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Networking

Oak Hill Parkway Project site visit

Event organised by ICE

Date
14 March 2025
Time
13:30 - 17:30 CST
Location
Balfour Beatty
2101 S I-35 Frontage Rd Suite 400
Austin, Texas,
USA

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Overview

Please join Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Americas USA Gulf Coast and Balfour Beatty for a small office presentation, a site visit of the Oak Hill Parkway Project, followed by a happy hour at Sa-Tén @ Canopy. The site visit will be a tour of the Oak Hill Parkway Project, an upgraded, state-of-the-art highway consisting of 2-to-3 non-stop US 290 main lanes for through traffic in each direction, as well as 2-to-3 frontage road lanes in each direction. This is a unique opportunity to tour one of the featured TxDOT projects. Available spots will be capped at 12 people!

All tour guests are required to provide the following PPE. Let us know prior to the tour the equipment you may need, so we may be able to accommodate:

  • Hard Hat
  • Hi-Vis Vest
  • Gloves
  • Safety Glasses
  • Long Pants
  • Closed-Toed Shoes

NOTE: All tour guests will be required to attend a quick safety briefing prior to the start of the tour.

Appetizers and drinks will be provided during happy hour at Sa-Tén @ Canopy.

Spaces for this event are extremely limited, once booking capacity has been reached, please contact [email protected] to be added onto the waiting list.

Programme

13:30 - 13:40

Meet and greet

13:40 - 13:50

Sign in and escorted walk to the meeting room

13:50 - 14:30

Office presentation

14:30 - 14:40

Health and safety briefing

14:40 - 14:45

Change into PPE and site walk

14:45 - 15:30

Site walk with questions

15:30 - 15:45

Return to site to change out of PPE

15:45 - 17:30

Happy Hour at Sa-Tén @ Canopy and networking

Speakers

Silky Wong

Silky Wong

regional representative

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Silky Wong

Silky Wong is the ICE representative for the USA Gulf Coast Region, covering Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas.

Silky Wong, Ph.D., S.E., P.E., CEng MICE, F.SEI, is the Civil, Structural, and Buildings Modularisation Technical Solutions team leader of Dow Inc., one of the world’s leading materials science companies and Top 100 Global Innovators™. She has more than 18 years of professional experience in civil and structural engineering, with an emphasis on the design and constructability of structures in the non-building industry. At Dow Inc., she provides consultations on structural designs and modularization subject matters to support Dow projects globally, including those facilities located in the UK areas.

Silky is the ICE Americas representative in the Gulf Coast region and the Texas USA representative for the Institution. She is a licensed Structural Engineer in Illinois, a registered Professional Civil Engineer in Texas and California, and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) with ICE.

Silky is a Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute (F.SEI), and the chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Energy Division Executive Committee for 2023-24. She is a voting member of the following ASCE committees: Committee on Technical Advancement, Task Committee on Onshore Heavy Industrial Modularization, and Sustainability Technical Committee.

In these professional committees, Silky helps in the development and application of structural engineering technology and sustainability considerations for the construction and maintenance of industrial and energy facilities. Besides performing structural engineering practical application studies, Silky’s research interests lie at the intersection of engineering expertise development, leadership, generational issues, and mentorship.

She has been a conference paper author, a recurring speaker, and a session moderator of the ASCE/SEI Structures Congress since 2011.

For more information please contact:

Thomas Compton

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