Sessions
Beyond Design Guidelines: What We Learned Trying to Get People to Use Them
3:55 PM - 4:55 PM Thu
Terry Chan is a Civil Engineer with the City and
County of Honolulu’s Department of Design
and Construction. She holds a B.S. in Civil and
Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley
and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the
University of Hawai‘i. Her career began with
Bechtel in the Bay Area, with seismic retrofits
for the BART system, mustard gasses in Pueblo,
Colorado, and the DOHA International Airport in
Qatar. She later joined Jacobs (formerly CH2M
HILL), contributing to natural treatment projects
in Oregon, including the Albany Talking Water
Gardens and Woodburn Wastewater Treatment
Plant. Back in Hawai‘i, she joined Engineering
Concepts, Inc. on wastewater projects locally
and abroad. Since joining the City in 2012,
she has managed wastewater projects, led
stormwater training, and developed the City’s
Climate Change Design Guidelines to support
resilient infrastructure