ANNOUNCEMENTS

The U.S. Department of Transportation has published an updated set of answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) rule.   The new FAQ guidance is available here . It is also linked on our DBE Resource Page .   The document addresses some issues that we raised in our comment letter, providing more information on the process and timelines for reevaluating firms and the elements of economic hardship and systemic barriers to be incl

To the ACEC Community,   I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend filled with lots of family, friends, and great food. If you’re like me, you spent some time yesterday catching up on email and wading through message after message spotlighting Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Reports indicate that Cyber Monday will likely smash spending records this year. That’s good news: Cyber Monday has joined—and in some ways supplanted—Black Friday as make-or-break sales days f

It has been a very eventful week on the water and environment front here in DC, and I wanted to take a moment to update you on some recent developments and opportunities for future engagement.  Draft WOTUS Rule Released In big water news, the highly anticipated re-write of the Waters of the United States, or "WOTUS" rule was released earlier this week by the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers and published in the Federal Register yesterday.  As expected, the proposed rule would

To the ACEC Community,   Next Wednesday, the ACEC Research Institute will host an online roundtable discussing the findings of its newly released Firm of the Future study on Workforce . Part of the Institute’s larger Firm of the Future initiative, the report examines the talent landscape for our industry through 2035, integrating demographic analysis, dozens of in-depth personal interviews, and survey responses of more than 2,000 participants from across the engineering prof