DBIA-HR Owner's Only Forum Wednesday, October 20, 2021

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DBIA-HR Owner's Only Event

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

3:30 - 5:00 PM

This Owner's-Only event provides a valuable educational and networking opportunity to learn more about Design-Build project delivery. The session will include discussions from other Public Sector Owners who have successfully used collaborative techniques to deliver critical infrastructure projects in Hampton Roads.

SPEAKERS:

Aaron B. Small, P.E.

Aaron Small has served as City Engineer for the City of Williamsburg, his hometown, since 2013. In that position, he has overseen all aspects of engineering input for City capital projects as well as working with operation and maintenance personnel with the City's streets, landscape, drainage, water and sanitary sewer systems. Prior to entering public service he worked for as a consulting engineer in the Williamsburg area since 1999 and in Southside Hampton Roads prior to that. He has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech. He resides in the Williamsburg area with his wife, Toni (also an engineer), and has 3 children attending college this fall, all in engineering.

Bruce W. Husselbee, PhD, P.E., DBIA

Bruce W. Husselbee is the Director of Engineering for the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD). He has worked for HRSD for twenty-five (25) years. Prior to HRSD, he worked in the consulting engineering field for twelve (12) years. His responsibilities include the management of the Asset Management, Design & Construction and Planning & Analysis Divisions. A major role for his department includes implementing HRSD’s $3B, 10-Year Capital Improvement Program. Mr. Husselbee has been active with many of the professional organizations in the local area including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Engineers Club of Hampton Roads and is the past Chair of the ODU Civil and Environmental Engineering Visiting Council. Mr. Husselbee is the past chair of the Water Environment Federation Utility Management Committee and a member of the VWEA Utility Management Committee. He is also active in the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) and provides training on collaborative project delivery.

Terry P. O'Neill

Mr. Terry P. O'Neill graduated in 1980 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (VA Tech) with a B.A. in Architecture, and studied City Planning/Architecture from 1980-1982 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. While there, Mr. O'Neill worked as a Graduate Assistant, then with the Atlanta based architecture firm of Cooper, Cary Associates. In 1983, he returned to Hampton Roads to work for the architectural firm Forrest Coile Associates.

Mr. O'Neill began his career with the City of Hampton, Virginia in 1983. Mr. O'Neill gradually rose through the ranks of the Hampton Planning Department until he was named Director of Planning in 1993. In 2007, Mr. O'Neill was named the Director of Planning and Neighborhood Services. In 2010, he was selected to lead the newly formed Community Development Department. He now oversees a department of 65 employees who provide a wide range of municipal services that include long range and strategic planning, housing programs, CDBG grant administration, neighborhood engagement and capacity building, development review and permitting, zoning administration and enforcement, new construction inspections, code enforcement as well as overseeing the Resilient Hampton Initiative.

Mr. O'Neill graduated from the University of Virginia's Management Excellence Program in 1988 and the Senior Executive Institute in 1996.

He was named Director of the Year in 2006 and was awarded the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association Planning Leadership Award in 2007.