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SAME HONOLULU MONTHLY MEETING - The 2010 Engineer's Week Kick-Off Luncheon will be held at the Hale Koa Hotel on Tuesday, February 16 at 11:30. Click Here to Register. Guest Speaker: Dr. Peter Crouch, Dean, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii. Directions to the Hale Ikena. Congratulations to the 2009 Honolulu Post President CAPT Brett Muilenburg, and the 2009 Officers and Directors. Click here for the roster. Please click here to view the CALENDER OF EVENTS. Also click here for the SECRETARY TICKLER. More Events |
February 2010 Highlights
The SAME Honolulu Post hosted a booth at the UH Jr. Engineering Expo on February 26th. The expo is held annually and hosts over 200 students from Oahu schools. Students have a chance to meet engineering students and compete in various engineering competitions such as bridge building, the marshmellow catapult - and SAME's "How high can you go" structure competition. Mahalo to volunteers Jerry Matsuda of AECOM and Sandra Kim, Mark Galdiano, and Jonathon Hino.
Same Honolulu, in conjunction with the Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies, hosted the inaugural luncheon for Engineers Week on Tuesday, February 16 with over 200 people in attendance. The luncheon took place at the Hale Koa Hotel. The guest speaker was Dr. Peter Crouch, Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii. He spoke about the multitude of activities and clubs that the UH engineering students are involved in, as well as the different programs that are offered at the school. January 2010 Highlights The first luncheon of 2010 was held at the Hale Ikena, with Eric Hashizume as the guest speaker. Mr. Hashizume gave a talk on the power and potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the facilities lifecycle. He is an engineer with Hawaiian Dredging and supervises the Building Division projects, which includes hotels, condominiums, parking structures, shopping centers, office buildings, hospitals, and renovations. Much of his current work incorporates the BIM process. December 2009 Highlights
On December 16th at the SAME Honolulu monthly luncheon, CAPT Greg Thomas, the Commanding Officer of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, gave a talk on the Shipyard Modernization Plan. He discussed the effort to bring the historic shipyard into the modern age through a planned facility realignment. November 2009 Highlights
Mark Ambler, PE, PMP, from Weston Solutions gave an informative talk on Modular Vegatative Roof System at the monthly meeting at the Hale Ikena. He highlighted the energy and cost savings that can be obtained in retrofitting structures with "green roofs." October 2009 Highlights
The October SAME luncheon was held at the Hickam Air Force Base Tradewinds Club. The guest speaker was Mr. James Holland. Mr. Holland is the principle staff advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Policy Formulation and Program Direction on Department of Air Force installations, real estate, base closure and base alignment. He spoke on the issues of encroachment, BRAC and joint basing and referenced the debate for selecting bases for the new joint strike fighter. September 2009 Highlights
On September 8, Ardalan Nikou, a senior civil engineer at the design and construction group AECOM, gave a talk on Rockfall Protection and Mitigation in Hawaii. August 2009 Highlights
On August 18th, Jim Van Epps, LTC, USA (ret), the Project Manager for the consultant group performing the planning and engineering for the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor project gave an update for the project during the monthly SAME Honolulu luncheon. Please see the brief here. July 2009 Highlights
The new executive board members for SAME honolulu were sworn in on July 14th. Congratulations to the new members!
Also on July 14th, Samuel Dannaway, P.E. from S. S. Dannaway Associates, gave a presentation on the comparison of military and commercial fire protection requirements. June 2009 Highlights
Gerald W. Davis, Assistant Regional Administrator for Habitat Conservation Division for the National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Regional Office, gave a great talk on the pursuit to seek a partnered approach to restoring coastal health in Maunalua Bay, Oahu. The effort includes the development of storm water management solutions, better understanding drainage volume and velocity impacts, watershed specific contaminants, nutrient loading, alien invasive algae and sedimentation. May 2009 Highlights Melek Yalcintas, Ph.D., P.E., LEED-AP spoke at the May SAME Honolulu meeting on the topic of energy conservation through equipment retrofitting. Please see here for the presentation. 52nd Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair
Members of the SAME Honolulu Post volunteered their time as judges at the 52nd Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair on 7 April 2009. Over 500 student projects were on display at the Blaisdell Center, and the SAME team assisted in judging projects for the Hawaii Academy of Science in the Senior and Junior Research and Junior Display Categories. The Team also selected the winner of the SAME Honolulu Post award of $500 to the team from Saint Andrews Priory for their research on "The Motion of the Ocean: Engineering An Innovative Approach to Simulate Oceanic Tides". The Saint Andrews Priory project team will be attending the 12 May 2009 Honolulu Post luncheon to showcase their project. Mahalo to all of our SAME volunteers! March 2009 Highlights
On March 10th, Captain John Hickey, Commanding Officer, Coast Guard ISC Honolulu gave a talk on how the USGBC is transitioning from LEED version 2.2 to LEED 2009 and how the accreditation process will change as well. 2009 SAME Joint Pacific-Northwest Regional Training and Education Conference Program Hosted by SAME Honolulu, Feburary 25 and 26.
The 2009 Same Pacific-Northwest Regional conference took place on February 25th and 26th at the Hilton Hawaiian Villiage in Waikiki, Hawaii. Twenty-three speakers from across the region gave informative talks on a variety of topics. Heavy emphasis was placed on energy and sustainabilty and how future military engineering projects have begun focusing on these important issues. For a list of speakers and links to their presentations, please click here. Special guest speakers included Senator Daniel Inouye’s Military Liaison, Walter Kaneakua; State Director, Office of Senator Daniel Akaka, Mike Kitamura; and PACOM Chief of Staff, MG Stephen Tom February 2009 Engineers Week
February 17th, 2009 – SAME and HCES were honored to have Ted Peck, the State Energy Administrator at the Dept of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) present his “Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative” at the Engineers Week 2009 kick-off luncheon. Mr. Peck began by highlighting the somber reality of Hawaii’s uniquely high petroleum consumption, placing it in both a national and global context. He went on to stress the tremendous potential of renewable energy in the islands, estimated at 150% of the current installed capacity. The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative’s goals are numerous; with the first being to achieve a 70% clean energy economy for the State of Hawaii within a generation. “The primary barriers to reaching this goal are not technical or financial; they are policy-driven,” Mr. Peck said. Finally, he laid out a comprehensive approach to address policies regarding electricity generation and delivery, efficiency standards, and transportation. For a complete copy of Mr. Peck’s presentation, please click here. SAME Honolulu January 2009 Highlights January 13th, 2009 - William Kucharski, PE, the Vice President of Operations for AMEC's Pacific Region gave a talk of the Environment impact of the 1991 Iraq invasion of Kuwait. As the Iraqis retreated in 1991, they blew up all of Kuwait's 748 oil wells and released millions of barrels of crude oil onto the desert mantle and Arabian Gulf. While some recovery actions were taken immediately after the oil fires were put out, millions of barrels of oil contamination remained on the surface of the Kuwait desert and on the shoreline of the Gulf. The presentation summarized the results of the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) funded investigations and discussed the logistical and environmental challenges of the clean-up program. Please see the presentation here.
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