Even Pump Stations Get the Blues 3D Visual Presentation Pushes Wastewater Project Forward The retrofit of a wet-well/dry-well pump station into a submersible pump station isn’t normally the type of project that requires a glossy 3D model as part of design…
Autodesk Publishes Civil Infrastructure Industry Foresight
As the global population increases and a demographic shift sends more people to urban areas, so too will the demand for adequate and more resilient infrastructure,…
Industrial IoT: Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital Oilfield
For the oil and gas industry, the relative stability around the $50 price-point represents a change that may herald the arrival of an era of relatively…
Stormwater Management: D.C.’s Capitol Crossing Project Takes Innovative Approach
Stormwater management is a challenge for most cities, but this is particularly true for highly urbanized areas such as Washington, D.C., where there’s little remaining open space for conventional stormwater management infrastructure such as detention or…
Water Tariffs in Major Cities Growing at Twice the Global Inflation Rate in 2017
The results of Global Water Intelligence’s 2017 Global Water Tariff Survey, published last month, have revealed that water and wastewater tariffs rose by 3.91% on average across 385 cities between July 2016 and July 2017, more than two times the global inflation…
Reports: Trump Tells Senators Tax Reform Can Pay for Infrastructure Plan
President Trump told members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee that lawmakers can find funds to pay for a major infrastructure investment program out of a pending tax overhaul, and could perhaps combine those measures, news reports said. That,…
Billion-Dollar Projects Fuel Spike in Private Sector Infrastructure Investment
Singapore: Multi-billion dollar projects are fueling stronger private sector investment in infrastructure projects in developing countries, which increased by 24 percent from 2016 levels, reflecting US$36.7 billion across 132 projects, says a new World Bank…
New Study Tracks Participation in Energy Management Programs
PHOENIX, AZ – Utility-driven energy management programs are growing, although participation rates are still somewhat low, according to findings from Trends In Energy and Demand Management, a new, wide-ranging energy industry survey conducted by the Association…
Fluor Awarded U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Contract to Support Power Grid Repair in Puerto Rico
IRVING, Texas (October 19, 2017) – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the company was awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntsville (Alabama) Engineering Center to help restore electric power to Puerto Rico. The six-month…
Project Frog Announces Autodesk Investment, Bolsters Industrialized Construction Movement by Linking Architectural Design to Fabrication
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 17, 2017 –Project Frog, a leading technology and building systems provider, today announced an alliance with Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) to develop a transformational cloud-based platform to standardize and simplify data flow between…
