BSCESNews September 2023

T&DI Boston Chapter/Transportation

VOLUME 48 | ISSUE 1 | September 2023

By Annahid Dastgheib-Beheshti, PE, Arup and Transportation and Development Institute Boston Chapter Chair

As the summer is coming to a close, the Boston Chapter of the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI Boston Chapter) is excited to hit the ground running with two events already scheduled for the Fall. ... Read more

Ashuwillticook Rail Trail

By Nicholas Lapointe, PE, Senior Transportation Engineer/Project Manager, Fuss & O'Neill

The Ashuwillticook Rail Trail, a 2023 ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Silver Award winning project, provides safe walking and bicycling transportation facilities into a commercial area. Fuss & O'Neill recently completed completed the design and construction administration for a 1.56-mile extension of the Trail into Pittsfield, which completes a nearly 14-mile off-road trail from Adams to Pittsfield. ... Read more

Prefabricated Truss Bridge Proves to be a Social, Economic, and Environmental Solution for Great Barrington

By Daniel Holmes, PE, LEED AP, Project Manager, Tighe & Bond and Andrea Lacasse, PE, Structural Engineer, Tighe & Bond, with contributions by Emily White, Proposal & Content Management Specialist, Tighe & Bond and Regina Sibilia, Marketing and Communications Specialist, Tighe & Bond

The town of Great Barrington was faced with a substantial challenge: one of its main bridges, the Division Street Bridge, connecting two state routes, had to be shut down due to deterioration and safety concerns. ... Read more

DeGroot and Kelley Named 2023 BSCES Honorary Members

By Michelle Monette, BSCES Membership Associate

At the 174th BSCES Annual Awards Dinner on June 29, 2023, the BSCES Board of Government was pleased to present the Section's highest award, BSCES Honorary Membership, to Don J. DeGroot, ScD, PE, who is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Paul L. Kelley, PE, who is a Senior Principal at Simpson Gumpertz and Heger Inc. ... Read more

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2023 - 2024 Society Sponsors

BSCES Newsletter Editorial Board

Chair: Michael T. Sullivan, PE

Michael R. Cunningham, PE

Anna Dastgheib-Beheshti, PE

Richard F. Keenan

Rishabh Iyer, PE

Angus J. O’Leary, PE

2023 - 2024 BSCES Board of Government

President: Michael R. Cunningham, PE

President-Elect: Christopher P. Hersey, LEED AP

Secretary: Rishabh V. Iyer, PE

Treasurer: Gregory L. Mirliss, STS

Assistant Treasurer: Vacant

Senior Vice Presidents: Kathryn Swanson, PE, Richard A. Matson, PE

Vice Presidents: Antonios Vytiniotis, PhD, PE, Anuja Kamat, PhD

Past President: Ronald K. Burns, PE, LSP, LEED AP

Western MA Branch Vice President: Vacant

Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute Boston Chapter Chair: Daniel B. Robbins, PE

Construction Institute Boston Chapter Chair: Edward G. Breed

Engineering Management Group Chair: Vacant

Environmental & Water Resources Institute Boston Chapter Chair: Yan Zhang, PhD, PE, CFM

Geo-Institute Boston Chapter Chair: Scott J. Kibby. PE

Structural Engineering Institute Boston Chapter Chair: Diego S. Arabbo, PE

Transportation & Development Institute Boston Chapter Chair: Anna Dastgheib-Beheshti, PE

Utility Engineering & Surveying Institute Boston Chapter Chair: Sean P. Donlon, PE

Younger Member Group Chair: James B. Gayle

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CHA Consulting, Inc. | Collins Engineers, Inc. | Dewberry | GEI Consultants, Inc.

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HNTB | Howard Stein Hudson | Hoyle, Tanner & Associates, Inc. | Nitsch Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. Skanska USA Civil | Stantec | Tighe & Bond | TranSystems

TREVIICOS | Tufts University - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Vanasse & Associates, Inc. | VHB | Weston & Sampson | WSP USA Inc.

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