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ACEC Refreshes Website to Position Council “as the Preeminent Voice of the Engineering Industry.”
ACEC President/CEO Linda Bauer Darr discusses how the revamped ACEC website will both improve the member experience and “reflect the importance of the engineering industry to the American people in the best way possible.”
ACEC News / Advocacy
Convention Lobbying Program to Focus on Infrastructure, Energy and Workforce
ACEC’s “citizen lobbyists” will storm Capitol Hill next week with a lobbying agenda addressing timely and front burner issues affecting the industry.
Infrastructure / Member Firms
Guest Blogger: Transportation Resilience: Taking Steps to Address Threats
WSP National Transportation Market Leader Paula Hammond looks at the efforts by state DOTs and other stakeholders to make U.S. transportation infrastructure more resilient.
ACEC News / Convention
Thanks to All of Our Engineering Excellence Awards Sponsors
The Engineering Excellence Awards Gala on May 7 at the 2019 ACEC Annual Convention in Washington, D.C. will be the best attended ever! ACEC would like to thank the Gala sponsors, without whom this wouldn't have been possible.
ACEC News / Education
Learn How to Become an Expert Witness, Two-Day Seminar, Atlanta, June 26-27
Gain the knowledge you need to become an effective and sought-after engineering expert witness in ACEC’s Applying Expertise as an Engineering Expert Witness course, a 1-1/2 day seminar in Atlanta, Ga., June 26-27.
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing & Urban Development approved an annual funding bill that increases investment levels for most federal transportation infrastructure programs for the coming fiscal year.
The bill fulfills FAST Act funding levels for highway programs at $46.4 billion from the Highway Trust Fund and adds an additional $2.7 billion from the General Fund for surface transportation block grants, railway-highway crossing safety improvement, and bridge repairs.
Seven innovative technology startups – focused on sustainability solutions that range from artificial intelligence and next-generation analytics to autonomous heavy equipment and electric vehicle energy management – have been selected to join Black & Veatch’s IgniteX Cleantech Accelerator.
Montreal-based WSP Global Inc., says it intends to grow its U.S. presence further with a planned $65-million acquisition of environmental consultant Lancaster, N.Y.-based Ecology and Environment Inc.
Indicators
Engineering Employment
1,525,400 (October)
1,522,900 (September)
Construction Spending
$1,287,300,000 (August)
$1,285,600,000 (July)
ACEC Stock Index
41.44 (October 29)
41.22 (October 22)
Dodge Momentum Index
143.6 (September)
137.9 (August)
Morrissey Goodale U.S. M&A Index
288 Deals--Down 3 percent year-over-year
AIA Billings Index
49.7 (September)
47.2 (August)
Engineering Career Opportunities
