Thursday, August 5
th
10:30am – 11:30am
Pandemic Challenges and Recovery of Florida Airport
Programs
(ACEC-FL Track)Max Fajardo (Moderator)– T. Y. Lin International
The moderator will facilitate a discussion of thought-provoking, prepared open-ended questions about the impact on the pandemic on aviation, challenges faced, and recovery plans by the five panelists each representing a core area of the aviation industry: planning, airport administration, airlines, a regulatory body (eg. CBP), and security (eg. TSA).
1 PDH
Transforming the Construction Industry Using Innovative
Technology
(FES Track)Daniel Lizarazo, P.E., ENV SP | Euginio Victoria, EI Gannett Fleming
The lifeblood of any industry is the progression of innovation to replace traditional means and methods with more effective, safer, and practical substitutes. The construction
industry is in an advantageous position to realize benefits from innovation and productivity advancements. On the economic level, increasing urban sprawl and population rates will create additional jobs and projects in the industry thereby raising the need for
Becoming a Professional Engineer
(FEE Track)Zana Raybon – FBPE
How does one become a licensed Professional Engineer in Florida? Zana Raybon, executive director for the Florida Board of Professional Engineers, highlights the benefits of
becoming a PE, and discusses the steps — education, exams, and experience — required to earn a PE license in Florida, how to maintain your PE license, and mobility of licensure between states.
0 PDH
1:15pm – 2:15pm
How COVID has accelerated a more effective approach to
Public Engagement
(ACEC-FL Track)Phil Schwab, PE– RS&H, Inc. | Vanita Saini, PE - FDOT
Public Engagement is a critical activity that is necessary for Transportation Projects to be successful, learn how COVID has played a part in developing and providing more effective Public Engagement.
1 PDH
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Concrete Box
Culvert Bridges
(FES Track)Ralph Verrastro, PE- Bridging Solutions LLC
Concrete box culvert bridges are one of the most common short span bridge types used by bridge and roadway engineers for water crossings, pedestrian tunnels, and wildlife
crossings. This presentation provides a practical summary of the design criteria and technical specifications used for cast-in-place concrete and precast concrete box culvert bridges on roadway projects in Florida in a Question and Answer (Q & A) format.
1 PDH
Career Advancement
(FEE Track)2:45pm – 3:45pm
Selling on Value Instead of Price
(ACEC-FL Track)June Jewell, CPA- AEC Business Solutions
Pressures from existing and potential new clients to lower fees forces your staff to give away profits and avoid asking for change orders to be competitive. With the right approach and language tools, you can transform client relationships and business practices away from low-fee work to create value-based business partnerships. This presentation will help you communicate your value so you can have better and fairer clients and higher profits.
1 PDH
Connected Vehicles: How Connectivity Leads to Better
Decision-Making
(FES Track)Robert Frey, AICP- Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA)
The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway is one of three Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilots selected by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to plan, implement, and operate and maintain a Connected Vehicle (CV) deployment. The THEA CV Pilot was initiated in September 2015 and has completed the three phases of the program. This presentation will present the results to date and plans going forward.
1 PDH
Career Fair
(FEE Track)Please join us for the first annual FES Career Fair. The future of our profession comes to the FES conference every year hungry to get started in our profession. This recruitment opportunity is in the style of speed/mini interviews that last around 5 minutes each. Enough time for an introduction, collect their CV and for them to answer a few short questions on skills and interest that you can have for the students.
0 PDH
4:15pm – 5:15pm
If No One Knows You're a Thought Leader, You Aren't One
(ACEC-FL Track)Deanna Cope | Joelle Shea - Gannett Fleming
Impact of Truck Platooning on Highway Infrastructure
(FES Track)Hisham Sunna, PhD, PE- Ayres Associates | Sayed M. Sayed, PhD, PE - GCI, Inc. |
Pamela Moore, PE - GCI, Inc
Discuss the effect of truck platoons on highways and bridges and how it is different from what is currently accommodated in AASHTO code and practice. Give examples of effects of truck platoons on simple span and continuous bridges for both moment and shear. Provide a case study of integrated bridge load rating for truck platoon on an existing bridge. Recommend future study and research needs and use of integrated bridge load rating.
1 PDH
Student Presentations
(FEE Track)0 PDH
Most Active Student Chapter Presentations
The most active Alpha/Beta and Delta Student Chapters will present their chapter activities for the past year. The students will also discuss what makes their chapter successful.
Friday, August 6
th
8:30am – 9:30am
Preparing for Tomorrow's Traffic Signals Today
(FES Track)Anthony Castellone, PE, PTOE- PENNONI | Ozan K. Tonguz , PhD - Virtual Traffic
Lights, LLC
The underlying principle of operation behind traffic lights has not changed much after it was invented in 1914 and first deployed in Cleveland, Ohio. In essence, in the last 100 years, traffic lights and traffic control have been using a timer-based approach. Virtual Traffic Lights, LLC (VTL) proposes to make a paradigm shift in this area by migrating from a timer-based traffic control approach to a communications-based traffic control approach.
1 PDH
Implementing Automated Design Techniques in an
Augmented & Virtual World
(ACEC-FL)Marc Remmert, PE- WGI, Inc.
implementation at scale. This conversation will also seek to discuss how automation, and the process
1 PDH
10:00am – 11:00am
Our Infrastructure....Is it READY for Connected and
Automated Vehicles?
(FES Track)Laurie Matkowski | Ryan Rice - Gannett Fleming
How will we need to plan transportation differently in the future while integrating CAV's? Speakers will address best practices and policy considerations for the safe integration of CAVs into the roadway environment through a holistic approach to create a seamless mobility ecosystem. Topics will include considerations with traffic control, systems operations and maintenance, asset management, data sharing, and research and development.
1 PDH
Florida Law all Professional Engineers Should Know
(ACEC-FL)Jorge Cruz- Daniels Rodriguez Berkley Daniels & Cruz
This Course will educate Professional Engineers that perform services related to
construction and the Florida law that affects them. Specifically, the Statute of Limitations and Statute of Repose, FL. Stat. 558 works and how they are affected, Building Code Claims and the Standard of Care of Professional Eng., Procedure for Successor Engineers,
Adopting as his own work of Another Engineer, and Potential Exposure related to successor engineers.
1 PDH
Legislative Program
(ACEC-FL)1:15pm – 2:15pm
Resiliency and Sustainability in Order to Meet the New
Standard of Care
(ACEC-FL Track)Mark Jackson ARM | Erin Johnson, RPLU - JCJ Insurance Agency
Engineers are expected to perform their services consistent with the standard of care for their profession. So, is designing to code enough to satisfy the standard of care? How do environmental factors, such as rising sea levels and climate change, affect the standard of care? While designing to code may have satisfied the prevailing standard of care, a focus on resilient design is forcing engineering firms to consider environmental trends.
1 PDH
Tools to Ensure Effective Litigation Prep and Testimony as an
Engineer
(FES Track)Nicholas Albergo, P.E., DEE, D. WRE, F. ASCE- GHD Services
Preparation is key to successfully offering deposition and/or trial testimony. When such services are desired (or required) as a function of litigation, it is important that engineering professionals understand both the process as well as desirable traits associated with effective testimony. This presentation will offer a brief overview of the factual and procedural information about litigation from the engineers' point of view.
1 PDH
Lesson Learned from Dynamic Load Testing in Challenging
Conditions
(Tech/Project)Thai Nguyen, Ph.D., P.E. - H2R Corp.
2:45pm – 3:45pm
Cybersecurity - Lessons Learned from the Recovery Room
(ACEC-FL Track)Kevin Switala, VP– Gannett Fleming
Cybersecurity threats increasingly impact the AEC industry. Private and public sector organizations have been targeted. Our industry needs to learn important lessons from these incidents to increase our awareness and resiliency. This presentation results from first-hand experience with a significant cyber incident and provides the vocabulary, conceptual framework, and actionable takeaways that firms can employ to safeguard their own continuity.
1 PDH
Sustainable Pump Station Rehab: Stretching the Dollar
through I/I Reduction
(FES Track)Steven Eagle, PE- Nova Consulting | Paola Davalos, ENV SP - 300 Engineering
Group
The Pump Station Improvement Program (PSIP) manages 153 pump station and force main projects for the Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Department. The PSIP's unique case-by-case evaluation approach utilizes 5 multidisciplinary mechanisms to determine the most efficient project alternatives. The most cost-effective and sustainable mechanism in this approach is I/I mitigation through the PSIP's methodology of analysis, quantification, and prioritization.
1 PDH
Redevelopment of Former Landfill Site
(Tech/Project)Eduardo F. Smith, PE | Somshekhar Kundral - SCS Engineers
4:15pm – 5:15pm
A Likely Scenario: Incorporating Trends into Plans and
Projects
(ACEC-FL Track)Lisa Nisenson- Wantman Group (WGI)
This session covers next generation planning techniques to help professionals explore and incorporate uncertainty and risk into projects and plans, including scenario planning, technology foresight, and pilots. Topics include assessing change drivers/impacts and developing adaptive work plans. Participants will 1) understand the need for next generation planning, 2) recognize new planning techniques for common engineering project types.
1 PDH
Concrete Seawalls with New Reinforcement for Resilience and
Durability
(FES Track)Antonio Nanni, PhD, PE- University of Miami
This presentation covers two types of seawall systems made of concrete with composite reinforcement, namely: secant-piles and precast panels. A new application of a buried secant-pile GFRP reinforced auger-cast wall was constructed along 4,920 ft. of Florida's coastline, protecting State Highway A1A north of Flagler Beach. Seawalls with precast panels, caps and piles are under construction in Greater Miami to address sea-level rise challenges.
