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| October 8, 2010
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Vice Chairman Named for Bridges & Structures Subcommittee |
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AASHTO President Butch Brown announced this week an appointment to the association's Standing Committee on Highways' Subcommittee on Bridges and Structures.
David Hohmann, Texas Department of Transportation Bridge Division director, has been selected to serve a two-year term as vice chairman. The subcommittee develops and keeps current all major engineering standards, specifications, and principles pertaining to the methods and procedures of bridge and structural design, fabrication, erection, and maintenance, including geometric standards and aesthetics as appropriate for such structures; makes recommendations for testing and investigating existing and new materials of construction; determines areas of needed study and research in the area of bridge engineering; and develops and maintains such standards and procedures as are appropriate for rating and evaluating existing bridges in service. Its website is available at bridges.transportation.org. Questions regarding this article may be directed to editor@aashtojournal.org. |