November 2004 Meeting
Date: Monday, November 1, 2004, 12:00 noon.
Location: The "Hotel Dallas Mockingbird" formerly the "Radisson Hotel," 1893 West Mockingbird Lane (at intersection with Harry Hines Boulevard), (214) 634-8850. (It is the same Hotel we have been meeting at for the past few years, but with a new name). See Map
Program: A+B (Cost plus Time) Construction Contract Bidding
Procedure
The Town of Addison has recently begun using this
innovative construction contract bidding procedure for capital improvement projects. In A+B bidding, the
cost of materials and labor to perform the work (A) is combined with an assigned project
construction time cost (B) to provide the lowest cost to the public. A+B bidding rewards a contractor for completing a
project as quickly as possible. Our November Program speakers will detail the A + B bidding
procedures and highlight successes the Town of Addison has had with recent projects.
Speaker: James C. Pierce, Jr., P.E.,
Assistant Public Works Director, Town of Addison and Jerry D. Holder, Jr., P.E., Director of Municipal Services, HNTB Corporation
Mr.
Pierce began his career as a Public Health Engineer with the State of Georgia following
graduation. He then served as a Sanitary
Engineer on the Atlantic Missile Range while employed by Pan American World Airways at
Cape Canaveral, Florida. For the next twenty
years, he worked as a consulting engineer designing water and wastewater treatment
facilities in New Jersey, Florida, Virginia and Texas.
He then switched to the environmental field where he worked on environmental
remediation projects for the next eleven years. He
began with the Town of Addison in August 1997 as Assistant City Engineer. He is presently the Assistant Public Works
Director for Addison. He received a Bachelors
of Science in Civil Engineering and a Masters of Science in Sanitary Engineering from
Georgia Tech University. He is a Licensed
Professional Engineer in Texas.
Mr. Holder has been a consulting engineer for over 19 years. He has been involved in the transportation field
his entire career, including both planning and final design of airports, railroads,
highways and city streets. He started his
career with Garver Engineers in Little Rock, Arkansas.
He worked in their home office for seven years and then spent the next seven
years starting new offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to the Dallas area four years ago when he
joined HNTB Corporation. He received a
Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration from
the University of Arkansas. He is a Licensed
Professional Engineer in Texas.
Reservations: by Wednesday, October 27, 2004. Call the ASCE Reservation Hotline at (214) 890-6941. This voice mail system has been established by the Branch to handle reservations. Please state your company's name first and then the name of the attendees. In case of a malfunction, contact Erik Hauglie, P.E. at (972) 235-3031. On-line reservations may be made by sending an e-mail to Erik Hauglie at: reservations@dallasasce.org or from the Branch Website (www.dallasasce.org). Please make your reservations by only one of the above methods to avoid double counting.
Cost: $15.00 with reservations, $17.00 at the door if seating is available.
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