Electrical Engineers (CAMEE), Council of Professional Surveyors (COPS), National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), National Association of State Facilities Administrators (NASFA) and CASE.
Early Bird registration discount will end in just a few days. Click here for further information and to register.
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| 2007-2008 ACEC Design & Construction Industry Trends Survey Now Available
Design-Bid-Build is the most widely used project delivery method among ACEC members, according to the new 2007-2008 ACEC Design & Construction Industry Trends Survey.
Four in five member firms (81 percent) said Design-Bid-Build was their general method followed by Design-Build or EPC (9 percent); and Construction Management at Risk (5 percent) with 5 percent saying other project delivery methods.
This and other pertinent industry data are available in the 2007-2008 ACEC Design & Construction Industry Trends Survey—a comprehensive statistical analysis of current engineering firm operations, including projections on the future marketplace.
The nationwide survey of ACEC member firms features critical demographic, financial and strategic industry data, all categorized by firm size, region, market sector, and discipline. Important summaries of vital economic, social and political drivers for various industry markets are included as well.
Survey results present a wide range of business trends and industry forecasts, providing a vital basis for sound management decisions.
Click here to order an electronic copy of the survey results. A printed version of the survey will be available for purchase by September 4.
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| CH2M Hill Selected To Manage $5-billion Panama Canal Expansion
The Panama Canal Authority has announced that ACEC-member firm CH2M Hill will be program manager for the $5.25-billion expansion of the historic waterway.
The Denver-based firm had been competing against Parsons Brinckerhoff, of New York City, and URS Holdings Inc., of San Francisco for the management role, which will involve assisting the agency in overseeing the design-build effort to build two new lock structures able to handle larger vessels.
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| USDOT Addresses ACEC Concerns in Final Design-Build Rule
The U.S. Department of Transportation recently issued the final rule for Design-Build Contracting as mandated in SAFETEA-LU, including key recommendations advocated by ACEC.
The final rule will allow state transportation departments or local transportation agencies to issue request-for-proposal documents, award contracts, and issue notices-to-proceed for preliminary design work prior to the conclusion of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) process.
ACEC submitted comments to the USDOT recommending changes in the proposed Design-Build Contracting Rule on July 24, 2006. The USDOT addressed the issues ACEC raised in the final rule published in the Federal Register on August 16, 2007.
Recommendations adopted by the USDOT include the broadening of the definition of "preliminary design." ACEC emphasized that the proposed definition of "preliminary design" was too narrow. The USDOT revised the definition of preliminary design to mean activities undertaken to define the general project location and design concepts. They also specified some general activities that may be conducted as preliminary design that do not compromise the objectivity of the NEPA.
In addition, ACEC expressed concern that members have often been unfairly eliminated from competing as members of a design-build team by virtue of their technical work on a NEPA document. The USDOT accommodated ACEC's concern in the final rule by giving the states the flexibility to allow such firms to compete for design-build contracts if the NEPA process has been completed prior to an RFP being issued.
The final Design-Build Contracting Rule can be viewed by clicking here. The rule takes effect September 13, 2007.
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Sustainable Engineering Online Seminar Explores Economic Benefits to A/E Firms
Innovative companies will find ways to gain relative advantage in sustainable engineering practice by lowering costs, differentiating products and services and leveraging their experience and core competencies, according to Bill Wallace.
Wallace presents a timely online seminar The Business Case for Sustainable Engineering Practice, on Wednesday, August 29 from 1:30-3 p.m.
Author of the "how to" manual on sustainable development, Becoming Part of the Solution: The Engineer's Guide to Sustainable Development, Wallace is president and founder of Wallace Futures Group and a popular, in-demand speaker. For details and to register, click here.
September 5: International Employment Solutions for the 21st Century— Jim Lyon, Lyon Associates, Inc., presents an overview of the international labor market that is available to U.S. firms, as well as the benefits and challenges of tapping into this labor pool.
Click here to register.
September 11: Unallowable Costs: Government Contract Law for Non-Lawyers—David Dempsey, Esq., Holland & Knight, repeats a previously sold-out online seminar to identify and explain the unallowable costs in the FAR, and review methods to keep them out of billing rates, indirect cost rates, government audits and more.
Click here to register.
September 12: rcep.net: The NCEES/ACEC Nationwide Portal to Continuing Education for Engineers—Jill Holcomb, ACEC and Erin Carroll, NCEES, outline the new online education management systems for engineers, rcep.net, developed by NCEES and ACEC.
Click here to register
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