• Offered for free to Central Ohio Section ASCE Members
• Seating is limited to the first 25 people
• Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
This webinar explores the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations as well as other recent publications such as NCHRP Report 707 on Auxiliary Lanes, NCHRP Report 730 on Ramp Terminals and NCHRP Report 422 on Trade-Off Considerations in Highway Geometric Design. Given the abundance of literature on roadway geometric design issues, practitioners have faced challenges identifying the information that they need to do their job effectively.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
Up until recently, the methods for determining the seismic coefficient that have been used to design and build retaining structures have neglected important criteria. This webinar discusses a performance based methods that will help determine much more accurate seismic coefficients that, in turn, will lead to much more economical slope and retaining structures design.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Lift Plans have been in use for decades, but usually have been limited to those lifts with a very high risk factor or in high risk environments. It is only natural that management may require that these documents be reviewed by a competent individual, whether in-house or third party. This competency cannot be learned overnight or from purely reading reference material. This webinar offers a basic knowledge of cranes, lifting, rigging, and lift plans that should enable an individual to gain further knowledge needed to professionally review a lift plan. Some owners and governmental bodies now require that the review of lift plans be stamped.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
This webinar is a follow up to the Next Generation Street Design Principles webinar and focuses on the traffic control devices necessary to implement safer street design, curbing the bias toward rural or suburban design types used in the past. It highlights the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and the NACTO Bikeway Design Guide, focusing on what sorts of traffic design applications provide accessibility in addition to mobility. This webinar builds on the emphasis on the interests of having economic development and safety be part of the performance measures used by the engineering community in street design. It relies on documents like the MUTCD and the ITE Designing Urban Walkable Thoroughfares that go farther in laying out specific design elements. It discusses different types of issues to consider in designing vibrant places, elements of signal design and how they contribute to the urban fabric, how to determine where and when to apply the new treatments, and how to monitor their effectiveness. The instructor provides examples of where these treatments have been implemented.

Streets comprise more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide their surrounding communities with a space where people can safely walk, bicycle, drive, take transit, and socialize. Cities are leading the movement to redesign and reinvest in our streets as cherished public spaces for people, as well as critical arteries for traffic. The aforementioned manuals and documents and next generation guides describe new principles and practices of the nation’s foremost engineers, planners, and designers working in cities today. Collectively, these documents present a new blueprint for designing streets and unveils the toolbox and tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant. This webinar discusses the increased need for creation of multimodal streets across the U.S., It also addresses specific steps needed to advance high quality design.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Friday, May 8, 2015.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
Complete Streets can benefit all communities, regardless if they are rural, suburban or urban. Complete Streets are intended to be safe, comfortable, and convenient for all users regardless of age or ability - motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transportation riders.

This webinar will provide an overview of the current practice in Complete Streets policy, planning and design. The material covered will define Complete Streets, communicate their transportation, public health and environmental benefits, overview leading design guidance and discuss policy and implementation strategies. The information provided will help professionals and agencies understand the need for and processes for balancing the needs of all users. Additionally, participants will receive guidance on how to develop and implement effective policies to routinely create complete streets projects and networks.

By attending this webinar, engineers, planners, local leaders and decision makers will gain a solid framework for delivering Complete Streets locally. After completing this session you will understand how Complete Streets can help your community along with specific tools and next steps you can take to ensure Complete Streets are appropriately planned and provided.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Friday, May 1, 2015.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 20 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
HEC-GeoRAS is an ArcGIS toolbar that helps to incorporate LiDAR and other topographic datasets in to HEC-RAS. This webinar will demonstrate how to easily add topographic data to a HEC-RAS model once the HEC-RAS model has been run, and how to map the resulting floodplain using both HEC-GeoRAS and the new HEC-RAS tool, RAS Mapper.

RSVP to MMarquis@smeinc.com by Friday, Feb. 27, 2015.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Machinery and equipment typically found in industrial and process facilities often exert dynamic loads on their foundations. Designing these foundations is quite complicated, much more so than the design of the foundations that support buildings and statically loaded equipment. (The latter is addressed in the companion ASCE webinar, Design of Foundations for Equipment Supports.) This topic is rarely, if ever, included in the engineering college curricula, and the engineers are left to learn on the job. Yet the stakes are high: The failure of an incorrectly designed machine foundation can lead to damaged equipment and to expensive downtime. This webinar provides a practical introduction to the complex issues of designing dynamically loaded machine and equipment foundations.

Purpose and Background
Many engineering firms that specialize in the design of industrial facilities and heavy-equipment foundations have developed a wealth of in-house design standards, but this information is not available to others. As a result, and because of the design complexity involving dynamic analysis and specialized software, some engineers have resorted to simplistic rules-of-thumb without understanding the limitations of such shortcuts.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
Time of concentration is a frequently overlooked parameter in urban drainage design. It is often calculated using one of several common equations that are selected based on user familiarity rather than on the characteristics of the drainage basin. Time of concentration can also be calculated incorrectly when the emphasis is placed on finding the longest flow path, which often is not appropriate when used to determine peak flows. This webinar will cover the Kirby-Hathaway Equation; the Kirpich Equation; the FAA Equation; the SCS Method for computing time of concentration; as well as a solution using the physical concepts of sheet flow, shallow concentrated flow, and open channel flow. The webinar will include examples of the different equations and a discussion on when the use of each equation is appropriate. It will also include a discussion on requirements for time of concentration calculations in stormwater design manuals.

RSVP to president@centralohioasce.com by Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015.

*Open only to Central Ohio Section Members
*Seating is limited to the first 25 people
*Bring your own lunch

Purpose and Background
During the past 50 years, roadway infrastructure in the urban environment has been focused on moving vehicles as quickly as possible from one place to another – generally into the city in the morning and to the suburbs in the evening. As urban living becomes more popular and dependence on the automobile becomes less desirable, city officials are looking at ways to transform roadway corridors into comprehensive transportation networks. This hierarchical network needs to function efficiently to support the movement of people and goods, as well as benefit the communities in which they are located. This webinar will show various challenges and solutions addressed in a rehabilitation infrastructure project in Washington DC – the Rehabilitation of H Street NE.

RSVP to newsletter@centralohioasce.com by Friday, February 6, 2015.