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industry needs and will represent his peer companies in this regard. Mike Ulven is the Chief Operating
Officer of The Ulven Companies and has been with the company for over 20 years. Mike’s role currently includes Operations Management, M&A, business relocations and integration, contract negotiations, strategic planning and leadership of Lean Manufacturing programs. In addition to this new role with the Forging Industry Association, he is also a member of the Association of Wire Rope Fabricators, the American Foundry Association, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the Association for Operations Management. The Ulven Companies have been in the
forging industry for over 40 years, starting with the creation of Ulven Forging, Inc. in 1971. The Ulven Companies now comprise a group of five American companies and are privately held. Each company has their unique set of capabilities in different areas of the industry and together bring high quality, cost-effective products to their customers with reliability and integrity.
Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge Wins Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers
> T.Y. Lin International (TYLI) announced recently that theHoover Dam Bypass/Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge project was named the winner of the 2012 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) Award for superior engineering achievement from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). TYLI engineers led the design of this landmark span, which now complements one of the foremost engineering wonders of the world: Hoover Dam. TYLI received the OCEA Award at the
annual Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Gala, held on March 22, 2012, in Arlington, VA. Established in 1960, the OCEA Award recognizes the project deemed to embody the best in civil engineering and which represents a significant contribution both to the civil engineering profession and to society as a whole. ASCE established the annual OPAL awards to celebrate outstanding engineering achievements and recognize the contributions of civil engineers worldwide.
14 MAY-JUNE 2012 WIRE ROPE EXCHANGE “As the designers who created this new
engineering landmark, we are proud and honored to receive ASCE’s 2012 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award. It is truly one of the most highly-prized awards in our industry,” said David Goodyear, Chief Bridge Engineer of TYLI. “The project was a significant engineering challenge. The bridge at Hoover Dam –anchored in the rugged cliffs of the Black Canyon and arching 900 feet above the river – serves today as an enduring example of an engineering design that achieved its goals in both form and function.” The full “Hoover Support Team” – a
consortium of HDR, Jacobs Engineering (formerly Sverdrup) and TYLI – was selected by the Central Federal Lands Highway Division (CFLHD) of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), in consultation with the Arizona and Nevada Departments of Transportation, to provide design and construction support services for the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. The Hoover Dam Bypass Project includes the signature 1,900-foot-long bridge, with 1.2 miles of approach roadway in Arizona and 2.3 miles of roadway in Nevada. The bridge designed by TYLI is the highest and longest concrete arch in the Western Hemisphere. Ranking as the second-highest bridge of any kind in the United States, it also features the tallest concrete segmental columns of any bridge on the planet. Among its many awards, the Hoover Dam
Bypass Project also won the 2011 Grand Conceptor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies for best overall engineering achievement.
AEM Elects New Directors
> The CE Sector Board of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has elected two new directors: Tim Ford of Terex Corporation and Dave Foster of Volvo Construction Equipment NA Inc. Ford is President, Terex Aerial Work
Platforms for Terex Corporation and fills an open position. Dave Foster is Vice President Marketing & Communications for Volvo Construction Equipment NA Inc. and fills an unexpired term. The CE Sector Board is AEM’s Board-
level group focused on the construction sector: it determines/recommends strategic direction and develops/directs programs, services and activities. AEM directors help set the guidelines and operating policies of the association on behalf
of its members in areas including public policy, equipment statistics and market information, trade shows, technical and product safety support, global business development, education/training, workforce development, and worksite safety/educational materials. AEM is the North American-based
international trade group representing the off-road equipment manufacturing industry, and its members manufacture equipment, products and services used worldwide in the agriculture, construction, forestry, mining and utility sectors. AEM is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has offices in the world capitals of Washington, D.C.; Ottawa, Canada; and Beijing, China. For more information on AEM and its activities, go online to
www.aem.org.
LEEA Makes Case for LOLER
>The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association has responded to the UK Government’s review of health and safety legislation by voicing support for retaining LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations) in its present form. The LEEA believes that watering down LOLER, or merging it with PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations), is unlikely to reap any significant cost savings for industry, but could undermine standards of safety in overhead lifting. Commenting on the Government
initiative to reduce the burden of health and safety legislation, Geoff Holden, chief executive of the LEEA, said: “We recognize the potential to streamline the overall health and safety framework in the UK. However, the LEEA believes that LOLER represents a sensible and flexible approach to overhead lifting, and should be maintained.” The LEEA has made its views known via
the consultation and review process that was led for the Government by Professor Löfstedt. Geoff Holden said: “When it was introduced in 1998, LOLER made life much more straightforward for duty holders. Instead of a patchwork of different rules and regulations, it provided a single piece of legislation that applied to all lifting equipment and lifting operations, across every industry. As well as being well accepted in the UK, an increasing number of companies operating in the developing world have chosen to adopt LOLER as best practice. This would tend to support the idea that it is both a reasonable and effective basis for safe overhead lifting.”
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