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GNCB Attends Construction Institute’s 2018 Women Who Build Summit
websitebuilder • Mar 20, 2018
East Hartford, CT
Amy Jagaczewski, GNCB Structural Associate, and Zoe Laird, GNCB Design Engineer attended the 3rd annual Construction Institute’s Women Who Build Summit in East Hartford this February. The summit was broken into four panels and two keynote speakers. The panels discussed topics such as leadership, how to increase effectiveness during negotiations, innovation, and giving back to the community. The keynote speakers were Melody Currey, Commissioner of the Department of Administrative Services in Connecticut, and Dr. Anamaria Popescu, Director of Berkeley Research Group’s Latin America Construction Practice in Denver, CO, both discussed how they arrived at their current place in life and the struggles that they overcame along the way.
After over 50 rewarding years of geotechnical engineering practice, the last 28 of which were with GNCB as an Associate, David Freed retired on December 31, 2023. In 1995, David established the geotechnical engineering practice that provided many of GNCB’s clients, as well as his core clients, an integrated engineering service in foundation design. David’s presence both enhanced the structural engineering staff with a greater understanding of geotechnical theory and practice as well as provided the firm’s clients with a fortuitous combination of structural and geotechnical engineering services that lasted throughout the project. David’s experiences at GNCB provided the basis for his paper “Benefits of In-House Collaboration of Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Services” that appeared in the 2008 Geotechnical Special Publication No. 180 that honored his University of Florida professor, Dr. John Schmertmann. David’s geotechnical work crossed a wide range of projects and foundation types; he developed an expertise in resolving construction problems. He will be greatly missed at the firm, but please join us in wishing David all the best in his retirement.
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