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Executive Committee Monthly Update

Jacob Thorius, P.E., NACE President

Good day everyone!! It has been a few months since I have written and things have been busy between projects and issues in my home county of Washington, travels for NACE and spending time with my family, my “Why” as I talked about in Schaumburg. Sometimes things don’t always go the way you have planned, sometimes life throws you a big ‘ol curveball and you have to adjust your swing to get a good hit.

Here in Washington County we have been busy with a variety of projects and have had to deal with a variety of things that were not planned, like finding more rock in your grading project which required a $150,000 change order to excavate that material and then find some “extra” dirt to build the road. We were planning to do some minor shaping and pulling of shoulders on some gravel roads, but instead we received 20+ inches of rain in a two-week window in July, with some of it coming nearly 6 inches at a time costing the county about $90,000 in roadstone, labor and equipment to fix the nearly 100 locations that were damaged. Have these been frustrating events for us? Yes! But my team worked to find ways to hit these curves and make sure the right work was getting done, even if it meant using funds planned for future maintenance and construction work. That is going to delay future work, but I know my team will find ways to minimize those delays and ensure we still accomplish what we want to as we work to improve our roads.

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NACE ANNUAL CONFERENCE

2025 Conference PDH Certificates -

LAST CALL TO DOWNLOAD SEPTEMBER 30

THIS IS YOUR FINAL REMINDER!!

Don't forget to download your PDH Certificate! To access your credits, go to the to live conference site and go "Log in here" to access your certificates.

Your certificates will be available until 11:59PM on September 30.

If you don't know your login and password, it is easy to retrieve by clicking here: Reset your password. Please do not try and use your NACE website login information to access the live conference site (it will not work as they are separate sites).

It's important that you have access to the email address that was used for your registration as that is the only way to retrieve your password. The option on the registration site will only be visible to attendees who are logged in to the live site. Please follow the prompts and select the sessions you attended.

Please watch this short tutorial on how to add sessions you attended and download your PDH certificate.

SAVE THE DATE FOR 2026!

Sunday, April 12, 2026 - Wednesday, April 15, 2026

We are excited to announce the Call for Presentations for the NACE 2026 Annual Conference, taking place April 12-15 in Arlington, TX at the Arlington Convention Center/ Loews Complex.

Mark your calendar! Critical Dates

October 20 Pre-sale for NACE Corporate Members for Exhibits and Sponsorship

October 21 Pre-sale for TACERA Exhibitors (while onsite in Waco)

November 3 Delegate Registration and ALL Exhibitor Registration Opens

December 15 Housing Opens (cut-off date is March 13)

Thank you for all of the submissions for the NACE Technical Program. NACE Committees have reviewing them with members. Committee chairs or committee representatives will be reaching out to the main submission contact when sessions are selected. All sessions will be published on the NACE website when registration opens on November 3.