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ACEC‐CA Sierra Chapter Newsleer March 2016 President’s Message Calendar Calmentor North Region and ACEC-CA Sierra Chapter Joint Meeting Scott Jarvis, Chief Engineer, President’s Message Calendar of Events California High-Speed Rail The 2016 California Infrastructure Meengs are at the Sacramento Hilton Authority, March Speaker Symposium will be held on Friday, March 18 unless otherwise noted. Past President’s and Tim (hp://cais16.org/). You have probably Member Cost: $35 ‐ Non‐Member $50 Fleming Memorial Scholarship seen the announcements with the Award Dinner Recap Symposium’s impressive list of speakers. I Wednesday, March 16, 2016 KSN - Company Profile look forward to seeing some of you there. Joint Meeng with Calmentor ACEC-CA State Update 11:30am—1:30pm I’d like to call your aenon to the boom SACOG Building, 1415 L Street, Suite 300 Legislative Visit Day of the announcement for the Symposium Sacramento, CA 95814 where you will see a promoon for an Speaker: Sco Jarvis, Chief Engineer, California Central California Chapter Events Envision® Workshop on March 17. Unl High‐Speed Rail Authority recently, I hadn’t heard of Envision®, so I Register at: hps://www.eventbrite.com/e/ President’s Message assume that there might also be a few of high‐speed‐rail‐an‐overview‐andupdates‐ continued ckets‐21465192970 you who aren’t yet familiar with it. 2015-16 Board of Directors Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Envision® is a program that is for 8th Annual Ken Kerri Legislave Visit Day – Sacramento infrastructure what LEED is for buildings. Endowment Fund Luncheon Flyer The Envision® program is run by the Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Instute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), State Board Meeng – Sacramento which is a 501 (c) (3) not‐for‐profit Wednesday, April 13, 2016 organizaon structured to develop and Ken Kerri Endowment Fund Luncheon @ maintain a sustainability rang system for Sacramento State civil infrastructure. That system, called Envision®, is a collaboraon between ISI in Wednesday, April 20, 2016 General Meeng—TBD Washington, D.C. and the Zofnass Program for Sustainable Infrastructure at the Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Graduate School of Design at Harvard General Meeng—TBD University, Cambridge, Massachuses. Wednesday, July 13, 2016 ISI was founded by the American Council of Board & Leadership Training (Southern California) Engineering Companies (ACEC), the Harvey Oslick September 25 ‐ 28, 2016 President (Continued on page 6) State Conference & BOD Meeng (Hawaii) ACEC California/Sierra Chapter Newsletter - March 2016 Page No. 2 Calmentor North Region and ACEC‐CA Sierra Chapter, a Special Joint Event Provided By: Harvey Oslick, President High-Speed Rail Overview, Progress Report and small businesses can get involved in this landmark project. Networking opportunies will be available before and aer Discussion of Engineering Challenges the presentaon. Calmentor North Region and ACEC‐CA Sierra Chapter Registraon is from February 15 to March 16. welcomes Sco Jarvis, Chief Engineer for the California High Speed Rail Authority, who provide a general overview of high‐ Aendance fee is $20 per person including lunch. speed rail, update us on the project’s progress, and discuss Register Today: hps://www.eventbrite.com/e/high‐speed some of its engineering challenges. ‐rail‐an‐overview‐andupdates‐ckets‐21465192970 The High‐Speed Rail project is one of the largest transportaon projects undertaken by the State of California in decades. Work on construcon Package 1 (CP 1) ‐‐ Madera to Fresno ‐‐ has been well under way, and site preparaon for CP 2 ‐‐ Fresno to Bakersfield ‐‐ is about to begin. Sco will also provide informaon on small business opportunies and how Scott Jarvis, Chief Engineer, California High‐Speed Rail Authority, March Speaker Provided By: Harvey Oslick, President As the Chief Engineer for the California His management experience includes serving as Caltrans’ High‐Speed Rail Authority, Sco Jarvis is Assistant Division Chief of Construcon. In that role he responsible for the project delivery assisted the Division Chief of Construcon in overseeing funcons for the statewide high‐speed and execung the statewide construcon program, which rail system, including transportaon & consisted of approximately 650 projects valued at over $12 commercial planning, project billion. He held several other management posions at management, engineering, Caltrans’ Division of Construcon, including Construcon environmental planning, right of way, Field Coordinator, Chief of Contract Administraon and design & construcon, and contract compliance. Claims Engineer. His project delivery experience includes assignments as an Area Construcon Manager, Project Jarvis came to the Authority with extensive background and Manager and Resident Engineer for Caltrans’ North Region. knowledge in mulple areas of major transportaon project delivery. He spent over 26 years at the California Department Jarvis is a Professional Engineer and earned his B.S. in Civil of Transportaon (Caltrans) and worked in several project Engineering from California State University, Chico. delivery funcons, with an emphasis in construcon and project management. ACEC California/Sierra Chapter Newsletter - March 2016 Page No. 3 Past President’s and Tim Fleming Memorial Scholarship Award Dinner By: Marco Palilla, Director Our Fih Annual Past President’s Dinner and Tim Fleming Sacramento Bee). Dave indicated that mixed use projects Memorial Scholarship Award was another awesome evening are very hot in the Sacramento Region at the moment. of history and celebraon for the Sierra Chapter. On February Also joining us this evening was the fih winner of the 17th, your illustrious past presidents were joined by an annual Tim Fleming Memorial Scholarship, Jasmeen Chahal. assortment of members and guests including our Guest She is a senior civil engineering student at Sac State Speaker, David Lichtman, publisher of the Sacramento focusing on transportaon engineering. Jasmeen was Business Journal. joined by her mother, Sal. Jasmeen recently went to work Dave did an outstanding job of for Dokken and was very excited to win this years explaining the inner workings of the scholarship. The scholarship was created in honor of Tim Business Journal and what drives their Fleming, who was a Past President of the Sierra Chapter, paper. Sacramento area readers tend and a tremendous supporter of our industry. to be highly educated senior managers Finally, Past Presidents joined us from all era’s including who need access to local business ACEC‐CA, CELSOC and WAELS. Aer dinner, we gathered news that is mely and unbiased. The for the ritual “Past President’s Photo” see below. Thanks Business Journal is part of a again to all the Past Presidents, David Lichtman, and naonwide network that covers Jasmeen Chahal for making this a very memorable evening. business news in praccally every major metropolitan region of the US. Over 95% of their arcles are generated by local writers (compared to 30% for the 2016 Sierra Chapter Past Presidents Dinner Attendees Back Row: Chuck Cunningham, Steve Greenfield, Tom Blackburn, Tom Holdrege, and Eddie Kho Front Row: Jim Ray, Steve Sinnock, Ted Hopkins, Marco Palilla, and Bob LoRusso Past President Marco Palilla who was joined by Susan Fleming Bently to award Jasmeen Chahal her Tim Fleming Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $2,000 ACEC California/Sierra Chapter Newsletter - March 2016 Page No. 4 An ACEC-CA Company Profile Founded in 1956, KJELDSEN. SINNOCK & NEUDECK, INC. is proudly celebrang 60 years of Integrity, Growth and Stability in the civil engineering and surveying professions. With offices in Stockton and West Sacramento, KSN is ideally situated to serve our private sector and public agency clients throughout California’s Central Valley and the Sierra Foothills. 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