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Bethany Platt Passes the Model Law Structural Engineer (MLSE) Exam and the LEED Green Associate Exam
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA May 18, 2011 - Clark Nexsen, an award-winning architecture, engineering, interior design, planning, and landscape architecture firm is pleased to announce that Bethany Platt, PE, MLSE has passed both the Model Law Structural Engineer (MLSE) and the LEED Green Associate Exam.
Ms. Platt is a Licensed Professional Engineer in North Carolina and Virginia with 7 years of structural design and construction administration experience. Ms. Platt holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering with a Concentration in Structures and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, both from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Ms. Platt has an in-depth understanding of structural systems of buildings, structural detailing, and analysis of structural frames as well as knowledge of old and historic structures, rehabilitation, and repair.
The Model Law Structural Engineer (MLSE) designation is conferred by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) and indicates to state licensing boards that the engineer has met all Model Law provisions for structural engineers. The NCEES Model Law reflects best practices as determined by the NCEES Member Boards and is the model for state practice legislation.
The LEED Professional Credentials demonstrate current knowledge of green building technologies, best practices, and the rapidly evolving LEED Rating Systems. They show differentiation in a growing and competitive industry, and they allow for varied levels of specialization. A LEED Professional Credential provides employers, policymakers, and other stakeholders with assurances of an individual's level of competence and is the mark of the most qualified, educated, and influential green building professionals in the marketplace. A LEED Green Associate credential denotes basic knowledge of green design, construction, and operations.
Clark Nexsen - Leaders in the Design Profession
Clark Nexsen is a premier architecture, engineering, interior design, planning, and landscape architecture firm that has been in continuous operation for over 90 years. With offices in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Norfolk, Richmond and Roanoke, Virginia; and Washington, DC, Clark Nexsen employs a staff of 500 dedicated professionals ? more than 170 of whom are LEED Accredited Professionals. The firm's design teams specialize in federal, military, college and university, commercial, office, recreational, manufacturing/industrial, and land planning projects. In 2010, Engineering News-Record ranked Clark Nexsen #147 in the Top 500 Design Firms. Clark Nexsen works to shape the future worldwide, and their focus remains constant: extraordinary effort to make projects work for their clients. For more information on Clark Nexsen, visit http://www.clarknexsen.com.
For further information, please contact Janet Brooks at 704.377.8800 or jbrooks@clarknexsen.com.
