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Title: Drilled Shaft at the Portal Bridge
Speaker/s: Brendan Dwyer and Jim Glider
Date / Time: February 19, 2026, 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Wildfire Steaks, Chops & Seafood in Tysons Corner, VA (NEW LOCATION)
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Future Events In Planning
| Date | Event | Speaker | Location |
| TBD | ASCE NCS GI Holiday Happy Hour | N/A | TBD |
Past Events
| Date | Speaker | Company | Topic |
2024
| February | — | — | Geotechnical Symposium: Deep Foundations |
| January | Samantha McNerney | Aerix Industries | Lunch Presentation: The Sustainability and Resilience of Low-Density Cellular Concrete |
| December | Michael Bennett, P.E. | Gannett Fleming | Lunch Presentation: A Monument and Its Meaning: the Lincoln Memorial’s Geotechnical and Civic History |
| December | — | — | Younger Member: Younger Member: Happy Hour (Holiday Event) and Food Drive at Solace Outpost in Falls Church |
| November | Jamal Rostami | Colorado School of Mines | Lunch Presentation: State of the Art TBM Tunneling and Recent Advancements |
| October | Sharon Hartley, Adam Marolf, Girmay Weldegiorgis, Benjamin Stark, Shana Carroll (Moderator) | GeoStructures, American Geotechnical and Environmental Services, Inc., Federal Highway Administration, George Mason University, D.W. Kozera, Inc., respectively | Geotechnical Professional Development Panel |
| October | J. Kent Holland | ConstructionRisk, LLC | Lunch Presentation: Contract Risk Management for Design Professionals |
| September | Archibald Filshill | Aero Aggregates | Lunch Presentation: MSE and CIP Walls Using Ultra-Lightweight Foam Glass Aggregate |
| August | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour (Walter’s Sports Bar and Restaurant) and Washington Nationals Baseball Game |
| May | Sarah McInnes / Dan Gleason | Pennsylvania Department of Transportation | Lunch Presentation: I-95 Emergency Rebuild |
| April | Jesus Gomez | GEI Consultants | Lunch Presentation: Do’s and Dont’s in Lateral Stabilization of Soils Using Deep Foundation Elements |
| March | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour (Joint Event with ASHE Potomac Section) |
| March | — | — | Geotechnical Symposium: Innovation in Geotechnical Engineering |
| February | Richard Bird | Retired | Lunch Presentation: Construction Dewatering |
| January | Brandon Buschmeier | Menard | Lunch Presentation: Rigid Inclusion Support for the Potomac Yard Metro Station |
2023
| December | John Wolosick | Keller | Virtual Lunch Presentation: Investigation and Stabilization of Tall Reinforced Slopes |
| December | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour (Holiday Event) and Food Drive |
| November | Georgette Hlepas | US Army Corps of Engineers | Lunch Presentation: Dam Monitoring and Data Driven Decisions |
| October | Sushant Upadhyaya | Kaveree, Inc. | Lunch Presentation: Geotechnical Risk Assessment in Infrastructure Projects |
| October | — | — | Field Trip: Alex Renew Waterfront Tunnel Project |
| September | Erol Guler | George Mason University / GT Consultants, LLC | Lunch Presentation: Geosynthetic Encased Columns (GEC) |
| September | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour (Walter’s Sports Bar and Restaurant) and Washington Nationals Baseball Game |
| June | — | — | Field Trip: Ductile Iron Piles (DIPs) at Historic Ford’s Theater |
| May | Felicia Bechtel | RETTEW Field Services, Inc. | Lunch Presentation: Geophysics and Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) – How to Find, Map, and Manage What You Want to Hit or Miss Before Digging, Drilling, or Building |
| April | Tom Richards | Nicholson Construction | Lunch Presentation: Introduction to Diaphragm Walls |
| March | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour |
| March | — | — | Geotechnical Symposium: Case Studies and Lessons Learned |
| February | Anash Puppala | Texas A&M University | Lunch Presentation: Stabilization Studies for Problematic Soils: Innovative Materials and New Perspectives |
| January | Allen Cadden | Schnabel Engineering | Lunch Presentation: Making Geo Data Available: DIGGS Solution |
2022
| December | Russell Green | Virginia Tech | Lunch Presentation: Liquefaction Triggering Due to Induced Seismicity |
| December | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour |
| November | Binod Tawari | California State University – Fullerton | Lunch Presentation: Importance of Knowns/Unknowns While Assessing Damages of Geotechnical Structures During Earthquake Events |
| October | — | — | Field Trip: The Hampden House / Metro Tower Project |
| October | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour |
| September | Silas Nichols | Federal Highway Administration | Lunch Presentation: The Importance of Construction Control in Foundation Acceptance |
| June | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour |
| March | Liz Smith | Terracon | Lunch Presentation: Lessons Learned from Retaining Wall and Slope Failures |
| February | Ryan Tinsley / Martin Woodard | GeoStabilization International | Lunch Presentation: Red Rocks Amphitheatre Rockfall Mitigation |
2021
| November | Timothy King | AECOM | Lunch Presentation: Geophysical Surveys in Support of the Geohazard Evaluation for the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline |
| October | — | — | Geotechnical Symposium: Innovations and Lessons Learned in Ground Improvement |
| September | — | — | Younger Member: Happy Hour |
| May | Jean-Louis Briaud | Texas A&M University | Lunch Presentation: Laterally Loaded Large Diameter Piles |
| April | Patrick Gallagher | Retired | Lunch Presentation: Settlement/Consolidation Analysis of a 140′ Engineered Fill Embankment at West Ridge Business Park, Morgantown, WV |
| March | Aaron Zdinak | HDR | Lunch Presentation: The Evolution of VDOT Work in Virginia – A Practitioner’s Perspective |
| February | Mark Rothbauer | Nicholson Construction | Lunch Presentation: Cole Field House Support of Excavation Project |
2020
| November | Bryan Gee | Tensar International | Lunch Presentation: Environmental Ethics for Engineers |
| September | Zia Zafir | Kleinfelder | Lunch Presentation: Seismic Updates in the 2018 International Building Code |
| May | Sebastian Lobo-Guerrero | American Geotechnical & Environmental Services, Inc. | Lunch Presentation: Emergency Rock Slide Stabilization with Shear Pins: Design, Construction, the Media |
| February | Gunaratnam Gnana | D.W. Kozera, Inc. | Lunch Presentation: A Comparison of Predicted and Actual Results form the US-301 Test Pile Program |
| January | Chula Ellepola | AECOM | Lunch Presentation: Determination of Design Parameters for the Design of Drilled Shafts and Retaining Walls from a Large Data Set |
2019
| November | Sean Howley | Kraftson Caudle PLC | Lunch Presentation: Practical Implications of ASCE Code of Ethics Canon 3 – “Issue True Statements” |
| October | Adam Marolf | American Geotechnical & Environmental Services, Inc. | Lunch Presentation: Hawk Falls Bridge Replacement: Designing Arch Bridge Foundations in Steep Terrain |
| June | — | — | Field Trip: The Wharf Construction |
| May | — | — | Geotechnical Symposium: Support of Excavation |
| April | Tim Stark | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Lunch Presentation: Modified SPT for Drilled Shaft Design in Weak Sedimentary Rock |
| March | Michael Rayl / Chris Giese | ECS Mid-Atlantic, LLC | Lunch Presentation: South Capital Street Bridge Project: A Geotechnical Overview |
| January | David Sawitzki | AECOM | Lunch Presentation: Foundation Grouting for Stabilization of Mosul Dam |
ASCE National Capital Section Geo-Institute 