Atlas Copco Compressors and Light Tower Win Red Dot Design Awards
Stockholm, Sweden: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has won two prestigious Red Dot Design Awards for 2017 for portable compressors and a LED light tower. “We are proud to once again be recognized with this distinguished prize for outstanding design,” said Andrew Walker, President of Atlas Copco’s Construction Technique business area. “As always, our product design has focused on providing true customer benefits such as boosting performance and operator...
UVIG Announces 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award Recipient
RESTON, VA ─ The Utility Variable-Integration Group (UVIG) announced Bob Young as the recipient of the 2017 Ross Newlin Annual Achievement Award for Variable-Generation Plant Operations and Maintenance. In 2012, the UVIG Board of Directors approved a resolution to name its Operations and Maintenance Annual Achievement Award after wind industry veteran Ross Newlin. Newlin, a long-time employee of enXco Service Corporation, now EDF Renewable Services, passed away in July 2011 following a battl...
Frey Architekten’s Heidelberg Village Named Finalist in Fast Company’s 2017 World Changing Ideas Awards
Freiburg —Fast Company has named Frey Architekten’s Heidelberg Village one of the finalists for its premiere World Changing Ideas Awards, which honor businesses, policies, projects and concepts that offer innovative solutions to the issues facing humanity. All of the finalists are highlighted in the April issue of the print magazine, which hits newsstands today. A panel of prominent judges selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 1,200 entries in 12 categories, from Food t...
Awardees Announced for USDOT’s SBIR FY17.1 Solicitation
America’s small businesses continue to help the U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) address some of the nation’s biggest transportation challenges through the Department’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. On March 20, the US DOT SBIR program announced 15 recommendations for awards for SBIR’s fiscal year (FY) 17.1 solicitation. The awarded small businesses are conducting important research, leading to new technologies in addressing some of US DOT’s most pressing challenge...
Skoll Foundation Announces 2017 Awards for Social Entrepreneurship
PALO ALTO, California — Kicking off next week’s 14th Annual Skoll World Forum, the Skoll Foundation announced the four recipients of the 2017 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll Awards distinguish transformative leaders whose organizations disrupt the status quo, drive sustainable large-scale change, and are poised to create even greater impact on the world. “Social entrepreneurs are drawn to the world’s most challenging problems,” said Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman of th...
Oldcastle Precast Earns Top Safety Awards from National Precast Concrete Association
LITTLETON, Colo. – Oldcastle Precast plants based in Newnan, Ga. and Concord, N.C. received Safety Hall of Fame Awards from the National Precast Concrete Association at The Precast Show 2017, in Cleveland, Ohio. The award, given for the first time this year, recognizes safety-conscious producer members for having no recordable incidents and accidents for the last five years. Oldcastle Precast received the award for reaching the highest level of safety achievement based on its OSHA 300 logs....
USDOT Names Small Business Innovation Research Program Awards Recipients
Washington – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced today that fourteen (14) U.S. Small Businesses will receive a total of $1,958,373.00 in Small Business Innovative Research Program (SBIR) awards. Each year, the SBIR program taps into the power of small businesses to develop cutting-edge solutions to some of U.S. DOT’s most pressing challenges. SBIR is a congressionally-mandated program encouraging domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and...
Stephen McCaffrey, Trailblazer in International Water Law, Wins 2017 Stockholm Water Prize
Stephen McCaffrey, Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in Sacramento, California, is the single most respected authority on International Water Law. His work continues to influence scholars, legal practitioners and policy-makers and contribute to the sustainable and peaceful management of shared waters. On receiving news of the prize, Prof. McCaffrey says: "Learning about the Stockholm Water Prize literally took my breath away. I am deeply...
UVIG Announces Annual Annual Achievement Awards in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Ariz. – The Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group, (UVIG), honored a broad group of energy professionals for their contributions and accomplishments for the reliable and economic integration of renewable energy. The honorees are all recipients of UVIG’s 2017 Annual Achievement Awards. Mark Ahlstrom, President of the UVIG Board of Directors, presented six Achievement Awards to 19 individuals and five Service Awards at the 2017 Spring Technical Workshop and UVIG Annual Meeting on...
Houses That Are One With the Environment
Green Builder Media releases the 2016 Green Home of the Year Award winners. These green gems will further the goal of carbon neutral building, making housing a leader in saving the planet. This year’s Green Home of the Year award winners aren’t just projects that honor sustainability. Some of them are literally one with the environment. Our expert panel of judges evaluated projects in terms of overall sustainability, resilience, synergy with the environment and surrounding neighborhood, afford...
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