Membership

Contractor Member means corporations, companies, partnerships and individuals who have been or are engaged in the dam and/or heavy engineering construction industry in the United States, and who have actively participated in important heavy engineering or major dam construction. The words “heavy engineering construction,” when used in these definitions, shall mean the building of major unoccupied structures under contract – highways, dams, pipelines, bridges, tunnels, power plants and marine projects, the firm will have the staff, background, resources and personnel to interpret and supervise construction based on specifications incorporating engineering designs and general utilizing heavy equipment while carrying out substantial portions of the contract by the contractor’s own forces on site. 

Such work shall have been performed for well-known construction agencies, public or private, and any applicant for membership should have a minimum of eight years experience in construction of this nature in the United States. During such period, said applicant shall have had an active proprietary interest in the construction of important dam or heavy construction projects. The words “important” and “major,” when used in these definitions, shall indicate a single construction project in the United States exceeding twenty-five million dollars in cost, and a proposed member shall have bonding, financial, personnel and equipment resources adequate to construct such an important project.

Each Contractor Member in good standing is entitled to one vote in the election of directors and in the conduct of the organization.