January 8 – Valuable Big Holes In the Ground [Atlanta Metro]

Adaptive Reuse of Aggregate Pits & Quarries

You are invited to attend the January meeting of the Atlanta Metro Chapter, Georgia Society of Professional Engineers, on January 8th!

Date/Time: 6:00pm, Monday, January 8, 2023

Location: Piccadilly Cafeteria, 2000 Crescent Centre Blvd, Tucker, GA 30084

 

Atlanta’s Westside Park used to be the Bellwood Quarry. Around the world there are many similarly repurposed so-called “abandoned” mines and quarries. These sites deep in the ground or in the sides of hills and mountains once produced valuable sand, gravel, stone, or crushed stone aggregates. After they are no longer economical to operate, they don’t simply disappear, but they can still have value as built environmental landforms. The first US examples are in 1800s Massachusetts where S&G mining resulted in well-drained properties subsequently used for government, residential, and commercial buildings. Depleted aggregate sites have become once again valuable real-estate as golf courses, hotels, residential developments, malls, agricultural, solar energy plants, deep water quarry cooling systems, water reservoirs and retention ponds. Planning effective engineering is required.

 

Presented by Steven Stokowski, PG of Stone Products Consultants. Steven Stokowski, a registered Professional Geologist, is the owner and materials geologist of Stone Products Consultants. Steve’s primary professional interests are aggregates and concrete petrography, the microscopic analysis of the cement, stones (aggregate), sand and other materials in concrete structures. Steve has extensive geological experience across the US. He has a MS in Geology from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a BS in Geology from George Washington University. Steve is the Treasurer of the American Institute of Professional Geologist Atlanta Section, the 2017 recipient of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) Robert W. Piekarz Award and the 2014 recipient of the SME Washington DC Section Herbert C. Hoover Award, and is the past Chair of the Industrial Minerals and Aggregates Division of SME. He is Registered or Certified as a Geologist in Georgia, Maine, Virginia and other states. The registration of professional geologist is in many ways similar to the licensure of professional engineers; both professions bear responsibility for public safety, health and welfare.

 

MEETING LOGISTICS:  

The face-to-face gathering will start at 6:00.

Please note our return to the pre-pandemic location of Piccadilly Cafeteria in Tucker

The meeting presentation will be recorded and available for later viewing at no cost. 

This presentation, like the previous presentations, will qualify for a required engineering professional development hour (PDH). 

Currently registered professional engineers, those engineers aspiring to become PEs, and others engaged in engineering would benefit from the presentation. Anyone in the field of engineering and members of the general public is welcome to pose discussion topics and to learn about engineering and public welfare.

 

◆◆ RSVP at rsvp@gspe.org to give the restaurant a count is appreciated

 

About GSPE Atlanta Metro Chapter:  The 200-member GSPE Atlanta Metro Chapter serves registered professional engineers and developing engineers by providing networking and continuing education opportunities. The local chapter also serves the wider metro Atlanta community as an information resource and contact for the engineering profession. Members, locally and across the state, actively support MATHCOUNTS®, a nationwide competitive program that has promoted excellence in middle school studies of mathematics for over thirty years. The GSPE also awards college engineering scholarships each year. GSPE members are often asked to address school classes to talk about applications of science and technology.

 

The Georgia Society of Professional Engineers is a state affiliate of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). The National Society of Professional Engineers is the recognized voice and advocate of licensed Professional Engineers. Founded in 1934, NSPE strengthens the engineering profession by promoting engineering licensure and ethics to assure the public’s safety, enhancing the engineer image, advocating and protecting PE’s legal rights at the national and state levels, publishing news about the profession, providing continuing education opportunities, and much more. NSPE serves some 50,000 members and the public through 53 state and territorial societies and more than 500 local chapters.