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Webinar: Leader Confidence: Getting Beyond Your Comfort Zone Wednesday, January 10, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Join us in this engaging and interactive webinar where you’ll learn methods to gain confidence as you advance your career and work your way up the chain of command. The speaker, Don Young, will offer practical and effective tips and tricks to build your confidence and understand your leadership style. Then, we’ll put those new skills to the test with some situation …

Webinar: Responding to Current Economic Headwinds Wednesday, January 10, 2024 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Join us for an important economic analysis of 2024 from one of the A/E/C industry’s leading experts at Cumming Group, followed by a robust discussion with senior leadership at two large business firms. Our speakers will share their insights on how they are preparing their firms for inflation, the impacts of the presidential race, and a possible slowdown in commercial work and w …

About the First Friday Webinar Series Friday, January 5, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST WEBEX Virtual Platform Earn 1 PDH each session Through a commitment to offering effective training, development and networking programs, SAME DC Post is helping sustain the future of the profession with monthly education-focused sessions to deliver topical and relevant content to our industry. Our program offers a one-hour educational professional development opportunity on the first Friday …

Webinar: Green New World, Mapping the Transition Wednesday, December 20, 2023 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. The global transition to Electric Vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy sources will require from the mining, shipping, manufacturing, power, labor, and finance, and regulatory sectors. Current trends across these sectors, opportunities and risks, and the interplay between them all in a complex and ever-changing world. Presenters Andrew Aguilar, PE, IGP QISP, CPSWQ, Manager, …

Webinar: AFCEC Strategic Design and Construction Division Portfolio Overview Thursday, December 14, 2023 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. In this webinar, Maj. Michael Gund, USAF, Deputy Chief of AFCEC Strategic Design and Construction Division, will provide an overview of the construction portfolio for FY2023 awards, FY2024 and FY2025 upcoming projects, and ways that AFCEC is looking at alternative delivery methodologies to support their mission and create more efficiencies in delivering …

Webinar: AFWERX Challenge Program Opportunities Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. AFWERX Challenge is an expanded market research program to accelerate ideas toward demonstrated and deployed solutions that benefit the warfighter. We match solutions from across the innovation ecosystem, from individuals to startups, small and large businesses, academia, and research labs to prioritized Department of the Air Force problems. The process includes design thinking worksh …

Webinar: Tyndall Digital Twin Implementation Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. For the past three years, Lance Marrano has served as the Science and Technology Advisor for Installation of the Future to the Tyndall Reconstruction Program, where he has helped guide digital twins, facility controls cybersecurity, and several other innovations for Tyndall AFB to be the first 21st century installation and share these innovations amongst the services. This webinar will …

Webinar: The Jump From Doing to Leading: Guidelines for New Leaders Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Technical doers are often put in positions of leadership, before they even have a grip on how to be a good leader. This presentation is a guide based on solid principals, proven in the industry to be effective leadership tools. It will teach, equip, and provide building blocks for new leaders to be effective. Do not blame others, it’s your operation; the buck s …

Webinar: SAME and Partnering with Indigenous Communities Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. In 2021, a team in the SAME Leader Development Program began researching how to conduct STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) outreach to American Indian audiences in the K- 12 age range. This project grew into a program operating at 4 sites across the US, funded by the United Engineering Foundation and SAME Foundation. Now completing it’s 2nd year and ready f …

Webinar: What to Know About the National Leader Development Program Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Are you interested in developing your leadership skills but don’t know if the SAME National Leader Development Program is for you? Join us for an overview of the program as well as the application process. LDP class members receive fully funded live training at two JETCs courtesy of the SAME Foundation, plus a year of webinars, book discussions, mentoring, and …

Webinar: Safeguarding Strategies – A Deep Dive into Department of Defense Cybersecurity Compliance Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology and security, the Department of Defense (DOD) holds a paramount responsibility to safeguard sensitive information and critical systems from cyber threats. For architects and engineers, contributing to DOD projects requires a thorough understanding of cybersecurity compliance to ensure …

SAME E&S COI: EV Charging Systems Deployment for the US Postal Service Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Webinar Details One of the major challenges with the deployment of EV charging systems concerns the impact on electric infrastructure from nearby transmission and distribution systems. Considerations such as having enough available amps, the ability of the distribution system to handle the extra loads, and how to configure chargers for the fleet are only some of …

The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting process is not unaffected by PFAS. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency issued guidance to states on how to include PFAS in permits. This presentation will provide attendees with a working knowledge of the types of permits, the permitting process, effluent limitation guidelines, and how recent interim guidance and regulatory actions impact stormwater and wastewater NPDES permitting. Presenters Nancy Koch, …

Risk management is a key aspect of all design and construction projects that ultimately makes or breaks an otherwise successful project. Often times, risk management is approached in an objective manner of identifying specific risks and actions to mitigate those risks in a risk register. But successful risk management must go beyond identifying risks to properly handling and addressing those risks. How identified risks are handled and addressed often times requires skilled leadership. This w …

Join the Resilience Community of Interest (COI) for a webinar on the military response to sea level rise (SLR), in which senior defense officials will share their roles and responsibilities and discuss what each of the services are doing in response to SLR impacts. Attendees will gain an increased understanding of the work the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard is doing to address SLR and resilience concerns while implementing the National Defense Strategy with direction from the National D …

This webinar will provide an overview of the recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine paper on Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities. We will provide an overview of the report and discuss the background context and significance of the report in preparation for a more in-depth discussion prior to the Innovating Government Risk Decisions track as part of the FAM Forum at JETC. Presenters Jack Dempsey, Co-Founder, Asset Management Partnership LLC Lisa …

(Washington, DC, April 3, 2023)— The Energy Management Association is teaming up with NFRC to host a free AIA-approved webinar where the speaker will outline the impact of energy efficient fenestration in commercial buildings, the opportunities for new construction and full fenestration retrofits, and how you can make fenestration part of an overall energy efficiency plan that meets code requirements. Learning Objectives Attendees will learn about the importance of product certificatio …

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is the largest and most ambitious bi-national border infrastructure project. The project footprint is in an area of mixed-use land adjoining the Detroit River and consists of residential, commercial, industrial, and vacant properties. Some of the properties have been in use and redeveloped for over 130 years, resulting in transitional property uses with heavy and varied soil and groundwater contamination. This collaborative presentation between the owner, co …

PFAS are a group of man-made chemicals that have been found in soil and water at contaminated sites and can pose a risk to human health and the environment. During this webinar, we will discuss the ways in which PFAS can move through the environment, including complex pathways involving soil, groundwater, and surface water transport. The use of numerical modeling tools to understand and predict PFAS mobility will be covered, including the current state of research and exciting recent developmen …

Contaminated site cleanup remedies (especially long-term) should be designed, implemented, and monitored to withstand the impacts of climate change throughout the project lifecycle. Extreme weather events, flooding, and sea level rise may result in the release of contaminants to the environment or potential mobilization of contaminants through rising groundwater. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Defense are incorporating climate change and resiliency into several of their …

PERFECT Evaluations: The Art of Giving Feedback will provide participants with a better understanding of how to deliver feedback that encourages and motivates as well as strategies to conduct evaluations that drive results and improve overall performance. Whatever your current position in your career, these strategies are universal and applicable to relationships within outside of the workplace. Presenters Kim Story, Regional Sales Consultant, Nancy Larson Publishers Elena Soto, Proje …