American Society of Civil Engineers - San Francisco Section

December Meeting in Review

On December 3 at Bella Mia we had over 60 attendees to hear from Brian Zuckerman, PE, Regional Manager of Berkel and Company, about one of the more recent innovations in deep foundations on the development of the auger cast pile.

December Meeting in Review

On December 17, Troy Nicolini of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) presented a lunch time presentation of wave, circulation, and water level model development for Humboldt Bay at Roy’s Club in Eureka.

January Meeting with ICRI

Please join us for a joint dinner meeting with the International Concrete Repair Institute on Thursday, January 22 for great food, good company, and what promises to be a very interesting presentation by Caltrans’ Moe Amini and HNTB’s Yung-Nien Wang on the Caltrans Devil’s Slide Tunnels Project.

December Meeting

The Fresno Branch would like to thank Ben Holton for his presentation at our luncheon on December 11.

With concurrence of the PEER Institutional Board and the University of California, Berkeley, the identity and management of the nine-campus Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) and the UC Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) are being officially integrated.

Ask not what ASCE can do for you, but ask what you can do for ASCE!

You have all heard President John F. Kennedy’s famous inauguration speech with the timeless phrase ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country’. As president of ASCE’s Golden Gate Branch this year, I would like to posit that same question to you but instead “Ask not what ASCE can do for you, but ask what you can do for ASCE”.

The San Francisco Section’s Younger Member Forum (YMF) is proud to announce the return of the Western Regional Younger Member Council (WRYMC) to San Francisco on January 23 and 24.

A question that engineers often ask is “what is the standard of care must be followed to avoided being negligent in the practice of civil engineering.” That question, unfortunately, cannot be answered with precision. Rather, the answer is “it depends.”