Bentley Systems Bolsters Digital Cities Offerings with Acquisitions of Citilabs and Orbit Geospatial Technologies
Advancing mobility digital twins through Orbit GT’s automated mobile mapping workflows (digital context) and Citilabs’ CUBE simulations (digital components) for predictive transportation scenarios (digital chronology) SINGAPORE - The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference - Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the acquisit...
Bentley Systems and Topcon Positioning Systems Launch their Digital Construction Works Joint Venture, to Close the Constructioneering Advancement Gap
New global company introduces digital integration services, advancing constructors’ innovative digital workflows SINGAPORE — The Year in Infrastructure Conference — Bentley Systems, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, and Topcon Positioning Systems, a world leader in positioning technology for the survey and construction industries, today announced that its new, joi...
Charles Beauvoir joins HNTB in Houston as senior program manager
Significant transit leadership and project experience on complex transit projects in California will help advance programs in greater Houston HOUSTON – Charles Beauvoir, PE, SE, joined HNTB Corporation as senior program manager and vice president, based in the firm’s Houston office. Beauvoir brings more than 35 years of notable experience in the transit industry, working in the public and private sectors. Most recently, he served as an executive officer in the Project Management Di...
Engineers Put Leonardo da Vinci’s Bridge Design to the Test
Recent graduate student Karly Bast shows off the scale model of a bridge designed by Leonardo da Vinci that she and her co-workers used to prove the design’s feasibility. Image: Gretchen Ertl Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked. In 1502 A.D., Sultan Bayezid II sent out the Renaissance equivalent of a government RFP (request for proposals), seeking a design for a bridge to connect Istanbul with its neighbor city Gal...
Moving Architecture: Unveiling the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2020
The Pavilion, officially unveiled in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.A.E., is made out of three boats, which will embark on a figurative journey to Dubai and will be converted into the roofscape of the structure before moving on after Expo 2020 – as an exploration into recycling, circularity and digitally reconfigurable architecture Exactly one year before the opening of the World Fair in Dubai (Expo 2020), Italy unveils the final design for its natio...
Jack Buckingham joins HNTB as vice president, program delivery, in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C – Accomplished industry veteran Jack Buckingham joined HNTB Corporation’s growing transit and rail practice as vice president, program delivery, based in the firm’s District office. Buckingham oversees delivery of the full suite of transit and rail projects and programs HNTB is implementing in the Washington, D.C., metro area. With more than four decades of experience overseeing planning, budgeting and delivery of some of the nation’s largest and most complex transit and rail...
WMR-532, LLC Signs $49.9M Geospatial Contract with USACE Mobile District
Image courtesy of JALBTCX WMR-532 will provide bathymetric and topographic lidar and imagery around the world in support of JALBTCX. MOBILE, Ala. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District, has signed the WMR-532, a Woolpert-Optimal GEO joint venture, to a single-award task order contract (SATOC) to provide operations, maintenance and technical support services for the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Experti...
GSSI Announces the GS Series GPR Product Line for Geophysical and Environmental Surveys
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, introduces the new 200 MHz (200 HS) antenna, the first of the next-generation high-performance GS Series, designed for applications that require deeper depth penetration. The new 200 HS antenna serves as the foundation for the GS Series, which is ideal for geophysical, geotechnical, or environmental applications that require high reliability under challenging survey conditions. The newly designed 200 HS antenn...
Engineering Video: What I Wish I Knew Freshman Year
Kyle Gillis is an engineering student, YouTuber and the co-founder of two active startups. He’s completing his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering at West Virginia University and will graduate in December 2019. A year after dropping out as a sophomore he returned to continue his education, and also began a YouTube channel educating students on engineering. He went on to co-found a drone STEM kit company called “Iconic EDU,” and later co-founded an environmental intelligence company ca...
Ideate Software Planning Special Incentives for BIM Professionals at AU 2019
San Francisco, CA – Ideate Software, an Autodesk Authorized Developer and Autodesk Developer Network member, is offering several incentives to encourage Autodesk® Revit® software users to visit their booth at AU in Las Vegas on November 19-21, 2019. “With thousands of BIM professionals in attendance, AU is an ideal place for us to discuss the industry’s workflow challenges,” said Glynnis Patterson, Director of Software Development. “When applicable, we will demonstrate how our applications ad...
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