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ENGINEERING INC. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 G Vol NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 INC. www.acec.org ENGINEERING AWARD-WINNING BUSINESS MAGAZINE G PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES New Era in Transportation Connectivity SMART ROADS AHEAD >> Drones Invade Engineering >> Groundbreaking Restoration Designs >> HDR Employee Benevolence Changing Lives ENGINEERING INC. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015 G Vol. 26, No. 6 14 38 BACK TO LIFE 21 Member Firms restore historic and environmental properties. ECONOMIC POWER OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT 26 HDR employees pool resources to benefit global charities. 8 YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF THE YEAR 32 Cover Feature Five young engineers honored for contributions TRAVELING SMART 8 to the profession. Smart-vehicle technology requires new intelligence in transportation infrastructure. MARKET DRIVEN 34 ACEC Coalitions provide specialized resources to help members address market and business Features management challenges. INDUSTRY DRONE USE TAKING FLIGHT 14 Unmanned aerial vehicles will change 2015 FALL CONFERENCE 38 engineering practices. Highlights of record-setting meeting in Boston. Departments FROM ACEC TO YOU 2 GUEST COLUMN 44 MEMBERS IN THE NEWS 49 Progress on Capitol Hill. ISI becomes “smart” business choice Sweeney named CEO of RS&H; for WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff. Thomsen named president of MARKET WATCH 4 Urban Engineers of New York; Lapping Freight market surge GUEST COLUMN 46 promoted to president of RBA Group. on horizon. Engineer as executive. MERGERS AND LEGISLATIVE ACTION 6 BUSINESS INSIGHTS 48 ACQUISITIONS 52 House clears six-year transportation New Amazon portal expands Three things every first-time bill; Appeals court stops WOTUS ACEC offering of practice buyer should do. rule nationwide. publications. COVER PHOTO: C.J. BURTON Engineering Inc. promotes the advocacy and business interests of ACEC by offering news, legislative analysis and business practice information to member firms, clients, opinion leaders and policy makers. The articles and editorials appearing in this magazine do not represent an official ACEC position or policy unless specifically identified as doing so. From ACEC to You ENGINEERING INC. THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES Progress on Capitol Hill, CHAIRMAN Ralph W. Christie, Jr. PRESIDENT & CEO David A. Raymond ACEC/PAC Heads to Strong Finish VICE PRESIDENT, Mary Ann Emely OPERATIONS ongress is set to pass a major surface transportation bill by VICE PRESIDENT, Steven Hall GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS Thanksgiving—a significant bipartisan accomplishment that ACEC VICE PRESIDENT, Marie Ternieden has championed for some time. The bill will help address America’s BUSINESS RESOURCES C AND EDUCATION infrastructure deficit, advance many needed reforms, and provide greater DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS Alan D. Crockett certainty for our members in their planning. AND MEDIA Both parties have also come together on a new budget deal that will STAFF EDITOR Andrea Keeney prevent further across-the-board cuts (known as sequestration), setting the [email protected] stage for passing spending bills in December to support critical federal pro- 202-682-4347 SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS Gerry Donohue grams in 2016. WRITER The Council continues to urge Congress to extend key tax code provi- sions, such as the R&D tax credit, production tax credits to support renew- ACEC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND able energy, and business expensing incentives that benefit our industry—all EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE of which we expect Congress to address by the end of the year. CHAIRMAN James Blake Critical to achieving these and other objectives—including passing com- MANIFEST LLC prehensive energy legislation—is a strong ACEC/PAC. It gives us the means MANAGING EDITOR Christopher Brandon to support lawmakers in both parties who advance our agenda. We greatly ART DIRECTOR Jeff Kibler appreciate the contributions of ACEC members to our PAC, which will PROJECT MANAGER Amy Stephenson Fabbri soon reach its strategic goal of $1 million. It is also noteworthy that Engineering Inc. has just won three Gold ADVERTISING SALES Awards—for cover design, feature writing, and overall magazine content— Leo Hoch ACEC from MarCom, an international competition honoring excellence in market- 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor ing and communications. Washington, D.C. 20005-2605 We wish you and your families a happy holiday season and look forward 202-682-4341 [email protected] to working with you in the new year to advance the agenda of our industry. Engineering Inc., Volume 26, Number 6 (ISSN 1539-2694), is published bi-monthly by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), Ralph W. Christie, Jr. David A. Raymond 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005-2605. Periodicals postage paid at Washington, D.C., and at additional mailing offices. Annual ACEC Chairman ACEC President & CEO subscriptions are $24 for members (included in dues as a non-deductible amount); $45 for U.S. non-members; $65 for institutional subscriptions. Back issues are $15. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Engineering Inc., c/o ACEC, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005-2605. © 2015 American Council of Engineering Companies. All rights reserved. This publication may be copied, downloaded from the ACEC website, stored in electronic or hard-copy format, and disseminated to third parties for educational and information purposes. 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Engineering Inc. subscribers: If you have a mailing address correction or need to add or remove an employee from the Engineering Inc. mailing list, please contact the ACEC Membership Department at [email protected] or call 202-347-7474 and ask for Member Records. WWW.ACEC.ORG Complex challenges. Connected expertise. Denver International Airport O’Hare International Airport Toronto International Airport Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Toronto, Ontario, Canada Every day, we help clients meet the most pressing challenges of our time. Our engineers, architects, designers, planners, scientists and management and construction services professionals work together on projects of all scales in over 150 countries. From some of the world’s premier airports to infrastructure, urban development and national security, our connected Los Angeles International Airport approach creates better outcomes for people, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. communities and the world. www.aecom.com 4614_AECOM_ACEC_Aviation_Ad_NovDec2015_FINAL.indd 1 10/9/15 4:18 PM MarketWatch BY GERRY DONOHUE Domestic Freight Market Surge on Horizon he outlook for the to 18.1 percent in 2026. (For domestic freight more on energy production and T market is bright. Pro- pipelines, see Market Watch in pelled by continued popula- the July/August 2014 issue of tion growth, an expanding Engineering Inc.) economy, the energy sector and In the even longer term, rising foreign trade, the major Keith Bucklew, freight practice modes of domestic freight leader at CDM Smith, forecasts transportation—trucking, rail that “between now and 2040, and pipeline—are forecast to freight volumes are projected to grow strongly over the coming increase by 40 to 60 percent.” decade. In the short term, how- ever, the market could be in for Dip in the Road a bumpy ride. Stuart Matthis, vice president for business development at Mode Shares STV, Inc., says that 2014 and to Shift early 2015 were great years for According to the American the U.S. freight business. “In Trucking Associations’ (ATA) fact, they were so good that TranSystems transformed a heavily congested freight yard into this three- U.S. Freight Transportation Fore- it created shipping problems level rail overpass to eliminate a major bottleneck near Kansas City, Mo. cast to 2026, domestic freight brought on by the higher The project featured a 9,300-foot-high flyover and was a 2005 Engineering volumes will increase by 28.6 demand for freight carrier traf- Excellence Awards Grand Award winner. percent over the next 11 years. fic,” he says. Trucking is the primary Two factors that propelled infrastructure programs that Nationally, railroads have been freight hauling mode, and while the sector were the economy’s they need an increase in both spending more than $100 bil- its tonnage will grow substan- accelerating emergence from the federal and state funding just to lion in infrastructure from 2011 tially over the ATA’s forecast 2008 recession and the expo- preserve and maintain existing to 2014 and were projecting to period, trucking’s share of total nential growth of the domestic highways.” spend an estimated $29 billion freight will fall from 68.8 per- energy
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