ESI Consulting Rebrands to Stantec Following Successful Integration
London – Stantec, a leading global architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting company, is today announcing the formal integration of ESI Consulting, a leading scientific environmental consulting firm, into the business. As part of this integration, ESI Consulting will fully transition and adopt the Stantec brand operating as part of firm’s UK Environmental Services practice. The staff of 50 consultants at ESI bring deep experience to Stantec in advising infrastructure clients on...
Dewberry to Perform Data Analytics for City of Houston
Dewberry has been selected as a consultant to Civis Analytics to perform comprehensive data analytics, including flood hazard and property loss modeling and damage estimation, to support the City of Houston's post-Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts. The granular, structure-level understanding of this catastrophic flooding event will be critically important to the city's efforts to catalog impacts and direct resources to the rebuilding and recovery efforts. The resulting data will be made ac...
Fluor Subsidiary Gains U.S. Department of Energy Strategic Petroleum Reserve Management and Operating Contract Extension through March 2024
IRVING, Texas - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has exercised its option to extend its current management and operating contract of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) through March 31, 2024. The contract is currently being executed by Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations, LLC (FFPO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fluor. Fluor will book the $2 billion contract extension value in the third quarter of 2018. FFPO began management and operatio...
Stantec Wins Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Leadership Award
Stantec has won a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Leadership Award from the Canadian network of the United Nations Global Compact, in the Large Organizations category. Presented by the Global Compact Network Canada, the SDG Awards recognize Canadian organizations that are advancing 17 sustainable and socially responsible goals to ensure a better future. These goals focus on issues deemed critical to achieving a sustainable future, such as ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injus...
AECOM Surpasses 2020 Goal of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Early and Unveils New Pledge for 2025
LOS ANGELES (Sept. 12, 2018) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today a new commitment to further reduce its absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 20 percent by 2025, based on 2017 baseline levels. Since 2016, the company has decreased its GHGs by 43 percent based on its 2015 baseline levels, more than doubling its previously set 2020 target. This reduction was achieved by consolidating offices, leveraging more energy efficient office spaces, decreasi...
Going from Strength to Strength in Rail
For over a quarter of a century, Cintec has secured and reinforced historic and historical buildings, masonry bridges, monuments, railway structures, retaining walls and harbour walls throughout the world. The patented Cintec reinforcement and anchoring system is straightforward: injecting a proprietary cementitious fluid grout into an anchor surrounded by a fabric sock, which has already been placed in an oversized drilled hole. The reinforcement system’s ingenuity lies in its versatili...
APTA’s PTC Congressional Testimony: We are Making Solid Progress so that Public Transit is Even Safer
Washington, D.C. – Today, on behalf of the American Public Transportation Committee, Jeffrey D. Knueppel, P.E. General Manager of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) testified before the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The hearing focused on the industry progress in implementing positive train control (PTC). PTC is “system designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, over speed d...
Wärtsilä Biogas Upgrading Plant Will Significantly Reduce Methane Emissions from US Dairy Facility
Puregas Solutions, a part of the technology group Wärtsilä, has been contracted to supply a turnkey biogas upgrading plant to the USA. The plant will upgrade an existing anaerobic digester (AD) to produce biomethane. It has been ordered by a leader in sustainable agricultural practices, located in the state of Oregon. The order was booked in the second quarter of 2018. The Puregas solution will process 3100 cfm (cubic feet per minute) of biogas from the anaerobic digestion of manure from more...
N.C. Highway 12 Closed on Hatteras Due to Ocean Overwash
NAGS HEAD – The N.C. Department of Transportation has closed N.C. Highway 12 on Hatteras Island due to ocean overwash in several places. Water and sand covers the road near Rodanthe and in Avon, Buxton, and just north of Hatteras Village. The highway will likely remain closed through the duration of Hurricane Florence’s approach, as both the road and its bridges must be cleared of debris, inspected for structural damage, and repaired as necessary before they can be reopened. The inspectio...
RIDOT Releases Data for Second Month of Tolling
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) today released key data from the State's tractor trailer truck only tolling program for the second month of tolling; the period from July 11, 2018 to August 10, 2018. The data included the number of transactions and tolls assessed from gantry locations 1 and 2. RIDOT released the data to maintain transparency about the program and to report on the stability of the system. RIDOT conducted three increasingly intensive traffic studies prior t...
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