Terry Chan
City & County of Hon Dept of Design & Construction
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