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Transition - Change is Coming
 by
Kurt Gahnberg,
President
The annual rite of passage
where ACEC transitions, from one Board of Direction and President to the next,
is fast-approaching. I have to say that it really feels like it is too soon.
Many of the changes we have initiated have just begun to get traction and bear
fruit…and now it is time to move on. While I know we have accomplished a great
deal, I also know there is much left to do.
With the changes we have worked
so hard to initiate during this past year, we have been working to make this
pending transition seamless. Our focus all year has been around key strategies
of engagement and improved communication, and being data driven
as we develop our strategies. A successful transition will be defined by a
changing of our leaders, while sustaining momentum on these strategic
initiatives, and deepening our commitment to continuous improvement. With the
level of Board engagement in our efforts this past year, I am confident that
each continuing Board member carries the changes we have been making as a
personal priority for the coming year.
Looking ahead, we are in
good hands. Our President Elect, Tom Skillings has been actively engaged in
every aspect of our work this year. This has included not only all of the
initiatives we have
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Feedback to Kurt
Last Chance to take ACEC's 2008
Professional Liability Survey!
Every year ACEC's Risk Management
Committee conducts a survey of member firms regarding their professional
liability insurance, claims experience, and the impact of the potential threat
of litigation. This information is crucial to determining the professional
liability insurance landscape which ACEC member firms must face, and it also
provides important data for ACEC's tort reform efforts in Congress. The 2008
Professional Liability Insurance Survey of Member Firms for FY 2007 will be
conducted from now through
Friday, May 23, 2008.
It
is critical that we receive only one response from each member firm. Therefore,
we ask that only the key principal, risk manager, or another member of the firm
designated by the key principal fill out this survey.
In order to
preserve the confidential nature of this survey, the form does not request your
firm's name or other contact information.
To encourage participation, member firms that
respond to this survey will receive a free copy of the complete results on
request. To receive your firm's copy, please send a request by separate email
with the subject line
2008 PLI Survey Results
to Charles Kim at
ckim@acec.org.
For convenience, you can cut and paste the following text:
This is to confirm that my firm has completed and submitted the 2008 ACEC
Professional Liability Insurance Survey of Member Firms for FY 2007. Please
send our free copy of the survey results to my email address.
When the
survey results are completed, a free copy will be sent to the email address you
provide. The complete results will also be available for purchase through the
ACEC website.
To take the survey, please
click here.
Surprise! MKA Wins
 In
an evening filled with suspense, eight national finalists waited for MC Ross
Shafer to ask, "May I have the envelope, please,"
as ACEC kept secret the recipient of the Grand Conceptor Award for the first
time.
Drew Ganges accepts the Grand Conceptor
It came down to two projects, and the excitement was palpable when Ross
announced "The Olympic Sculpture Park, submitted by Magnusson Klemencic
Associates." It was MKA's third Grand Conceptor Award in the past 15 years, a
record unmatched by any firm. Kudos to the folks at MKA!
And kudos too, to the Parsons/HNTB Joint Venture for
the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, also a finalist and a Grand Award winner. It is
remarkable that two of the eight finalists were from ACEC Washington, proving
once again that we are a hot bed of engineering talent here in the Pacific
Northwest.
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