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2025 ACEC-NH & NHDOT Technical Exchange Conference
Thursday April 17, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Session 3A: Building Sustainability into Your Projects
Speakers: Diane Mas, Fuss & O'Neill; Nicole Fox, Fuss & O'Neill; Kristen Hayden, Fuss & O'Neill

- Transportation infrastructure is a substantial investment, so maximizing its longevity, functionality, and other benefits is important to transportation agencies, communities, and businesses. Approaching the engineering design process with that viewpoint results in reduced maintenance and repair costs, improved operational continuity, and co-benefits related to environmental and human health. In this session, we’ll provide some examples of how this approach to long-term benefits have been incorporated into drainage design and complete streets design in New England . Attendees in this session will gain an understanding of how to connect their design decisions to long-term benefits and articulate the rationale for design decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.

Session 3B: Resilient Paving: Pervious Pavement for Flood Mitigation
Speaker: Jim Pappas, AECOM
- Delaware is the lowest lying state in the nation, and therefore has experience with flooded roadways. Some of these flooded roadways are to coastal communities that only have single access points. When these roadways are inaccessible, the communities are cut off from all movements including emergency services.

After reviewing various mitigation options, the ultimate decision was made to use a permeable asphalt pavement to overlay the existing roadways to attempt to increase the resiliency of the roadways.

The first paved location has now been in service for over 2 years with no noticeable deterioration or pavement quality concerns.
Moderators
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Sonnia Tejada

Operational Manager, AECOM
Mrs. Tejada is a passionate Team Leader, Project Manager, and the Pavement Group Operational Manager at AECOM, with more than 20 years of transportation experience in the public and private sectors. Active in COMTO, TRB, CMAA, ISI, ASCE, and WTS as the WTS-NH Director-Chair Membership... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Kristen Hayden, PE

Kristen Hayden, PE

Project Manager, Fuss & O'Neill, Inc.
Kristen specializes in developing drainage designs for large-scale highway and roadway projects. She has more than 20 years of experience in stormwater and roadway design for municipal and state projects across New England. Kristen has an extensive understanding of stormwater regulations... Read More →
avatar for Diane Mas, PhD, REHS/RS

Diane Mas, PhD, REHS/RS

Vice President, Chief Resilience + Sustainability Officer, Fuss & O'Neill, Inc.
Diane Mas, PhD, REHS/RS, Vice President, Chief Resilience & Sustainability Officer at Fuss & O’Neill, Inc. Diane focuses on bringing an adaptation and resilience framework to all aspects of Fuss & O’Neill’s multi-discipline work across the natural and built environment. She... Read More →
avatar for Nicole Fox, PE

Nicole Fox, PE

Senior Project Manager | Highway Section Lead, Fuss & O'Neill, Inc.
Nicole has more than 25 years of experience in all phases of transportation design and planning. Her practice includes rail trail design, new location trails, bicycle and pedestrian planning and scoping, as well as sidewalks and on-road bicycle lanes and cycle tracks. She is a founding... Read More →
avatar for Jim Pappas, PE, MBA

Jim Pappas, PE, MBA

Sustainability Director, AECOM
Jim had 32 years of experience with the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) in various roles from Materials Engineer to Assistant Director, Deputy Director, and Director of Transportation Resilience & Sustainability.Jim retired and now works for AECOM as Sustainability... Read More →
Thursday April 17, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Webster Room

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