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VOL. 48 NO. 12 SERVING 2000 ENGINEERS & LAND SURVEYORS FEBRUARY, 2013
2013 HCES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDROBERT G.F. LEE
The Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies ispleased to present Major General (Retired) RobertG.F. Lee as the 2013 recipient of the HCES LifetimeAchievement Award.
Major General Lee held a Bachelor degree inMechanical Engineering from University of Hawaii in1971 and a Master degree in BusinessAdministration from University of Hawaii in 1983. Heis licensed professional engineer in mechanical andnuclear engineering. He also taken military educa-tion curricula as Executive General Flag Course (Asia Pacific Center forSecurity Studies), Army War College, the Command and General StaffOfficers Course, the Infantry Officer. Advanced Course, and the Air ForceGround Operations School
Throughout the course of his professional career, listed are some of hisawards: University of Hawaii Distinguished Alumni Award (2006),McKinley High School Hall of Honor Award (2007), Military awards anddecorations include the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Legion ofMerit, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and theArmy Achievement Medal.
He was appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Councilassigned to FEMA (June 2011-June 2014). He was also appointed to theEngineering Council for the College of Engineering, University of Hawaiiat Manoa.
The “HCES Lifetime Achievement Award (LTAA)” was established in1997 by the Hawaii Council of Engineering Societies. The said award isprovided annually to recognize the lifetime achievements of an outstand-ing retired engineer and is bestowed upon this individual who has con-tributed significantly to the development of engineering in the State ofHawaii, and who has made a noteworthy impact to the local engineeringcommunity. This award will be presented at the HCES Engineers WeekBanquet on February 23, 2013 at Ko’Olau Golf Club Ballroom.
Congratulations to ASME for their nomination of Major General Lee.
2013 ENGINEER OF THE YEARBRIAN J. BOWERS
Upon graduation from West Point, Brian Bowersbegan his career of service to our nation. After com-pletion of Airborne and Ranger School in 1982, heserved at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Fort Knox,Kentucky, and as a Commander of a Civic ActionTeam that was deployed to the island of Phonpei inMicronesia. In 1987, he resigned from active dutyand joined his present firm, as well as the PacificArmy Reserve.
At Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Brian began hiscareer as a construction and project manager for the Inter-Island TerminalComplex at Honolulu International Airport. In 1989, he became an officerof the firm, in 1996, a partner, and in 1997 he became the President of thecompany. Together with his partner, Dexter Kubota, they drafted a strate-gic plan and vision for the firm, implementation of which has led to thefirm growing over 1,000% in the past 15 years to over 100 team members.Under their leadership, the firm has been selected for numerous stateand national awards including: National and State project awards,Consultant of the Year, Top Employer for Diversity in the Work Place forpast 5 years, the #1 Best Civil Engineering Firm to Work for in the UnitedStates by CE News for 2 years (2011 and 2012), the #1 Best Place toWork in Hawaii by Hawaii Business Magazine for 3 years (2009, 2011,2012), the #1 Healthiest Workplace in Hawaii by Hawaii BusinessMagazine for 2 years, the #1 Most Family Friendly Company in Hawaii for2 years, and the #1 Healthiest Employer by Pacific Business News in2012. In 2012 Bowers + Kubota, was selected as a Top 100 A/E GrowthFirm nationally by Zweig – White.
Brian Bowers is married to the former Bernice Kiyo Glenn. They havetwo sons: William (17) and Robert (14) who attend Punahou School. Hewas born in 1959 in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Schaumburg,Illinois. He graduated from West Point as a Distinguished Graduatewhere he received a Bachelor of Science Degree. He attended night
2013 YOUNG ENGINEER OF THE YEARLARA KARAMATSU
Ms. Karamatsu is a graduate of Iolani School andthe University of Portland in Portland, Oregon. At theUniversity of Portland she was on the Track & FieldTeam (Pole Vault), involved with the ASCE StudentChapter and the Hawaii Club, and graduated with aB.S. in Civil Engineering. Ms. Karamatsu started hercareer in Washington State, working for theDepartment of Transportation on projects such as anI-5 bridge structural rehabilitation project, a 28-milesafety corridor project and lastly, a highway inter-change project. In 2008 Ms. Karamatsu moved back to Hawaii and hasbeen working for Parsons Brinckerhoff on the Honolulu Rail TransitProject, completing various tasks such as designing access roads andstream bank enhancements, and reviewing various submittals.
Ms. Karamatsu is a licensed professional engineer in civil engineeringand is highly involved with the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE), currently serving as the ASCE Hawaii Section’s OahuMetropolitan Planning Organization Chair and the Younger MemberForum (YMF) Past President. Previous ASCE positions include YMFPresident (FY2011), YMF Treasurer (FY2010) and YMF CommunityService Chair (FY2009-2011).
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2013 STUDENT ENGINEER OF THE YEARJONATHAN DANG
Jonathan Dang was born and raised in Honoluluand is a 2009 graduate of Kalani High School, wherehe earned a 4.0 GPA and was the valedictorian ofhis class. Jonathan then enrolled as an electricalengineering student at UH Manoa as a UH RegentsScholar, an accolade given to only 20 high schoolstudents from across the entire state.
From the start, Jonathan immediately immersedhimself in a number of projects at the UH College ofEngineering (CoE). Most notably, though, was a pro-ject he worked on during his junior year, where Jonathan and three team-mates built an autonomous miniature robot – known as a “Micromouse” –designed to maneuver its way through a maze as fast as possible.Jonathan’s team’s mouse ended up taking 1st place in the IEEE Region 6Competition. Jonathan then moved on to work on a government-fundedradar calibration nanosatellite project under the UH Small-SatelliteProgram, where he was eventually promoted to Lead Software Engineer,developing the software necessary to command and control the satellitefrom the Earth once in space. Jonathan has sharpened his engineeringand programming skills by participating in other various engineering pro-jects and activities, such as the annual IEEE Extreme Programming
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HOME PAGE: http://hces.us
2012-2013 OFFICERSChair: Bryan ZachmeierChair-elect: Dawn SzewczykSecretary: Dean Borges Treasurer: Les Kempers
SOC Representative AlternateAACE T. TaamACECH K. HayashidaAPWA J. LauASCE D. Barsana R. BabcockASHRAE P. ScottASME D. Kam J. AhernCMAA C. LumEAH G. PatersonEWBH W. Wong N. WatersFALEA S. Agraan G. AlbanoHSPE J. Dubois K. KunimineIEEE G. TorigoeITE W. YamamotoSAME B. ZachmeierSEAOH A. AgapaySFPE S. DannawaySWE L. ThompsonUH(assoc) S.K. Choi
SWE - Hawaiian Islands SectionP.O. Box 61728 • Honolulu, HI [email protected]
Executive Committee:President: Pearl Yamaguchi of MedtronicVice Pres.: Carrie Leonard of BAE SystemsSecretary: Rena Chock of HECOTreasurer: Alyssa “Sunshine” Smith of CH2M HILLCharter Sec. Rep.: Amy Weintraub of Women in
Technology, isisHawaiiAlt. Charter Sec. Rep.: Cody Aihara of Nagamine
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Officers for 2012-2013President: Terrance Arashiro,PE 533-3646Pres. Elect: Beverly Ishii-Nakayama,PE 942-9100Treasurer: William Bow,PE 941-8853Secretary: Robin Lim,PE 841-5064Past Pres.: Douglas Lee,PE 523-8499Nat. Dir.: John Katahira,PE 596-7790Directors: Joel Yuen,PE 521-3773 Jeff Kalani,PE 942-0001 Corey Matsuoka,PE 531-1308Exec. Dir.: Ginny Wright 741-4772 Email [email protected]
UHM College of EngineeringDeans and ChairsDean Peter E. CrouchInterim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Bruce LiebertAssistant Dean Song K. ChoiCEE Chair Constantinos PapacostasEE Chair Anthony KuhME Chair Mehrdad N. Ghasemi NejhadHCAC Director Magdy IskanderHSFL Co-Director Wayne Shiroma
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OfficersPresident Mike Young 836-7787
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[email protected] Neil Kaneshiro 562-308-8734
[email protected] Cliff Lum 593-1116Past Pres [email protected]
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGANNOUNCEMENTFebruary 7, 2013 (Thursday)Time: 11:45amLocation: Honolulu Country ClubSpeaker: Deepak Neupane from HCDATopic: Kakaako Redevelopment
Please email [email protected] toregister or obtain more information.
MAJOR ACEC ACCOMPLISHMENTS OFTHE PAST YEAR
In a recent update, ACEC National Presidentand CEO, David Raymond, highlighted the fol-lowing important ACEC accomplishments,which were backed by ACEC Hawaii support:1) Passage of MAP-21, which protects funding
levels for highway and transit projects fortwo years and includes numerous program-matic reforms backed by ACEC;
2) Passage of a new four-year FAA programthat protects funding and endorses the useof Qualifications Based Selection (QBS) forairport projects funded through PassengerFacility Charges (PFCs);
3) Protection of Contracting Out languageincluded in appropriations legislation toaddress competition from the Corps ofEngineers to do design consultant work,and successful effort to defend the ThomasAmendment; and
4) Congress repeal of both the 3% withholdingmandate and the expanded IRS Form 1099filing mandate.
SWE-HI Professionals and Friends of SWE-HI & SWE-UHM,
Please join me in supporting our Society ofWomen Engineers at University of Hawai’i atManoa (SWE-UHM) 5th Annual “Wow! That’sEngineering!” event on Saturday, February 9,2013, at Waipahu High School from 10:00 a.m.to 3:30 p.m. Through a National SWE grant,this important event encourages girls (grades6-8) to become inspired and learn more aboutcareers in engineering and technology.
They need our assistance with the Parentsand Educators Program. The following keyareas need volunteers:a) Education: financial aide and scholarships
& importance of ACT/SAT testing.b) Careers in Engineering: panel discussion
on personal experiences as a woman engi-neer as well as PE liscences (if applicable).
c) Hands-on activities (volunteers will helpguide the parents and educators through ahands-on engineering activity that they canuse at home/classroom).
If you are interested in any or all of the areas,please email me anytime [email protected]. Theentire event will run from 10:00am to 3:30pmand each area for 1 hour, but if you are onlyable for a particular timeframe, please let meknow. The schedule of events is flexible, and Iwill work with those interested volunteers to fittheir schedules.
For more information or child signup, pleasecheck out the following website:http://wow2013hawaii.eventbrite.com.
Thank you and warm regards,Lindsay Robinson, SWE-UHM
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http://www.hawaiispe.org/2012-2013 Officers and DirectorsPresident: Manny Lanuevo, P.E. [email protected]. Elect: Joelle Dubois, P.E. [email protected] Pres.: Darren Okimoto, P.E. [email protected]: Soo Choi, P.E. [email protected]: Nathan Yuen, P.E. [email protected] Pres.: Kurt Kunimune, P.E. [email protected]
Hawaii Society ofProfessional Engineers
A state society of the National Society of Professional Engineers
P.O. BOX 3774 HONOLULU, HAWAII 96812
2013 Engineers Week BanquetSaturday, February 23, 2013Grand Ballroom at the Koolau Ballrooms & Conference Center
5:30 p.m. Cocktails6:30 p.m. Dinner7:15 p.m. Program:
• Presentation of Engineers Week Exhibit Awards.• Presentation of Engineer of the Year, Young Engineer of the Year, HCES
Lifetime Achievement, and Student Engineer of the Year Awards.• Guest Speaker – Dr. Alfred Yee, P.E., President of Yee Precast Design
Group Ltd. will provide a presentation, “An Anecdotal Account of a PacificIsland Engineer” discussing some history of modern structural engineer-ing development in Hawaii beginning in the 1950’s with anecdotalaccounts of various travel, people relations, cultural experiences, andlessons learned.
• Installation of 2013 HCES officers.
Contact Person and Organization ________________________________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________________
Telephone___________________________ E-mail __________________________________
Rates are $60.00 per person for registration(s) postmarked on or before February 1,2013, $70.00 per person for registration(s) postmarked after February 1, 2013, and$40.00 for students. Tables will seat 8 people. Registration deadline is February 15,2013.
HCES has invited special guests to attend the banquet. These guests may include theGovernor, Mayors, State Legislators, Governmental Department Directors, and/or theirrepresentatives.
If you would like to sponsor an invited special guest and their spouse/companion to sitat your table, please fill in “HCES Special Guest” for two seats in the list below andHCES will assign a special guest and their spouse/companion to your table.Alternatively, if you would like to arrange for your own special guest(s), please includetheir name(s) in the list below.
Please type or print the name and company/organization affiliation for each attendee,as they would like it to appear on their name tag.
Name Company or Organization
1. ________________________________ ______________________________________
2. ________________________________ ______________________________________
3. ________________________________ ______________________________________
4. ________________________________ ______________________________________
5. ________________________________ ______________________________________
6. ________________________________ ______________________________________
7. ________________________________ ______________________________________
8. ________________________________ ______________________________________
Number of people attending: ______ x $60.00 (registration on or before Feb 1) = ________
Number of people attending: ______ x $70.00 (registration after Feb 1) = ________
Number of students attending: ______ x $40.00 = ________
Sponsored Guests (2 x $60.00 = $120.00) = ________
TOTAL AMOUNT REMITTED ......................................................................... ________
Please make checks payable to “HCES” and mail with completed registration form to:2013 Engineers Week Banquetc/o Derick KamThermal Engineering Corporation512 Kalihi StreetHonolulu, Hawaii 96819
Banquet attire will be aloha wear. There is no charge for parking. For further informationregarding cancellations and refunds, or if you have any questions, please contactRegistration Committee Chair Derick Kam at [email protected], telephone 356-2461.
engineers andarchitects ofhawaii
founded 1902
po box 4353, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813An association for Hawaii’s Engineers and ArchitectsWEB address: http://eahawaii.googlepages.com/home
EAH 2012- 2013 OfficersPresident Howard Wiig 587-38112nd VP Bill Brizee 523-96361st VP Joseph Feind 543-4781Treasurer Aaron Erickson 591-2728Secretary Gary Yamamoto 485-2777Past Pres Geoffrey Paterson 261-6597
EAH’s new meeting location is at the MangoGrill in the Topa Tower (Ewa tower on FortStreet ) in the Topa Financial Center (OldAMFAC Bldg). Parking is available (enterfrom Nimitz). The WEB site has been updatedto provide directions and a Map. If you havequestions please call Sam Gillie (543-4739).
Meetings are held every Friday (exceptHolidays).
Meetings start at NOON and have endedPROMPTLY at 1:00 pm for 70 Years.
Program schedule may be adjusted, callSam Gillie to confirm speaker 543-4739 Fax203-1335.
$10.00 Members, $12.00 Guest (AllWelcome), Students Free, Bring Your OwnLunches Welcome, Drink Refreshments arecompliamentary. A $2.00 donation is verygratefully appreciated!!
Congratulations to Mr. Brian Bowers,President of Bowers & Kubota Consulting, whohas been selected as the Hawaii Society ofProfessional Engineer’s Engineer of the Year.Please see the accompanying article in thisissue of the Wiliki.
The 2013 Oahu Mathcounts Chapter andState competitions will be held on February 9,2013 and March 9, respectively, at theKamehameha School, Kapalama Campus.
The HSPE Education Foundation golf tourna-ment fundraiser for Mathcounts, is tentativelyscheduled for June 28, 2013 at the WaikeleGolf Course. Please be on the lookout for moredetails in the Wiliki and at the HSPE website.Mahalo.
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S T R U C T U R A LE N G I N E E R S
A S S O C I AT I O NO F H AWA I I
PO BOX 3348, HONOLULU, HI 96801Web Page URL http://www.seaoh.org
2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS &DIRECTORSPosition Officer Phone
President Brian Kung 488-7579 [email protected]
Vice President Ethan Okuna 945-0198 [email protected]
Secretary Annette Wong 543-5603 [email protected]
Treasurer Renee Ishisaka 531-1308 [email protected]
Director Alison Agapay 735-3211 [email protected]
Director Tim Goshi 533-2210 [email protected]
Director Rodney Haraga 782-8661 [email protected]
Director Michael Kasamoto 589-1170 [email protected]
Past President Wesley Segawa 935-4677 [email protected]
Hawaii Section — Younger Member ForumWeb site: http://www.ascehawaii.org/ymf.html
2012-2013 YMF Officers President -Kurt Nagamine [email protected] President- Jason [email protected] Puna [email protected] -Amanda [email protected] President- Lara [email protected]
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FEBRUARY DINNER MEETINGThere will be no ASCE dinner meeting for the
month of February due to Engineers Weekactivities. Please visit our ASCE HawaiiWebsite, http://ascehawaii.org for up to dateinformation.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGLast held: January 9, 2013Next meeting: February 12, 2013
CONTINUING EDUCATIONASCE National holds more than 275 semi-
nars and computer workshops each year on awide variety of technical, management, andregulatory topics. These seminars are held inmore than 45 cities across the U.S. In addition,ASCE offers customized on-site training and many distance learning programs, including live interactive web/teleconferenceseminars, online courses and courses on CD,videotape, and audiotape. Please visithttp://ascehawaii.org for complete details.
ASCE HAWAII SECTION STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
Please help us increase our scholarshipendowment so that we can recognize deserv-ing students. We continue to accept tax-deductible donations with the goal of increas-ing the annual scholarships. Make your checkpayable to ‘ASCE Hawaii Section’ and mail to:ASCE Scholarship Committee, P.O. Box 917,Honolulu, HI 96808. If you have any questions,please contact Dawn Szewcyzk at [email protected].
ASCE JOB LISTINGSThe following job listings are currently post-
ed on the ASCE Hawaii Section website:• Civil Engineer VI – City and County of
Honolulu• Structural Engineer II – City and County of
Honolulu• Civil Engineer IV – City and County of
Honolulu• Civil Engineer V – City and County of
Honolulu• Mechanical Engineer IV – City and County of
Honolulu• Project Engineer – Hawaii Public Housing
Authority• Building Engineer IV – Hawaii Public
Housing AuthorityFor further information on these job listings or
to find out how you can post job openings inyour company on this website, please visithttp://www.ascehawaii.org/jobs.htm.
STUDENT CHAPTER NEWS LETTERPlease Visit http://p0.vresp.com/2Uq6D1, for
latest news and information regarding theASCE Hawaii Student Chapter.
KNOW YOUR ASCE HISTORYby C.S. Papacostas
HA`ALELEA LAWNThe thread that strung together quite a few of
my articles for a while now consisted of the reg-ular meeting places of what was originallycalled the Honolulu Engineering Association,now known as Engineers and Architects ofHawaii (EAH). At each juncture, I assembledwhat I thought were interesting social, econom-ic and political events, along with descriptionsof the buildings themselves, particularly if Ithought they had not been given sufficientexposure by others. While holding its regularmeetings at these places, the association hadoccasion to assemble, usually for specialevents such as its annual meetings, at othernotable locations that are too numerous for meto even attempt to trace completely.
Last month (January 2013) I wrapped up mycoverage of the Kapi`olani Building that servedas the association’s headquarters roughly fromsometime in mid-1906 to 1910. Located at themauka-ewa corner of King and Alakea streets,the same building also served as Honolulu’scity hall under lease for about a decade in the1920s.
The engineering association got its start in1902 at the first building erected by the YMCAin the same city block, at the makai-ewa cornerof Alakea and Hotel streets, now occupied bythe parking structure of Bishop Square thatincludes the Pacific Tower where the Kapi`olaniBuilding once stood.
After but a few months at the YMCA, theassociation moved to the Elite Building acrossHotel street between Adams Lane and UnionStreet, where it appears to have stayed untilsometime in 1904. Between 1904 and 1906,monthly meeting announcements in the news-papers sent the membership to “HaaleleaLawn,” a reference that appears to have beensufficient to pinpoint exact the meeting place.On occasion, the use of the Symphony Club’squarters was mentioned in this connection.
But only one example of the association’suse of this place is seen in the Evening Bulletin(EB) of Dec. 14, 1905: “Secretary H. P. Wood ofthe Hawaii Promotion Committee speaksbefore the Engineers’ Society at HaaleleaLawn, Richards and Hotel streets, on Mondayevening on ‘Engineering a Boom.’”
Another is described in a front-page story ofthe Hawaiian Gazette of March 20, 1906 titled“OAHU POWER PLANT DATA: EnterpriseSpoken of Among the Engineers.” This was apresentation to the engineering association atHa`alelea Lawn by Edward Cannon ofPortland, Oregon, who, based on “his twentyyears of experience in the electrical andhydraulic fields... paid tribute to the excellenceof the power plants operating the street railwayand street lighting services but he believed thatwith a fixed central power plant there would bea large reduction in the cost of power to eachof these enterprises.”
As I described in earlier installments, theHonolulu Rapid Transit & Land Co. (HRT&L)operated its powerplant at its Alapai carbarn,whereas the city’s streets were lit by a govern-ment-run hydroelectric plant in Nuuanu valley.Power to residences and commercial estab-lishments, including hotels, was supplied bythe fledgling Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO)from its Alakea street powerplant. Incidentally,at the same gathering, a motion was passed to
HIGHLIGHTS OF BOD MEETINGJanuary 2, 2013
Committee Reports:General Membership Meetings/TechnicalSeminars/Events:
– ATC-20-1 Field Manual and RapidObservation of Vulnerability and Estimationof Risk (ROVER) seminar is scheduled forJanuary 24, 2013 at the Japanese CulturalCenter
– S.K. Gosh will be presenting a seminar on“Misunderstood IBC/ASCE 7 StructuralProvisions” on February 22, 2013
– Cold-Formed Steel seminar on ProgressiveCollapse with speaker Nabil Rahman isscheduled for March 14, 2013
– SEAOH Annual Convention 2013 will be atHawaii Prince Hapuna Beach Resort onOctober 4 and 5 2013.
New MemberRiza Marie Gatdula of Structural Hawaii has
been accepted for the grade of Allied Member.New Member Applications:A membership application from Ting-Cheng
Wen of Sato and Associates for the grade ofAllied Member was received and is open forcomments from the membership.
Missing Members:Please contact Membership Chairperson,
Jiabao Chen (Ph: 791-3945 or email [email protected]), or any of the SEAOH Officers ifyou have a new mailing and/or email address.
The next SEAOH Board of Directors andOfficers meeting will be held on Wednesday,February 6, 2013. Contact 2013 SEAOHPresident Brian Kung (488-7579,[email protected]) for more information.
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2012-2013 HAWAII CHAPTER – OFFICERS,BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND COMMITTEECHAIRPERSONSChapter OfficersPresident: Kevin Saito, P.E. LEED APPresident-Elect: Barry Jim On, P.E., LEED AP, CxAVice President: William “Bill” Lee, P.E., LEED APSecretary: Donna KishiTreasurer: Dean Borges, P.E., LEED AP, CxA
Chapter Board of GovernorsPaul “Scotty” Scott, (Immediate Past President)Blake Araki, P.E.Dean OakleyKevin Luoma, P.E.Scott La Beau
Chapter ChairpersonAttendance and Reception: Melissa WhiteTechnology Transfer: Barry Jim On, P.E., LEED AP,
CxAPrograms: Kevin Luoma, P.E.Governmental Affairs: Michael ChangRefrigeration: Dean OakleyTechnology: Kevin KuEnergy Awards: Mofazzal Mir, P.E.
Historian: Paul “Scotty” ScottMemberships Promotion: Joseph Ting, P.E., CxANewsletter Editor: Bill Lee, P.E., LEED APResearch Promotion: Marites CaladStudent Activities: Scott Le BeauTechnical Seminar: Herman SiuYoung Engineers of ASHRAE: Tony RasaboutWebmaster: Dean Borges, P.E. LEED AP, CxA
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890 Vaulkenburgh StreetHonolulu, HI 96818
National AFAA President, Tom Hammerburgwill be the presenter. Please join us, and getthe word out to all your colleagues.
For further information,contactRendell K. Bourg
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NEXT ASME-HAWAII SECTION GENERAL/EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGDate: February 12, 2013 TentativeTime: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pmPlace: Hawaiian Electric Ward Avenue
CafeteriaAgenda: ASME North American District D
January 15, 2013, teleconference meetingnotes; attendee for the Leadership TrainingConference in St. Louis, MO March 1-3, 2013;recruiting participants for The Early CareerTechnical Conference in Lacy, WA April 20,2013; nominations for ASME annual awards;new tax reporting process for Sections; andsoliciting Student members for the FebruaryEngineers Week Banquet.
Members and guests are invited. There willbe free pizza and soft drinks, as usual. Pleasecontact Chairman Kory Ikeda or SecretaryRaymond Liu for directions and for more infor-mation, such as parking. The ASME-HI websitewill have the latest meeting information.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHOPASSED THE OCTOBER 2012 PE EXAMS
Raymond Liu reported that Meredith Cheeand Christopher Kinoshita passed the October2012 PE Mechanical exam. Meredith andChristopher participated in Liu’s ASME-HI PERefresher Course. Meredith is an Engineer inthe System Planning Department at HawaiianElectric Company, and Christopher is aResearch Associate at the Hawaii NaturalEnergy Institute of the University of Hawaii atManoa. Congratulations to Meredith andChristopher.
NOMINATIONS FOR 2013-2014 OFFICERSAND DIRECTORS
ASME-HI is taking nominations for officersand directors for 2013-2014. Interested mem-bers should contact any of the current Sectionofficers and directors to be placed on the bal-lot, which will be sent out to the membership forvoting in mid-February 2013. The deadline forsubmitting names for the ballot is February 8,2013.
ENGINEERS WEEK BANQUET ATTENDEESThe annual banquet is on February 23, 2013
at the Koolau Ballrooms & Conference Center.ASME-HI Section will pay 50% of member’sbanquet rate, for those members registeringand sitting at the Section table. Please contactany of the Section officers and directors if youwould like to attend.
For ASHRAE Hawaii – Upcoming ActivitiesFebruary:1. Family Hike –Makapuu Lighthouse - Feb 9th,
8-11 am2. Monthly Meeting – Feb. 21st
• DOs and DON’Ts - TBA• Main Technical Presentation – Data Center
Cooling and Cloud Technologies by CarlMullen of DRFortress
3. Engineers Week – Feb. 16 thru 19th –Display at Pearlridge Shopping Center
4. Technical Tour – Cancer Research Center –Feb. 13th – 9am to 11am
April:1. Technical Seminar – “Broadening ASHRAE
Horizons – To Net Zero Energy BuildingUsage” – April 12th, 8 am to 4 pm at the East– West Center, $125.00
Featured Speakers are:• Thomas E. Watson, P.E., Chief Engineer of
Daikin McQuay. 2012-13 Society President ofASHRAE
• James L. Stone, Arch D., AIA, LEED APBD+C, Principal of Group 70 International
• Richard Beall, P.E., LEED AP, Principal ofBeall And Associates Inc
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HONOLULU POSTSOCIETY OF AMERICANMILITARY ENGINEERSEstablished 1920 --Dedicated to the National Defense
P.O. Box 31218, Honolulu, HI 96817Web page: www.samehonolulu.org
2012-2013 OFFICERSPresident COL Gregory J. Gunter, USAVP/Programs Bryan Zachmeier, USAF (Ret)VP/Sustain. Members Will Boudra, PE, F.SAME, USN (Ret)VP/Membership Jerry M. Matsuda, PE, Col, USAF (Ret)Secretary 1LT Andrew K. Hill, USATreasurer LT Aaron T. Allison, USNRegional VP, Pacific Region Bill Grip, F.SAMEDir at Lge/Army LTC Doug Guttormsen, USADir at Lge/Navy TBDDir at Lge /Air Force Col Karl Bosworth, USAFDir at Lge /Coast Guard LCDR Andrew Wright, PE, USCGDir at Lge /Civilian Todd Barnes, PE, F.SAME, USA (Ret)
2012 OfficersPresident Joanne Hiramatsu 954-4262 [email protected] Jeoffrey S. Cudiamat, P.E. 488-5000 [email protected] Ken C. Kawahara, P.E. 836-1900 [email protected] Tyler Sugihara, P.E. 768-3600 [email protected] Pres Jason H. Lau, P.E. 596-7790 [email protected]
The Society of American Military Engineers,Honolulu Post
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2013 ENGINEER’S WEEK ‘KICK-OFF’ LUNCHEON
Presentation:"Seawater Air Conditioning: Meeting Today's Clean Energy Expectations"
Guest Speaker:Mr. Frederic Berg
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Associationfor theAdvancement ofCost EngineeringHAWAII SECTION
OFFICERS President – Kurt BendlerVice President – Paul BrussowDirector – Amarjit SinghDirector – Maelyn UyeharaPast President – Stephen JacobsonTreasurer – Guia LasqueteSecretary – Kevin Mitchell
Colonel Mark Bednar, P.E., Designated asSAME Fellow
The Society ofAmerican MilitaryEngineers is pleasedto announce that theHonolulu Post’simmediate past presi-dent, USAF ColonelMark Bednar, P.E.,has achieved thedesignation of SAMEFellow. ColonelBednar has been along standing SAME member since 1990. Histremendous dedication to SAME is representedby 22 years of active membership. He has dis-tinguished himself by rendering dedicated andoutstanding service to SAME and to the engi-neering profession. Throughout his 26 year mil-itary career, Colonel Bednar has promoted thevision, mission, and values of SAME and hascontributed greatly towards the Society’sStrategic Plan. Colonel Bednar is always look-ing to improve the integration of the local post,the military services, the state and local gov-ernments, other professional engineering soci-eties and industry. Colonel Bednar’s commit-ment to excellence and professionalismreflects great credit upon the Honolulu Post, aswell as SAME National.
Since 1972, SAME has bestowed the desig-nation of Fellow on SAME members who haverendered dedicated and outstanding service toSAME and to military engineering. In 1995, thisgroup of distinguished individuals was orga-nized into the Academy of Fellows to bring allFellows together to further SAME’s missionsand goals. As such, the Fellows Pledge detailsthe role Fellows should play. Today, there aremore than 700 Fellows in the SAME Academyof Fellows.
The Honolulu Post congratulates ColonelBednar and thanks him for his many years ofdedication and support to SAME.
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ASCE History, from page 4change “the meeting night from the secondMonday to the third Thursday of each month.”
You can imagine how piqued my curiositywas about the frequent mention of Ha`alaleaLawn, a place, by the way, that is not listed in“Place Names of Hawaii” by Pukui, Elbert andMookini. This was several years ago, before“Google Books,” the Library of Congress’“Chronicling America” newspaper archive andmany other resources became available to me.As a result, my search for clues was tedious, tosay the least.
Interestingly, the first lead I came across wasin the January 9, 1902 issue of The HonoluluRepublican, again on the front page, under thetitle “HAALELEA LAWN TREE CAUSES GRAVEINJURY.” Let me quote the brief story in itsentirety if only to offer a glimpse of the type ofdetective work that leads to the historicalaccounts I put together for your informationand pleasure:
“When the Rapid Transit car that leavesPalama at 8 o’clock in the evening, Punahoubound, arrived at the intersection of Richardsand Hotel streets last evening, Mrs. CharlotteTrombly, residing at Makiki, boarded it home-ward bound. She had attended the prayermeeting at Central Union Church and was ingood spirits. Little did she know that she wouldnever get home in that car.
When the car arrived at the corner of Hoteland Richards street, the conductor gave theusual warning ‘Stonewall to the left, look out!,’Passengers moved their heads a little more intothe inside of the car, but the trees climbing overthe Haalelea Lawn stone wall were too muchfor them. In less time than it takes to tell, one ofthe branches entered into Mrs. Trombly’s eyemaking a large cut from which blood flowedprofusely. A hack was called, and a doctor,who happened to be in the car, took the lady tohis office where she was given preliminarytreatment. He then escorted her to her home onKeeaumoku street.”
From this I garnered the following clues:Ha`alelea Lawn featured a stone wall and waslocated in the vicinity of Richard and Hotel
Streets, near the Central Union Church. I knewfrom earlier research that, between 1892 and1924, the “blue stone” Central Union Churchwas located at the diamond head corner ofRichard and Beretania streets across Beretaniafrom Washington Place and that the originalRoyal Hawaiian Hotel was across Richardsstreet with its entrance on Hotel. Assuming thatthe streetcar went straight across Richards, theLawn’s stone wall on the left side would havebeen where the State Capital grounds aretoday. Of course, this was my initial guess andwas subject to verification. Incidentally, theroadway segment of Hotel Street beyondRichards was known during the Monarchy asPalace Walk but was renamed after the over-throw to erase the memory of the HawaiianKingdom; for the same reason, Iolani Palacebecame known as the Executive Building, andPalace square where Merchant and Kingstreets meet in front of the Palace grounds wasrenamed Union square.
I obtained some reassurance that I was cor-rect about the location of Ha`alelea Lawn whenI read in a history of the Honolulu Symphonywritten by Dale Emerson Hall in 2002 that “in1904 the HSS [Honolulu Symphony Society]secured the lease of Ha`alelea Lawn, a spa-cious coral-block two-story building... at fiftydollars a month... The HSS occupied Ha`aleleaLawn for about two years.” This is consistentwith the Evening Bulletin of July 13, 1904: “TheHonolulu Symphony Society held the first of itsrehearsals for its open air concert last night inthe new quarters at Haalelea Lawn... Theorchestra will take its place on the lanai in frontof the main hall while the audience will be seat-ed in the garden.”
From 1904 to 1906 was about the time thatthe Honolulu Engineering Association wasreported to hold its regular monthly meetings atHa`alelea Lawn.
Then I discovered a story in the HonoluluRepublican of August 30, 1901 describing thefirst runs of the electric streetcars of theHonolulu Rapid Transit & Land (HRT&L) Co. onthe previous day: “After leaving the power-house [at Beretania and Alapai] the track forthe distance of two blocks runs over the unbuiltextention of Hotel street... Then just beforereaching Richards street, the track lies so closeto the stone fence of Haalelea Lawn that thereis berely room for the side of the car to clear.”
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My guess was correct: the streetcar line wentalong the old Palace Walk and that’s whereMrs. Trobly was injured a few months later.
Additional clues I unearthed associated thename of the place with High Chief Levi (Liwai)Ha`alelea from Lahaina who marriedKekauonohi, a granddaughter of KamehamehaEkahi, around 1848.
More to come. Do you know of a civil engineering accom-
plishment or event that your fellow ASCE mem-bers might find interesting? Please send abrief description to C.S. Papacostas (fax 956-5014, email [email protected]).Previous articles in the series may be found atthe Section’s web site. Just point your browserto http://www.ascehawaii.org.
YMF General MeetingThe next YMF General meeting is scheduled
for Thursday, February 7, 6:00 p.m. at Ige’sRestaurant. If you are interested in attending tofind out what the YMF is all about, contact YMFat [email protected].
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Brian is an active sponsor for Aloha UnitedWay, the Hawaii Foodbank, and the LokahiGiving Project, and leads the firm’s sponsor-ship of Adopt-A-Highway programs on three ofthe Hawaiian Islands. He is also a supporterfor Aloha Youth Lacrosse and recruits andscreens high school students for West Point asthe 2nd Congressional District Coordinator.
He is a Past President of the AmericanConsulting Engineers Council of Hawaii andalso served as President-Elect, Treasurer, andSecretary. He is a Licensed Civil Engineer inHawaii, Guam, and Virginia, as well as aCertified Construction Manager.
As a Citizen-Soldier, Brian has held numer-ous command and staff positions in the ArmyReserve and has deployed to many Pacificcountries to include Malaysia, Singapore, thePhilippines, and Korea. In 2011, Brian retiredas a Brigadier General from the Army Reservesafter 30 years of service.
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Ms. Karamatsu’s civic and community activi-ties include working with the City and County ofHonolulu’s Storm Water Quality Branch withtheir storm drain marking program, SpecialOlympics, MATHCOUNTS, and the HawaiiFoodbank. Ms. Karamatsu also helped withoutreach activities such as mentoring at theMoanalua & Gus Webling Elementary Schools’Junior Engineering Nights and talking to highschool students at Sacred Hearts Academy,UH High School Student Internship Programand Waipahu High School about CivilEngineering. Ms. Karamatsu is also involvedwith the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber ofCommerce (HJJCC) as part of the YoungBusiness Roundtable Committee (and theMembership Committee, 2011); Iolani Schoolwith volunteering with the Community ActionNetwork (ICAN) and Family Fair; and Parsons
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Competition, a 24-hour, non-stop programmingcompetition that challenges groups of up tofour students to solve as many of theirassigned problems as possible within the allot-ted time. In their most recent participation,Jonathan and his teammates placed 132nd,out of 1941 teams worldwide.
Jonathan’s project experience extendsbeyond academia, as he has also interned atthe Information Systems and Global SolutionsSector of Lockheed Martin for two summers,where he developed a new synthetic apertureradar imaging technique with an associatedgraphical user interface. He is also a teachingassistant for over 20 students in a computer-programming course within the CoE.
Jonathan was elected the AY 2012-13 presi-dent of the UH chapter of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN),the international electrical engineering honorsociety, and is instrumental in planning thechapter’s 50th anniversary.
Jonathan is in his final semester as an under-graduate, earning a 3.96 GPA over the last fouryears. After graduating this May, he plans tocontinue his academic career to pursue aPh.D. in EE. As his real passion is teaching,Jonathan’s ultimate goal is to become a col-lege professor.
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FALEA FE REVIEW CLASS:Jeoffrey went over the Class Syllabus. Class
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