ASCE Los Angeles Section

Vision

The ASCE Los Angeles Section Sustainability Committee is an agent for enhancing our community and our quality of life through environmentally, socially, and economically responsible civil engineering practices within the Los Angeles Section in a manner consistent with the purposes of ASCE.

Mission Statement

The ASCE Los Angeles Section Sustainability Committee will:

• Promote, practice, and advocate sustainability principles through professional development, innovation, and outreach activities within the Los Angeles Section.
• Lead the civil engineering community in the Los Angeles Section to become practitioners of sustainable civil engineering principles and practices.
• Generate ideas and to identify potential opportunities and strategies that will expand and enhance the leadership role of ASCE Los Angeles Section in advancing science, engineering and technology and in building capacity for sustainable development in a local perspective.
• Use partnerships and coalition building opportunities that will promote and encourage sustainable engineering education and practice.

Facts

The Sustainability Committee held its first organizational meeting on March 13, 2008.  The Committee currently has over 10 members.  The Committee is working to increase our contacts with Planners and Architects as the effort to bring sustainability into the mainstream must be cooperative in nature and should start within in the very early stages of project conception.

The Sustainability Committee currently meets monthly by teleconference call on the third Thursday of each month from 12PM to 1PM Pacific Time.  Please contact Paul Callaway at for information on joining in on these conference calls.

The Committee is currently working to highlight projects that have incorporated sustainable aspects into their design and construction.  We are collecting information on sustainable projects to help popularize them and bring this concept into the forefront of our profession and our society.  If you know of any projects that have incorporated sustainable aspects and want to bring them to this Committee attention, please contact the committee secretary, Mark Capron, at .

The Committee worked with Ventura Velo, Inc., the ASCE Santa Barbara-Ventura Branch and it’s YMF group to produce a bicycle tour of sustainable projects and facilities in Ventura County.  It was called the Tour du Green and it was be held on May 15, 2010.  The tour featured many awarding winning and LEED certified facilities.  The ASCE’s sponsorship allowed our members to take this all day tour for $30 and YMF members can take the tour for $10.  I have attached some of the bicycle rider comments in the flyer section of this webpage