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Archive for the 'Civil Engineering' Category

Civil Engineers to Host 140th Annual National Conference in Las Vegas

Monday, July 12th, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 12, 2010 ***MEDIA ADVISORY***    Civil Engineers to Host 140th Annual National Conference in Las Vegas   Who & What:   The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 140th Annual Civil Engineering Conference. When:             October 21-23, 2010—please visit http://www.asceannualconference.org for a full schedule of events. Where:            Bally’s Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas Why:               The theme [...]

EPA NPDES NEWS

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) News 1. Open for Comment: Proposed Sufficiently Sensitive Methods  Rulemaking EPA is proposing minor amendments to the CWA regulations to codify that under the NPDES program, only ?sufficiently sensitive? analytical test methods can be used when completing an NPDES permit application and when performing sampling and analysis pursuant [...]

NPDES News

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

NPDES News – June 16, 2010 Registration Open for Listening Sessions and Webcast on Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) Rulemaking and Peak Flows On May 26, 2010, the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water, Peter Silva, signed a Federal Register Notice seeking stakeholder input to help EPA determine whether to modify the National Pollutant Discharge [...]

Concrete Canoe Competition

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

ASCE PRESS RELEASE Media Contact(s): Leikny Johnson, 703-295-6413, ljohnson@asce.org Wednesday, May 19, 2010 National Concrete Canoe Competition Paddles to San Luis Obispo Reston, Va.—When you think of college sports, canoeing isn’t typically one of the first events that come to mind, let along concrete canoeing. But for more than two decades, civil engineering students  from [...]

Qualifications vs Lowest Bid

Monday, February 1st, 2010

American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)  NEWS RELEASE January 11, 2010 Contact: Alan D. Crockett, 202-682-4301; Cell: 443-995-6364; acrockett@acec.org      “Qualifications” Tops “Lowest Bid” in Providing Better Cost, Better Quality Construction Design, Nationwide Study Shows WASHINGTON, D.C. — A landmark university study confirms that federal and state agencies achieve lower construction costs, more efficient use of taxpayer [...]

EPA Budget Proposal

Monday, February 1st, 2010

CONTACTS: Enesta Jones (Media Inquiries Only) jones.enesta@epa.gov 202-564-7873 202-564-4355   Lina Younes (Public Inquiries Only) younes.lina@epa.gov 202-564-9924 202-564-4355   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2010 EPA’s Budget Proposal Seeks Efficiencies, Increased Environmental Protection Budget proposal aligned with Administrator Jackson’s key priorities   WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration today proposed a budget of $10 billion for [...]