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ACEC Presents National Awards to Outstanding Engineers, Students

Washington, DC – Last week, the American Council of Engineering Companies presented awards to engineers who have made significant contributions to their profession and their community at the organization’s Fall…

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ACEC Honors Benesch’s John Carrato

During the 2023 Fall Conference awards ceremony, ACEC recognized John Carrato, Benesch’s former CEO and the immediate past chair of the ACEC Research Insitute, with the prestigious Chair Emeritus Award.…

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Roadshow Stops in Dallas – Watch the Livestream

National Infrastructure Leaders Visit Dallas’ Able Pump Station to Tout Benefits of Water Infrastructure Investment An award-winning pump station in south downtown Dallas that protects residents from the Trinity River…

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Webinar Separates Facts from Fables on ESOPs

This week, ACEC hosted a webinar on Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), featuring a presentation by Bob Massengill of Pilot Hill Advisors LLC. ESOPs are retirement plans that allow employees…

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AI Webinar Reminds Users: You Get What You Give

ACEC recently hosted the second webinar in its four-part series on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The session, titled AI for AEC: Content Development and Application Integration, focused on how transformative technology…

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ACEC Private Markets Update – September 2023

The US Census released the Quarterly Services Survey (QSS) for the 2nd quarter of 2023 and seasonally adjusted architecture and engineering services revenue increased 0.9% from the previous quarter and…

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Utilities Are Just Trying to “Keep the Lights On”

Utilities are expected to provide power that is affordable, resilient, and free from cyber threats all while “keeping the lights on,” said former Deputy Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes,…

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Engineering and Public Works Roadshow to Visit Dallas’ Able Pump Station

Making its third stop since announcing its nationwide plan to highlight impactful infrastructure projects and the need for a larger workforce to make more of these projects a reality, the…

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Jacobs Employee to Testify Before Senate EPW Committee

On Wednesday, September 13, at 10 a.m., the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a hearing on “Examining the Effects of Extreme Heat and Weather on Transportation.”  Testifying…

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Update on R&D Amortization and FLSA

ACEC thanks its members who have been working with us to build support for the bipartisan legislation to repeal the R&D amortization requirement (H.R. 2673/S. 866). Those efforts are bearing…

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