DART Accepts APTA Innovation Award for GoPass App
Dallas Area Rapid Transit's (DART) ongoing dedication to developing innovative programs that provide North Texas riders with greater access to public transit has earned the 2019 Innovation Award from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). DART accepted the award Tues., Oct. 15, at the annual TRANSform Conference in New York. The APTA Innovation Award honors public transit agencies that demonstrate innovative concepts or effective problem-solving techniques not previously appli...
Huntington Ingalls Industries Employees Honored At Annual Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers National Conference
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) announced today that employees from its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions received awards during the 2019 Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers National Conference and STEM Career Fair. The conference, the largest for Asian Americans in the United States, was held Oct. 10-12 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. Marie Lawson, an engineer at Newport News, and Scott Chin, an engineer...
Best and Most Popular Transportation Projects Win National Awards
ST. LOUIS – The Infrastructure Improvements to Downtown St. Louis project – a collaboration between Illinois and Missouri DOTs that delivered major multimodal enhancements to both states – received the Grand Prize in the 2019 America’s Transportation Awards competition. The $801 million project dramatically improved travel times and provided a new connection to the iconic St. Louis Arch. Meanwhile, the Georgia DOT’s Northwest Corridor Express Lanes project received the highest number of online v...
Gusset Plate Expert Bo Dowswell Wins 2020 AISC T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded its 2020 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to Bo Dowswell, PE, PhD, principal at SDS Consulting and ARC International. Dowswell will present "Gusset Plates: The Evolution of Simplified Design Models" as a keynote speaker during NASCC: The Steel Conference, which will take place April 22-24 in Atlanta. This lecture provides a brief history of gusset plate design methods before considering current approaches and previewing a new me...
Vectorworks, Inc. Earns 12 Nominations in the 2019 Construction Computing Awards
Columbia, MD (October 10, 2019)—Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. is a finalist in the 2019 Construction Computing Awards, receiving 12 nominations. The company and its Vectorworks Architect product were nominated for eight awards in total, while the Vectorworks Nomad app received a nomination in the Mobile/Field App Technology category. Jonathan Reeves, director of Jonathan Reeves Architects, received three nominations for his projects and work as a Vectorworks trainer....
Wärtsilä Power Plant Using ‘Killer Lake’ Gases Among PMI’s Top 10 Renewable Energy Projects of the Last 50 Years
The technology group Wärtsilä has been recognised as having delivered one of the world’s Top Ten most influential renewable energy projects of the last 50 years. This recognition has been given by Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s premier association of project professionals. It was announced on October 7 at PMI’s head office in Philadelphia, USA. The Wärtsilä installation referred to by PMI is the KivuWatt power plant in Kibuye, Rwanda. The 25 MW plant was delivered and install...
Propex Recieves 2019 Innovation Award for New Recyclable Paving Fabric
Chattanooga, Tenn. (Oct. 9, 2019) – Last week PETROMAT Enviro, a paving fabric that easily mills and recycles, was awarded the 2019 Industrial Fabrics Foundation (IFF) Innovation Award. “Innovation is what drives us,” said Mike Gorey, CEO of Propex. “It’s a key part of our culture, and we will continue to invest in products and market development to ultimately offer our customers the best geosynthetic solutions. PETROMAT Enviro was developed to solve the milling and recycling issues assoc...
2019 Ross Newlin Achievement Award Recipient Announced
Paul Smith, wind plant manager at Puget Sound Energy has been awarded the 2019 Ross Newlin Achievement Award, given by the Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) for his ongoing contributions in leading advancement efforts of the technical and operations sectors of the renewable energy industry. Named for wind industry pioneer Ross Newlin, the award was presented during ESIG’s annual Fall Operations and Maintenance Users Group meeting recently held in Palm Springs, Calif. “Ross Newlin hel...
Leica Geosystems wins innovation award in 2019 Mondial du Bâtiment
Paris, France - Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon, announced today that its 3D image measurement solution, the Leica BLK3D, has won the 2019 Mondial du Bâtiment Innovation Competition. Selected by a jury of industry professionals, the BLK3D was praised for its innovative and unique way of capturing and documenting reality. The BLK3D was selected from 79 applications and a shortlist of 32 nominees. “Each win for the BLK3D is a testament to the careful research and development we undertook to...
ASLA Announces 2019 Professional & Student Award Winners
ASLA 2019 Award of Excellence in General Design, Heritage Flume / STIMSON / Photo by Ngoc Doan WASHINGTON - Today, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the 2019 Professional and Student Award winners. Chosen from 544 submissions, this year's 36 Professional Award winners represent the best of landscape architecture in the General Design, Residential Design, Analysis & Planning, Communications, and Research categories. In addition, a single Landmark...
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