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12:00 Announcements followed by networking
12:30 Speaker begins
1:00 Meeting is adjourned

Dallas Market Center, 7050 Stemmons Freeway, (214) 630-8500.  The hotel is located on the east side of Stemmons, just south of Mockingbird.  Directions:  from northbound I-35, exit Mockingbird and hotel is on the right; or from southbound I-35, exit Commonwealth, do a U-turn under freeway, stay on access road and hotel is on the right. (Map)

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has determined that, due to seismic retrofit costs and other considerations; a new skyway and bridge will be constructed between Yerba Buena Island and the Oakland side with the end result being the replacement of the old steel truss bridge.  The new bridge design is a Self Anchored Suspension Bridge with a 525’ tall steel tower support structure and bridge deck.  Due to the unique design, size and load carrying requirements of the bridge, very high precision surveys were required for the overall project control network with unique survey solutions employed for non-traditional surveys such as required for the tower footings, rebar cages, and steel fabrication dimensional verification using industrial metrology equipment and analysis software.  An overall discussion of the project and some of the project specific solutions will be presented.

Cost: $20 with reservations.  Please RSVP with a choice between a chicken meal (grilled chicken) or vegetarian (eggplant Florentine).

Reservations Deadline: Tuesday, November 11th.

Mr. Bloodgood completed his degree in Geography at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with two additional years in surveying and photogrammetry.  He has over 35 years of surveying and mapping experience, which includes 20 years at the senior management level.  He has been responsible for project design, planning, estimating, implementation, and tracking, as well as, sales and marketing.  Since 1985, Mr. Bloodgood has participated at the senior management level with overall project and/or operating division responsibility.

His past projects have included: Project Manager for multiple IDIQ contracts with TxDOT – Dallas District and the NTTA; Project Director for the surveying of over 2500 miles of levees for the Corps of Engineers including the Sacrament District; Project Manager for surveying and ortho photo mapping of 40,000 square miles in Northeast Brazil for the World Bank; Project Manager for the surveying of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) tunneling project; Project Manager for the gravity surveying along 600 miles of the Zambezi River from Victoria Falls to Mozambique and Project Manager for the surveying of over 1,200 miles of right-of-way for the AT&T fiber optic cable primary network.

He currently serves as Vice President and Regional Director for Towill, Inc.’s offices in Denver as well as Dallas.  He is a Professional Land Surveyor licensed in 13 states.  He is also a certified photogrammetrist through ASPRS and the State of Oregon.

A complete membership list plus any additional non-members making reservations (sorted by last name) will be available to our cashier-volunteers.  Payment is by cash or check made out to ASCE.  Members not shown on the list with reservations should be prepared to pay the non-reservation price and wait to be seated.

Reservations via e-mail are strongly encouraged to reduce misspelled names.  Confirmation reply e-mails are sent.

Cost:  $25 with reservations, $30 at the door, if seating is available. 

Hope to see you at Crowne Plaza Hotel - Dallas Market Center!