INFLUENTIAL WOMEN to KNOW Spanning Founders, Ceos, Principals and Rising Leaders, These Females Are Impacting Georgia’S Engineering Community

January/February 2018

INFLUENTIAL100 WOMEN TO KNOW

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18 COVER STORY: 100 INFLUENTIAL WOMEN TO KNOW Spanning Founders, CEOs, Principals and Rising Leaders, These Females are Impacting Georgia’s Engineering Community

32 SMART MOVES Flexible Schedules, Telecommuting, Mentoring and Leadership Initiatives Help Attract and Retain Talented Women 40 BALANCING ACT From Planning to Partnerships to Putting Plans into Action, These Five Women Help Shape the 18 Future of Metro Atlanta

7 THE PULSE News Coverage from In and Around the Engineering Community 48 TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT Building the Smart Road: One-of-a-Kind Testing Lab on Interstate 85 Looks to Change Highways of the Future 55 ASSOCIATION NEWS Updates from Georgia Engineering Associations 66 A LOOK BACK A Back-Page Throwback Picturing Georgia’s Most Historic Landmarks

ON THE COVER 32Through their roles leading Community Improvement48 Districts across the metro Atlanta region, these five women reflect the strong, influential and growing number of females who are not only impacting Georgia communities, but the state’s engineering industry as well: MALAIKA RIVERS, Executive Director, Cumberland Community Improvement District ALYSSA DAVIS, Executive Director, Sugarloaf Community Improvement District MARSHA ANDERSON BOMAR, Executive Director, Gateway85 Gwinnett TRACY RATHBONE, Executive Director, Town Center Community Improvement District ANN HANLON, Executive Director, Perimeter Community Improvement Districts Cover photo was shot exclusively for Engineering Georgia magazine by Jennifer Stalcup. Publisher: EDITORIAL Michael “Sully” Sullivan BOARD Editor-in-Chief: Sasha Ugi ANITA ATKINSON P.E., Patterson & Dewar Engineers, Inc./ASCE Georgia Creative Director | Designer: CHAD BECKER Kimley-Horn Sabrina Tongren www.in8-design.com JEFF CORBIN Parsons STEPHANIE DAMMEN-MORRELL Hussey Gay Bell Contributing Writers: MICHELLE ERSTE CPSM, Wolverton/SMPS Atlanta Heather Collins ERIK M. GRANDOWSKI CPSM, Pond Lori Johnston Joy Ugi BETH HARRIS CPSM, United Consulting/SAME Atlanta Post JENNY C. JENKINS P.E., VHB/ASHE Georgia Contributing Photographer: BETTY JEAN JORDAN P.E., GSPE Jennifer Stalcup PAMELA LITTLE P.E., Pond/SAME Atlanta Post Accounting & Advertising Services Manager: BRIAN O'CONNOR P.E., T.Y. Lin International/ASHE Georgia Brittney Love JOHN PIERSON P.E., Georgia Tech Research Institute/ASCE Georgia MICHAEL PLANER P.E., PES Structural Engineers/SEAOG Advertising Sales: BILL RUHSAM P.E., PTOE, Michael Baker International/ITE Georgia ACEC Georgia 233 Peachtree Street JACK SEIBERT P.E., GEF Suite 700 THOMAS TRUE P.E., L.S., Wolverton Atlanta, Georgia 30303 EDDIE WADE Croy Engineering, LLC (404) 521-2324 DOUG WEAVER P.E., Comcast/GSPE www.acecga.org ROB WEILACHER P.E., S.E., Uzun + Case, LLC Send change of address to: BILL WELLS ITS Georgia ACEC Georgia MALIKA REED WILKINS Ph.D., Atlanta Regional Commission/WTS Atlanta 233 Peachtree Street, Suite 700, Atlanta, GA 30303 or email [email protected] LISA S. WOODS P.E., HNTB Corporation

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These are just fi ve of the women included in our inaugural "100 Inﬂ uential Women to Know" feature. Read more about the work they are doing in their communities in our third feature – Balancing Act: From Planning to Partnerships to Putting Plans into Action, These Five Women Help Shape the Future of Metro Atlanta.

ith everything that is going on in our culture, it seems especially timely that we are bringingW you this issue focused on women in and around the engineering industry. I’d like to claim that we are responding to the zeitgeist, but the reality is that we’ve been planning this issue for quite some time. We’re just that good. SULLY'S SELECTIONS Margaret Thatcher once said “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” The women featured in in our “100 Asking a man to come up with recommendations themed around Infl uential Women to Know” feature are defi nitely getting things done and an issue celebrating women is a little fraught, in these days of contributing to the greatness of our industry and our state. The list includes #mansplaining and the like. So, I’m just going to keep is simple with the Founders, CEOs and Principals of some of Georgia’s most prominent three books that I love that happen to be about and/or by powerful engineering, architecture and construction fi rms, rising leaders from every part female leaders. of the engineering industry and power players from some of the most important public agencies and private companies who create Georgia’s built environment. CATHERINE THE GREAT: PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN We are honored to feature these women in this issue. BY ROBERT K. MASSIE She wasn’t just a woman, she was the Empress of Russia. Over I can also tell you from fi rst-hand experience that talented women get stuff done. the course of her 34-year reign, she expanded Russia’s territory I know because I work with four of them every day: Jennifer Head, Brittney and infl uence, creating the Golden Age of the Russian Empire that Love, Sasha Ugi and Jennifer Winkler, also known as “The A Team.” They (along transformed the nation into a world power. Massie’s book (like his with me) make up the staff of ACEC Georgia. And whether it’s leading the effort magnifi cent book on Peter the Great) is the defi nitive account of to publish this magazine, executing best-in-class events, managing fi nances or Catherine’s remarkable life and reign. lobbying politicians, they are doing it at the highest level. The fact is that they are working every day on behalf of the business of engineering and it would be MARGARET THATCHER: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY an inexcusable omission if I didn’t highlight them as being among the “women BY MARGARET THATCHER to know” in engineering. I’m sure glad I know them and for the privilege I have The story of Lady Thatcher’s rise from grocer’s daughter to becoming of working with them. the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th Century. Like Ronald Reagan in the United States, her impact was enormous and her infl uence continues to be felt long after her death.

BOSSYPANTS GET SOCIAL BY TINA FEY [email protected] Not every leader is a politician. Tina Fey has broken the glass ceiling throughout her comedy career, becoming the ﬁ rst female head writer 770-356-3769 at Saturday Night Live before breaking out as a performer and one @MICHAELLSULLY Michael L. “Sully” Sullivan of comedy’s biggest stars. Those other books I recommended are FACEBOOK.COM/MICHAELLSULLY President and CEO, ACEC Georgia good, but admittedly a little like homework. This book is laugh out LINKEDIN.COM/IN/MICHAELLSULLIVAN Publisher, Engineering Georgia loud funny.

The Pulse | NEWS BRIEFS

ATLANTA-BASED PERRYCRABB MERGES WITH MAZZETTI INC. PLANT VOGTLE CONSTRUCTION TO CONTINUE Engineering firm PerryCrabb, which has designed and served healthcare AFTER GEORGIA PSC VOTE facilities in the Southeast since 1959, announced it will merge with San Georgia’s Public Service Commission (PSC) voted unanimously to Francisco-based Mazzetti Inc., a global MEP engineering and technology continue construction at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. The approval consulting firm. The joint firm will go by Mazzetti|PerryCrabb in the is pending Congress provides approximately $800 million worth of tax Atlanta market for one year, before permanently taking the Mazzetti credits for the project and Georgia PSC can re-consider the decision if name. the federal tax credits are not approved.

BARGE, WAGGONER, SUMNER AND CANNON, INC. REBRANDS TO BARGE DESIGN SOLUTIONS After more than 60 years, engineering and architectural firm Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon, Inc. announced it will re-brand as Barge Design Solutions. In addition to the new name, the firm has launched a new website and logo, as well as signage at each of its 14 offices across five states.

BURNS & MCDONNELL EXPANDS OPERATIONS IN METRO ATLANTA The 100 percent employee-owned global engineering, architecture, construction, environmental and consulting firm hired its 100th employee-owner in Atlanta in late 2017 and announced plans to grow the location’s workforce by up to 30 percent this year. The office has successfully managed nearly $160 million in projects, including Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Boeing, Duke Energy and Southern Company. Members of VHB’s Georgia team came together on November 10 for a BeltLine Workday. The Georgia offices adopted a segment CHRIS TOMLINSON TAPPED FOR IBTAA of the Atlanta BeltLine in early 2017; part of this commitment EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ROLE includes regular visits to and maintenance of the trail. The VHB Executive Director for the State Road and Tollway Authority, Chris team spent a Friday evening removing invasive species from the Tomlinson has been selected to serve on the Executive Committee for wooded trail. It was a fun and challenging few hours fighting The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) as species such as Mimosa, Japanese and Chinese Privet, Thorny First Vice President. IBTTA is a worldwide association for the owners and operators of toll facilities and the businesses that serve them. Olive and English Ivy. These plants, and other invasive species, Tomlinson previously served on the association’s Board of Directors and create land management problems and their removal helps will assume the role of President in 2019. ensure the BeltLine’s vision of creating an urban arboretum along the Beltline Corridor.

GRETCHEN CORBIN LEAVES TCSG FOR GEORGIA LOTTERY Governor Nathan Deal selected Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) Commissioner Gretchen Corbin to head the Georgia Lottery after former President Debbie Alford, who has held the position since TRAVELSAFELY APP UNVEILED FOR USE ALONG 2012, announced her retirement. Effective January 1, 2018, Corbin THE NORTH AVENUE SMART CORRIDOR will replace Alford to lead the agency that raises money for the HOPE In late December 2017, city and state leaders including Renew Atlanta/ scholarship and prekindergarten classes in the state. Matt Arthur, former TSPLOST General Manager Faye DiMassimo, Georgia Department of Deputy Commissioner, now serves as Corbin's replacement. Transportation Chief Engineer Meg Pirkle, Batallion 3 Chief Dwayne Johnson and former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed joined together to unveil the TravelSafely™ smartphone application. The app uses smart JACOBS COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF CH2M technology to alert users of potentially dangerous road conditions, traffic Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. formalized its acquisition of CH2M on light changes, emergency vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists and runners December 15, 2017, a move that was first announced last August. The approaching, and when users are speeding toward a curve or school combined firm, which totals approximately 74,000 people worldwide, zone. Audible alerts and spoken warnings notify motorists so users do will focus on three business lines: Aerospace, Technology, Environmental not need their phones in hand. The tool is being used and tested along and Nuclear; Buildings, Infrastructure and Advanced Facilities; and the North Avenue Smart Corridor, the 2.3 mile stretch of North Avenue Energy, Chemicals and Resources. from Ponce City Market to the Georgia Institute of Technology.

january/february 2018 7 The Pulse | ON THE MOVE

ATWELL, LLC welcomed Michael Ritch, P.E. to its team as Senior HDR ENGINEERING, INC. added Thomas Ziegler, P.E. to its team as Project Manager, Real Estate and Land Development. Based in the firm’s its Georgia Transportation Business Group Leader. Ziegler brings more Marietta office, Ritch will provide leadership support and oversight than 30 years of experience to the new role. to residential and commercial development project teams, and client relations for projects throughout the Southeastern United States. He brings more than 35 years of experience, including civil land planning, HUSSEY GAY BELL expanded its site development design, project management and construction Savannah Water/Wastewater Division management, to the firm. team with the addition of Senior CAD Technician Susan Kendryna, who has more than 20 years of industry CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL RISK MANAGEMENT, LLC (CERM) experience. In this role, Kendryna’s announced that Robin Dunn has joined the firm as a Controller. Dunn responsibilities will include creation of brings 14 years of financial management leadership to the position, designs under the direction of Project Managers for various municipal design including strategic planning and analysis with specific experience in the Susan Kendryna environmental, construction and remediation service areas. projects. The firm also announced the hire of Broderick D. Keown, EIT as a Transportation Engineer in its Atlanta Transportation Division. With EFK MOEN expanded its operations with 17 years of experience, Keown will an office in Atlanta. Chris Williams, design and manage certain aspects of P.E., who has been with EFK Moen’s St. transportation/traffic projects for state Louis office for 13 years, will manage the and local governments. new location. Williams brings more than 24 years of transportation/structures- related engineering project management experience to the role. Broderick D. Keown NEW SOUTH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. welcomed Brian Chris Williams Spickard as its new Vice President of Business Development. Spickard will help grow and develop New South’s marketing approach and project GASKINS SURVEYING AND pursuits. By focusing on the company’s defined core markets, including ENGINEERING hired Aaron Wadley, office, industrial and hospitality, he will help elevate New South’s profile P.E. to develop and manage its new and secure new endeavors. Gwinnett County location. Wadley brings to Gaskins more than sixteen years of experience in various roles of increasing responsibility, including Senior Project NOVA’S Marketing Department grew Manager, Director of Transportation and with the addition of Amy Angeli, who Public Works, Assistant City Engineer, brings 12 years of experience in the Aaron Wadley Project Engineer and Civil Designer. construction industry to the firm’s His specific expertise includes infrastructure, streetscape and site Kennesaw office. She is a member of development, as well as project management and business development. the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS).

GRESHAM, SMITH AND PARTNERS Amy Angeli POND announced the appointment of (GS&P) welcomed Randy Hulsey Alex Holbrook, P.E., LEED AP as a Principal of the firm. Holbrook has as a Senior Vice President serving the served as the Building Systems Program Director at the firm for the last transportation market. Hulsey is a 36- three years and has more than 25 years of diverse experience. The firm year veteran of Georgia’s transportation also recognized several individuals with promotions to Senior Associate: industry, having served for the past 17 Jim Davis, Corporate Health and Safety Director; Pam Gower, Director years as the Director of the Douglas of Human Resources; Allan Iosue, Director of Development; Mike County Department of Transportation. Jeffreys, Program Director of Fuels Maintenance and Construction; Van As Senior Vice President, Hulsey will Randy Hulsey Lynn, P.E., Director of Mechanical Engineering; Kenn Ussery, P.E., lead GS&P’s new business development Director of Civil Fueling; and Matthew Wilder, Director of Landscape efforts in the metro Atlanta region, build upon relationships with Architecture. The firm also announced the hire of Mitch Rovinsky as existing clients and improve GS&P’s project delivery processes. its new Operations Manager for Pond Constructors.

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The Pulse | ON THE MOVE

PRIME ENGINEERING welcomed new hires to its team: Todd Atkins WOLVERTON announced a corporate reorganization to align its as Survey Crew Chief in the firm’s Infrastructure Department;Brandon internal resources to support the firm’s strategic growth goals. Market Enochs as Industrial Market Segment Manager; and Bruce Morris, AIA Sector Leaders serve as the drivers of Wolverton’s business with the will serve as Senior Architect, also in the Infrastructure Department. roles represented by: Jeff Belyea, P.E., Land Development; Rob Jacquette, P.E., Traffic and ITS; Tom True, P.E., Energy, Power and Utilities; and recently promoted Brad Robinson, P.E., Transportation. Practice Area Leaders support these leaders in driving client STANTEC added to its growing satisfaction and people management. Promotions to Practice Area transportation team with the hire of Leaders include: Lance Cooper, Land Development Florida Region; Adam D. Smith, P.E. as Senior Roadway Jason Dickerson, P.E., Traffic Operations; Jeffrey Hodgkinson, Engineer in its downtown Atlanta office. P.E., Industrial; Graeme Kaiser, PLS, Surveying; Clay Smith, EIT, Smith will work with the firm’s Atlanta and Traffic Studies and Design; and Buck Wright, Subsurface Utility Macon groups to continue to provide the Engineering. Additional Practice Area Leaders include: Tom Cetti, greater metro Atlanta area with inventive P.E., Land Development Coastal Georgia Region; Hunter Hyde, P.E., and safe roadway designs. Smith brings Retail; Angela Snyder, P.E., Transportation State Government and more than two decades of experience in Jean Yu, P.E., Transportation Local Government. Adam D. Smith civil engineering, with a strong emphasis in transportation, to the role. In addition, the firm announced the following promotions: Leah Cassell, P.E. to Senior Designer for Transportation; Josh Gilbert to Project Surveyor for Surveying; Ian Maxfield to Project Manager for TERRACON announced the addition of Chris Hurst, P.E., C.S.P. as a Transportation; Alex Simmons, EIT to Project Manager for Traffic Senior Environmental Consultant in its Atlanta office. Hurst will focus and ITS; Diwan Singla to Senior Traffic Specialist for Traffic and ITS; on environmental, health and safety (EHS) auditing and assessment and Andrew Truelove to Project Surveyor for Surveying. services, leveraging more than 20 years of experience working on projects in the United States, Caribbean and Central America.

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The Pulse | OUT & ABOUT

ACEC GEORGIA MACON GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Rob Jacquette with Wolverton, Kevin McOmber with Clark Patterson Lee, Randall Bagwell with NOVA and Kelvin Seagraves with Hofstadter and Associates, Inc.

ACEC GEORGIA MACON GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING: : Four Georgia Secretary of State candidates participated in a forum in Macon, Ga. moderated by ACEC Georgia President and CEO Michael “Sully” Sullivan (center): Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle, State Representative Buzz Brockway, State Senator Josh McKoon and State Representative Brad Raffensperger, P.E.

ACEC GEORGIA MACON GENERAL MEMBERSHIP ACEC GEORGIA MACON GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Rebecca Schilling and Tom Driver with MEETING: ACEC Georgia Board members Greg Teague with Geotechnical & Environmental Consultants alongside Al Andrews with Andrews, Hammock & Powell, Inc. Croy Engineering and Charles Ezelle with Thomas & Hutton during the breakfast event.

ACEC GEORGIA MACON GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING: PELS Board members Taylor Wright 2017 ASHE HOLIDAY PARTY: Kate Henry with Aulick Engineering, Tori with Atkins and Julie Busbee alongside Darren Mickler with the Offi ce of the Secretary of State and Brinkley with T.Y. Lin International and Matt Sanders with the Georgia PELS Board member Neil Wyche with NBP Engineers, Inc. Department of Transportation (GDOT) during the annual event. ITE ANNUAL MEETING: Jamie Mapp with CH2M ITE ANNUAL MEETING: The six 2017 ITE Georgia scholarship recipients, who were each honored during the association’s alongside Melissa Gende and Marian Diamond with annual meeting in December. WSP, USA.

ITE ANNUAL MEETING: Members of the Georgia Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) gathered at Maggiano’s ITE/ITS HOLIDAY PARTY: Soan Chau with Buckhead for the association’s annual meeting, which featured Keynote Speaker Scott Higley, Director of Strategic Communications SCA Transportation Forensics and Steven for GDOT. Sheffi eld with Wolverton.

ITE/ITS HOLIDAY PARTY: Maggie Maddox with HNTB, Chris Maddox with AECOM, Nate Prath with NDS, Kabeary Godwin with Kimley-Horn and Jarin Prince, a student at Kennesaw State University.

ITE/ITS HOLIDAY PARTY: Marco Friend with Jacobs alongside spouse Amy Friend, Ashley 2017 ASHE HOLIDAY PARTY: THC, Inc. employees Nathaniel Kimbro, with spouse Kirk, a student at Kennesaw State University, Kyle Huffman with Jacobs and Rachel Cohen Jennifer Kimbro, and Matt Carroll (far right) with spouse Caroline Carroll. with 360 Network Solutions. GEORGIA ENGINEERING AWARDS FEB 6:00 p.m. Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead 24 3300 Peachtree Road Northeast 2018 Atlanta, GA 30305 A black-tie event, the annual Georgia Engineering Awards celebrates the winners of ACEC Georgia’s Engineering Excellence Awards, GSPE’s Engineer of the Year Awards and the engineering industry as a whole. The event will also honor two new award 2018 winners: Commissioner Russell McMurry, P.E. with the Georgia Department of Transportation as the inaugural Engineering Influence Award recipient and Emmy Montayne, P.E. with Kimley-Horn as the Engineering Impact Award recipient. Also back again as Master of Ceremonies for the evening is Brian Moote – actor, comedian and former co-host of Q100’s The Bert Show. Cost: $1,125 – Table; $125 – Individual; EVENTS $85 – Government Employee/Retired Engineer Register at www.acecga.org

BUILDING GEORGIA LEGISLATIVE DAY DAN R. BROWN ACI AWARDS PROGRAM FEB 7:30 a.m. FEB 5:30 p.m. James H. “Sloppy” Floyd Building Westin Atlanta Perimeter North 14 Floyd Room, 20th Floor, West Tower 26 7 Concourse Parkway Northeast 2018 200 Piedmont Avenue Southeast 2018 Atlanta, GA 30328 Atlanta, GA 30334 The annual Dan R. Brown Awards Program is an Join the American Council of Engineering Companies opportunity for the Georgia Chapter of the American of Georgia (ACEC Georgia), the Associated General Contractors of Georgia Concrete Institute (ACI) to recognize and encourage innovative design, (AGC Georgia), elected officials and business leaders for the 19th annual construction, maintenance and repair of concrete structures. Join the Georgia Building Georgia Legislative Day. Keynote Speakers for the breakfast include Chapter of ACI for this event applauding the advances and achievements of Representative Kevin Tanner, Chairman of the House Transportation Georgia industry professionals. Committee, and Senator Lindsey Tippens, Chairman of the Education and Cost: $75 Youth Committee. Register at www.aci-ga.starrchapter.com/Awards_Program Cost: $50 – ACEC Georgia Members; $130 – Non-Members Register at www.acecga.org MAR 8TH ANNUAL GEORGIA ITE/ASHE WINTER WORKSHOP PROJECT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP Brasstown Valley Resort and Spa Georgia Power Customer Resource Center 4 6321 Highway 76, Young Harris, GA 30582 FEB 2018 4404 North Shallowford Road As a joint conference hosted by Georgia ITE And ASHE 23 Dunwoody, GA 30338 MAR Georgia, this workshop is a two-day event packed with 2018 This Project Management Workshop offers the speakers, discussion sessions, technical forums and a opportunity for licensed Professional Engineers and lot of fun! The event is an easy way to connect with Project Management Professionals to network and 5 other transportation professionals across the state. earn up to eight Professional Development Hours across a variety of topics. 2018 Learn more at www.gaite.org/winter-workshop Learn more at www.gspe.org

INTRODUCE A GIRL TO ENGINEERING GWINNETT REGIONAL SCIENCE, MAR Kennesaw State University FEB ENGINEERING + INNOVATION FAIR Marietta Campus - Gymnasium Infinite Energy Center 10 1100 South Hornet Drive, Marietta, GA 30060 23 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, GA 30097 2018 Introduce a Girl to Engineering is a half-day 2018 Gwinnett County’s Regional Science, Engineering + program designed to introduce upper elementary Innovation Fair is an annual tradition that has been and middle school-age girls to engineering through fun projects, in place for 40 years. The 2018 Fair will be the tenth year where the event activities and speakers. The day's events include activity booths, an will highlight career opportunities that await students in the science and engineering trivia bowl, a program for parents on preparing their engineering fields, with the goal of heightening awareness of opportunities daughters for a career in engineering and lunch. in research and industry – and identifying avenues that can lead them to an Cost: $5 – Person exciting position in one of those two fields. Register at www.acecga.org Learn more at www.gwinnettsciencefair.com

14 ENGINEERING GEORGIA 2018 CHARITY GOLF INVITATIONAL APR BENEFITNG THE NICARAGUA CLEAN DRINKING WATER INITIATIVE 19 10:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 2018 Golf Club of Bradshaw Farm 3030 Bradshaw Club Drive, Woodstock, GA 30188 Join members of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Georgia Section, along with guests, sponsors and vendors, for the 2018 Charity Golf Invitational. The tournament is a great opportunity to golf, network and support a great cause. Proceeds from the tournament are used to continue efforts in the remote Nicaraguan villages along the Rio Grande de Matagalpa, specifically to ensure the availability of safe drinking water. Register at www.ascega.org

2018 GEORGIA ENGINEERS JUN SUMMER CONFERENCE The Mills House 7 115 Meeting Street, Charleston, SC 29401 2018 Join engineering, community and business leaders in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina for this JUN annual business-focused conference. Centered around “The Future of Engineering,” the Conference provides 10 business-oriented content designed to help you boost 2018 your firm’s business development efforts and bottom line; attract, retain and develop talented engineers; and manage the modern engineering firm. Cost: $600 – Member of ACEC Georgia, ASCE or GSPE; $800 – Non-Member (before April 27) Register at www.acecga.org

The Pulse | BY THE NUMBERS GEORGIA BY THE NUMBERS: Interesting Information, Useful Facts and Catchy Conversation Starters

NUMBER OF COUNTIES IN GEORGIA NAMED AFTER A WOMAN: HART COUNTY. Possibly one of the American Revolution’s most famous heroines, the patriotic Nancy Hart captured a band of fi ve or six British soldiers when they demanded she feed them. Because of this and other acts of bravery during the war, offi cials named not just 356 1 the county after Hart in 1853, but a city, lake and highway. NUMBER OF MILES OF ROUTE 27 IN GEORGIA, ALSO NAMED MARTHA BERRY HIGHWAY AFTER ONE OF THE STATE’S MOST PROMINENT WOMEN EDUCATORS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. In the early 1900s, Berry founded schools for children in rural neighborhoods who couldn’t afford to go to school. Over 30 years, these schools 1836 turned into Berry College in Rome, Ga., – one of the cities YEAR WESLEYAN COLLEGE, THE FIRST WOMEN’S COLLEGE IN THE UNITED STATES, WAS FOUNDED IN Route 27 runs through. The GEORGIA. Originally chartered as Georgia Female College, the institution offered programs comparable to four-lane highway starts in those men took at other schools. The group of Macon businessmen who raised $9,000 to found the school Indiana and ends in Florida, had one mission: Women who attended and graduated would receive a bachelor’s degree. Two famous and in between covers the graduates of Wesleyan are Mary McKay and Viola Ross Napier. McKay is the fi rst woman in the state to entire length of the state of receive a Doctor of Medicine degree and Napier is the fi rst woman to argue a case before the Supreme Georgia. Court of Georgia.

NUMBER OF FEMALE STATE RANK OF GEORGIA IN THE SENATORS IN GEORGIA. The duties UNITED STATES FOR GREATEST of these Senators are to introduce NUMBER OF WOMEN-OWNED legislation in the Georgia Senate SMALL BUSINESSES. In addition during the 40-day Legislative Session. to the state’s fi fth year running In addition, these female Senators, as the Best State in Which to Do along with their male counterparts, Business, Georgia is consistently help solve issues constituents have ranked as one of the top states throughout the year. While these for female-owned businesses. Senators carry out legislative duties, 14 In fact, the state ranks second they also maintain occupations in for growth in number of Women a business or profession as the Business Enterprises and seventh “citizen” branch of the government. in economic growth of those same In order to gain their appointments, companies. Georgia isn’t just a Senators have to be at least 25 years successful place to do business for old, American citizens, state residents women; the state scored an “A” for for two years and residents of their small business friendliness overall Senatorial Districts for one year in 2017. immediately preceding election.

5january/february 2018 17 Engineering GA | FEATURE 100 INFLUENTIAL WOMEN TO KNOW Spanning Founders, CEOs, Principals and Rising Leaders, These Females are Impacting Georgia’s Engineering Community Profiles Compiled by Joy Ugi

cross the Peach State, women are influencing the design, growth and success of communities, businesses and projects. They are women of character, integrity and purpose. These are females who took the bold step to found their own engineering, architecture or construction firms; who give of their time to mentor the next generationA of professionals; who volunteer with the state’s numerous engineering associations to raise the profile of the industry; or who create Georgia’s built environment.

Many people, including Engineering Georgia’s Editorial Board, were asked to recommend, review and determine the 100 women for this year’s inaugural list. This was no easy task. But it is our hope that this list provides a glimpse into the diverse, strong and growing number of women helping to shape Georgia’s engineering community.

18 ENGINEERING GEORGIA DIOMETRA ALDRIDGE JENNIFER BALL Director, Corporate Management Vice President, Planning and & Strategic Initiatives, Economic Development, Corporate Environmental Risk Central Atlanta Progress Management, LLC (CERM) An accomplished urban plan- In her 18 years of experience, Aldridge ner and project manager, Ball’s has mastered administrative management notable projects include the de- and human resource development within the velopment of the Stitch connector A/E/C industry. As a member of the executive cap and Downtown Atlanta vision management team at CERM, she directs all admin- plans. She leverages her expertise to istrative functions to meet industry standards and advance initiatives to influence the built regulatory agencies. Aldridge ensures the firm meets environment and improve quality of life for its goals by providing direction and implementing strategic planning. communities. She also manages all aspects of implementation of transportation and public space capital improvements. SUZANNE ANGELL Deputy Director, Southwest KATHRYN BEDETTE, AIA Georgia Regional Commission Associate Professor, Department of Angell has served the Southwest Architecture, Kennesaw State University Georgia Regional Commission 2018 President, AIA Georgia as Deputy Director for 22 An asset to the design and build profes- years where she leads her sion, Bedette has served as the Ameri- team in tracking expenses for can Institute of Architects (AIA) Georgia federal and state-funded proj- Advocacy Director in the past and as the ects, manages an annual budget Board President presently. She teaches and financial reports and oversees grassroots-driven architecture advocacy in all accounting functions. She has her role at Kennesaw State University and is worked closely with local government credited with aiding the passing of the House Bill and community-based agencies for 943 Indemnification Bill. most of her career. PAT BIEGLER ANITA ATKINSON, P.E. Director of Public Works, Vice President – Civil Engineering and Surveying, Columbus Consolidated Government Patterson & Dewar Engineers, Inc. A former APWA Top 10 Leader and Leading Patterson & Dewar’s Civil Engineer- NSPE Top 10 Engineers in Federal ing and Surveying department, Atkinson Service, Biegler’s vision for her leverages her 14 years of experience to department includes succes- manage a talented team with a wide sion planning training pro- range of skills and expertise. She’s active grams, such as the award-win- in several engineering organizations in the ning “Up and Motivated” initiative state, including the Georgia Engineering and Columbus’ Leadership Devel- Foundation, and her areas of specialty include opment program. She works closely power line design, power delivery infrastructure, with her staff and 12 division chiefs to research, planning, consulting and training. attain a high-level of accomplishment through these programs. LYNETTE BAKER, CEP Southeast Region Buildings & Infrastructure Inside Sales Leader, CLAUDIA BILOTTO Jacobs Vice President/Atlanta Area Manager, WSP USA Bringing both an operations Recently promoted to the role of Atlanta Area and sales perspective to her Manager, Bilotto supports diversification marketing role at Jacobs, and growth, drives strategic direction and Baker collaborates with cli- leads the team in the Atlanta market for ents and partners to drive WSP. Her impressive resume includes growth and diversification for the managing transportation planning firm. Combining sustainable perfor- projects for the Georgia Department of mance, strategy and continuous im- Transportation and is currently serving as provement, her 22 years of experience the Chair of the Transportation Research are an essential part of the success of the Board (TRB) Committee on Public Involve- Southeast Buildings and Infrastructure group at Jacobs. ment in Transportation. b

january/february 2018 19 ANNIE BLISSIT, P.E. REBECCA COLLINS, P.E. Water Treatment Engineer, Vice President – Gresham, Smith & Partners Aviation Division, The recipient of numerous engineering Croy Engineering awards, Blissit is an asset to her firm and Leading one of the largest its water sector, and is actively involved aviation departments at a with the American Society of Civil Engineers consulting engineering firm (ASCE) Georgia Section. In both 2016 and in the state of Georgia, Collins 2017, Blissit organized humanitarian trips with provides strategic leadership to ASCE to provide engineering support and drink- the Croy Engineering team as Vice ing water sampling to a remote village in Nicaragua. President. The firm now boasts 30 aviation clients in Georgia. Thanks to MARSHA ANDERSON BOMAR, Collins, over $40 million in state government funds have been awarded to those clients. AICP, ENV SP, F.ASCE, F.ITE Executive Director, Gateway85 The founder of engineering LAUREN CURRY firm Street Smarts, Bomar has Deputy Director, Georgia Environmental shown outstanding leadership Protection Division in business, community Now second in command at the Georgia service and the engineering Environmental Protection Division, Curry profession. Credited with the has experience in various roles for the endowment of the Mentor and Georgia Department of Economic De- Mentee program at Georgia Institute velopment, the U.S. Department of Trans- of Technology, she also serves on local portation in Boston and former Governor government and engineering councils. Sonny Perdue. Her track record is fueled by She’s won countless awards for her outstanding work as a businesswoman, accomplishments in communications and mar- mentor and engineer and continues to work with the keting strategy, legislative affairs, policy develop- industry in her role leading one of Gwinnett’s five ment and public events. Community Improvement Districts – Gateway85. GWYNNE DARDEN VICTORIA (TORI) BRINKLEY, P.E. Associate Vice President for Senior Transportation Engineer, Facilities Planning and T.Y. Lin International University Architects, Brinkley is a Senior Transportation Engi- University of Georgia neer at T.Y. Lin International with over 10 With 16 years in the Office of years of design experience. After graduating University Architects under from the Georgia Institute of Technology with her belt, Darden oversees a degree in civil engineering, Brinkley began both the development of the her career in the Office of Roadway Design for University's physical campuses the Georgia Department of Transportation where and planning. In this role, she she gained invaluable experience while forging pro- locates appropriate sites for project fessional relationships. She is actively involved in the American Society of construction and manages design Highway Engineers (ASHE) and WTS where she is serving as the 2017- development. Darden's strengths are in 2018 Treasurer for the Atlanta Chapter. She is also a 2016-2017 graduate of her ability to work with campus leaders in both the preservation and ACEC Georgia's Future Leaders Program. expansion of facilities.

CARLA CARRAWAY ALYSSA DAVIS President, Precision Planning, Inc. Executive Director, Sugarloaf From Intern to President, Car- Community Improvement District raway has done it all in her 30 Holding a master’s degree in city and re- years at Precision Planning, gional planning, Davis leads the day-to-day Inc. Her straightforward, operations of the Sugarloaf Community down-to-earth approach to Improvement District (CID) – Gwinnett doing business has earned her County’s newest CID – to ensure the long- success in the company she runs term success of the area’s premiere business and the community she supports. and entertainment district. In a previous role, Carraway is dedicated to providing a she leveraged her experience to manage plans and team approach at the firm and steering transportation projects for the Gwinnett Village CID. clear of cookie cutter offerings for clients.

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FAYE DIMASSIMO LINDA EDWARDS General Manager, Renew Atlanta/ President and CEO, Edwards- TSPLOST Program, City of Atlanta Pitman Environmental, Inc. Leveraging over 35 years of experience, With more than 30 years of ex- DiMassimo’s specialties include trans- perience in the fields of proj- portation planning, project development ect development, engineering and program delivery. In her current role, design and environmental ser- she is working to help the city develop, test vices, Edwards is the founder of and integrate intelligent transportation technol- Edwards-Pitman Environmental, an ogy – primarily through the North Avenue Smart industry-leading consulting firm ded- Corridor project. She also leads the charge on the icated to providing environmental and city’s funding creation, strategy implementation and engineering support services for trans- team management. In 2017, Governor Nathan Deal appointed DiMas- portation projects. The firm is a certified woman-owned, disadvantaged simo to serve on the Georgia Regional and small business enterprise. Transportation Authority Board of Di- rectors. DANIELLE ELKINS CEO and Founder, Civic Ideation ELLEN DUNHAM-JONES Elkins' strengths are in her unique combi- Professor; Director, Urban nation of creative and analytical skills. She Design Program, Georgia can understand and re-articulate com- Institute of Technology plex issues and easily comprehend how School of Architecture politics, policy and stakeholders can An authority on sustainable impact a company’s revenue. Before she suburban redevelopment and a founded her own consulting firm, Civic leading urbanist, Dunham-Jones has Ideation, she worked with cities around the published more than 60 articles link- country as a Government Affairs Director for a ing contemporary theory and practice. Fortune 500 engineering company. In addition, She serves on several national boards and she is one of the founders, and current President, committees, is former Chair of the Board of the Congress for the New Ur- of Advance Atlanta, an advocacy non-profit focused banism, lectures widely and conducts workshops that on championing a regional transit system in the metro Atlanta region. help communities address 21st century architectural challenges. TERESA EPPLE, P.E., PTOE President and Owner, EMILY DUNN Southeastern Engineering, Inc. Representative – Congressional District 9, In 1996, Epple started her firm State Transportation Board providing Traffic Engineering Elected to serve as a part of the 14-mem- Services, which has grown ber State Transportation Board, Dunn in partnership with her hus- assists in the supervision of the Georgia De- band Chad Epple these more partment of Transportation. She is entrusted than 20 years to a 100-person with decision-making powers and was elected multi-disciplined civil engineer- to a five-year term by a majority of a General As- ing firm providing services to both sembly caucus. Dunn is also the President of Tom's public and private clients through- Amusement Company, Inc. out the Southeast.

WENDY DYSON, AICP STEPHANIE ESPY Project Director, Atkins Founder and CEO, MathSP, LLC Dyson is a Project Director with Author, STEM Gems more than 18 years of transpor- Through the MathSP and STEM Gems pro- tation experience in roads, grams she founded, Espy’s mission is to em- transit and airports. In her power the next generation of STEM leaders role at Atkins, she is respon- and decrease the gender gap that exists in sible for strategic planning STEM fields. She boasts degrees from MIT and management of on-call and UC Berkeley and authored the book contracts and complex NEPA doc- STEM Gems to highlight the significant con- uments. In addition, she currently tributions of women to STEM fields. b serves as the Georgia Partnership for Transportation Quality (GPTQ) Trans- portation Forum Coordinator.

january/february 2018 21 JENNIFER AULICK ETHERIDGE, P.E., MBA ANNIE GILLESPIE, P.E. President/Senior Engineer, Aulick Engineering Director of Engineering, With 16 years of experience in the State Road and Tollway industry, Etheridge is the Founder Authority (SRTA) and President of the woman-owned Gillespie manages all the engineering firm Aulick Engineering, engineering needs of SRTA, LLC. Her firm provides engineering design including maintaining oversight and construction management services for of the design and implementation transportation projects, leveraging Etheridge’s of the Authority’s toll collection expertise in hydraulics, hydrology and erosion systems. She oversees rate manage- control design. ment and analysis, design and construction of transit-related facilities, and ANGELA L. FANNÉY, P.E., LEED AP agency-to-agency coordination. In addition, Gillespie boasts experience in Associate / Shareholder, Kimley-Horn aviation engineering, environmental planning and roadway design. Named one of Engineering News-Record Southeast’s 2017 LORRAINE A. GREEN, P.E. Top Young Professionals, Fan- Executive Vice President, néy has led site civil consulting Energy Division, Pond services for sports facilities, of- A Georgia Institute of Technology grad, fice, retail, multifamily and mixed- Green has over 30 years of experience pro- use developments. She’s worked viding engineering services to the Energy on major Atlanta projects including industry. Under her leadership, Pond's the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Colony Energy team has increased to include Square Reinvention and The Shops of offices in Houston, California and Hawaii, Buckhead Atlanta. Fannéy’s strengths are in with a headcount of over 150 technical staff. urban environment with specialization in redevelopment and infill projects. Projects for government and private clients span from Europe to the Pacific Rim and range ANDREA FOARD, AICP, LEED AP BD+C to over $500 million. From 2005-2008, Green also Transit Division Manager/Deputy Director, served as a Gwinnett County District Commissioner. Cobb County Department of Transportation Foard oversees the County’s public transpor- KATHERINE MCLEOD GURD, P.E. tation system, CobbLinc, which includes Project Manager, AECOM local/fixed route, commuter express and Gurd has helped Atlanta-area mu- paratransit bus services. In this role, she nicipalities secure more than $30 manages the contracted daily operations million in grant funding for capi- and maintenance of the system and plans tal projects during her 19-year for systemwide enhancements and expansion. career. She provided planning Foard holds a bachelor of science degree in civil support and technical guid- engineering from the University of Alabama-Bir- ance to the Georgia Regional mingham and a master’s degree in city and regional Water Planning program. As a planning from Georgia Institute of Technology. She is volunteer, Gurd has held multi- currently pursuing a master’s degree in real estate finance and development ple leadership positions with the from Georgetown University. American Society of Civil Engineers both locally within the Georgia Sec- tion and now as a Governor of Region 5. RHANDI GALLEGOS, P.E., LEED AP BD+C REGAN HAMMOND, AICP Project Manager, Senior Transportation Planner and American Engineers, Inc. Project Manager, Arcadis Driven by her love of team- Before bringing her skills to Arcadis as a work and collaboration, Gal- transportation planner, Hammond held legos has used her 22 years of multiple senior and principal planner engineering experience to take roles at the Atlanta Regional Commis- projects from concept to construc- sion. Her commitment to WTS’ Atlanta tion. Her career has included a wide- Chapter includes the leadership roles of range of engineering projects includ- Director at Large, President and Immediate ing large-scale commercial construction Past President, and she currently serves as the projects to context-sensitive design solutions for a wide range of engi- Transportation YOU Committee Chair. She also neering projects. She is passionate about helping show the future gen- served as a Board Member for the Georgia Transit eration the endless opportunities a career in engineering has to offer. Association for two years. 22 ENGINEERING GEORGIA Engineering GA | FEATURE

ANN HANLON LAURY JILL HODGES, P.E., CPESC Executive Director, Perimeter Chief Design Engineer, VHB Community Improvement Districts Hodges’ expertise lies in her Before joining the Perimeter Communi- project management, tech- ty Improvement Districts (CID) in 2017, nical design and planning Hanlon served as the Executive Director for preparation for transportation the North Fulton CID. There, she grew the projects. With 30 years of expe- CID’s project portfolio, annual budget, corpo- rience, she has designed freeway rate partners and sponsorship roster, as well as facilities and state and local high- managed day-to-day ways, and uses her technical skills to operations of staff supervise projects in her current role. and projects. She co-founded McGee Partners in 2002 before its acquisition by VHB in 2017. JENNIFER HARPER, P.E. Vice President of Transportation KATHY HOLLAND Infrastructure, Landis Director, Gwinnett County Department Evans + Partners of Planning and Development With 20 years of experience, Holland has worked for Gwinnett County Harper spearheads transpor- for 30 years, only interrupted by her time tation planning and design for as a consultant from 1997-2002. In her first Landis Evans + Partners. She role, she acted as a Senior Development provides clients the technical ex- Review Analyst. When she returned, she pertise to develop transportation contributed her expertise as a Development solutions, while providing guidance to Review Manager until she was promoted first in help secure necessary funding to put proj- 2005, and then to Deputy Director in 2014, before ects in the ground. She has held multiple leadership roles with WTS becoming the per- Atlanta since 1999. manent Director in mid-2016. BETH HARRIS, FSMPS, CPSM Vice President, United Consulting SARA HONEYWILL A design and construction marketing profes- Senior Executive Director of sional since 1995, Harris serves as Vice Pres- Facilities Management, Technical ident of business development at United College System of Georgia Consulting. She is President-Elect of the Honeywill was named the Se- Georgia Engineering Foundation, Past nior Executive Director of Facil- President of both SAME Atlanta Post and ities Management of the Technical SMPS Atlanta and currently serves of the na- College System of Georgia (TCSG) tional Board of Directors for SMPS. Harris uses in January 2015. She is responsible for her expertise and influence to advance the mar- working with state-level partners to pro- keting profession in the built environment. vide strategic direction on project planning and development, real property transac- LYNDA HERRIG, P.E., LEED AP tions, design, construction and renovations, maintenance and operations for Associate Partner, Director, Business the 22 technical colleges and Quick Start. Development, Newcomb & Boyd, LLP With strengths in mechanical sys- TINA HOUSTON tem design and project man- Vice President, AECOM Water agement, Herrig’s 20 years of For over 33 years, Houston has contributed experience shape her role in her expertise in environmental engineering leading business develop- on various water, wastewater, environment efforts for Newcomb mental remediation and aviation proj- & Boyd. Herrig is an inductee ects. Her clients include DeKalb County in the Council of Outstanding Department of Watershed Management Young Engineering Alumni from and the Department of Aviation. Her past em- the Georgia Institute of Technolo- ployers include Kaiser Aluminum, Georgia Envi- gy’s College of Engineering. ronmental Protection Division, Parsons Main and CDM. Houston helped Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International prepare their first Sustainable Manage- ment Plan and to become the first U.S. airport to achieve international energy-management certification. In her role at AECOM Water, Houston serves as the Metro Market Leader for Georgia and Alabama. b

january/february 2018 23 KIMBERLY HUDGINS BETTY JEAN JORDAN, P.E. Director of Government Relations for Instructor, NPDES Southeast/Mid-Atlantic Division, HNTB Training Institute Hudgins' 23 years of government relations Executive Director, experience has proved an asset to HNTB, Georgia Society of where she works daily to increase the firm's Professional Engineers presence in Georgia. Past roles have included Jordan’s 20 years of project stints at Jacobs, as well as serving as Vice Presi- management and design expe- dent of Georgians for Better Transportation and rience includes specializations in Executive Secretary for the Georgia Department of hydraulics, hydrology and erosion/ Transportation. sedimentation control. After years of volunteering with the Georgia Society of JENNY JENKINS, P.E. Professional Engineers (GSPE), she began serving in her current role as Senior Transportation Engineer, VHB Executive Director in 2017. She leads the annual GSPE MATHCOUNTS As Senior Transportation Engi- competition for both the Middle Georgia Chapter and the state. neer, Jenkins is responsible for technical design and plan NANCY JUNEAU preparation on transportation Founder, CEO and Principal, projects, as well as client co- Juneau Construction Company ordination and management of A testament to Juneau’s business skills and junior staff members. Her expe- leadership, her firm Juneau Construction rience spans 19 years and includes Company is a top woman-owned general interstate, state and local highway de- contractor in Georgia and ranked No. 13 sign projects. on the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Top 25 Commercial Contractors in 2017. Juneau KAREN JENKINS, P.E., AIA serves on several boards and speaks regularly Co-Founder and Managing on panels, at conferences and at local business Partner, Shear Structural events. Her 30 years of experience in both the engineering and architecture disciplines ALLIE KELLY gives Jenkins a unique perspective for Executive Director, The Ray solving problems and understanding cli- Kelly’s career kicked off as a lob- ent needs. Her accomplishments include byist for UPS in the nation’s cap- designing corporate headquarters, labora- ital and then, in 2002, moved tory and research facilities, and educational to Georgia to found Georgia buildings. She co-founded Shear Structural in Watch, the state’s only con- 2017 as Atlanta’s newest, woman-owned struc- sumer watchdog organiza- tural engineering firm. tion. In 2015, she took the position of Executive Director JENNY JOHNSON, P.E., for The Ray, an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 in West Georgia PTOE, IMSA TS II used to develop, test and showcase Kimley-Horn Traffic Engineer, evolving technologies for transporta- As the current President for the tion infrastructure. Intelligent Transportation So- ciety of Georgia, Johnson represents the first female LORI KENNEDY and youngest person to hold Owner, Kennedy Engineering & Associates the role in the chapter’s his- Group, LLC (KEA Group) tory. As a Traffic Engineer with Since founding her firm in 2003, Kenne- Kimley-Horn, she has led traffic dy’s business has earned a reputation for signal optimization services for over responsive service and providing inno- 30 intersections and has produced vative solutions in transportation. Her 300 traffic signal permits for the RTOP accomplishments include overseeing the Flashing Yellow Arrow Upgrades project. construction of the Talmadge Memorial Bridge – the first cable stay bridge in Georgia – and a majority of the interstate reconstruc- tion and widening in the metro Atlanta area.

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STACEY KEY PHYLLIS LAMME Representative – Congressional District President, McFarland-Dyer 5, State Transportation Board & Associates, Inc. As a part of the 14-member State Trans- As Owner and President of portation Board, Key is tasked with su- McFarland-Dyer & Associates, pervision of the Georgia Department of Inc., Lamme believes in the Transportation, including approving long- principles of partnership, team- range transportation plans and overseeing the work and long-term relationships. administration of construction contracts. She is Over its 22-year life, Lamme’s firm the President of GBK Enterprises and has over 20 has grown to include the specialties of years of experience in sales, marketing and opera- landscape architec- tions for IBM, Schlumberger, Bellsouth and Samsung. ture, civil engineering, land planning, land surveying and construc- KATIE KIRKPATRICK, P.E. tion administration. Chief Policy Officer, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce HARRIET ANDERSON LANGFORD In her role with the Metro At- President, The Ray lanta Chamber, Kirkpatrick As President of The Ray and Trustee of focuses on public policy, the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, Lang- government affairs and po- ford is keeping the memory and legacy of litical action. Her experience her father alive. In 2015, she was appointed includes key roles in shaping to the board of the Biophilic Institute, and is environmental policy and over- a past Board Member of the Georgia Conser- seeing water-related issues, includ- vancy and Sustainable Atlanta. ing serving as Director of Environ- mental Engineering for Gold Kist, Inc. CRISTY LAWRENCE, P.E. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Metro- Land Development Project politan North Georgia Water Planning District and received the Atlanta Manager, Wolverton Business Chronicle’s prestigious “40 Under 40” award in 2011. Lawrence boasts over 21 years of experience in public and private DAVEITTA JENKINS KNIGHT, P.E. sector land development proj- Georgia Transportation Ops Manager, ects. She spent five years as Division Vice President, Jacobs the Liaison for Development Knight’s 24-year career started at the Georgia Services for Savannah, Ga. and Department of Transportation (GDOT) and is President of the Board of Di- has taken her into several leadership roles rectors of the Savannah Engineer- in consulting, including her current role ing Academy. Lawrence was award- at Jacobs. She is active in various profes- ed Young Civil Engineer of the Year sional and community organizations. Knight by the Georgia Section of the American currently serves in the GPTQ and was recog- Society of Civil Engi- nized by GDOT Commissioner Russell McMurry neers in 2005 and the Young Engineer of the Year with a special award in 2016 as the GPTQ Procure- by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers ment Subcommittee Co-Chair. in 2006.

MARY KAY KNIGHT, P.E., DANA LEMON F.SEI, M.ASCE Representative – Congressional District Principal, Uzun+Case, LLC 13, State Transportation Board Knight has managed countless Lemon serves as a part of the 14-mem- large-scale projects during her ber State Transportation Board, where 18 years at Uzun+Case, LLC, she helps supervise and make decisions including the Georgia Aquar- for the Georgia Department of Transporta- ium and the Wind Creek Ca- tion. Elected in 2003, Lemon is one of the lon- sino and Hotel in Atmore, Ala. gest-serving on the State Board. She is the Pres- Knight has won several state ident of W.D. Lemon & Sons Funeral Home and and national awards for her work co–hosts a local TV talk show, Community Spotlight. and currently serves on a commit- In 2011, Lemon won the Generational Torch Award from the Georgia tee for the American Society of Civil Black Chamber of Commerce. b Engineers – Georgia chapter.

january/february 2018 25 J. ELLEN LONG, P.E., LEED AP TARA MCCULLEN Founder and President, Long Engineering, Inc. Regional Environmental Services Long is the Founder and Owner of Long Manager, Burns & McDonnell Engineering, Inc. The firm has offices McCullen has managed in Atlanta, Savannah and Birmingham more than 100 environmen- where it provides services in the areas of tal, health and safety (EHS) land surveying, land development, bridge compliance, sustainability and design, transportation engineering, construc- remediation projects during her tion inspection and engineering (CEI) and sub- 20-year career. Her experience in- surface utility engineering (SUE). Long Engineer- cludes outstanding work with ISO ing, Inc. has been a Zweig Hot Firm (top 100 fastest 14001 and OHSAS 18001, key stan- growing A/E/P firms in the U.S.) seven times including dards for EHS management systems. 2017 (No. 24) and is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. Projects she has led have received three Champion of Excellence Awards from the Alliance of Hazardous Materials Professionals and an ACEC ANN MASSEY Georgia Engineering Excellence Honor Award. CEO of Environment & Infrastructure, Wood (formerly Amec Foster MEGHAN MCFERRIN Wheeler Environment & STEAM/STEM Program Specialist, Infrastructure Inc.) Georgia Department of Education Massey’s 30 years of experi- McFerrin started with the Georgia De- ence has proven an asset as partment of Education in 2017 helping she leads high-performance to lead its STEAM/STEM initiatives, and teams at Wood. Under her lead- brings a plethora of experience with her. ership, the Environment and In- For over two years, McFerrin spearheaded frastructure Solutions business has school and teacher services at the High Muse- seen market growth across the globe. um of Art and has held similar educational posi- Her strengths are in business manage- tions at the University of Georgia and the Georgia ment, operations and creating a custom- Museum of Art. er-focused culture. EMILY MEADOR, P.E. CINDY MATYAS, P.E. Senior Vice President, Kimley-Horn President / Senior Engineer, Meador is the current Secretary Waterhouse Engineering, LLC on the Board of Directors for A National Bridge Inspection Standards cer- the American Council of En- tified bridge inspector, Matyas boasts over gineering Companies of 20 years experience in bridge hydrau- Georgia (ACEC Georgia) lics, bridge design, bridge rehabilitation, and a Senior Vice President bridge inspections and load rating services. at Kimley-Horn. In this role, She started her own firm CMM Engineering she supports more than 500 Services, LLC in 2010. At the woman-owned engineers in the firm’s Southeast Waterhouse Engineering, LLC, Matyas leads region through strategic planning, a team specializing in transportation drainage, senior recruiting and client relations. stormwater management and floodplain management, as well as EMMY MONTANYE, P.E., LEED AP structural design related to bridges and Principal, Kimley-Horn roadway drainage features. Named the inaugural 2018 Engineering Impact Award recipient from ACEC Georgia, Mon- JULIE MCLEAN, P.E. tanye is widely recognized as an industry City Engineer, City of Savannah leader. Her most impressive projects Named the 2017 Engineer of include significant contributions to Mer- the Year in Government by cedes-Benz Stadium, SunTrust Park and the Georgia Society of Pro- The Battery Atlanta, Emory Midtown Can- fessional Engineers, McLean cer Treatment Center, NCR Headquarters and was the first female engineer the the College Football Hall of Fame. City of Savannah ever hired and the first woman to be named City Engineer. She boasts 30 years of experience, during which she’s managed projects totaling more than $50 million and overseen permitting and inspection for projects totaling over $2 billion. 26 ENGINEERING GEORGIA Engineering GA | FEATURE

KIRSTEN MOTE, AICP ELIZABETH O’NEILL Program Director, Aerotropolis Atlanta Interim General Manager, Community Improvement Districts Chief Executive Officer and Mote is primarily responsible for pro- Chief Counsel, MARTA gram management of the Aerotropolis O’Neill’s service with Metro- Atlanta Community Improvement Dis- politan Atlanta Rapid Transit tricts. Formerly a transportation planner Authority (MARTA) has primarily with HNTB, Mote’s two years in her current comprised the role of Chief Coun- position include managing transportation, land sel, where she provided legal sup- use, community improvement and economic de- port to MARTA’s Board of Directors velopment projects. She also formerly held the role and CEO, until being selected to serve as of Treasurer for WTS Atlanta. Interim General Manager and CEO in Sep- tember 2017. O’Neill also advises this top-10 U.S. transportation agency as ERIN MURPHY trustee for the Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Pension plans. Managing Director, VHB Murphy manages the Atlanta op- CATHERINE OWENS, P.E., LEED AP erations at VHB, leading an inte- Principal Engineer, Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. grated team of roadway design Before joining the Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. team in engineers, traffic engineers, May 2012, Owens spent over 10 years in en- transportation planners and gineering consulting. While at ABI, she has environmental specialists. successfully led the design team for the As a senior environmental TIGER V-funded Westside Trail design; led project manager, planner and the design and construction of the North architectural historian, Muphy Avenue plaza at Ponce City Market and the oversees a variety of projects for Edgewood Avenue Bridge replacement; and the Georgia Department of Trans- several streetcar expansion NEPA projects. As portation and other part of the Program Management team, she sup- clients. ports ABI staff with technical support during the planning, design and construction of the entire pro- KIMBERLY NESBITT gram of projects, including but not limited to park, transit, streetscape and Administrator – Program Delivery Office, trail design; real estate acquisitions; and Georgia Department of Transportation asset management. In her 17-year tenure with the Georgia De- partment of Transportation, Nesbitt has HOLLY PAINTER, P.E. served in several roles. She was first a De- Project Manager, KCI Technologies Inc. signer in the Office of Traffic Operations for Helping to revamp KCI’s Atlan- five years until she transitioned to a Contract ta presence, Painter’s experi- Negotiator and Project Manager in the Office of ence includes roadway, drain- Consultant Design, holding both positions for a age, and bridge design as well total of nine years. as two of Georgia’s design-build projects. She is in her third year JENNIFER OETGEN, P.E. as a Director for the ASHE Georgia Principal and Officer, Hussey Gay Bell section, Georgia Section ITE affiliate With nearly 20 years of experi- member, WTS member, and serves on ence specializing in municipal the ACEC membership committee. She water and wastewater sys- was also named to the 2015 “Top 20 Under 40” list tems and facilities design, by Engineering News Record Southeast. Oetgen has designed more than 10 water quality control HIRAL PATEL, P.E. plant projects throughout the Director of Engineering, Georgia Southeast, including the first Department of Transportation Membrane Bioreactor Wastewater Patel was named Division Director of En- Treatment Facility in Coastal Georgia gineering for the Georgia Department of -- the award-winning City of Richmond Transportation in December 2015. She Hill Sterling Creek WRF. was most recently the Administrator of the Office of Environmental Services. Previous positions include Assistant Office Head in Program Delivery and various roles in District Construc- tion. She has been with the Department for over 20 years. Patel has a bachelor’s in civil engineering and is a licensed professional engineer. b MARGARET “MEG” PIRKLE, P.E. TYLER RICHARDS Chief Engineer, Georgia Department Assistant Director, Gwinnett of Transportation County Department of The first female to serve in the role of Water Resources Chief Engineer for the Georgia Depart- Richards helps maintain ment of Transportation, Pirkle has held innovation, service excellence a total of seven roles in her 25 years with and good environmental the organization. During her tenure, she’s resources stewardship in her managed the $930 million federal stimulus current role with Gwinnett program and implementation of the Governor’s County. She also has experience Winter Weather Taskforce. as the Public Works Manager for the City of Atlanta where ANN PURCELL she oversaw wastewater treatment and watershed Vice Chair – Congressional District management. Richards was also previously the 1, State Transportation Board Deputy Director of Gwinnett County’s water, Purcell served in the Georgia field operations and stormwater projects. House of Representatives in two separate terms. Her expe- SALLY RIKER, F.SAME rience includes office man- Partner, Lowe Engineers LLC ager at Chatham Radiation With 20 years of experience in the A/E Oncology Associates, a teach- industry, Riker has significantly increased er and a real estate salesperson. Lowe Engineers’ clientele since joining the Purcell has been named 10 Top firm in 2003. Riker is a Fellow in SAME and is Women of Effingham County by Eff- an Elected Director on the National Board of Di- ingham Herald and County Citizens. rection for SAME. Additionally, she serves on the Advisory Board for Urban Land Institute Atlanta, TRACY Board of Directors for the Council for Quality Growth, SAME Savannah Post and is Co-Chair of the Women’s RATHBONE Leadership Initiative for ULI Atlanta. Executive Director, Town Center Community Improvement District Rathbone manages a current budget of MALAIKA RIVERS $9.4 million to develop infrastructure, Executive Director, greenspace, trails and enhance the Cumberland Community overall quality of life in the Town Center Improvement District Community Improvement District as its Rivers leverages her 24 years Executive Director. Past experience includes of experience to improve in- Coxe Curry & Associates, metro Atlanta’s frastructure and service, man- largest nonprofit consulting firm. Rathbone was aging two dozen capital projects recently named the 2017 "Woman of Distinction" as head of the Cumberland CID. by the Cobb Chamber, 2017 member of the "40 She has delivered a 500 percent Under 40" class by Atlanta Business Chronicle and a 2018 Notable return-on-investment on these proj- Georgian by Georgia Trend magazine. ects. Rivers holds many recognitions: “Notable Georgian” and “40 Under 40” by Georgia Trend and “25 Power Women to Watch” by Atlanta Woman. NICOLE REUTLINGER, P.E. Project Director, Atkins Reutlinger has over 19 years of JENNIFER ROACH, P.E., CFM experience as a transportation Water Resources Engineer/Team engineer, working the past 14 Coordinator, Thomas & Hutton years with Atkins, a member With 11 years’ experience, Roach specializes of the SNC-Lavalin Group. in planning, designing, permitting and con- She is a program manager on structing water resources-related projects. projects for state, local govern- She’s had a hand in significant projects since ments and community improve- beginning her career with Thomas & Hutton ment districts. An active member in 2006, including the Island Expressway Bridge of the American Society of Highway over Wilmington River Hydraulic and Hydrologi- Engineers, Georgia Chapter, Reutlinger cal Study in Chatham County, Georgia Air National is the current National Conference Committee Chair. Her bachelor’s de- Guard Base-Wide Stormwater Management Study in gree in civil engineering is from Georgia Institute of Technology. Savannah; the U.S. Highway 17 Drainage Improvements in Glynn County; and the Tradeport West FEMA Study in Liberty County.

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KELLY ROBERTS, P.E., LEED AP BD+C REBECCA SHELTON, Principal / Structures, Walter P Moore P.E., F.ASCE Roberts’ team won the 2016 Engineering Deputy Director of Facility Excellence Grand Prize Award from ACEC Operations, Gwinnett County Georgia for The National Center for Civil Department of Water Resources and Human Rights in Atlanta. She leads her Shelton uses her 20 years of firm’s Sustainable Design Community of Prac- civil engineering experience to tice, is a founding Board Member of the Lifecycle oversee the operation and main- Building Center of Greater Atlanta and is a member tenance of Gwinnett County's water of the Structural Engineering Institute Sustainability and sewer facilities. She was President Committee. of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers Georgia section from 2014-2015 and led development of the 2009 JOY ROHADFOX and 2014 Georgia Infrastructure Report Cards for President/CEO, Rohadfox Construction the organization. Control Services Corporation Rohadfox oversees the corporate ANGELA SNYDER, P.E. direction of her family busi- Practice Area Leader \\ ness, focusing on leadership, Transportation, Wolverton innovation and clients. She’s Snyder’s strengths in project manage- earned high profile contracts ment allow her to understand com- with state agencies, municipal- plex projects, oversee design activities, ities and federal agencies on a manage design staff and coordinate with national level, using outstanding various agencies. She has previously served business strategies to drive repeat as President of WTS Atlanta and was awarded business. She received the “Women Who Young Engineer of the Year by the Georgia So- Move the Nation” award from the Confer- ciety of Professional Engineers in 2015. ence of Minority Transportation Officials in 2015. JENNIFER SPEERS, P.E., S.E. BETH ANN SCHWARTZ, P.E. Senior Structural Engineer, Senior Associate, Michael Baker International Merrick & Company Schwartz has over 23 years of experience in Speers is a Senior Structural Engi- transportation design specializing in pedestri- neer with Merrick & Company an enhancements for local municipalities. and has more than 15 years of She has been involved in the design and experience designing various supervision of a wide variety of roadway complex projects. She served projects for both state and local govern- as the structural designer of re- ments throughout her career. In 2001, she cord for the one-of-a-kind NASA joined Michael Baker International (formerly SLS Liquid Hydrogen Tank Test LPA GROUP INCORPORATED) and has been Stand at Marshall Space Flight Center promoted over the years to her current role of Se- in Huntsville, Ala., and is currently lead- nior Associate. She serves on the Board of Directors ing the way for structural design modifica- for the WTS Atlanta Chapter as a Director at Large tions to high bays in the Vehicle Assembly Building and is an active member of the American Society of Highway Engineers. at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to support NASA’s journey to Mars. JULIE SECRIST, P.E. Senior Project Manager, HILLARY TANNER Southeastern Engineering, Inc. Senior Lecturer, College of Engineering, In 2017, Secrist earned the Young University of Georgia (UGA) Engineer of the Year Award by Faculty Advisor, UGA Chapter, the Georgia Society of Pro- Society of Women Engineers fessional Engineers. Two Tanner strives to integrate activities into her years earlier, she was named engineering courses at the University of Geor- Young Civil Engineer of the gia that support student learning through visu- Year by the American Society of alization skills. She is the College of Engineering’s Civil Engineers Georgia Section. In faculty liaison for ABET accreditation and has trav- her career, she’s helped the Georgia eled to Costa Rica with colleagues and students to put Department of Transportation restore engineering theory to practice. Her mission is to provide the best academic 17,000 properties. experience possible for her students at the University of Georgia. b

january/february 2018 29 NANCY TURNER, P.E. KELLI WEIGLE Senior Lecturer, Kennesaw State University Business Development In addition to her current role, Turner Manager, THC, Inc. serves as Faculty Advisor for Kennesaw Weigle has proven herself State University’s Student Chapter of the an asset to her firm as the American Society of Civil Engineers and recipient of the THC Im- its Competition Team. In recognition of this pact Award in 2016 and THC effort, she was named the 2017 Engineer of Employee of the Year Award in the Year in Education by the Georgia Society of 2015. She is currently the Social Professional Engineers. Turner launched her career Committee Chair for the American at Lockheed Martin working on a top-secret project Society of Highway Engineers Georgia before turning to academia. Section.

CHRISTINE VALLE, PH.D. MELISSA WHEELER Director, Women in Transmission Project Management, Engineering Program Georgia Power Company Senior Academic Professional, In her current role, Wheeler focuses on Georgia Institute of Technology evaluating and resolving GDOT projects Valle’s doctoral work was in for Transmission conflicts, coordinating the nondestructive evaluation different groups such as land, engineer- of advanced materials using ing, construction and operations. Wheeler linear and nonlinear ultrasonics previously served as the Region 5 Director with computational modeling. and Region 5 Governor for the American Soci- She’s also worked on a research proj- ety of Civil Engineers Georgia Section. ect sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Valle’s passionate about SHERL A. WHITE women and minorities issues in engineer- Civil Engineer/Design-Build ing education and earned the Undergraduate Educator Construction Manager, HNTB Award from the Center for Excellence in Teaching & White has won contracts with Learning in 2010. several state transportation agencies and toll highway LORETTA C. WASHINGTON, P.E., F. ASCE authorities in her 28 years President and CEO, LCW Engineering, Inc. of civil engineering expe- After launching LCW Engineering, Inc. in rience. She's helped HNTB 2004, Washington became one of the few become known as a national African American women in the United engineering firm focused on States to found an engineering firm. She technical excellence and innova- brings over 32 years of civil engineering and tion. White has participated in WTS construction management experience to her Atlanta as a volunteer for 15 years. role, providing the firm’s clients with design and construction plans for public works infra- MALIKA REED WILKINS, PH.D., APR structure projects. Director – Georgia Commute Options Marketing, Atlanta Regional Commission DR. KARI EDISON WATKINS, P.E. In her present role with the Atlanta Regional Associate Professor, Georgia Commission, Wilkins manages Geor- Institute of Technology gia Commute Options, a $20 million Watkins’ research includes commuter travel program. She serves multi-modal transportation plan- as strategist and content manager for ning and the use of technology ATLtransit.org and spearheads activities in transportation. She co-cre- for the Transform 285/400 Major Mobility ated the OneBusAway pro- Investment project on behalf of the organiza- gram for greater Seattle-Ta- tion. Wilkins currently serves as the President coma in Washington state, of WTS Atlanta, a role she assumed in 2017. winning numerous awards for the project. She was named a Top 40 under 40 from Mass Transit Magazine in 2013 and New Faculty Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers in 2017.

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DORIS WILLMER, P.E., LEED AP LISA WOODS, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE President, Willmer Engineering Inc. Project Manager, HNTB Not only has Wilmer led her own firm for Before becoming a project the past 35 years, she has spearheaded in- manager for HNTB, Woods de- dustry growth in Georgia for four decades. signed many bridges around She has won countless awards, including the State of Georgia. Woods is the 2017 Georgia Society of Professional En- Past President of the Georgia Sec- gineers Lifetime Achievement in Engineering tion of the American Society of Civil Award and the Association of Civil Engineers Engineers (ASCE), holding multiple Georgia Section Engineer of the Year in Private Prac- positions with the organization. She tice Award. served as the ASCE National Engineers Week Committee Chair for two years and ASHLEY WOLVERTON has been a Region 5 Governor. As a recognized transportation professional in Director of Talent Georgia, Woods is also an active participant in the GPTQ Transportation Forum. Management, Wolverton Wolverton works with the ex- CLAUDIA LYNN ZIBANEJADRAD ecutive team at Wolverton to CEO, Oasis Consulting Services, Inc. align mission and values, im- Leading the team at Oasis Consulting Services, prove performance and in- Zibanejadrad helps maintain the firm’s rep- crease engagement in her role utation for construction quality assurance, as Director of Talent Manage- landfill design, materials testing and ment. In this position, she leads construction management services. She the creation of training and growth runs the 22-year-old firm as a Women’s plans for individual team member Business Enterprise (WBE) and helped ex- success. Her professional strengths lie pand its offerings to civil design, environmen- in creating a culture of engagement through training, communication, tal assessments and geotechnical engineering. effectiveness and teamwork. SMART

MOVESFlexible Schedules, Telecommuting, Mentoring and Leadership Initiatives Help Attract and Retain Talented Women By Lori Johnston

Jenny Jenkins, P.E. entered the engineering fi eld about 20 years ago and didn’t even think about asking her employer what would happen when she started to have children. Unlike females interviewing for intern- ships and jobs today, she didn’t inquire about part-time schedules, maternity leave and fl exibility to juggle both a job and family commitments.

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But Jenkins remembers when a business “They didn’t have the opportunity to work decision was made with that in mind. Her part-time while their children were little,” employer was buying new computers, and says Jenkins, who graduated with a degree in her boss suggested that she get a laptop. She civil engineering in 1999. “If a mom decides wasn’t pregnant at that time, but planned to to take a little bit of time off, even if just time start a family in a couple of years. “I did hope off for maternity leave, and come back part- that I would still be able to continue to have time, it alleviates the fear of, ‘How am I going not just a job, but a career, moving to part- to keep my career if I leave the industry for a time,” says Jenkins, Senior Transportation few years?'” Engineer at VHB, a civil engineering fi rm. More than 20 percent of engineering school When she had her fi rst child in 2007, she scaled graduates are women, but only 11 percent back to 30 hours a week. As for that laptop of practicing engineers are female, “despite — it provided connectivity and access for her decades of academic, federal and employer to work from home, when necessary. Her interventions to address this gender gap,” longtime boss, Tommy Crochet, often says he according to “Stemming the Tide: Why Women depended on her so much — and recognized Leave Engineering,” a 2011 study by University the cost of training new employees — that he of Wisconsin-Milwaukee researchers. One in would rather have her for 30 hours a week four females leave to spend time with family. than zero hours. “When you have someone A key reason why those who did not pursue who is self-motivated, clearly committed work in the fi eld after graduation is because to the company and doing their work, it’s of “their perceptions of engineering as being important that you provide that availability,” infl exible or the engineering workplace says Crochet, a Principal and Transportation culture as being non-supportive of women,” Design Lead — Southeast Region at VHB. according to the study.

Meanwhile, Jenkins, now a mom of two, says Companies that provide schedule fl exibility, many of her former female classmates at the telecommuting and other perks, such as Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia childcare assistance, create a way for women Tech) either became stay-at-home moms or to stay in or return to engineering, especially changed careers because their employers after having a child. Offering incentives makes were unwilling to offer reduced hours or good business sense, say employers, because telecommuting. they can help bridge the workforce gap, as well as fi nd and retain talent. b

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development programs. It’s a long-term, When women remain in the workforce, even intentional investment by Kimley-Horn, a at fewer hours, companies don’t have to national company with more than 80 offi ces spend time and money to fi nd and train their and 3,000 employees, to invest in female replacements. Dual-working households employees and to help women fi ll leadership also present a need for fl exibility and roles in the fi rm, says Emily H. Meador, P.E. understanding, especially when one parent THE and Senior Vice President. “The dynamics of needs to be home before dark or if a spouse our business world are changing, and Kimley- travels often or works longer hours. DYNAMICS Horn has recognized that,” Meador says.

“In the current hiring climate, good OF OUR Women comprise an increasing number employees are too valuable, so we’ve got to BUSINESS of both top engineering graduates and the work with our employees. It’s too hard to fi rm’s clients, but a disproportionate number fi nd available good talent right now,” says WORLD ARE of Kimley-Horn’s practice builders are male. Taylor Wright, P.E., Vice President and Sector Kimley-Horn recognized that “we have talent Manager at Atkins, part of SNC-Lavalin's CHANGING. that we need to retain, and at a certain age, Engineering, Design and Project Management we learned we were losing many of our business, that provides fl exible schedules, women,” Meador notes. “It’s something that part-time options, working from home and from a talent retention perspective we wanted even an arrangement where employees don’t says Bruce McNitt, Senior Vice President of to address, but also a way to be current with work during school holidays. Arcadis. “That’s the challenge.” the expectations that are out there in our business world.” But it’s not just benefi ts that retain women THINKING LONG-TERM in the workplace, but also mentoring LIFT took off at Kimley-Horn three years ago The “Stemming the Tide” study also and leadership development programs. and continues to evolve with new benefi ts found that key supportive people in the Some fi rms recognize the importance of and support for female employees, along organization, such as supervisors and co- mentoring, especially providing that support with accolades. It’s among the reasons why workers, infl uenced decisions among to females with excellent organization Kimley-Horn was named Employer of the Year women to stay in the engineering fi eld. and communication skills that give them by Women's Transportation Seminar – Atlanta “Current women engineers who worked in leadership potential. (WTS Atlanta), Fortune magazine’s 100 Best companies that valued and recognized their Workplaces for Women and a Diversity Award contributions and invested substantially in “We’ve been really successful the last fi ve from the American Water Works Association. their training and professional development, years of bringing some outstanding young expressed greatest levels of satisfaction with women into our practice. I fi nd that they’re LIFT, which stands for Lasting Impact their jobs and careers,” the study notes. the best-qualifi ed candidates, but the thing for Tomorrow, is an initiative to support that is a challenge for us — and it’s something women and help them reach their full career LIFT’s career development component we’ve got to fi gure out — is how to take these potential through networking events, family- includes bringing in a third-party consultant outstanding young women practitioners and focused tools (such as backup childcare and for an annual workshop with rising women help them get into leadership positions,” maternity transition coaches) and targeted leaders in the fi rm.b

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They learn how to leverage their professional brand, engage their network externally and recognize the importance of feedback, says Meador, who has participated in the workshop. “The career development training helped me with a sense of professional awareness and to understand that opportunities for my own career were bigger than I had ever even expected,” she adds.

Another facet is LIFT talks that are led and THE CAREER moderated by women in leadership at Kimley- Horn who offer their secrets for success via DEVELOPMENT audio and video conferences. Topics are focused on career growth and leadership TRAINING HELPED development instead of technical training and have ranged from confi dence and ME WITH competence to taking the lead and building A SENSE OF trust. In addition, when a woman prepares to go PROFESSIONAL on maternity leave, a maternity transition team works with her on a transition plan to AWARENESS AND determine how her projects and clients will be managed while she’s on leave. Women TO UNDERSTAND can also elect to have a mom buddy, another Kimley-Horn woman who has experienced THAT OPPORTUNITIES the process, even recently, who can answer questions on a professional and personal FOR MY OWN level to provide a support network. In addition, a mom coach — an external certifi ed CAREER WERE professional — is available to provide support BIGGER THAN I during this time of transition. “We get excited when our women want to come back, HAD EVER EVEN whether it's after a typical maternity leave, or if they decided to do something different and EXPECTED. decide to return,” Meador says. Investing in women manifests itself in a variety of ways, but an initial sign of success is that two of the last four winners of the fi rm’s Practice Builder of the Year — the most prestigious internal award — have been women. b

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LEAVING THE “CLOCK IN, CLOCK to relationships with OUT” MENTALITY BEHIND clients, Wright didn’t want to lose her as an Throughout the industry, employers and employee. “She’s always managers recognize that scheduling is one of the biggest challenges, especially if parents working to advance the need to work around kids’ activities and team and to keep the I PROBABLY schedules, or quickly react to emergencies team together,” Wright and illnesses. says. “Clients really like her. She has the technical WOULDN’T “We don't want to ignore that many women skills and the personal BE WHERE I’M have a challenge when they become a skills.” mother, in terms of understanding what their AT CAREER- career may look like going forward and how Female professionals to manage all of these demands on time,” involved in LIFT have WISE WITHOUT Meador says. helped Kimley-Horn identify areas to boost THIS FLEXIBILITY For about nine years, Nikki Reutlinger, P.E. benefi ts, such as with AND I COULD worked on a part-time basis for Atkins, which schedule fl exibility and she joined in 2004, before she had her two childcare. “I travel as a NEVER HAVE children, now 10 and 11. When her children part of my role, so there were born, fl exibility was huge as she dropped are long days and then BEEN THE her work schedule to between 10 and 15 there are shorter days,” MOM THAT I hours a week. As her children grew older, she Meador says. “It's just increased her workload to 24 hours or more culturally not a problem WANTED TO BE. a week, which provided benefi ts and still when my child has a allowed her to participate in their activities doctor's appointment and take time off for doctor’s appointments. or if they get sick and “I know some companies didn't have as many I need to leave to go pick them up. As long options as I was afforded,” she says of the as our clients and our teams have access to experience, “but the fact that I could go to our people, we've made it a statement as a 24 hours and still have insurance benefi ts was company that we're very open to various huge.” fl exible arrangements.”

Like Jenkins, she credits a good relationship At VHB, Jenkins and Crochet recognize that a regular meeting time to touch base with Wright, her boss, for allowing her to fl exible schedules work best when people at least once a week and keeping open have a fl exible schedule and career growth. have shown a level of responsibility and communication. Reutlinger works during “He’s always tried to help me with my career dedication to a company. “The one word is the school day and sometimes at night, so so that being part-time isn’t a hindrance,” loyalty,” says Crochet. “We try to show loyalty that she can be available after school for her says Reutlinger, who graduated in 1998 from to our staff and we get it in return. When children. Georgia Tech with a civil engineering degree something comes up, we’re going to deal with and now is a Project Director for Atkins. it and fi nd a way to work it out to keep them “There’s no way that I could work 40 hours on board with us.” sitting in an offi ce for eight hours a day. I’d Having Reutlinger stay involved with the have to quit,” Reutlinger says. “I probably fi rm, even at fewer hours, was valuable. From To make a fl exible schedule and working wouldn’t be where I’m at career-wise without the in-house training and lunch-and-learn outside the offi ce successful, Reutlinger this fl exibility and I could never have been the sessions with vendors that she organizes and Wright took steps such as establishing mom that I wanted to be.”

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40 ENGINEERING GEORGIA BAL ANC ING ACT From Planning to Partnerships to Putting Plans into Action, These Five Women Help Shape the Future of Metro Atlanta

by Lori Johnston Photography By Jennifer Stalcup

These fi ve women who serve as Executive Directors of Community Improvement Districts in metro Atlanta are among the females making names for themselves in Georgia.

They’ve overcome obstacles and stereotypes to become leaders of critical organizations comprised of commercial property owners who tax themselves to fund improvements within those areas. They bring their diverse backgrounds, skill sets and perspectives to a unique intersection of commercial real estate, infrastructure, engineering and politics, which are traditionally male dominated industries.

In doing so, they understand what it takes to develop shared vision, partnerships and teamwork to plan for the future in one of the country’s fastest-growing regions. Here, they share their thoughts on a set of fi ve questions about current projects, their vision and their experiences as women… b

january/february 2018 41 Another project that we will be million project will be completed starting is the Infi nite Loop Trail. in May and we are in progress with It’s a 16-mile trail that travels engineering and design of phase through our district that's in the three. While a GDOT project, our county’s trail plan. We applied to district will be greatly impacted the Atlanta Regional Commission by the summer completion of (ARC) and were selected for the Northwest Corridor Express funding for a grant for that project Lanes. This year, we will also WHAT ARE as well. We are looking forward conduct multiple studies for to getting started with a scoping street and trail networks — all PRIORITY study to get that trail project with connectivity and regional PROJECTS moving forward later this year. access as a top priority. MARSHA ANDERSON BOMAR: IN YOUR We'll be completing our Jimmy Carter Boulevard LCI update, and MARSHA ANDERSON BOMAR CID FOR we have several land development Executive Director, Gateway85 projects that are brewing parallel (formerly Gwinnett Village Community to the development of the overall 2018? Improvement District) corridor plan. We also have some County: Gwinnett infrastructure projects, as well Assumed Role: 2016 as development/redevelopment projects, in the pipeline. The plan ANN HANLON: Our main effort is great shape with that effort, as 87 is going to showcase connectiv- a master planning process, which percent of the funds have already ity projects — both sidewalks we’re estimating should take four been assembled, leaving a gap of and trails — to enhance what to six months. I really want to take $6 million remaining. That money we've already built in that the time to be thoughtful about it will be collected over the next two corridor. We have also re- – to sit down and have face-to-face years prior to its construction. ceived a grant from ARC for meetings with each of our Board a freight study which will members, stakeholders and our In addition, a new primary be kicked off by mid-year to investors so that everybody is very reliever, the Windy Hill/Terrell help us identify the range clear about what we plan to do Mill Connector, is fully funded, of improvements needed to over the next 10 years. and it just needs to go through support the booming manu- its design and permitting. Finally, facturing, warehousing and On a more granular level, we the CID set aside money last year distribution activities will coordinate with each of the to put toward launching a bike in the district. cities within our boundaries, as share program. Look for at least well as the Georgia Department three bike share stations opening We’re also de- of Transportation (GDOT), to up this spring, including stations veloping a true do signal timing in the district. at the Chattahoochee River park rollout of the In partnership with GDOT and units that are within the CID. Gateway85 re- all of those cities, we’re going to branding. Part of be laying some infrastructure to ALYSSA DAVIS: We're going this rollout of the help make the signal timing even through a Sugarloaf LCI (Livable new branding is better. That’s about a $3 million Centers Initiative) master plan telling the story of project over four months. in partnership with Gwinnett the different com- County that started in September ponents that make MALAIKA RIVERS: The Cumberland last year, and plan to complete it up our CID and CID and its partners recently by mid-year. That will really map how they’re contrib- completed $130 million worth of out the vision for the area and our uting to the economy projects; a huge accomplishment long-term vision, along with our of Gwinnett County. for any community. In 2018, the list of projects that will be eligible Board of Directors will consider for funding through the Atlanta TRACY RATHBONE: the next round of projects it Regional Commission. The Town Center CID intends to deliver over the next has 15 active projects decade. In the meantime, the Akers We also have a project that is a in our 2018 work plan Mill Ramp, a $45 million project SPLOST-funded improvement at totaling more than that will construct a north-facing the intersection of Sugarloaf and $53 million. Our top ramp into the Managed Lanes at Satellite, and some improvements infrastructure priority is Akers Mill Road and Interstate 75, to Sugarloaf Parkway. That's really the South Barrett Reliever. continues to be a priority. We're in the gateway to the CID. Phase two of the $43.5

42 ENGINEERING GEORGIA WHAT WAS A MILESTONE PROJECT OR THE LARGEST ANNOUNCEMENT IN YOUR CID IN 2017?

HANLON: The Interstate 285 at BOMAR: We completed our and adds public gath- ALYSSA DAVIS Georgia 400 project (the CID Indian Trail LCI, which has opened ering greenspace. Executive Director, contributed $10 million to the the door for a variety of new We also complet- Sugarloaf GDOT project). That project is developments. That part of our ed improvements Community going to be a huge game changer district has virtually no public and amenities at Improvement for the whole state, and it’s right greenspace/trailhead, but it’s a the Bells Ferry District here in our district. densely populated area. We’re Trailhead, provid- (Sugarloaf CID) working with the county on ing greater access County: Gwinnett creating a greenspace. It will also to our seven-mile Assumed Role: 2017 DAVIS: We were able to get $7.5 Noonday Creek million in SPLOST funds committed tie-in with a project that will go Trail. b to improvements for projects in our under construction in April 2018 CID – that was a huge win for us as — a safe routes-to-school trail a brand-new CID. project on Beaver Ruin Road. It’s the fi rst phase of a three-phrase trail system that will connect RIVERS: Certainly the Braves downtown Norcross all the way successful opening of SunTrust through our district to downtown Park and The Battery Atlanta was Lilburn. the biggest win. The planning and execution by the Braves, the CID, Our CID area garnered Cobb County and the state over approximately $21 million in the past four years resulted in a infrastructure projects from the tremendous win for the community. 2017 Gwinnett County SPLOST, It is truly the best example of most of which the CID will be why infrastructure planning and managing. We’re going to be delivery is so important; it drives developing a robust sidewalk economic development and builds program in the Furniture Row communities while enhancing corridor and also have funding for commercial property values. several bridge improvements in addition to road and intersection We also had other very notable improvements. successes. Governor Nathan Deal helped us cut the ribbon on a $50 million improvement to Cobb RATHBONE: We broke ground Parkway and the bridge connecting and opened the fi rst-of-its-kind Cobb and Fulton Counties. Aviation Park, adjacent to the Cobb Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle County International Airport. The helped us cut the ribbon on park integrates aviation design another $50 million improvement with STEM (science, technology, to Windy Hill, which included a engineering, mathematics) aspects Diverging Diamond Interchange over Interstate 75.

january/february 2018 43 HOW IS PLACEMAKING

PROGRESSING ANN HANLON Executive Director, Perimeter IN YOUR CID? Community Improvement Districts (Perimeter CIDs) Counties: DeKalb and Fulton Assumed Role: 2017 (previously led the North Fulton Community HANLON: This CID was really but a mechanism that would be part of the LCI plan process we're Improvement District) one of the pioneers in creating the conduit for these placemaking going through right now. There a place where everything has a activities. are a lot of people who have a common look and feel in terms of major stake in the future of the aesthetic of the district. I think BOMAR: Unlike many other CIDs, this area and have participat- we’re going to continue to fi nd we do not have a center, but ed through our core teams, more innovative ways to do that, rather a group of unique areas interviews or public meet- through landscaping and signage. and corridors. We have a couple ings. It's fi rst about deter- We want to make sure the district of projects in the pipeline that mining the collaborative is clean, safe and well lit, but also will help signifi cantly advance vision for what we want foster a sense of community here. placemaking in Gateway85. One this area to become, of the most visible ones that and then we're going to develop the list of RATHBONE: While infrastructure you’ll see, hopefully in 2018, is a projects and initia- is key to growth and regional one-mile stretch of Jimmy Carter tives that'll help get connectivity, it is greenspace, Boulevard connecting Best Friend us there. trails, pedestrian connectivity and Road to Best Friend Park. Right gathering spots that promote a now, this is a hill with a bunch of robust quality of life. We are proud weeds, but we plan to turn it into a to have the fi rst CID-sponsored landscaped area with new seating bike share program in the state. area for the Gwinnett County Zagster Town Center is one of the Transit System. This ties in with most successful Zagster programs a larger program of streetscaping in the country with more than along the corridor. 20,000 trips and 8,000 members in less than two years. We have We’re also working with multiple stations along our seven- a property owner with mile Noonday Creek Trail and an older, traditional plan to open additional stations 1970s-style shopping this year. center on Jimmy Carter Boulevard. There is a lot of opportunity to densify RIVERS: The Cumberland CID’s it and create what would master visioning effort, Blueprint be similar to a small town Cumberland, was updated last center for our district. We year. Blueprint Cumberland 3.0 will be utilizing some innovative recommended a few placemaking fi nancing tools to make some of the efforts: fi rst, an enhanced or components economically viable. elevated standard of design; second, animating the public realm – public art and so forth; DAVIS: Since Sugarloaf CID was and third, a connected network formed in 2016, placemaking is of greenspace. The CID intends something we’re just starting to to establish a 501(c)(3), a legally address. Coming up with a place- separate agency from the CID, making vision is an important

44 ENGINEERING GEORGIA AS YOU BEGIN 2018, AND MOVING FORWARD, RIVERS: The Braves accelerated WHAT IS YOUR a different type of community in Cobb. Whereas this commercial district has traditionally been driv- VISION FOR able suburban, now it is becoming more compact and walkable urban THE CID? given the intense development over the past three years. With more than $6 billion in real estate assets, Cumberland is Cobb’s economic engine, as well as the HANLON: One of the most markets would love to have home of its performing arts cen- reasons I was interested – MARTA stations and an inter- ter, Chattahoochee River Corridor in this role is because change project just to name a few. and now Major League Baseball. I live in the communi- So, I think the opportunity at Pe- The community is rapidly evolving ty. I’ve lived in Dun- rimeter is huge and the future of into a different type of district and woody for 13 years. Perimeter is going to be building its stakeholders and policy makers I think this is one of on the transit that we have. need to keep pace with its needs in the most dynamic order to continue the momentum. business districts RATHBONE: Our $1.3 billion in in the country. real estate assets, 5.7 million square BOMAR: Whether you’re coming It already feet of offi ce and retail space, 99 to or leaving Gwinnett County, we has a lot percent occupancy rate, No. 1 are the gateway. We are the front of the ranking in hospitality demand in door to the county, and we’re the assets metro Atlanta, plus, our district last thing you experience when that assets, including an international you’re leaving. It’s kind of this airport, the third largest university hidden gem, but what we haven’t in the state and a beautiful nation- had is that highly visible transfor- al park, places us in an enviable mational change. I see 2018 as position that requires long- the time when that real transfor- range planning. mational change is going to be revealed. Our image is going to be We recently adopted a very different at the end of the year new master plan, envi- through a variety of investments sioning more than 48 and robust messaging. projects totaling $165 million in new invest- DAVIS: Looking at the vision for ments in the community the area, it's really for this to be over the next fi ve to 15 years, Gwinnett’s downtown. It's already so the future is bright. a central hub for businesses, and then we also have the major re- TRACY RATHBONE gional draw here with the Infi nite Executive Director, Town Energy Center. It's in the heart Center Community Improvement of our district. The goal is for the District (Town Center CID) whole Sugarloaf area to become County: Cobb more dense, more walkable, more Assumed Role: 2015 connected, more accessible. b

january/february 2018 45 DAVIS: When I was fi rst starting appointments committee to real- out, working in the CID world ly try to grow the base of women (I started at the intern level and who are getting put in leadership worked my way up), there were positions in the transportation times when I would go to a meet- industry around metro Atlanta. ing and I was the only female in And this is something we talk a lot the room, so men would assume about. Women are natural prob- I was there to get coffee or take lem solvers, and in transportation WHAT ARE notes. I think women often have in metro Atlanta, the situations to work harder to prove them- that we’re dealing with are com- THE LARGEST selves and sometimes that feels plicated. The issues that we’re more diffi cult. But, I would also trying to solve with traffi c, transit, CHALLENGES add to that: starting out in my economic development and rapid career, I worked at the Gwinnett growth – women are a natural fi t THAT YOU Village CID – now Gateway85 to deal with those circumstances – and for many years, I was the because we’re good decision mak- HAVE only female employee there. My ers and good problem solvers. boss, who was male, is the one OVERCOME who gave me the opportunity for I don’t think I would call it a chal- – OR CONTINUE TO FACE – growth, to lead me where I am lenge. I truly think it’s an oppor- today. Having great mentors is so tunity. I think for women in the important for any woman working fi eld of engineering and transpor- AS A FEMALE in this fi eld – and great mentors tation, and especially in Georgia can be male or female. today with such a rapidly growing LEADER? economy – it’s our time to shine. RATHBONE: Fortunately, I have had the tremendous benefi t of working for individuals who have BOMAR: Over the years, I’ve al- gether is a strategic puzzle. Having invested in my development, pro- ways encountered individuals, said that, I’m a single parent and vided me opportunity to grow my mostly men, but not exclusively, when I get home, my kids just leadership skills and encouraged who struggle to take direction want me to be mom. I think as a me to advance personally and pro- from a female. I’m pleased to say female you are always “on” – bal- fessionally, regardless of my gen- that I don’t encounter as much ancing your career and your home der. While our engineering and of that as I used to come across. life, and the days are long. You are governmental partners frequently Part of it may be my white hair; I the one who's got to keep things have fewer females among their think over the years, I’ve earned running. That’s tiring and joyful leadership ranks, I have found my credibility. But I still encoun- and stressful and wonderful all at strong women leaders at all levels. ter people who don’t accept me the same time. I was raised by strong female role or my vision and it’s obvious that models and choose many it’s strictly based on my being a As a professional, one of the best tenacious, smart women female. things that I've done is to build a among my mentors. As a network of similar professionals. result, I have never viewed One of the reasons I coach is to In my case, female professionals my gender as an obstacle, help both men and women with – lawyers, lobbyists, urban plan- rather taking great pride issues like this: sometimes men ners, business executives – who in the often pleasant sur- don’t realize that they’re reacting provide a wonderful support sys- prise a strategic, collabo- to women in this way and some tem for me. If there’s anything I rative, yet distinctively fe- women need coaching on how would say to a younger woman male approach, can bring to constructively change that per- early in her career is this: sur- to a stereotypically male ception, change the dialogue and round yourself with people who work environment. project the confi dence that allows can provide you with a system you to be accepted. that you can lean on, and you in HANLON: I’m very ac- turn, can be that person for them. tive in WTS — Women’s It’s been very valuable for me and RIVERS: I have an exciting, yet Transportation Semi- I have gotten so much more out challenging, career. I love aligning nar — Atlanta Chapter. of it than I ever thought. You’d be the technical, political and fi nan- I co-founded with my surprised how many other profes- cial tracks in order to deliver im- colleague Mary Sallach, sional women are also looking for provements that make a difference with GRTA and SRTA, an that same type of dynamic. in a community. Blending the people, the money and the politics to- MALAIKA RIVERS Executive Director, Cumberland Community Improvement District (Cumberland CID) County: Cobb 46 ENGINEERING GEORGIA Assumed Role: 1996 january/february 2018 47 EngineeringTechnology GA| SPOTLIGHT | FEATURE

BUILDING THE SMART ROAD One-of-a-Kind Testing Lab on Interstate 85 Looks to Change Highways of the Future

By Heather Collins

48 ENGINEERING GEORGIA very year, cars are getting smarter. But, these smart a place where she said she could foster emerging transportation cars, armed with advanced electronics to increase gas technologies that decrease the environmental impacts and increase mileage, decrease driver error and protect passengers, both the safety and economic benefi ts of the highway system. still drive on highways that have not drastically Etechnologically changed in nearly a century. We have smart cars. NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMARTER ROADS Where are the smart roads? Working with Innovia Technology, a global innovation consultant, Kelly says The Ray’s Board of Directors chooses projects that focus It turns out the “smart road” of the future is being tested here in on increasing safety and leveraging land assets, as well as combining Georgia, on an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 near the Alabama/ energy and transportation technology. The Ray’s current projects Georgia border called The Ray. The Ray is the fi rst publicly accessible include a solar paneled roadway, a tire pressure and tread depth lab for new transportation technologies in the United States. measuring drive-thru, a solar-powered electric car charging station and right-of-way solar farming. With a goal of “zero deaths, zero waste, zero carbon, zero impact,” The Ray enables transportation-related prototypes, like solar paneled Wattway roads and right-of-way alternative energy farming, to be tested in real life situations. It also gives the public a chance to use brand-new One of the ways to make a road smarter, Kelly says, is to consider how technology, says Allie Kelly, Executive Director of The Ray. “We want the travel lane can multi-task. With Wattway, a solar panel roadway to help socialize and build awareness of – and even increase – the innovation, freeway lanes that are not being used for travel are used general public’s comfort level with these technologies,” she adds. to gather and convert solar energy to power traffi c lights, electric vehicle charging stations or even homes and businesses. A LIVING LEGACY The Ray organization was founded in 2015 According to Kelly, Wattway is a thin, photovoltaic to honor the green initiatives and ecological ZERO DEATHS cell enveloped in a patented protective material ideology of the late Ray Anderson. Anderson was that is skid resistant and adhesive. “You don’t a pioneer in industrial environmentalism and ZERO WASTE even have to redo the road,” Kelly says. The slim championed sustainable business practices both cells adhere directly to the existing roadway, at his own Atlanta-based carpet manufacturing negating the need for major construction. company, Interface, Inc., and around the world. ZERO CARBON After watching the cells in practice, Kelly and To honor Anderson’s contributions to the ZERO IMPACT Langford were impressed with their strength. industry and dedication to the environment, the “Harriet and I have seen 18 wheelers drive over state of Georgia renamed 18 miles of Interstate these cells on the Ray,” Kelly adds. 85 near Interface, Inc.’s headquarters, the Ray C. Anderson Memorial Highway. One kilometer of Wattway road can power a city of 5,000 people, according Anderson’s daughter and President of to Wattway’s parent company, The Ray, Harriet Anderson Langford, COLAS. Kelly says that the Ray’s says she was honored by the state’s 50-square-meter installation of the gesture, but realized “we put a Wattway is the fi rst installation green industrialist’s name on of the product anywhere in a dirty highway, and that was the world outside of France unacceptable.” and helps provide energy to the Georgia Visitor With the support of her Information Center, family’s foundation – The Ray located at Mile 1 on C. Anderson Foundation – The Ray. b Langford created The Ray,

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WheelRight Langford says that a lot of people don’t realize that improperly Most mid-price EVs are limited to about 100 miles of electric power infl ated tires and worn treads waste gas and can become a safety per charge. The solar-powered charging station on The Ray adds a hazard. In fact, approximately 200 people die in tire-related way-point for EVs to recharge, making the 147-mile trip between the crashes a year according to The National Highway Traffi c Safety two cities possible. Administration. “We wanted to create public awareness of the safety issue,” Langford says, so The Ray installed WheelRight. ROW Solar Farming One of the fi rst areas that Langford says she wanted to address when According to Langford, WheelRight is a drive-over tire safety system starting The Ray was the approximately 250 acres of land adjacent and is the fi rst public access station of its kind in the country. Located to the Ray C. Anderson Memorial Highway. So often, Kelly says, at the Georgia Visitor Information Center on The Ray, Langford said these acres just sit in the expense column of state departments of WheelRight automatically measures your tread depth and pressure transportation (DOTs); the land costs money to plant and maintain, in real time as you drive through a cadre of cameras and gauges. At but could do more than just buffer the freeway. “We believe there is the end of the drive-thru, a kiosk emails or prints a receipt with your revenue generation potential,” Kelly says. tires’ status. The Ray is working with Georgia Department of Transportation The service is (GDOT) and Georgia Power to install a solar fi eld in the right-of- fast and free. “It way of Interstate 85. Georgia is only the third state in the country to measures all the greenlight a project like this and Kelly says the project is win-win-win tread on your for GDOT, Georgia Power and the environment. “More and more, tires in less time DOTs are suffering from diminishing gas tax and congressional than it takes to get a burger at budget cuts. We are looking at how to diversify revenue streams for McDonald’s,” adds Kelly. DOTs,” she says.

EV Charging Station Once Georgia Power builds the solar panels, Kelly says the company Electric vehicle (EV) will take over the maintenance of the land, and therefore the cost, charging stations have from GDOT. “At a minimum, GDOT can move the land from a been around for years, loss to a neutral,” she explains. This type of project could easily so this project doesn’t be replicated along freeways across the United States, generating always seem exciting, clean energy and potential revenue from renewable energy credits, notes Kelly. However, according to Kelly. she adds that, “by putting in one WORKING TOWARD IMPLEMENTABLE CHANGE station at The “Anything we’ve learned about, we’re always willing to share,” Ray, we opened Langford says about the technologies being tested at The Ray, and travel from the many more to come. According to Kelly, the most important Birmingham way to ensure The Ray’s work is shareable is to move the projects to Atlanta.” through the appropriate government approval and permitting processes. “If you want something replicable, it has to have a permit,” she says.

Receiving approval from GDOT and other state and local governmental departments makes these new technologies more likely to be approved elsewhere in the country. “We need a community of practice,” Kelly adds. “It’s the only way to have a national discussion about these technologies – and what we do is absolutely replicable anywhere.” b

50 ENGINEERING GEORGIA january/february 2018 51 Q&A WITH EngineeringTechnology GA| SPOTLIGHT | FEATURE ALLIE KELLY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE RAY, AND HARRIET ANDERSON WHAT DO YOU FOCUS ON WHEN CONSIDERING NEW LANGFORD, PROJECTS? HL: We are always looking for new technologies that will add PRESIDENT benefits and value to our highways. WHAT WAS YOUR INITIAL GOAL FOR THE RAY? OF THE RAY HL: We wanted to have a restorative, positive effect on the AK: We do our own due diligence. We go overseas to see the highway. We looked at safety issues and the existing land – technology and have a one-on-one experience with the scientists and about 250 acres – and wanted to maximize that asset. Then this products. Our partner, Innovia Technology, provides a global view. There whole new area of technology became apparent. We just weren’t is new technology coming out all the time. sure what we could accomplish. WHAT TRANSPORTATION ISSUES ARE IMPORTANT IN THE AK: When we started, we were thinking only of this specific place NEAR FUTURE? and how we could improve it. Harriet and I Googled sustainable AK: The infrastructure/EV charging gap needs to be addressed. Smart highway and there was nothing there… and we were shocked that cars, by-and-large, are electric and when people begin to adopt them for there was nothing there! safety reasons, the infrastructure we have will be incomplete.

HOW HAS YOUR VISION EVOLVED? Allie Kelly HL: If you make a road smart, you can save lives, but there is an AK: We worked with the Georgia Institute for Technology for a ecological effort going on, too. We’re working to improve safety, full year and they delivered a baseline transportation study. For aesthetic and the environment of transportation. the first time, we realized what we do on The Ray could be scaled to have a much broader impact; hundreds of thousands of miles WHICH PROJECT ON THE RAY HAS MADE THE BIGGEST IMPACT could change for the better across the country. SO FAR? AK: All of them are so inspirational and break-through, it’s impossible HL: We find technologies that are emerging that can be tested in to pick just one. The best gift The Ray can give to the world is real life and we look at the holistic opportunities. There are a lot technologies. They can be implemented anywhere; they are replicable of steps involved working with GDOT, as well as local and state all over the world. governments, but that hasn’t stopped the movement. Harriet Anderson Lang ford

52 ENGINEERING GEORGIA january/february 2018 53 54 ENGINEERING GEORGIA 2017 PAC LEADERSHIP CIRCLE CONTRIBUTORS: THE LEADING ENGINEERING COMPANIES IN GEORGIA

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Talk about infrastructure reminds us that Since these items touch every one of our it is time to once again begin working on a lives, their evaluation must be undertaken new Georgia Infrastructure Report Card. conscientiously. To do this, ASCE Georgia This effort includes an evaluation of some selects a team of experts in each aspect. This of the most highly visible aspects of our process takes almost a year and includes an profession – items that touch the lives of all external advisory board review. The results of Georgians and serve as the interface between the assessment are “normalized” into a letter our profession and citizens. The Georgia grade in the familiar A to F format. Infrastructure Report Card is a valuable public service, undertaken by the American Society Do we make a difference? While we can’t take of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Georgia Section full credit for legislation that was passed in every five years, and provides an objective 2015 (House Bill 170 – The Transportation evaluation of the state’s infrastructure. In Funding Act of 2015), the Georgia Section 2014, the Report Card looked at the following of ASCE certainly believes that our 2014 DAN AGRAMONTE, P.E., F.ASCE aspects of Georgia’s infrastructure: Infrastructure Report Card played a role in O’Brien & Gere (OBG) drawing attention to the state’s roads and ASCE Georgia President • Aviation bridges. The data provided in the 2014 Report [email protected] • Bridges Card, which gave Roads and Bridges each a www.ascega.org • Dams grade of “C-” helped to cast a light on this • Drinking Water issue. It is also plausible that the “D-” grade • Energy received by Dams also helped make the case • Parks and Recreation for more inspectors, and we believe the Report • Ports Card successfully highlighted issues that led INFRASTRUCUTRE UPDATE • Rail to additional funding for improvements at the • Roads Port of Savannah. • School Facilities As we start 2018, we can probably all agree • Solid Waste that 2017 was quite a ride! It was a year that • Stormwater brought us a lot of change, many challenges • Transit and an increasingly stronger economy. For • Wastewater news junkies like myself, we were bombarded all year with talk of healthcare, taxes and infrastructure. Professionally, this last item certainly hits close to home.

2014 Georgia Infrastructure Report Card

Snapshot of the 2014 Georgia Infrastructure Report Card grades

You may be contacted to participate in one of the Report Card committees. If you are, we ask that you consider helping For more information please visit us with this tremendous effort. We once www.ascega.org

Contact your legislators to let them know your infrastructure concerns again look forward to the results and www.legis.state.ga.us we remain grateful for all the engineers January 13, 2014 who volunteer their time to help us put the Georgia Infrastructure Report Card 2014 Georgia Infrastructure Report Card Infrastructure impacts all Georgians together. We expect to release the next Report Card in early 2019.

56 ENGINEERING GEORGIA 2017 ASHE HOLIDAY PARTY

It was another full house at ASHE Georgia's annual holiday party in December! Food, drinks and fun were had by all, and a table of toys were donated to Toys for Tots.

ROB DELL-ROSS, P.E. City of Roswell ASHE Georgia President [email protected] www.georgia.ashe.pro

ASHE MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: MINDY SANDERS Project Manager, Pont Engineering

How long have you been in the What involvement have you had with transportation industry in Georgia? ASHE National? I have been in the transportation industry in I am beginning my third year as the Technology Georgia since 1999. Committee Chair. My responsibilities include managing technical aspects of ASHE that help Where are you currently the sections communicate with and support employed and what do you do? one another, as well as their memberships. I have recently become a Project Manager This includes management of the ASHE for Pont Engineering as part of the program National website and the ASHE Cloud. I management team for the Georgia also provide recommendations for other Department of Transportation’s Office of initiatives, such as the membership database, Bridge Design. online surveys and telecom services.

When and how did you first get What’s the number one reason folks involved with ASHE Georgia? should join ASHE? I have been a member of ASHE Georgia since The number one reason to join ASHE is 2001 after attending a monthly meeting with definitely the networking opportunities. my co-workers. Through its technical programs and social activities, ASHE provides a fun environment What positions have you held within to make connections with other engineers the ASHE Georgia organization? and transportation professionals. Soon after joining the organization I began volunteering with ASHE’s social events. I have What else do you do when you aren’t since served as the chapter’s Website Chair, working or volunteering for ASHE? its Secretary, and am currently the 1st Vice In my spare time, I relish time with my family, President. listening to live music, traveling, the outdoors and just about any creative outlet you can What’s your favorite ASHE activity? name. My favorite ASHE activity is the Annual Poker Tournament, of course. Shuffle up and deal. Tell us one fun fact about yourself. I carve a pumpkin in my son’s likeness each year for Halloween. It’s both fun and creepy.

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explained some new changes to the evening that were made to expediate the proceeding without lessening the recognition of the Scholarship winners’ accomplishments. Finally, he introduced GEF Banquet JOHN BONEBERG, P.E. volunteers Beth Harris and Anita Atkinson, who explained the logistics of the awards as O’Brien & Gere (OBG) dinner ended. GEF President [email protected] While each of the scholarship winners have www.GEFinc.org exceptional academic credentials, most have RECOGNITION OF AN OUTSTANDING very diverse interests. A few fun facts about GEF VOLUNTEER: JULIE SECRIST, P.E. some of the scholarship winners include: Julie is just one of the many volunteers that keep GEF functioning year after year. In 2017, Julie took over as the • One student was adopted from China GEF Scholarship Awards Chairman. She was responsible 2017 GEORGIA ENGINEERING after her birth family and home were for assisting with the development and implementation FOUNDATION BANQUET RECAP destroyed by the construction of a large of a new web site software application for students to use Georgia Engineering Foundation (GEF) dam. She considers herself lucky to have in submitting applications. This updated and improved President, John Boneberg, opened the 2017 an American life! electronic application process was designed to make it easier for students to submit their initial applications, GEF Banquet on November 16, 2017 at • One student comes from a family with and then to resubmit annually. It also provided much the Dunwoody Country Club, followed by strong military history: the grandfather needed data management programs to help evaluate a reception for scholarship winners, their and three uncles all were Generals in the and validate applications. Under Julie’s leadership and parents and guests, along with scholarship U.S. Army. the implementation of this new electronic application donors and presenters. • One student traveled to Vietnam for six process, the number of submitted applications counted weeks to teach English. more than 460 – double the previous year. Prior to the banquet, Boneberg recognized • One student studied abroad and worked all the parents, family, spouses and guests. in a terraced rice farm in Southern China. Of course, this increased Julie’s work load, as well as He gave a brief history of GEF and explained • One student designed an electric the number of volunteers needed for interviews; but Julie how the various annual and endowment skateboard capable of 26 miles per hour! made it all happen. A total of 140 face-to-face interviews were conducted with applicants to select and award 45 scholarships have been created over the last • One student sings bass in the Georgia scholarships totaling $84,000.00. 45 years by donors to GEF, as well as thanked Tech Chorale and is currently learning a all the donors and presenters in attendance. song in French.

Special recognition was given to one GEF Want to get involved with helping these volunteer who has been presenting a students receive scholarships to pursue a scholarship for more than 45 years. Boneberg degree in engineering? Visit www.gefinc.org also recognized the return of A/E firm Pond to join GEF as a volunteer and attend our next as a scholarship sponsor. In addition, he meeting.

I FIND GEF BOARD MEMBERSHIP SO REWARDING BECAUSE I GET THE OPPORTUNITY Jeff Amason with Cohen Amason Law Firm, LLC presents Kathryn TO WORK WITH MANY Youngblood with a scholarship during the annual banquet. GREAT LEADERS TO IDENTIFY AND ENCOURAGE GEORGIA'S MOST PROMISING FUTURE ENGINEERS. -JULIE SECRIST, P.E. 58 ENGINEERING GEORGIA STEVE STRONG, P.E. Televes USA GSPE President GSPE SPOTLIGHT: [email protected] LAURA BUCHANAN, P.E. www.gspe.org Laura is the Northwest Georgia Chapter Director on the GSPE state board, and also serves as the Northwest Georgia Chapter MATHCOUNTS Coordinator. Betty Jean Jordan, P.E., MS4CECI Executive Director, GSPE Q: How did you become interested Q: What have you enjoyed most in engineering, and what led you about your engineering career? When I was little, I loved playing with my blocks and Legos. I to your current position? A: As a Protection and Control Senior Test would secure one end of my Hot Wheels track in the bench A: I have a genuine curiosity about how things Engineer, I commission, test, maintain and of my family’s electric organ, making a huge hill down to work and a desire to learn about many different troubleshoot electrical substation equipment, the floor. Then I built bridges for the track to run through. subjects. As a child, I would hold a flashlight for protective relays, and controls. I am a first What a thrill to see my Hot Wheels cars zoom through the my dad and ask endless questions while he was responder for substation issues, which sometimes course I created! working on automobiles. I enjoyed and excelled in involves isolating or repairing a problem and math and science classes in school. Obtaining a restoring power to customers. I enjoy working in degree in engineering was a logical way to use my the field on short term projects. Field engineering My father often said, “You should go to Georgia Tech and skills and satisfy my interests. I first considered tasks allow me to see the finished product and be a Civil Engineer.” I never guessed that’s exactly what I aerospace engineering and wanted to work for troubleshoot when things don’t work as designed. would do! My father is a Georgia Tech graduate himself and NASA, but my practical mind worried about the I remember stories from my dad and husband a now-retired industrial engineer. He could discern early on cyclical job market and the influence of politics on about receiving design prints that looked great on what my interests and abilities were, always encouraging program funding. I chose mechanical engineering paper but would never work in the “real world.” I me in those directions. He supported my older sister in because the coursework covered a broad range of never wanted to be an engineer that produced a similar ways; she went to Agnes Scott College and majored topics and would allow me to pursue a career in design in the office that didn’t function correctly in French, just as our father recommended. He valued our many different areas. During my senior year at the in the field. A well-rounded engineer understands uniqueness. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, I learned about theory and design and can maintain, diagnose, Southern Company and several other engineering and repair equipment during its lifetime. Quality firms at a career fair. After a few interviews, I engineering design factors in the ease and I also attended excellent public schools that gave me a accepted a position with Alabama Power Company, success of future maintenance. solid foundation in all subjects, particularly STEM (science, a subsidiary of Southern Company, in Birmingham, technology, engineering, mathematics). Because of this Alabama. Six years later, I transferred to Georgia Q: What are your favorite incredibly supportive educational environment, I always Power Company, also owned by Southern activities outside of work? believed I could do anything I put my mind to. Maybe that’s Company, and have worked for them in Rome, A: In addition to being an avid reader, I love to why it has rather surprised me when I have experienced Georgia, for almost thirteen years. travel and be outdoors. My thirst for knowledge sexism a few times over the years. I’ve done my best to and understanding cultures encourages me to call it out when it happened, but in general, I’ve simply Q: What has been the most interesting read books about places before visiting them. focused on doing good work and having a positive attitude. or challenging technical issue you After meeting people in many different states I recognize that I’ve had many advantages that give me this have faced in your career? and countries, I have learned that people have confidence. Not everyone is so fortunate. Therefore, I also A: The most challenging part of my current more similarities than differences. I have met have the responsibility to speak out when I see others being position is that I am heavily involved in electrical kind, interesting, and friendly people all over the engineering theory and design. I joke with my world. I view diversity as finding common ground treated unjustly. We all have this responsibility. friends that I am a mechanical engineer who plays and valuing others no matter where they live, what an electrical engineer at work. The truth is that they look like, or what language they speak. In All engineers – and all people – want their work to be engineering principles build a solid foundation general, most people have similar goals to better appreciated. While efforts should be evaluated on their own that can be applied to a variety of disciplines themselves, spend time with their friends and merits, we also must respect the unique perspectives that a and career paths. Mechanical engineering is family, and positively contribute to the world they person brings because of his or her gender, race, nationality, comprised of elements with strong analogies live in. Traveling lets me experience the world religion, sexual orientation, or any other way we group to electrical engineering and vice versa. My through another person’s eyes and realize we are ourselves. coworkers talk in impedance and phasors, while all very much the same. I think more naturally in motion and vectors. Even It would be simpler if we could solve the world’s problems though we may use different terms, the concepts are the same and we can very quickly translate with spreadsheets and algorithms, but we are human. We between electrical and mechanical languages. need each other and the tools that each of us can bring to the table. Let’s listen to each other and work together for all our benefit.

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2018 ITE Georgia Board: Alvin James with Kimley-Horn (Affiliate Director), Scott Mohler with AECOM (District Representative to the Southern District), Tracy Shandor with Kimley-Horn (District Representative to the Southern District), Paul Slone with WSP, USA (District Representative to the Southern District), Kate D’Ambrosio Shearin with the Georgia Department of Transportation (Secretary/Treasurer), Jody Peace with Arcadis (Vice President), France Campbell with City of Sandy Springs | AECOM (President) and Marco Friend with Jacobs (Immediate Past-President). FRANCE CAMPBELL, P.E. City of Sandy Springs | AECOM Chapter used the time as an opportunity to • Grow the Transportation Engineer Talent Pool Statewide: One of ITE Georgia President present awards and scholarships to deserving members. There were seven scholarships the largest challenges we face in our [email protected] awarded this year totaling $20,000.00! Award industry in Georgia currently is a lack www.gaite.org recipients included: of transportation engineers. A focus on • Marsha Anderson Bomar – Transportation collaboration with other professional MESSAGE FROM Professional of the Year Winner organizations, neighboring states, the • Georgia Department of Transportation Southern District ITE and International ITE GEORGIA ITE'S – Georgia Section Agency Award Winner will help promote our industry in Georgia. PRESIDENT, • Paul Slone – John D. Edwards, Jr. • Invest in our Membership: Invest FRANCE CAMPBELL Individual Achievement Award Winner financially back into our membership in Happy New Year fellow • Scott Mohler – Karl Bevins a manner that encourages development, Georgia engineers! I Distinguished Service Award Winner growth, involvement and retention. ITE Georgia’s 2018 President am honored to serve • Chris Maddox – Marsha Anderson Bomar • Provide Diverse Professional France Campbell, P.E. as the President of Outstanding Young Member Award Training: To ensure our membership the Georgia Section • Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. – Georgia Section is well-rounded, we should increase of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Innovation in Transportation Award our focus on providing training on (ITE) for 2018 and I’m excited about all of the • Alan Davis – Georgia Section soft skills (communications, etiquette, events and activities we have planned for this Idea Sharing Award etc.) and leadership skills. year. I have been involved with ITE for nearly • Jim Pohlman – Georgia Section • Listen: Seek input from former Chapter 15 years and I have always been impressed with Award of Special Recognition Past Presidents and members on areas how my career and personal life have benefited • Abhilasha Saroj, Georgia Institute where they would like to see change. from my involvement in the organization. With of Technology (Georgia Tech) – John the focus of this issue being on “Women in D. Edwards Memorial Scholarship UPCOMING EVENTS Engineering," we are excited to welcome two • 2017 Student Scholarship recipients – Javon Mark your calendars for the ASHE/GAITE women – Kate D’Ambrosio Shearin with the Jones, Georgia Southern University (GSU); Winter Workshop in Brasstown Valley Resort Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Tu Nguyen, Georgia Institute of Technology and Spa in Young Harris, Ga. from March 4-5, and Tracy Shandor with Kimley-Horn – to the (Georgia Tech); Brandon Thomas, 2018! Get engaged while learning in a hands- ITE Board. Kennesaw State University; Lauren Gardner, on workshop environment. Georgia Tech; Yuanbo Wang, Georgia DECEMBER ANNUAL MEETING AND Tech; and William Wollery, Georgia Tech Also, join us for upcoming Monthly Meetings AWARDS BANQUET RECAP (typically the second Thursday of the month) We celebrated our Annual Meeting and Awards GOALS FOR 2018 and social activities. Learn more by visiting Banquet in December 2017 at the Buckhead • Collaborate: Work more closely www.gaite.org. Maggiano’s. There was a full house of 120 with complimentary professional members who gathered to look back at the organizations, such as ASHE, GPA, Thanks again to all of our ITE volunteers and success our section had in 2017, as well as ITS Georgia, WTS, YPT, etc. please let me know if you would like to be recognize our colleagues' accomplishments. more involved in 2018! Scott Higley, Director of Communications for GDOT, was the Keynote Speaker; he discussed the communication plan for the Interstate 85 bridge collapse and how GDOT communications are evolving.

In addition, the 2018 Board members were sworn in during the meeting and the

60 ENGINEERING GEORGIA ITS GEORGIA 2018 JENNY JOHNSON, P.E., PTOE, IMSA TS II Kimley-Horn LEADERSHIP ITS Georgia President President [email protected] Jenny Johnson, Kimley-Horn www.itsga.org ______

Vice President MESSAGE FROM ITS GEORGIA Winter Horbal, Temple PRESIDENT, JENNY JOHNSON ______

I want to thank the members of ITS Georgia for Secretary electing me to serve as President for the next two Marc Start, AECOM years. ITS Georgia is a great organization with a ______tremendous legacy of leadership in the field. Working with the Board of Directors and membership, I hope Treasurer to build, and expand, upon the traditions of our award- Xuewen Le, Atkins winning chapter to make it as dynamic and exciting as ______our industry is today. Immediate Past President Without a doubt, this is an exciting time to be in the transportation Mike Holt, WSP industry, with major innovations in intelligent transportation technology and solutions coming ______almost daily. Georgia, and its cities and counties, have been leaders in ITS development and deployment for more than 20 years with ITS Georgia providing the support to keep us at the Directors forefront. Bill Andrews, City of Sandy Springs Mark Demidovich, Georgia DOT As a “young” President myself, my goal is to facilitate purposeful communication and focused Matt Glasser, Georgia DOT coordination between our experienced members and our newest members. I hope to attract Alvin James, Kimley-Horn and grow a younger generation of ITS leaders within our organization through direction and Kenn Fink, Kimley-Horn inspiration. Keary Lord, Atkins Whitney Nottage, Intelight My vision is to provide an avenue that fosters collaboration with all stakeholders of the ITS Billy Stalcup, 360ns community – private corporations, public agencies and academic institutions. This type of Dee Taylor, AECOM collaboration is essential in the advancement of research, development and deployment of ITS Tom Udell, CH2M | Jacobs technologies. I also serve as the Advisory Board Chair for the U.S. Department of Transportation ______Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility. These types of partnerships are critical in turning ITS research into real-life projects and solutions. State Chapters Representative Jim Tolson, Arcadis Regarding ITS, we hear a lot about connected/autonomous vehicles. As an avid cyclist, my ______passions lie in making the roads safer and more efficient for all users. My goal is to bring to light other areas where ITS can be used – bicyclists and pedestrians, transit (bus and train), Ex Officio railroad, etc. It would be awesome to broaden the vision of ITS research, developments and Greg Morris, Federal deployments to those not just related to the automotive vehicle. Highway Administration

Congratulations are also in order to Winter Horbal of Temple as Vice President, Marc Start of AECOM as Secretary and Xuewen Le of Atkins rejoining as our Treasurer. Joining them for two-year terms on the Board of Directors are: Bill Andrews, City of Sandy Springs; Mark Demidovich, GDOT; Kenn Fink, Kimley-Horn; Matt Glasser, GDOT; and Dee Taylor, AECOM.

january/february 2018 61 Association | NEWS SAME ATLANTA POST SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN

The SAME Atlanta Post is proud to support women in the field of engineering. We have made strides to ensure that we are sponsoring women to attend SAME National Atlanta Post and Regional conferences, as well as Post Leadership conferences each year. Our Board of Directors includes seven women, including three registered professional engineers. MATT HAUPT, P.E., CPP BSCP ATKINS SAME Atlanta Post President [email protected] www.sameatlantapost.org

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAME Atlanta Post is looking forward to a great year in 2018! We are planning luncheon events at Pamela Little, P.E. is a Past President of the Cindy Miller, P.E. is a Project Manager in Post, current chair of the GEA committee the Government Facilities and Infrastructure the Dunwoody Country Club on for the Post and a Senior Project Manager at Business Group for CH2M, as well as a TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, AND Pond. Pamela won the Tudor Medal in 2014 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. She TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2018. – a national SAME Award given to a civilian is both the Regional Vice President for the We would be happy to young member for engineering leadership. South Atlantic Division of SAME National and Pamela also won a national Commercial Real the 1st Vice President of the Post in the 2016- have you join us! Estate Women (CREW) Impact Award in 2014 2017 year. She is expected to be installed as for Career Advancement for Women. Post President for 2017-2018. In addition, the Atlanta Post is holding its annual Golf Tournament in April Kellie Sak, P.E. is currently the 2nd Vice We are lucky to have the contributions of at the Cobblestone Golf Course in President of the Post and is an Associate other longtime members: Past Post President, Project Manager/Engineer at AMEC Foster Beth Harris, FSMPS, CPSM with United Acworth, Ga. Funds raised will be Wheeler. Consulting, Claudia Penny with HCR used to support SAME Atlanta Post Construction and Sherri Smith, CPSM with operations, including charitable Amita Kotwani, P.E. is currently the GHD, on the Board as well. Gwen Parker donations. The Post donates money Assistant Secretary of the Atlanta Post and with the Parker Connection serves as our President of Vintek Consulting Group, LLC. Small Business Chair. to charitable associations serving our veterans each year. Please contact Additionally, two women serve on our current Howard Ayers at hayers324@gmail. Board of Directors as James Lucas Emeritus Chairs in Post leadership: Scotti Bozeman, com for additional information P.E. and Jane Penny, P.E. Both serve in this on how you can participate in position, which are lifetime appointments. or sponsor the tournament.

62 ENGINEERING GEORGIA a drink, gives engineers the opportunity to strengthen and grow in their own careers, as WILBUR C. BRAGG II, P.E. well as with their peers, thus providing the McVeigh & Mangum Engineering, Inc. profession of structural engineering with a SEAOG President promising class of engineers that will lead the [email protected] profession to a prominent future. www.seaog.org HURRICAN RELIEF UPDATE: GRAHAM BRASIC, P.E., PES Three people are contributing to this edition of the SEAOG news. First, the Chair of the STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS Savannah Chapter will start with a description JOHN O’BRIEN, P.E., S.E., PES of the group’s activities. (Previous editions SEAOG Younger Member Group toured the STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS of this page discussed SEAOG, obviously, renovation progress at Phillips Arena. On September 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma but concentrated on the Atlanta Chapter). made landfall at Cudjoe Key, Fla. as a Category Following will be the Chair of the Young 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 130 miles Member Group (YMG), which is one of the per hour and a 10-foot storm surge. The top five YMG chapters in the National Council YOUNG MEMBER GROUP: storm made a second landfall the same day of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA), BRIAN E. ADORNO, JR., P.E., S.E. at Marco Island, Fla. as a Category 3 hurricane SEAOG’s parent organization. This edition with a seven-foot storm surge. The flooding will close with personal experiences from UZUN+CASE, LLC and winds associated with the storm caused two volunteers for the Structural Engineering Chair, Young Member Group extensive damage throughout Southwest Emergency Response (SEER) Program. The Structural Engineering Association of Florida and the Florida Keys. Georgia Young Member Group (YMG) is a community of structural engineers who focus Following the hurricane, Graham Brasic, SEAOG’S SAVANNAH CHAPTER: on the social aspect of the profession through BRIAN K. SAPP, P.E. P.E., and John O'Brien, P.E., S.E., both from organized events and networking. Through PES Structural Engineers, volunteered for THARPE ENGINEERING GROUP these events, engineers from across the a four-day deployment through the NCSEA Chair, Savannah Chapter state have the opportunity to meet with like- SEER program at the request of the local The Savannah Chapter of SEAOG meets six minded professionals, which promotes casual building departments impacted by the times a year to provide technical learning and engaging discussion in an environment storm. Both worked with local employees opportunities in structural engineering to those different than day-to-day office life. Most and other volunteers to conduct rapid located across coastal Georgia. Attended by a recently, these opportunities have included safety assessments of damaged commercial diverse group of approximately 20 people, the a tour of the Philips Arena renovation, trivia and residential structures using the ATC- meetings cover a broad array of professional night with ASCE, a happy hour with AIA and a 45 procedures. Collectively, the teams topics for multiple occupations including viewing party overlooking the Georgia Dome evaluated hundreds of structures during the government code officials, special inspectors, implosion. deployment, helping the local jurisdictions geotechnical engineers, civil engineers and and residents move towards recovery. structural engineers in industrial, marine, In the new year, YMG will be continuing bridge and building sectors. their involvement with volunteer groups throughout the state and will be hosting EXECELLENCE IN STRUCTURAL The bimonthly presentations highlight local a panel of recently licensed professional ENGINEERING AWARDS issues, such as historic structures and the engineers for a roundtable dialogue with SEAOG is in the beginning its plans for its soil conditions of coastal Georgia, for which those preparing to take the 16-hour Structural biennial Excellence in Structural Engineering learning and collaboration opportunities are Engineering exam. A happy hour or two will (ESE) Awards to be held this spring. The ESE limited. Recent meeting topics have included: surely be in the mix as well. Awards, held during even-numbered years, Techniques for Anchoring into Unreinforced recognizes structural engineers in the state Brick Masonry; Use of 3D Scanning in While the Young Member Group is geared of Georgia who demonstrate a high caliber Structural Engineering; Considerations for towards those engineers in the early stages of creativity, dedication, innovation and Driven Prestressed Piles in Coastal Georgia; of their careers, all are welcome – especially ingenuity in the work that they perform. and FRP Retrofit Column Jackets in Concrete those willing to share and discuss their own Awards are given to projects in several Building Frames. Upcoming presentation personal insights, horror stories and terrible categories and to an individual(s). Please visit topics include: Flood and Coastal Design, jokes. This community of those willing to the SEAOG website – www.seaog.org – for as well as Special Inspection Highlights for share experiences, either first-hand or over details. Structural Engineers. january/february 2018 63 Association | NEWS

REBECCA BOYER, CPSM REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR THE SMPS Atlanta President SMPS SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE IN ATLANTA! www.smpsatl.org Each year, SMPS’s Southeastern Chapters organize and sponsor a regional conference that gathers together marketing and business development professionals from across the chapters for three days of learning and networking.

THE CONFERENCE INCLUDES: PARTICIPATING CHAPTERS • 3 keynotes • Alabama • Atlanta • Central Florida • Charlotte • Nashville • North Florida • Palmetto • Research Triangle • Tampa Bay • 18 break-out sessions • On-going networking The 2018 conference will be hosted in Atlanta • Monday and Tuesday night socials March 5-7, 2018 at The Omni at SunTrust Park! • Charity event We are expecting 200 people at this year’s conference. Join us for incredible content on business development, marketing and professional development from speakers from across the country including the following Atlanta-based speakers:

THANK YOU TO THE ATLANTA-BASED MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE: CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Michelle Erste, CPSM – Wolverton Emily Cannon, CPSM – Brasﬁ eld & Gorrie MALORY ATKINSON, CPSM KAREN CHIN DANIELLE GRAY FINANCE CHAIR: Shear Structural Stantec DG MARKETING Rebecca Boyer, CPSM – KCI Technologies Panelist for Business Get Your Game On: The Eight Pitfalls A/E/C Development Stories Facilitate That Meeting! Firms Face in the Digital from the Upside Down Marketing Realm VENUE/LOGISTICS CHAIR: Emily Cannon, CPSM – Brasﬁ eld & Gorrie

SOCIAL CHAIR: Faith Hoople – Fulcrum Construction

SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS: Mary Jo Butcher – PES Structural Engineers / Karen Chin – Stantec

PROGRAMS CO-CHAIR: BETH HARRIS, CPSM KIM THOMPKINS, CPSM JEN HEBBLETHWAITE Lisa Roberson, FSMPS – United Consulting Pond Graceworks Pre-Conference Ask the Coach Grifﬁ th Engineering Workshop: Making a Case for Certiﬁ cation

SPONSORSHIP ADDS VISIBILITY! Contact us at www.smps-serc.org or Conference Co-Chairs: Michelle Erste ([email protected]) and Emily Cannon (ECannon@Brasfi eldGorrie.com) for registration or sponsorship information! 64 ENGINEERING GEORGIA WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

MALIKA REED WILKINS, PH.D. Atlanta Regional Commission WTS Atlanta President [email protected] DID YOU KNOW THAT www.wtsinternational.org/atlanta APPROXIMATELY WTS ATLANTA RECOGNIZES 50 PERCENT GREAT ENGINEERS, SUCH AS

VICTORIA BRINKLEY OF WTS ATLANTA’S T.Y. Lin International

ANNIE GILLESPIE MEMBERSHIP ARE State Road and Tollway Authority

DAVEITTA JENKINS KNIGHT ENGINEERS? Jacobs

MEG PIRKLE Georgia Department of Transportation We are proud to be the support system and professional development outlet for women engineers in the metro Atlanta area. SHERL WHITE HNTB We salute ACEC for its inaugural “Women in Engineering” issue. In such a male-dominated field, women all across our great state are leading the way and fostering a culture of inclusion And the list goes on! in the field of engineering, as well as transportation.

2017 was an awesome year – and we have even more in store for 2018! Want to be a part of our great organization? Join WTS Atlanta! For more information, to register for an event or learn more about becoming a sponsor, please visit our website at www.wtsinternational.org/atlanta.

january/february 2018 65 A LOOK BACK This retrospective showcases the 1965 era railroad gulch in downtown Atlanta, Ga. Today, the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium and demolished Georgia Dome cover what is now nicknamed “The Gulch.” The area has made headlines in the past months as plans for a large development project take shape. One can only imagine how this city center view will change again in another 50 years. Photography Credit: Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Photographer: Floyd Jillson (1926-2011). 66 ENGINEERING GEORGIA