Bursich Expands Transportation Practice with Kaufman Hire
Civil Engineering and Survey firm Bursich Associates has bolstered its continually growing transportation practice with the hiring of Eric M. Kaufman, P.E. He brings more than 20 years of traffic and transportation design experience to the firm.
Eric’s comprehensive experience includes managing federally and state funded projects through the PennDOT approvals process, representing municipalities as traffic engineer in both a review and design capacity, and assisting the land development community by obtaining municipal approvals on their behalf. In addition to the traditional transportation projects such as traffic signal design, transportation impact studies, and highway design, Eric has experience with non-traditional traffic alternatives projects such as walking paths, curb ramp design, and traffic calming projects. He also has significant experience with grant writing, construction inspection projects, and streetscape projects.
“Eric is a seasoned engineer that positions us well for the increased workload that will result from the passage of Act 89 by Pennsylvania’s legislature, which will provide for an estimated $2.3 billion in transportation funding over five years,” said President Scott A. Exley, P.E. “He will actively manage our workload to ensure that we continue to deliver results for our government and engineering clientele.”
Eric earned a Bachelor of Science from Drexel University. He resides in the Limerick area with his wife and children.
Bursich Associates, Inc., founded in 1972, is an engineering, planning, and land surveying firm based in Pottstown, Pa., with an additional location in Bucks County. The firm specializes in the design of roads and bridges; water and wastewater facilities; land development and surveying; storm water management solutions; construction services; and High-Definition 3D Laser Scanning throughout Pennsylvania. With a staff of more than 20 professionals, Bursich services local, county, and state governments within the public sector and residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional clients in the private sector.
PECO Customers Save $350 Million and Counting with PECO Smart Ideas — Customers save more than 1.5 million megawatt hours of electricity
PECO customers have saved more than $350 million with PECO Smart Ideas, the company’s highly successful suite of energy efficiency programs. Since the programs launched in 2009, customers have benefited from more than $220 million in energy savings and received more than $130 million in rebates, discounts and incentives on energy-efficient products.
Customers have saved more than 1.5 million megawatt hours of electricity. That’s enough electricity to power 10,000 average U.S. homes for more than a year, keep New York City lit for about a month or power 50 professional football stadiums for about 1,000 games. This energy savings also has the same environmental impact as removing about 145,000 cars from roadways or planting more than 1.6 million trees.
More than 500,000 PECO customers have already participated in PECO Smart Ideas energy efficiency programs. Specifically, customers have:
• Purchased more than 9.5 million discounted compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs and light emitting diode (LED) bulbs through PECO Smart Home Rebates
• Recycled 36,985 refrigerators/freezers/AC window units with PECO Smart Appliance Recycling
• Completed more than 41,000 free energy-saving PECO Smart e-Audits
“PECO Smart Ideas has programs to help every customer save energy and money,” said Liz Murphy, PECO vice president of Governmental and External Affairs. “We are thrilled with the savings these programs have provided our customers and encourage our customers to continue to participate in the many programs available to help them manage their energy needs.”
PECO also recently increased the rebate amounts available for many electric appliances and HVAC equipment models to provide more savings for customers. All ENERGY STAR® refrigerators now qualify for a $75 rebate, which means more choices and more opportunities to save. These changes were approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and began on June 1st.
PECO Smart Ideas is part of the company’s support of Pennsylvania’s energy efficiency and demand response targets – Act 129. Act 129 required all Pennsylvania electric utilities to develop programs to help customers reduce energy use by 1 percent by May 31, 2011 and 3 percent by May 31, 2013. Act 129 also requires utilities to help customers reduce their energy usage by an additional 2.9 percent by May 31, 2016.
To learn more, visit peco.com/smartideas or call 1-888-5-PECO-SAVE.
The Bond Buyer Reports Saul Ewing is Top 10 Bond Counsel for First Half of 2014 for Competitive Financings
The Bond Buyer, the nationally recognized daily trade news-paper that covers the municipal bond industry, has reported that Saul Ewing LLP is among the top 10 nationally ranked bond counsel in its 2014 First Half rankings for competitive issues. The Firm’s Public Finance Practice was ranked 4 for competitive deals.
“This recognition in The Bond Buyer is indicative of the depth of experience and capabilities that our public finance attorneys possess,” said George T. Magnatta, Chair of the Public Finance Practice.
Saul Ewing’s Public Finance Practice serves government entities, investment banking and other financial institutions, 501(c)(3) organizations, and other participants in tax-exempt and taxable financings. The team facilitates state and local bond issues as well as alternatives to traditional financing methods, such as interest rate swaps and other derivatives, ranging into billions of dollars each year for schools and universities, hospitals and other health organizations, transportation and utility systems, housing projects, and other critical infrastructure and public facilities.
For more information on Saul Ewing go to www.saul.com.
Upper Bucks County Chamber of Commerce Member Volunteers and Local Retailers come Together to Stuff the Bus
Almost 200 backpacks were stuffed with lots of school supplies for students in the Palisades, Pennridge and Quakertown School Districts. A big thank you to Levy School Bus Co. and all those UBCC member volunteers and local retailers for helping to collect, sort and pack and to QNB, First Savings, Chick-fil-A, National Penn, Servpro Upper Bucks and Quakertown Alive for hosting collection sites! We’re going to make this an annual event so look for the yellow school bus next summer and climb aboard!