Fall 2022

September 19, 2022
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Olver Design Building Room 162

Event Summary:

• Great turnout!
• Officers and members all introduced themselves (name, year, major, hometown, and If you could be any tool, what would you be?)
• Spring 2022 semester was recapped
• Semester events were revealed
• Social time & food!

September 30, 2022
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Norwuttock Rail Trail

Event Summary:

• Incredibly nice to bike with friends with good weather!
• The Norwuttock Rail Trail is a real gem :)

October 3, 2022
10:00am – 11:30am
AND October 4, 2022 1:30pm-3:00pm
Mass. Ave Construction Site

Event Summary:

• One of the best AGC tours we’ve had!
• Led by Jason Venditti and project manager
• Great turnout
• Very cool to hear about a new rock gym, cafe, and student housing
• Fun fact: the building roofs slope downward away from Mass Ave and the buildings get smaller, so that the “feel” towards the back of the complex is more neighborhood-like to fit in with the existing neighborhoods
• Learned about the Tan Brook and sewage lines running underneath the site and rerouting
• Learned about pre-frabricated trusses, new fireproofing techniques, and CLT

October 22, 2022
3:00pm-6:00pm
UMass Maker Space Building

Event Summary:

• Great fun learning how to use the Maker Space and meeting the people there!
• We successfully built a trebuchet – read more in our blog post here!

October 31, 2022
4:00pm-5:00pm
The Agricultural Learning Center Student Farm

Event Summary:

• Big turnout for our first pumpkin chunkin launch!
• Check out our blog post to watch the video!!!

November 14, 2022
4:00pm-5:00pm
Marcus Hall Conference Room

Event Summary:

• A women in construction themed discussion with Courtney Kelly!
• We heard about Courtney’s experience in the construction industry, as well as her adventures in self-publishing, lifestyle and work-life balance, and career goals
• Here is a link to her website!
• Courtney sent us a signed copy of her recent children’s book Celeste Saves the City (inspiring kids to about being a civil engineer!)
• Courtney was AWESOME, 10/10 person and speaker
• We enjoyed hot cocoa and cookies. People really liked the cookies

November 28, 2022
5:00pm-6:00pm
Olver Design Building Room 162

Event Summary:

• Officer Elections followed by group trivia games!
• Congratulations to the 2023-24 AGC Officers:
  • President: Varuna Desai
  • Vice President: Tom Toscano
  • Secretary: Max Harkness
  • Treasurer: Brianna Saunders-Correa
  • CEE Representative: Sean McDonough
  • BCT Representative: Oliver Pullin

December 4, 2022
10:00am-11:00am
Amherst College Lyceum

Event Summary:

• Great tour led by Daniel O’Connell’s Sons project manager Richard Frend and superintendent
• Fun to hear about needle beam issues, the impacts of weather, CLT, and prefabricated wood trusses!
• Local construction site to UMass!
• Small site, cool design with many sustainable features