ACEC/MA TALC October 18 Briefing with MassDOT Highway Chief Engineer Patty Leavenworth – RSVP

ACEC/MA TALC October 18 Briefing with MassDOT Highway Chief Engineer Patty Leavenworth –  RSVP



ACEC/MA is holding a Member Briefing Webinar on Zoom with MassDOT Highway Division Chief Engineer Patty Leavenworth on October 18 from 1-2 PM.  

Chief Leavenworth asks that firms include higher level industry partners, including Principals and VPs.  We are not limiting how many people participate from your firm.

We are seeking an RSVP from a contact at each firm location that will participate to receive the Zoom instructions by Outlook appointment.  



•  By 10/10: Please direct the key contact for each firm location to sign up here to confirm that site’s participation: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ACECMA-MassDOT-10-18-19

•  This ACEC/MA Member Briefing will only be by Zoom and you will want to participate on a computer to see the powerpoint.  

•  You can receive the audio by computer or phone, but we will ask you to mute your line once we begin. We will have a chat feature for questions during the Zoom conference.

•  After the webinar, we will post a pdf of the presentation and will send the link to people who are the key contacts that signed up 


This is still draft, but here are the current topics MassDOT plans for this:


FY 2019 Goals and Performance


  • On-Time Advertising


    • Historical performance

    • Benefits of being On-time

    • FY 19 vs FY 18 Performance

  • What was new in FY 19


    • Full launch of Blue Beam

    • Pre-25% Coordination

    • Power BI Dashboard

    • Early PM schedule review and locking of Ad Dates


FY 2019 Lessons Learned


  • Things MassDOT is focusing on

  • Things we’d like Industry to focus on/areas needing improvement


FY 2020 Goals and Projected Performance


  • On-Time Advertising Goal

  • Ad distribution goal and FY 2020 Outlook

  • Ad to NTP Performance and Work stream efforts

  • PS&E Readiness goal

  • What’s coming in FY 2020


    • Revised Engineering Directive on controlling criteria and DER process

    • Increased monitoring of on time submissions, including on-time schedule submissions

    • Committee regroup on Cost Estimating Best Practices

    • Review of current process for CTDs and CDs

    • Next Round of MSAs