ACEC CALIFORNIA STATEMENT ON COVID-19 AND THE ECONOMY

ACEC California Executive Director, Brad Diede, released the following statement in response to current events, “Design firms and public agencies alike are implementing plans to ensure the safety and health of their employees and the public at large to address the COVID-19 outbreak. With this in mind, it is important that there be no call to halt work on essential infrastructure. Continued safe operations are critical to the economy to keep people working, maintain contractual obligations and schedules, and jumpstart recovery efforts in the wake of this crisis, including any future efforts to expand hospital capacity.” Click here for more information. 

ACEC CALIFORNIA IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE BIGGS CARDOSA ASSOCIATES INC. NAMED 2020 GOLDEN STATE AWARD WINNER

The American Council of Engineering Companies, California (ACEC California) announced today that Biggs Cardosa Associates has been honored with their prestigious 2020 Golden State Award for its work on the Plaza Bridge at Marine Way, in Irvine, California.    Read the full Press Release Here.    View all the winners here.

THE VALUE OF QBS

ACEC California's Policy Outreach Director, Jennifer Horne, was recently interviewed on Engineering Influence, ACEC National's podcast covering a wide variety of topics pertaining to the engineering industry. Jennifer spoke to the importance of QBS and the work she does in promoting its use. You can listen to her segment  here  and check out her new QBS primers  here.

Jennifer Horne

Policy Outreach Director

American Council of Engineering Companies, California

State Water Board seeking our input

Our Water Resources Committee has been reviewing the State Water Resources Control Board's draft proposal for SB 555 regulations regarding Water Loss Control standards, which can be found  here  by clicking on "Staff proposal" under Meeting #4.

I have spoken with the Lead Engineer for Water Loss Control at the Water Board, Kartiki Naik, and they are eager for specific, technical feedback from our members as soon as possible. If you or your firm works in this field, this is a great opportunity to help craft the regulations on the ground floor. Comments, questions, and suggestions should be sent as soon as possible to  Kartiki.Naik@Waterboards.ca.gov.

2020 STATUE PUBLICATIONS

ACEC California's 2020 statute publications are now available for order. All eight of our statute publications have been updated with the latest laws and regulations affecting your organization.

You may order through our online store  at www.acec-ca.org  or download our  order form  and send it in by email or mail. Orders will be processed in the order they are received.

Members: In order to receive the member price of $14 per book, simply log-in as a member of ACEC California.  As our system requires us to manually approve each newly created account, when creating a new log-in, there will be a slight delay before you have access to the “members only” side and the member price. Feel free to give us a call if you have questions.

Public Agencies: You do NOT need to log-in to place your order, however, to receive the public agency price remember to enter the discount code. For the current year, the code is “Public2020”. Enter this code in the “apply promotional code” box just prior to check-out. After the code is applied, the price will adjust from $38 to $26.60 per book. [Orders placed using this code will be shipped directly to Public Agencies only.] 

Note that we offer a bundle discount in the way of our "full set" which contains one of each of our statute books. Ordering the full set will save you more than 10 percent.

If you have any questions regarding ordering publications, please contact Beckie Liu at 916-441-7991 or bliu@acec-ca.org . Thank you for your order.