Wärtsilä and Hyundai Motor Group Announce Energy Storage Partnership Maximizing Second-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries
Seoul, South Korea and Helsinki, Finland, — The technology group Wärtsilä and Hyundai Motor Group have signed a technology and commercial partnership designed to utilize second-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries towards the growing energy storage market. The global partnership will combine Hyundai’s expansion in electric vehicles, with Wärtsilä’s growing energy business, which includes 67 GW of installed power plants, as well as advanced energy storage technologies and software through the acq...
HDR Advances Health and Wellness Goals through Alliance with Delos
HDR has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Delos™, a wellness real estate technology firm, to advance health and wellness innovations and research in the built environment. The organizations have agreed to a robust program of applied research and further development of wellness design tools. Additionally, HDR and Delos are targeting two deep-dive research collaborations per year that focus on various aspects of wellness in HDR’s built work. The HDR and Delos alliance aims to inco...
Milliken Infrastructure Solutions and WrapMaster Enter Strategic Alliance
SPARTANBURG, SC (June 27, 2018) — Milliken Infrastructure Solutions, LLC (MIS) has announced a strategic alliance with WrapMaster in order to offer customers a broader set of composite repair solutions. WrapMaster, a Texas-based fiber reinforced polymer manufacturing company, specializes in rigid coil systems for the Oil & Gas industry. “Our partnership with WrapMaster emphasizes our commitment to integrity and bringing best-in-class solutions to our customers,” said Jim Souza, Director of Tech...
Trimble’s New Tunnel Solutions Streamline Workflows for Survey and Engineering Professionals
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) announced today a suite of solutions that enhances productivity and efficiency for surveyors and professionals working on underground tunneling projects. The solutions include new hardware and software for capturing highly accurate data in tunnels where dirt, dust, water and machinery provide a challenging work environment. The new line of products reduce the time to generate project deliverables by enabling survey and tunneling engineers to easily compa...
Hawaii’s Groundbreaking $375 Million Wastewater Project Officially Unveiled
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The completion of Hawaii’s largest ever wastewater system upgrade was formally announced last week by Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell. Following a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Consent Decree to improve Windward Oahu’s sewage collection and treatment system by June 2018, Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, worked with the City and County of Honolulu and its team of construction partners to deliver the Kaneohe-Kailua Wastewa...
Bechtel Selected EPC Contractor for Sempra Energy Unit’s Port Arthur LNG facility
Bechtel has been selected by Sempra LNG & Midstream’s wholly owned affiliate, Port Arthur LNG, LLC (Port Arthur), as the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPC) contractor for the Port Arthur liquefaction project under development in Jefferson County, Texas. Bechtel will perform the engineering, execution planning and related activities necessary to prepare and finalize a lump-sum EPC contract for the project in accordance with the planned development schedule. "Por...
Stantec’s Rhys Coombs Crowned ‘Emerging Professional of the Year’ at the ACE 2018 Consultancy and Engineering Awards
Stantec’s Civil Engineer, Rhys Coombs has won the title of ‘Emerging Professional of the Year’ at the ACE 2018 Consultancy and Engineering Awards. Rhys, based in the United Kingdom is a Civil Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology UK with a broad range of technical study and research experience covering hydraulics assessments, hydrological assessments and geospatial and numerical modelling with regards to dams, hydropower, big data and water resources. As a techn...
Former U.S. Representative Lynn Westmoreland Elected to State Transportation Board
ATLANTA, GA – On Monday, former U.S. Congressman Lynn Westmoreland of Coweta County was elected to represent west central Georgia’s Third Congressional District (CD 3) on the State Transportation Board. Westmoreland was affirmed by state representatives and senators from his district to serve the remaining term of retired Board Member Sam Wellborn, which expires April 15, 2022. Westmoreland served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years through 2017, where he served six years on th...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $366.3 Million Funding Opportunity to Improve Transit Bus Infrastructure
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the opportunity to apply for approximately $366.3 million in fiscal year 2018 competitive grant funding for transit bus projects nationwide. The Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Infrastructure Investment Program is authorized by Congress to improve the condition of bus infrastructure nationwide by funding the replacement and rehabilitation of buses and related facilities. "T...
Camera Views of Puna Routes Available; Additional Alternate Evacuation Routes for Lower Puna Planned
HILO – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) announces the availability of thermal and visual camera views of the cracks at mile markers 14.4 and 14.6 on Keaau-Pahoa Road (Highway 130) and a camera view of Highway 11 at the entrance to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The camera views may be accessed at http://ops.punatraffic.com and are made available to assist emergency management and lower Puna residents with decision making during the continuing volcanic activity from Kilauea Volcano...
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