History & Heritage Tours
Please register for tours on the online conference registration form.
Saturday, November 2 * 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
NCS Landmarks Tour
No visit to the nation's capital is complete without a look at the city's numerous historic landmarks. This bus tour begins with the Washington Monument* and the Mall surrounding it. The itinerary includes the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (formerly the "Old Executive Office Building"), White House, Zero Milestone**, and Fords Theater. After a stop at the National Building Museum, the bus continues to Capitol Hill, the Supreme Court, Senate and House Office Buildings, as well as the Botanical Gardens. See the Arts & Industry Building and the Smithsonian Castle before crossing the Potomac River on the 14th Street Bridge. National Airport** and the Pentagon are seen en route to Great Falls, along with remains of the Virginia Canal that once linked Alexandria City to the C&O Canal at Georgetown. Glimpse Georgetown University and the CIA along the way. At Great Falls, the NPS provides a tour the Potomac Canal Company's bypass canal around Great Falls * - about a 2-mile round-trip walk. Return trip passes the Union Arch Bridge (Cabin John Bridge)* and the C&O Canal**
Limited to 40 participants.
Cost per person: $45.
(Includes transportation and boxed lunch.)
* NHCEL ** Local HCEL
Sunday, November 3 * 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
See a landmark bridge and enjoy shopping and dining in Savage, MD. ASCE's first National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark - the Bollman Truss Bridge is located adjacent to the restored mill buildings that now comprise the Savage Mill shopping district. Browse the shops and get food and drink on your own at the local pub. The bus leaves the shopping district at 1:00 PM to return to the Convention Center.
Cost per person: $25.
(Includes transportation.)
Tuesday, November 5 * 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Washington Aqueduct Tour
Explore the aqueduct system designed and constructed by Montgomery C. Meigs. Tour begins at the Great Falls intake structure, proceeds to the Cabin John Aqueduct Bridge, Dalecarlia Reservoir, and Georgetown Reservoir for a look at the valve house. This is a joint tour with the EWRI Track.
Cost per person: $25.
(Includes transportation.)
Wednesday, November 6 * 12 12:00 - 4:00 PM
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Georgetown
Take a good look at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) by land and by water. Part of this tour will be by National Park Service canal boat. Work on the canal commenced in 1828 and it was difficult work that required construction of dry-laid stone retaining walls and a deep cut with extensive blasting through rock. C&O Chief Engineer Judge Wright constructed a mole to use the borrow material removed from this cut. Cut stone for the locks was hauled from Aquia, 70 miles to the south. The same quarries provided building stone for the White House and Capitol. Our tour will include the Mole, Outlet Lock, and Tumbling Dam; Aquia Locks; and the Potomac Aqueduct Bridge. In Georgetown, Project Manager Robert Kapsch will discuss NPS plans to rehabilitate the retaining walls without loss of historic appearance. Tour participants will get a chance to sharpen their Early American Civil Engineering vocabulary on terms such as "hollow quoins," "miter sills," and "wicket gates"!
Limited to 25 participants. Cost per person: $35.
(Includes transportation and boxed lunch.)
Wednesday, November 6 * 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Washington Convention Center Ballroom C
ASCE's 150th Anniversary Gala Banquet
We conclude our 150th Anniversary Celebration with a stirring Gala Banquet, one for the record books! The celebration reaches a crescendo after dinner, with a program that is thoroughly Washington DC, with a current, topical, musical political satire by The Capitol Steps.
We are able to seat 1,000 guests on a first-come, first-served basis. Because of the importance of this event to the ASCE community, it is expected to sell out early. To avoid disappointment, we urge you to register as soon as possible. Gala Banquet tickets are included in ASCE and CERF/IIEC Full and Spouse/Guest Registrations.
Sponsored by Marie Fletcher Carter
In Memory of Archie N. Carter, P.E., F.ASCE
Premiere of the updated edition of The American Civil Engineer by William H. Wisely
To mark ASCE's 150th Anniversary, the Society will release a newly-revised edition of William H. Wisely's historic 1974 book, The American Civil Engineer. A new opening chapter has been added to this official history of ASCE to provide an overview of the Society as it exists today. Included in the book is recognition of all gifts of $1,500 or greater to the ASCE Foundation's 2002: Building The Future campaign, as of June 30, 2002.
Conference attendees may purchase copies of the book at a special discount price: $25.95, when ordering on the Conference Registration Form.
