NJSPE September Newsletter | |
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NJSPE Continuing Education Webinar
Friday, September 20, 2024
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
3 PDH NJ, NY & PA
Join us for this valuable webinar covering two essential topics for engineers navigating environmental and construction management challenges.
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Understanding New Jersey Environmental Constraints for Engineers | |
David P. Moskowitz, PhD, SPWS
Principal Owner
EcolSciences, Inc
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Michael Levinson, PWS
Vice President
EcolSciences, Inc
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This course provides an intensive overview of environmental constraints that can affect development projects, permitting basics and how to convey those to clients. The course utilizes a broad suite of maps, aerial photographs, historical resources, ground level photographs, GIS database utilities, real field examples and environmental permitting plans. Upon completion of the course, the participant will have a solid understanding of the most commonly encountered environmental issues impacting land development in New Jersey. | |
Construction Management and the Impact to Insurance | |
Adam Puharic,
President
Puharic and Associates, Inc.
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The temptation can be great to expand the operations of a design firm and begin to dabble in construction management. New revenue sources, larger projects, and promises of future and ongoing work are alluring indeed. The road to perdition is often plated with gold.
Even a small percentage of construction management within a consulting engineering firm can fundamentally change the risk profile, insurability and ability to obtain adequate limits to meet the contractual demands of clients all too eager to transfer their own inherent risk onto an unsuspecting and novice engineer.
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Choosing to add construction management operations to your design firm have many other impacts and provide opportunities both good and bad. The purview of this talk is to look at the impact to Insurance and risk management. Engaging with your risk manager or insurance professional on a broad-reaching conversation to plan long-term impacts is essential to making a wise and fruitful design with regards to construction management being added to your design firm’s operations portfolio. | |
A Retirement Celebration for
John N. Ernst Ocean County Engineer
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Wednesday, September 25th 5:30pm.
Toms River Country Club, 419 Washington Street, Toms River, NJ
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2025 Engineering Career Day | |
As a public service each year, our NJSPE Educational Foundation invites NJ high schools to participate in Engineering Career Day held at the Busch Campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. In addition to our foundation, this program is supported by corporate sponsors, public authorities, local colleges, and universities.
Our foundation is looking to recruit top-notch volunteers as committee members for our 2025 Engineering Career Day program. As volunteers, many of our members have developed interrelationship skills to help advance their engineering careers. Our committee members have found Engineering Career Day to be a very rewarding program.
New Jersey Society of Professional Engineers Educational Foundation invites you to be a committee member in our 2025 Engineering Career Day program, which is scheduled for Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
For more information, please contact Michael Testa at: mtesta@co.ocean.nj.us or
Richard Adelsohn at: rick@fhlehr.com
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The Society Welcomes FY25 Board of Directors | |
NSPE is pleased to announce the FY25 Board of Directors. Congratulations to all incoming and returning board members! The board will be installed at NSPECon24 in Raleigh.
Congrats to New Jersey Executive Director Patrick Stewart for being sworn in as a FY25 NSPE Director.
Officers
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Brian Malm, P.E., F.NSPE, President
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William Atkinson, P.E., F.NSPE, Immediate Past President
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Julia Harrod, P.E., F.NSPE, President-elect
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Breck Washam, P.E., F.NSPE, Vice President
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Robert Price, P.E., F.NSPE, Treasurer
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Monika Schulz, CAE, Executive Director, CEO & Secretary
Directors
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Amy Barrett, P.E., F.NSPE, Director, Central Region
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Kimberly Carrol, P.E., Director, Western & Pacific Region
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Martin Gordon, P.E., F.NSPE, DFE, Director, Northeast Region
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David Madole, SET, CT, CFPS , Chair, NICET Board of Governors
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Marguerite McClam, P.E., F.NSPE, President, NSPE Education Foundation
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Angela Newland, P.E., F.NSPE, Director, Interest Group
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Jennifer Nolan-Kremm, P.E., Director, Interest Group
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Harold “JR” Reddish, P.E., F.NSPE, Director, Southwest Region
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Blair Richardson, P.E., Director, New Professionals
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Randal Riebel, P.E., F.NSPE, Director, Southeast Region
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Brian Scovill, P.E., CPM Director, North Central Region
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Patrick Stewart, President, State Society Executives Council
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Andrew Yarmus, P.E., F.NSPE, Director, Member-at-Large
The House of Delegates held their Annual Assembly on June 27.
Watch the Annual Assembly on YouTube.
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Engineering Council and NCEES (USA) Sign Historic Mutual Recognition Agreement | |
The Engineering Council has signed a landmark Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the USA’s National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).
The agreement was signed in Chicago by Laura Sievers, President of the NCEES and John Chudley, Chair of the Engineering Council. This significant event marks the first international agreement of its kind with any international counterpart in the NCEES’s 104-year history. This agreement establishes a streamlined process for recognizing professional engineering qualifications between the UK and the USA and ensuring that engineers can practise across borders with greater ease and without compromising on professional standards.
Highlights of the Mutual Recognition Agreement include:
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Shake up in New Jersey Political Landscape | |
George S. Helmy took office this week as the 81st person representing New Jersey in the United States Senate when he takes the oath of office around 5 PM.
Gov. Phil Murphy appointed Helmy to replace Bob Menendez, who resigned on August 20 following his conviction on federal corruption charges. He will serve until the results of the November general election between Democrat Andy Kim and Republican Curtis Bashaw are certified; Murphy has committed to appoint the winner.
Helmy will participate in Senate votes and hearings until an anticipated September 30 recess as some of his colleagues return to their home state to seek re-election. Kim or Bashaw could take office on or about December 2, assuming the Senate reconvenes before its anticipated December 20 adjournment.
The 44-year-old Mountain Lakes resident will be escorted for his swearing-in by the new senior senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker. Helmy served as Booker’s deputy chief of staff and state director before becoming Murphy’s chief of staff in early 2019. He had also served on the Senate staff of Booker’s predecessor, Frank Lautenberg. Booker becomes one of a small number of senators to serve alongside a former staffer.
Helmy becomes the 41st person to hold the seat initially occupied by John Elmer during the 1st Congress in 1789. Previous occupants of Helmy’s seat include John Kean, Joseph Frelinghuysen, Hamilton Kean, A. Harry Moore, Harrison Williams, Lautenberg and Jon Corzine.
Because the current Congress is set to adjourn on January 3, 2025, Helmy will take over Menendez’s seats on three Senate Committees: Foreign Relations, Finance, and Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. He will serve as chairman of the Banking Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, which has jurisdiction over the Securities Exchange Commission, financial markets, government securities, and the insurance industry.
Early voting continues for Congressman Payne’s vacated Congressional seat
Early voting has begun in a special election for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Jersey’s 10th district. Democrat LaMonica McIver and Republican Carmen Bucco are seeking the unexpired term of Rep. Donald Payne, Jr. (D-Newark), who died on April 24. There are two independent candidates: Russell Jenkins and Rayfield Morton. Early voting began on Sunday, September 8th.
State Senator Nellie Pou wins the Democratic nomination to replace Congressman Pascrell
The Democratic Committee in New Jersey’s 9th Congressional District on Thursday chose longtime state Sen. Nellie Pou to replace the late U.S. Rep. Bill J. Pascrell Jr. on the November ballot as rank-and-file members lined up behind the choice of the three-party bosses in Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties.
Pou, 68, aims to fill a seat left vacant by Pascrell for the second time in her political career. She got her start in elective politics in 1997, when she was appointed to fill a state Assembly seat in that Pascrell vacated when he was first elected to Congress. Pou served in the Assembly until 2011, when she moved up to the Senate. She has won reelection to the Senate four times.
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Senior Civil Design Engineer
Westfield, New Jersey
REDCOM, LLC is a Design/Build Construction firm seeking a full time Senior Civil Engineer to join our Civil Engineering Department within our 50-person firm to work in our
award-winning facility; designed by our team and located within walking distance to downtown Westfield, New Jersey and NYC trains.
Appropriate candidates will have 10+ years of experience working as a design engineer with land development civil site plans and drainage designs.
Responsibilities include:
- Client relations.
- Design and develop a full site plan design and all associated report preparation.
- Understand and implement all guidelines and state agency requirements.
- Manage and facilitate the approval process with various municipal, county, and state agencies, engineering cost estimates, and coordination/management of any outside design professionals/team members.
- Communication with Land use attorneys, clients, and engineering review teams from the Municipality and State agencies.
- Must be able to facilitate full approval and signed site plans ready for construction.
- Must be able to Mentor and teach younger Civil Engineers in the department to master site plan design and approval process.
Essential Duties & Tasks
- Contribute to the team with a positive do what it takes attitude.
- Thorough communication (written and verbal) and good follow thru.
- Ability to manage projects through the site plan approval process in NJ.
- Ability and desire to train and supervise project site engineers on the team.
- Strong commitment to priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to work with AutoCAD and drainage software such as HydroCAD.
Desired skills and attributes:
- Strong skills and experience with Drainage/Hydrology design.
- Candidates that are licensed engineers in New Jersey.
- Experience testifying before Planning Boards / Zoning Boards of Adjustment.
Employment Type
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Continuing Education Webinars | |
Explore a wealth of knowledge with our past continuing education webinars available at NJSPE.org, designed to empower professionals in their pursuit of ongoing learning and growth. Elevate your expertise at your own pace with these valuable resources. | |
Enroll in the Enterprise program
Enterprise membership allows a company to sponsor NSPE membership for multiple employee engineers and to design specialized benefits around their needs. Through the Enterprise program, NSPE will develop a package option perfectly suited to your organization.
Why should your company enroll its engineers in NSPE?
- NSPE membership is an employment benefit that will help you hire and keep the best engineers a real competitive edge for your company.
- By joining NSPE at a corporate level, your clients will recognize your company's commitment to engineering and ethical best practices, and will trust that your engineers will provide them with the best service available.
- Your employees will recognize your commitment to their professional growth, and will remain loyal and engaged.
- Employees will benefit from maximum access, value and convenience in everything NSPE membership has to offer.
- Your company may also be able to save on its professional liability premiums. Through NSPE benefit partner Victor, qualifying engineering firms are eligible for an underwriting premium credit of up to 5% if at least 50% of the firm's professional staff are NSPE members.
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For more information on Enterprise Membership, or to receive a
customized package for your organization, contact NSPE Member Services
at 888-285 NSPE (6773) or memserv@nspe.org
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NJSPE Would Like to Welcome Its New Members. Thank you for your membership!
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Paul Breiterman (STUDENT)
Sharon Lenz Burke, PE
Patrick Harrison, PE
Adelina Marinello (STUDENT)
Dave Money (STUDENT)
Issa S. Oweis (STUDENT)
Steven Spirn, PE
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Carolyn Feigin, P.E., P.P.
Erica Vigliorolo, P.E.
Gregory Stolowski P.E.
Darren Ferlazzo, P.E
Christopher Iacono, P.E.
Jeffrey Laux, P.E.
Brian Van Nortwick, P.E.
Isaac Forero, P.E.
Lawrence Powers
Patrick Stewart
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