Building for Resilience: A Key Agenda Issue at the Urban Land Institute’s 2017 Fall Meeting in Los Angeles
WASHINGTON - Building resilient communities is high on the agenda at the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 2017 Fall Meeting, set for October 23-26 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles. This topic – a particularly timely one given the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and the approach of Hurricane Irma – will be explored within the context of a wide range of urban issues such as housing affordability, gentrification and social equity, technology advancements, and demographic shift...
Autodesk Highlights the Future of Making Things for AEC with Excellence Awards Finalists 2017
Co-sponsors Autodesk, HP, Construction Dive and Smart Cities Dive are proud to announce the 2017 AEC Excellence Awards finalists! Last year’s AEC Excellence Awards competition showcased stellar examples of Building Information Modeling [BIM] in action within the AEC industry. Click here to see last year’s spectacular winning projects. This year’s competition showcases global projects that have embraced connected BIM technologies in the categories of Infrastructure, Building, Construction and...
IDEC Awarded Chilewich Education Award at Metrocon
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. - The Interior Design Educator’s Council (IDEC) received the Chilewich Education Award at Metrocon17, a design specification-focused regional expo and conference held at Dallas Market Hall in Texas in early August. This monetary award of $1,000 was presented during the keynote presentation to IDEC President-Elect Hans-Peter (Hepi) Wachter and IDEC Southwest Region Chair Kristi Gaines, both of whom were co-teaching a course during the conference. According to Wachter,...
New WRI Analysis Reveals Asia’s Poorest People Don’t Know if Their Water is Safe
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN —Industrial facilities release upwards of 400 million tons of toxic pollutants into the world’s waters each year. For many of Asia’s poorest communities who depend on local waterways for drinking, bathing, farming and fishing, they need to know whether their water is polluted or dangerously toxic. At a World Water Week Showcase event on August 30, WRI will release Thirsting for Justice: Transparency and Poor People’s Struggle for Clean Water in Indonesia, Mongolia and Thaila...
White House Plans Aug. 30 Meeting on Infrastructure With State DOTs, Others
The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs has scheduled an Aug. 30 event with state and local officials – including heads of department of transportation – to discuss the Trump administration's infrastructure investment ideas. "The purpose of this event," said the invitation, "will be to underscore the need for a different approach, outline our draft guiding principles, and allow you all to brainstorm actions to help carry this conversation on the need for change and the opportunity...
Dewberry Wins Land Conservation Award for Innovation Center South
Dewberry has been recognized with a 2016 Land Conservation Award in the Large Commercial category from Fairfax County, Virginia, for its site/civil engineering and land planning development and design work on Innovation Center South for Rocks Engineering Company. This transit-oriented, high-density, mixed-use development aims to create a vibrant community where people can live, work, learn, and play, while leading to better connectivity between activity centers from Loudoun County, Virginia, to...
Jacobs Receives Six Awards at Canadian Safety Achievement Awards Ceremony
Our field services operations in Canada recently received six awards across three categories during the General President’s Maintenance Committee and National Maintenance Council’s Canadian Safety Achievement Awards ceremony in July. Created to promote safety as a top priority in the maintenance sector, the awards acknowledge industry leaders who work together to achieve exceptional performance. William Warchow’s Safety Leadership & Innovation Award In honor of William Warchow, one o...
Celebrate SteelDay with the U.S. Structural Steel Industry September 15
(Chicago, IL) – You’re invited to join in celebrating the structural steel industry’s ninth annual SteelDay on September 15! Hosted by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and its members and partners, SteelDay offers the opportunity for AEC professionals, students and others to gain insight into the work, experience and accomplishments of the U.S. structural steel industry at events occurring all over the country. In addition, AISC is hosting free lunchtime webinars tailored to e...
Cardno Drones Challenge Helps Students’ Ideas Take Flight
Some of the University of Sydney’s best and brightest undergraduate engineering students have spent the first few weeks of Semester 2 coming up with innovative new ideas to help leading engineering firm Cardno navigate a drone-enabled future. The students were invited to participate in Cardno’s Fast Response Challenge, as part of the University’s Advanced Engineering Program. This program offers students demonstrating outstanding academic ability the opportunity to work on a small supervised g...
Six Southern States Receive Top Awards in National Competition
NORFOLK, VA – State department of transportation projects that swiftly addressed a spike in wrong-way driving fatalities and that used safety improvements to encourage pedestrian and bicycle travel were winners in the southern regional America's Transportation Awards competition. Now in its 10th year, the competition attracted 21 project nominations from 10 southern states. Six of those states today received awards for eight winning projects at the Southern Association of State Highway and Tr...
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