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Chazen has an immediate opening for a Director of Municipal Engineering Services. Reporting to the Vice President of Engineering Services, this position is responsible for leading a team of project managers, design professionals and technical support staff working with public sector (Municipal )...

The Chazen Companies (www.chazencompanies.com) has an immediate opportunity for a Civil Engineer in either our Poughkeepsie OR White Plains offices. We're growing!!    Responsibilities include Technical Design and/ or project management for public and private clients, development of creative...

Civil / Environmental Engineer Sidney B. Bowne & Son, LLP Sidney B. Bowne & Son, LLP (Bowne) is a partnership of licensed architects, engineers and surveyors. The name Bowne has been associated with surveying and engineering on Long Island since 1895. Currently, the firm is not only...

Does anyone have access to the Blue Book Rental Rates/Equipment Watch? I am doing a T&M Change Order and I need to book out the contractor's equipment rates. Thanks, JFuze

I'm typically a WaterGems user, however I have to provide a water model in InfoWater format. I have the model built and all scenarios have been added, but I'm having issues with modeling the groundwater wells. Can someone explain what the help topic in InfoWater means because I can't seem to...

Sidney B. Bowne & Son, LLP is seeking a Mid-Level Civil/Water Resources Engineer to join our team in our Mineola, NY office. A bachelor's degree in civil or mechanical engineering is required. Preference will be given to those who possess a strong background in water resources engineering...

While being a fairly "new" engineering firm, I really don't want to start writing everything around the '95 format, and then find out everyone else moved into the '04/10 format... Hence the confusion...and why would they (CSI) completely reformat like that??

Here it is... MF2004ETM_Oct2005.pdf

The 1995 Edition only has 16 Divisions, where the 2004/2010 Edition has 48... I downloaded the PDF from CSI for the 2010 Edition and it is 209 pages long...

So, I'm getting ready to make my big debut and start writing specs for my company. Before I jump into this, I wanted to get thoughts from the engineering community as to what format wveryone is using. My last firm was still using the 1995 format... Thoughts?? Thanks, jfuzePE

The biggest issue that I see is the fact that most clients are going to the cheaper as opposed to possibly the better. In my former company, cream of the crop was always hired (as still holds true today), but it is hard to compete with "mom and pop" firms that take the same amount (or even more)...

:rotflmao: In the civil/environmental field that I work in, if you don't get field experience the contractors will beat you to death via change order because you don't know what they are talking about...and believe me, contractors know if you have field experience or not. I learned a long time...

I got mine back in 2005 :) ... On the serious side, be sure you check with your State boards, some of them will only accept stamps from certain suppliers. I had to order my NC stamp from a supplier listed on the State website.

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I'm already thinking about what wonderful leftovers I'll be having for lunch tomorrow... P.S. - screw the calculation booklet...lunch is much more interesting