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Transportation Contractors Wage, Benefits Survey Available
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association
Transportation Development Foundation has issued the 2007
"Transportation Contractors Salary & Benefits Survey."
The publication provides data for 30 office and field positions
found in a typical firm in the transportation construction
industry. Detailed salary, bonus and benefits information
is also included.
The survey results were based on responses from contractors
representing firms of all sizes and from across the country.
Results are presented nationally and in five regional divisions.
The publication also includes the average, high and low salaries
and bonuses for top executives, office personnel and field
workers. Hourly wage and benefit information is provided for
hourly workers, both skilled and unskilled.
Workforce composition such as the number of unionized, Hispanic,
African-American and women hourly and salaried employees is
also available, broken down by region.
The 150-page survey can be purchased for $250 by contacting
ARTBA's Christy Woodall at 202-289-4434.
McLean County's Mitchell,
Lochner's Thomas Honored
Two Illinoisans have received honors from the Washington,
D.C.-based American Road and Transportation Builders Association
during its recent convention in San Diego.
John E. "Jack" Mitchell, county engineer for McLean
County, received the Ralph Bartelsmeyer Award. It honors a
public official who has demonstrated a strong sense of dedication
and service to the association's Transportation Officials
Division and the transportation construction industry.
Larry Thomas, president of Chicago-based H.W. Lochner,
received the Guy Kelcey Award. It is given each year to an
ARTBA member who has exhibited a high degree of service to
the association's Planning & Design Division.
New Certification Offered for Building
Security Professionals
Because building security is a multi-faceted concept that
requires coordination of many different design disciplines,
the Reston, Va.-based Building Security Council has established
a new Building Security Certified Professional.
The Building Security Certified Professional will be an
individual who is licensed to practice engineering, architecture
or landscape architecture in a U.S. jurisdiction or who
possesses the ASIS International CPP or PSP credential.
The BSCP will also be a person who has broad knowledge and
understanding of security considerations and can address
them effectively in the integrated planning, design, construction,
operation, and risk assessment of buildings.
In particular, the BSCP will be familiar with the building
classification and field evaluation procedures described
in the BSC Building Security Rating System, and will have
the expertise to apply them within the context of a multidisciplinary
team.
The BSCP examination will cover such key domains and tasks
as process coordinating, risk assessment, site considerations,
interior space evaluation and facility operations.
For more information, visit www.buildingsecuritycouncil.org
of call An Pham at 703-295-6408.
Civil Engineering Life Thrown for a Loop
If you keep your ties until they start curling…
If you think the Firth of Forth Rail Bridge is a dream
destination for a vacation…
If you evaluate infrastructure for your child's hamster…
…a recently published book might be for you, Don't Throw
This Away! The Civil Engineering Life (ASCE Press).
The book by Brian Brenner, a professor of civil engineering
at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., includes serious discussion
of suburban sprawl, technology run amok and bridge aesthetics
and humorous accounts packrat habits and engineering fashion.
To order, visit www.pubs.asce.org
on the Internet or call 1-800-548-2723.
Safety Engineers to Celebrate Century
Anniversary in Chicago
The Des Plaines-based American Society of Safety Engineers'
Board of Directors has voted unanimously to hold its 100th
year anniversary celebration in Chicago at the McCormick
Place Convention Center in June 2011.
ASSE is the oldest and largest safety organization and represents
more than 30,000 safety, health and environmental practitioners
committed to protecting people, property and the environment.
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