ASCE St. Louis Section

📣 ASCE STL – May Luncheon🏗️

Join us alongside ASCE STL Younger Members on Thursday, May 7 at Bella Milano (Edwardsville, IL) for our upcoming luncheon featuring “Seeking Concrete Solutions in Material Engineering”

This presentation will explore the benefits of concrete pavements across trail systems, intersections, and parking lots—highlighting performance, accessibility, and real-world applications. Speaker Jesse Jonas will share practical insights on mix design, material selection, and innovative approaches to improve durability and cost-effectiveness in today’s infrastructure.

🗓 May 7, 2026
⏰ 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Bella Milano, Edwardsville, IL

👉 Register here: https://shorturl.at/lzSnh

had a great time volunteering at the Fort Zumwalt STREAM Night at Forest Park Elementary!

Students and families from 3rd–5th grade stopped by our booth to explore civil engineering through hands-on activities, including a shake table demonstration and MSE wall model. It was great to see so many young minds engaged and curious about how engineering shapes the world around them.

Thank you to our volunteers Jeff, Jacob, Caleigh, and Nichole for helping make the event a success!

is proud to partner with the St. Louis Section’s Sustainability Committee to host Olivia Paxson at our upcoming Section Luncheon. She will present on An Introduction to Embodied Carbon and How to Reduce it on Typical Structural Projects. We will also welcome new Life Members!

🔵Tue, April 14th @ 12pm
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Embodied carbon is a hot topic in the building industry, but how is it defined and what are we supposed to do about it? This presentation will define how embodied carbon appears in structural systems and it will identify ways to reduce it in typical projects. Many current recommendations for structural engineers are vague, rely on material changes, or are cost prohibitive. The goal of this presentation is to highlight specific ways to achieve significant carbon reductions on the typical project, without large cost increases or extra design work. It will break the recommendations into clear, concise guidance, and it will discuss the carbon impacts of reductions in equivalent comparisons. There will be a focus on recent code provisions and industry recommendations. Both design changes and specification language will be addressed. This presentation will challenge typical design standards and will discuss a handful of building materials to target how the average structural engineer can reduce carbon on their projects, so that every project can achieve embodied carbon reductions.

👩‍🔬📐Olivia Paxson, E.I., M.ASCE
Olivia is a Project Engineer at working towards building a more sustainable future. She received her Bachelors and Masters from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and now resides in St. Louis. She serves as a committee member on the SE2050 SEI Committee, focusing on reduction strategies and encouraging structural engineers around the country to reduce their buildings’ embodied carbon.

The Nominating Committee is now accepting nominations for open Board positions - all Section members are invited to participate in this process!

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Open Board positions are the following:
⚪️Director of Administration (2-year term)
🟢Treasurer (1-year term, typically filled by an outgoing Director as Official Nominee if no Petition Nominees are submitted for Treasurer)
⚫️Secretary (1-year term, typically filled by an outgoing Treasurer as Official Nominee if no Petition Nominees are submitted for Secretary)
🔵President-Elect (1-year term, typically filled by an outgoing Secretary as Official Nominee if no Petition Nominees are submitted for President-Elect)

Board members are expected to regularly attend monthly Section Board meetings and fulfill all responsibilities outlined in the Section’s Constitution, Bylaws and Handbook. Accepting a position generally leads to progression through subsequent Board roles, resulting in a multi-year commitment. Board members will be installed at the Section’s Annual Awards Dinner, with terms beginning October 1, 2026.

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There are two ways for Section Members to participate in the process:

1️⃣Submit a Section Member’s name for consideration by the Nominating Committee. Submit a Section Member’s name using the Nomination Form linked below. Names submitted are considered only by the Nominating Committee for potential selection as an Official Nominee. This does not guarantee selection or placement on the election ballot. The Committee will present at least one (1) Official Nominee for each open position to the Board.

2️⃣Self-Nomination as a Petition Nominee. Complete the Nomination Form linked below and upload:
A petition with signatures from ten (10) eligible voting subscribing Section Members, and
A signed letter of intent to serve, if elected.
Petition Nominees meeting all requirements will be placed on the election ballot as a Petition Nominee. All forms must be submitted by March 15, 2026.

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was proud to partner with EWRI St. Louis Chapter to host Derek Hoeferlin at our recent Section Luncheon!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an engaging discussion on Way Beyond Bigness and the future of watershed-scale, water-based infrastructure across the Mekong, Mississippi, and Rhine River basins.