DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc (NYSE:JEC) and Volterra Partners have been honored as a finalist in the 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize, the most significant global economics prize after the Nobel Prize. The Wolfson council asked, “How can we pay for…
Renovation Completed of Bridge with Unique Tensile Forces
This week the Managing Contractor, a joint venture of Royal HaskoningDHV and Arup, handed the fully renovated Tacitus Bridge over to the national transport…
WSP and TTI Partner to Advance Transportation Research
AUSTIN, TX – WSP USA and the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly collaborate on creating…
U.S. Petroleum Refinery Capacity Continues to Increase
As of January 1, 2017, U.S. operable atmospheric crude distillation capacity reached 18.6 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd), 1.6% higher than at the beginning of 2016, according to EIA's annual Refinery Capacity Report. This increase in operable capacity…
Strategic Foresight Expert Joins The World Energy Council
The OECD’s former Head of Strategic Foresight, Angela Wilkinson to join the World Energy Council as Senior Director for the Council’s World Energy Scenarios portfolio. Angela Wilkinson is joining the World Energy Council to further strengthen the Council’s…
Carbomap Ready to Map the World with Advanced LiDAR on High Performance UAV
EDINBURGH / UNITED KINGDOM – Carbomap, an environmental survey company, in collaboration with high performance LiDAR manufacturer RIEGL, UAVE and The University of Edinburgh, today announced the first successful demonstration flight of a RIEGL VUX-1LR survey-grade…
15th Edition AISC Steel Construction Manual Now Available
(Chicago, IL) – The American Institute of Steel Construction’s (AISC) 15th Edition Steel Construction Manual is now available. This new edition of the Manual includes the 2016 Specification for Structural Steel Buildings, with improvements and revisions…
Ramboll Honoured with International Award for Special Achievement in Use of Geographic Information (GIS)
Ramboll received the Special Achievement Award (SAG) from Esri, the global American company responsible for the GIS system, for Ramboll’s success in developing and promoting the application of GIS (geographic information system) throughout its business.…
David Bulger joins Stantec as Atlantic Buildings Sector Leader
David Bulger has joined Stantec as sector leader for the Atlantic Canada buildings group. An authority on buildings engineering, David specializes in structural engineering. He has more than 25 years of experience in consulting engineering and engineering…
New leadership for Arup’s Rail business
Arup has appointed Anna Squire as Global Rail Leader and Stefan Sanders as Lead for the UK, Middle East and Africa (UKMEA) - the firm’s largest region. Anna has more than 25 years’ experience in the infrastructure design and construction industry…
