Goran Sparrman Joins HNTB as Business Development Officer
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Goran Sparrman, PE, has joined HNTB Corporation as business development officer and vice president. Based in HNTB’s Bellevue office, Sparrman is responsible for continuing the firm’s growth in the Pacific Northwest by expanding HNTB’s footprint in the region and supporting infrastructure clients by tackling their most challenging issues. Sparrman brings more than three decades of private- and public-sector experience to the firm. In this newly created position, Sparrma...
Geotechnical Engineering Firm Kumar & Associates Selects Agile Frameworks to Mobilize Field Data Collection and Reporting
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Agile Frameworks®, the leading provider of collaborative, cloud-based corporate, field, and lab information management enabling Profitable Engineering® for the construction and engineering services sector, today announced Kumar & Associates has selected its flagship MetaField® solution to mobilize its engineering staff in the field and streamline field data reporting, reducing the time it takes to generate reports from weeks to days. Headquartered in Denver with five...
Mark Fuhrmann to Lead HDR's Minnesota-Wisconsin Transit Practice
(OMAHA, Neb.) - HDR is pleased to welcome Mark Fuhrmann to the firm’s award-winning transit practice as a senior project manager based in the Minneapolis engineering office. He will focus on growing HDR’s full-service transit consulting practice and continued delivery of exceptional projects and programs for clients in the Minnesota and Wisconsin region. Fuhrmann’s first assignment is serving as program manager for the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District West Lake and Double Track...
KAI Design & Build to Construct Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis Teen Center of Excellence in Ferguson, MO
(St. Louis, MO) The sun was shining and so were the spirits of all who gathered to break ground on Sept. 13 for the new Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis Teen Center of Excellence in Ferguson, MO. The event marked a time of renewal for the area which gained national attention in 2014 for violent protests following the fatal police shooting of teen Michael Brown. The $12.4 million Teen Center of Excellence, under construction at 9200 West Florissant, will offer afterschool and summer pro...
Gilberto Ruiz Joins Stantec to Grow Transportation and Water Sector Practice Areas
Los Angeles, California, NYSE, TSX:STN: Gilberto (Gil) Ruiz has joined global engineering, architecture, consulting, and construction firm Stantec as principal environmental planner, joining the Environmental Services team in Los Angeles, Calif. Ruiz will manage the firm’s preparation of environmental compliance documents and focus on growing Stantec’s transportation and water sector practices in Southern California. With more than 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of proje...
Boral Resources Commences Marketing of Previously Disposed Fly Ash
ATLANTA - Boral Resources has commenced harvesting and making available approximately 2 million tons of high-grade Class F pozzolan from a fly ash monofill in central Pennsylvania. The fly ash was produced by a coal-fueled generating station in the 1980s and 1990s, with the material stored in a covered dry stack on a 30-acre site. In preparation for harvesting and marketing the fly ash, Boral Resources sampled and tested the materials comprehensively. Samples were drawn from boring locations...
Rep. Brian Mast Named Chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
Washington, D.C. - House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) has named U.S. Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) to serve as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation for the remainder of the 115th Congress. The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation is one of six subcommittees of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “Oversight of the Coast Guard and the Nation’s maritime transportation system is a vital...
Amy Lussetto Promoted to Lead HDR’s Strategic Innovation Team
Amy Lussetto, MPH, EDAC, has been promoted to director of strategic innovation for HDR's architecture practice. With 14 years of experience in the healthcare industry and eight years with HDR, Lussetto is uniquely positioned to lead the strategic innovation practice, which integrates human-centered design and strategy to help a wide variety of organizations explore the evolution of their business, improve service delivery and strengthen a connection to their community. Working for a major hea...
Epic Games’ Free Unreal Studio Beta Extended Through September 2019
Cary, NC - Epic Games today announced that the free beta for its popular Unreal Studio platform will be extended for another year, through September 2019. Unreal Studio was launched as a free beta in March of this year, providing enterprise users in architecture, design, and manufacturing a shortcut to producing high-quality, real-time, fully immersive visual experiences. To date, over 100,000 users have registered for the free beta. "The response to Unreal Studio has been incredible - i...
Robert Zmudzinski to Lead National Rail Systems at WSP
NEW YORK, NY — Robert Zmudzinski has been appointed vice president and national rail systems engineering manager in the New York office of WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy. In his new role, Zmudzinski will lead the firm’s transit and rail systems engineering team and support business development across the United States. Zmudzinski has more than three decades of varied transit and rail industry expertise, including work on p...