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TCM Excellence Award

The TCM Excellence Award is given to members in recognition of their contributions to AACE through a technical subcommittee or SIG, or by a member at large, who has been instrumental in the development of technical products such as recommended practices, professional practice guides, Cost Engineers’ Notebook, or other technical writings directed to the advancement of the precepts of total cost management…

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Keane Award for Distinguished Service to an AACE Section

Keane Award for Distinguished Service to an AACE Section: Candidates for consideration to receive this Award must have been an active member of an AACE section, or sections, for a minimum of five (5) years continuous engagement in section leadership in a section that has continuously achieved or exceeded section minimum standards, grown in membership and contributed to the furtherance of the precepts of total cost management…

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Meet Joanna Boggs

I sort of fell into the association world. While working on my undergraduate degree, my plan had always been to attend law school. However, after completing several internships, I quickly realized that the legal profession was not for me. After graduation, I began to work for a civil and environmental engineering firm…

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Variables for Calculations

Here is something that may help when calculations are experiencing “rounding errors”, or when calculation totals of millions of dollars are off by $100,000. When calculations are off, a lot of time is wasted reviewing spreadsheets to find a possible error in some cell math. From experience, the solution is never found after hours of work. Being defeated and facing a presentation deadline, the solution is to manually edit the presentation with the correct answer and move onto the next assignment. But this means the problem was not solved and it will repeat itself in the future…

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Meet Penny Whoolery

Over the past 16 months, my interests have been narrowly focused to wedding planning, since both of my daughters decided to get married 10 months apart. So, I will share the most recent interesting thing to happen to me that ended up being a surprising, but great interest of mine…

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Meet Molly Burrow

The employees of AACE HQ are good people who are always ready to lend a hand or help in any way. They have all laughed with me, cried with me, been excited with me and it makes the work environment great! I also enjoy meeting and working with Board members, section members, leaders and everyone who is associated with AACE…

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