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NJSPE Continuing Education Webinar:

Digital Delivery: The Future is Now 

These three sessions will provide background on how to support our clients' current and future needs by utilizing digital delivery to improve workflow and efficiency of final deliverables



In this presentation, I will show you how to use Revit to create and model structural elements, such as reinforced concrete or steel connections and with the use of common parameters in Revit and Dynamo scripts, I will demonstrate how all the views and schedules are maintained from a single source of truth. Any change from that single source of truth will update all the other views that show the same information, such as plans, sections, elevations, schedules, and 3D views. This can be done in any of the views that show the information and will eventually be sourced externally from design information.

This presentation demonstrates the use of GIS technology within the AEC community. GIS technology is being utilized as by our community as a tool for documenting activities in the field to support construction management, site specific conditions, and integration with other design platforms. GIS is also supporting organizations for the management of assets as part of comprehensive asset management system or individual stand-alone uses. This presentation will highlight these uses and discuss the available technologies.

This course will review the BIM methodology applied to bridge projects using Bentley’s OpenBridge Designer. We will review the concepts of BIM, LODs and Common Data Environment used in linear infrastructure projects as their application while modeling, analyzing and, designing all types of bridges. As part of the presentation, we will discuss how OpenBridge Designer is being used to support NJDOT in the future of digital delivery.

Cost: Members: $65  |  Non-Members - $135

Registration is open for NSPECon24 (Raleigh, North Carolina, August 7-9), the prime national event for professional engineers to engage and connect with their peers and to advance their careers. The early-bird discount rates are available until June 27. Access registration information and rates here. Access the preliminary conference program for details on keynote speakers and session topics.

The deadline for reserving a hotel room at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley for the NSPECon24 rate is July 15. We encourage you to make your reservation early since there are a limited number of conference rate hotels rooms available.

NSPECon24 also offers a variety of sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities to put your company or organization in front of senior executives and other decision-makers from across the industry. A special exhibitor discount is being offered to Research Triangle-based businesses.

Opportunities Await!

Members of our community have exciting job openings available:

Municipal Engineer: Are you a qualified engineer with experience in municipal construction projects? A position for Municipal Engineer is open, overseeing field and office engineering work, collaborating with contractors, and ensuring project success. Applicants should hold a Professional Engineer's License issued by the New Jersey State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, with three years of supervisory engineering experience. Salary ranges from $95,000 to $145,000. To apply, submit your cover letter and resume to Lisa Y. Picon, Personnel Officer, at LiPicon@ci.camden.nj.us or SaEvans@ci.camden.nj.us by April 30, 2024.

Assistant Engineer: A rewarding opportunity is available for an Assistant Engineer, assisting in various engineering projects within the municipality. Requirements include a Bachelor's degree in Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, along with two years of supervisory engineering experience. Salary is $91,232. Interested candidates should submit their cover letter and resume to Lisa Y. Picon, Personnel Officer, at LiPicon@ci.camden.nj.us or SaEvans@ci.camden.nj.us by April 30, 2024.

Take the next step in your career journey!

Apply now and be a part of shaping our community's future.

Legislative Update

NJ Legislature moving ahead with OPRA bill.

Long-awaited amendments to a controversial bill to change the Open Public Records Act were released earlier this week. Assemblymember Joe Danielsen, a Democrat who’s the top sponsor of the bill in the lower house, said he believes the amendments address most of the concerns from advocates, who turned out in force during March legislative hearings and helped stall the bill’s passage, apart from the New Jersey Press Association and some attorneys.

The most controversial part of the law, involving attorney’s fees for people who successfully challenge a records request denial, remains in place but with some changes, Danielsen said.

Background: Backers of the bill, NJ S2930, have said the 2002 public records law needs updates to deal with new technologies and to combat commercial requests that officials say have overwhelmed some municipal records custodians.

But many public advocacy groups, unions, attorneys, press organizations and others said the legislation would “gut” access to public records.

The most controversial part of the OPRA overhaul bill would eliminate the requirement that governments pay a requestor's legal fees if a judge, or the Government Records Council, rules a government denied their records request, instead leaving it up to a judge’s discretion. That, advocates said, would have a chilling effect on government transparency by disincentivizing attorneys from taking on challenges to public records denials, and making attorneys less likely to take on cases that could set a precedent by clarifying what is and is not a public record.

Danielsen said that the amendments would still leave it up to a judge whether to award legal fees to those who successfully appeal request denials, but that it would be a “hybrid system” in which the judge is required to award the fees if he finds that the records request denial was made in “bad faith.”

The Bill is being considering in both the House and the Senate late this week.

Bills on the move in the NJ that the NJSPE is following:

1. A-618 – requirements for local purchasing agents. https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/A1000/618_I1.PDF
2. A-868 - Requires bidder on State contract to be evaluated on report of its gender-based pay equity and job equality standards for its employees. https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/A1000/868_I1.PDF
3. S-2948 - Requires certain fire escape inspections be performed by structural engineer, architect, or employee with certified fire escape inspection company.  https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/S3000/2948_R1.PDF
4. AJR50 - Designates August of each year as "Professional Engineers Month" in NJ and first Wednesday in August of each year as "Professional Engineering Day."  https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/Bills/2024/AJR/50_I1.PDF

If you have any questions on these bills or any other legislation, please contact

Patrick Stewart. pstewart@njpsi.com

Save The Date!

NJSPE Installation & Awards Reception

Friday, June 27, 2024

6:30-10:30pm

Mercer Oaks Country Club

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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.

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

NJSPE Would Like to Welcome Its New Members. Thank you for your membership!