Highview Power a Finalist for Utility-Scale Storage Project of the Year
LONDON – Highview Power, a leader in true long-duration energy storage solutions, announced today that its Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) system at the Viridor Pilsworth site near Manchester, UK, is a finalist for the 2018 Solar Power Portal and Energy Storage News Awards. The winners will be announced 17th October at the sixth-annual awards ceremony in Birmingham. “The Pilsworth LAES plant was only officially launched at the beginning of June, yet this is already the second major industr...
Northeast Transportation Projects Win Big in National Competition
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – State departments of transportation across the country are working to make transportation systems stronger and safer every day through life-changing projects. Today, six of those projects from four northeastern states were honored in the regional America's Transportation Awards competition for their work in optimizing and expanding transit for inner-city users, saving lives on a busy seasonal roadway, and helping drivers avoid a 42-mile detour with an innovative bridge rep...
Online Voters to Choose America’s Favorite Transportation Photo
WASHINGTON – Online voting is now underway in the annual Faces of Transportation photography and video contest sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. One of 96 images entered in four song title categories will be voted America’s favorite. The categories are: Highway Song” by Blackfoot; “Sailing Away” by Christopher Cross; “The Subway Song” by The Icarus Account; and “Watching Airplanes,” by Gary Allan. Each photograph depicts the many ways tr...
Buckminster Fuller Institute Recognizes The Bark House In Fuller Challenge
SPRUCE PINE. NC – As a manufacturer of whole-building products, The Bark House is honored to be a part of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Curated Archive as a Catalyst Program recipient. The Bark House architectural product design and business process is based on a whole-systems design philosophy that is regenerative to the environment, local culture and challenged economy in a remote region of the country. Bark House products include unique bark wall coverings of pure nature that have been c...
Texas North Tarrant Express Project & Meridiam Infrastructure’s Garvey Receive National Public-Private Partnership (P3) Awards
(WASHINGTON) - The $2.1 billion North Tarrant Express project in Texas and Jane Garvey, North American Chairwoman of Meridiam Infrastructure, have been recognized as models of excellence in innovative transportation finance by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The awards were presented July 19 in two categories during ARTBA’s 30th Annual Public Private Partnerships (P3s) in Transportation Conference, held in the Nation’s Capital. P3 Champion of the Year: Ja...
FDOT’s Florida 511 Receives Two National Marketing Awards
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-The Florida 511 Traveler Information System was recently awarded two top honors by separate national and renowned organizations in the areas of marketing and social media. FL511 received the Award of Distinction honors during for 24th Annual Communicator Awards by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA). The work awarded was the campaign’s creative design of the FL511 promotional car, used as a photo backdrop at conference events and community engagements. In ad...
Profile’s Dr. Michael Robeson Earns Esteemed ASTM International Awards
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (July 11, 2018) — Profile Products is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael D. Robeson, PE, CPESC, CPSWQ, CESSWI received the Standards Development Award and the Special Service Award from Committee D18 on Soil and Rock as part of ASTM International, an international standards development organization. The Standards Development Award is given to those who create new ASTM standards. Robeson earned the award for development of ASTM Standard Designation D7986 “Standard practic...
CFSEI Names Recipient of the 2018 CFSEI John P. Matsen Award for Distinguished Service
WASHINGTON, DC —The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) has named Jennifer Zabik, P.E., S.E., president of Zabik-Turner Engineering, LLC as the recipient of the 2018 CFSEI John P. Matsen Award for Distinguished Service. The award recognizes the significant contributions of an individual who has volunteered time, talent and resources to the cold-formed steel industry. It was renamed in 2016 to honor John P. Matsen, P.E., founder and principal of Matsen Ford Design Associates in Waukesha...
CFSEI Announces 2018 Design Excellence and Innovative Detail Award Winners
WASHINGTON, DC —The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) presented three first-place Design Excellence awards and one first-place Innovative Detail award during the 2018 CFSEI Expo held May 15-16 at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel in San Diego, California. Design Excellence awards were also presented for second-place and third-place winners. CFSEI Design Excellence Awards recognize small and large projects that exemplify distinction in the structural design of new or renovat...
Two Stantec Projects Shortlisted for the 2018 World Architecture Festival
Cambridge Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation The shortlist of projects for the 2018 World Architecture Festival (WAF) were recently announced and two Stantec Architecture projects—Cambridge Memorial Hospital Redevelopment and the University of Lethbridge Science and Academic Building (designed with KPMB Architects) have been selected for presentation from more than 1,100 entries representing 81 countries. The Stantec team will present both projects at the world...