Vulcraft Announces Winners of 2018 NuHeights Design Awards
Norfolk, Neb. – Vulcraft has announced the winners of its 2018 NuHeights Design Awards. The competition is designed to acknowledge outstanding design, architecture and the diverse applications of building with steel joist and decking. The award winners were chosen because of their unique and innovative use of Vulcraft/Verco Group products to produce state-of-the-art buildings. The 5th annual 2018 NuHeights Design Awards competition was open to fabricators, erectors, architects and general co...
UC Davis Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art Receives IDEAS2 Award
The UC Davis Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, Calif., has earned national recognition in the 2018 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team were presented with awards from AISC during a ceremony that took place at the building on Wednesday. The museum sits at the edge of a frontier of sorts--on the edge of campus and town, across a major Interstate from far...
Steel Design Student Competition Winners Announced
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) have selected the recipients of the 2018 Steel Design Student Competition. The competition recognizes sixteen exceptional projects, in two categories, that explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. The jury for the 2018 Steel Competition, Category I AFFORDABLE HOUSING includes: Margaret Griffin, Gri...
America’s 12 Best Transportation Projects Now Competing for Two Final Prizes
WASHINGTON — After four regional competitions, this year’s top 12 transportation projects have made it to the final phase of the 11th annual America’s Transportation Awards competition and the chance to earn $10,000 for a scholarship or non-profit in their home states. In April, 35 state DOTs nominated 79 projects for consideration in the national competition sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Socrata, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerc...
Mid-America Transportation Projects Win Big in National Competition
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – Eight outstanding transportation projects from five mid-America states were honored today in the fourth and final regional America’s Transportation Awards competition. The projects were recognized for major achievements, including: engaging small businesses through a “first of its kind” training program; replacing bridges to reconnect communities after major flooding; increasing mobility through a $2 billion overhaul of the most popular Amtrak route in the Midwest; and mod...
Startup Water Innovators Honored In Stockholm, Sweden, During World Water Week
Stockholm, Sweden – The winners of the 2018 Urban Drinking Water Challenge, a global innovation competition to deploy and scale decentralized drinking water solutions for fast-growing, water-scarce cities, were showcased at an award ceremony Monday evening hosted by Founding Partners Bluewater and 11th Hour Racing as well as Imagine H2O. Over 160 startups from 37 countries registered for the Challenge. The three winning companies, Drinkwell (Dhaka, Bangladesh), Microlyze (Denver, USA) and Sma...
Focus on Highway Safety Earns ITD's Stokes Lifetime Achievement Award from AAMVA
BOISE - Idaho Transportation Department Chief Deputy Scott Stokes has spent his entire career advocating for highway safety issues, and that focus earned him the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). Watch video tribute to Scott. AAMVA presented the award to Stokes during their annual conference, Aug. 23 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "While many people throughout Idaho deserve credit for all the great work they are doing, Scot...
Winners Announced in National Faces of Transportation Competition
Make-A-Wish kid Samuel and Caltrans Equipment Shop staff explore transportation possibilities the week before Samuel hit the road to have his wish of seeing a real spaceship become a reality at the Kennedy Space Center. Photograph by Caltrans Senior Photographer Scott Lorenzo WASHINGTON – Two captivating photographs and three compelling videos won prizes in the 13th annual Faces of Transportation competition sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Trans...
Tekla BIM Award Winners
Trimble has selected the 2018 winners of the Tekla BIM Awards. Here is a brief overview of each project category winner. Cast-In-Place Winner: 727 West Madison Company: Pepper Construction 727 West Madison is a 46-story cylindrical apartment tower in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood and will be Chicago's tallest building west of the Kennedy expressway. Located on Madison and Halsted, this iconic building with street-level retail spaces will incorporate banquet halls, a busine...
ALDOT Honors 4 Employees for Response to Wreck
Four Alabama Department of Transportation employees were recognized by the department today “for their quick and selfless response” during a fiery tractor-trailer crash July 26 on Interstate 65 in Limestone County. Alabama Welcome Center staff members John McKinney, Michael Cain, Vickie McGee and Paul Pointer were recognized as Employees of the Quarter for ALDOT’s North Region during a ceremony at the central office in Montgomery. Transportation...
Video: New Roundabout Under Construction at McIver and Old Florence Roads in Darlington County
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