Ellie McBride
Balfour Beatty US
chartered civil engineer
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- Date
- 14 March 2025
- Time
- 13:30 - 17:30 CST
- Location
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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
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.
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