Bridge Yard Seismic and Renovation Project Earns ASCE Outstanding Historical Renovation Project Award
OAKLAND, Calif. – The Bridge Yard Seismic and Renovation Project in Oakland has won the Outstanding Historical Renovation Project Award from the San Francisco Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. HNTB Corporation designed and managed the project as lead architect and engineer for the California Department of Transportation and the Bay Area Toll Authority, which manages, invests and distributes the revenues from the region’s seven state-owned toll bridges. Andrew Fremier, deputy ex...
Transportation Projects in Colorado and Idaho Honored as Best in the Nation
PHOENIX –A multimodal project in Colorado that installed advanced technology to speed emergency responses and added new travel options including a commuter bikeway—along with a project in Idaho that removed the last of 18 dangerous intersections -- were today honored as the top winners in the 2017 America's Transportation Awards competition. The Colorado Department of Transportation's $487 million US 36 Express Lanes project earned the Grand Prize and the Idaho Transportation Department's $11...
A. Morton Thomas, Lea & Elliot Executives, ITR Concession Company & Two College Students Honored with ARTBA’s Women Leaders Awards
WASHINGTON - The American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) honored executives from A. Morton Thomas and Associates, Inc. and Lea & Elliot, Inc., the Indiana Toll Road (ITR) Concession Company, and students from the University of Florida and the University of Colorado with “Women Leaders in Transportation Design & Construction” awards. The association made the announcement Sept. 20. Winners were announced in three categories: ...
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, to Receive AIA Chicago’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award
CHICAGO–AIA Chicago’s Board of Directors has selected Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, to receive the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. From her earliest projects to her most contemporary work as the founder of her namesake firm, Barney has been elevating architecture in the public realm for over 40 years. Ross Barney will receive the award on October 13 at Designight 2017, the premier awards night celebrating Chicago’s architectural community and the 2017 recipients of the Design Excellence Awards. “...
NCDOT’s Watch for Me Safety Initiative Receives Peter K. O’Rourke Achievement Award
RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Watch for Me program today was awarded the Governor’s Highway Safety Association’s Peter O’Rourke Special Achievement Award. The award is in recognition of the program’s efforts to educate the public about bicycle and pedestrian safety, while also training law enforcement officers to apply existing laws. The Watch for Me NC program, which began in 2012, directs safety and educational messages toward drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, along w...
ARTBA Announces 2017 Division Award Winners
(WASHINGTON) - The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Sept. 21 recognized transportation design and construction industry leaders with division awards. The association announced the following honorees: Nello L. Teer, Jr.: Bob Burleson, president, Florida Transportation Builders’ Association, Tallahassee, Fla. Created in 1988 as a tribute to contractor and Past ARTBA Chairman (1959-61) Nello L. Teer, Jr., this award honors a member who has made outstanding co...
Congratulations to the ASCE Bridges Photo Contest Viewer's Choice Award Winner
ASCE members have chosen a striking winter photo of the 1866 New Portland Wire Bridge in New Portland, Maine, winner of the 2017 Viewer's Choice Award. See Vijay Jeyakrishnan's photo and all of the ASCE Bridges Photo Contest winners on ASCE's Facebook page. You can look ahead to seeing Jeyakrishnan's photo in ASCE's Bridges 2018 calendar, now available for preorder.
Hexagon Receives Recognition from Huawei for Safe City Solution
Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, received the “Best Developer Partner Award” and the “Business Win-Win Award” at Huawei Connect 2017 this week. This expo and forum brings together global IT leaders with the industries Huawei serves. With most of the world’s population living in cities, Hexagon and Huawei have collaborated on the first end-to-end Safe City solution. He...
Prince Albert to Receive Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence
Avondale, PA - On the eve of Stroud Water Research Center’s 50th anniversary, the 2017 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence will be presented to His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco at The Water’s Edge, the Stroud Center’s premiere fundraising gala, on Sunday, September 17. Wilmington Trust is the presenting sponsor of the event, which will take place in Delaware, at Winterthur, the childhood home of collector and horticulturist Henry Francis du Pont. This 1,000-acre preserve of r...
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Announces 2017 PCI Journal Awards
CHICAGO – September 6, 2017 – The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI’s) Journal Awards Committee has named the winners of the 2017 PCI Journal awards. This year’s Martin P. Korn Award goes to Amir Botros, Gary Klein, Gregory Lucier, Sami Rizkalla, and Paul Zia for their March–April 2017 paper, “Dapped Ends of Prestressed Concrete Thin-Stemmed Members: Part 1, Experimental Testing and Behavior.” The Martin P. Korn Award (named in honor of the first executive director of PCI) recogni...
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