Bank of China & Goldman Sachs Selected as Alaska Gasline Development Corporation Lead Global Investment Banks
Anchorage, Alaska – The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (“AGDC”) today engaged Bank of China Limited (“Bank of China”) and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“Goldman Sachs”) to serve as global capital coordinators to AGDC’s Alaska LNG project. In November 2017, Bank of China along with China Petrochemical Corporation (“Sinopec”) and CIC Capital Corporation (“CIC Capital”) signed a joint development agreement (“JDA”) with AGDC to collaborate on the advancement of Alaska LNG. The signing o...
UVIG Announces New Name (Energy Systems Integration Group), Positioning to Address Changing Industry
Reston, Va. - Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG), the leading source of global expertise for wind and solar operations and power system integration, has announced it is changing its name to Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG). The new name reflects the non-profit educational association’s support for electricity energy systems with higher levels of clean energy and emerging opportunities for coordination between electricity, natural gas, and transportation systems, and a wi...
VIAMETRIS Chooses the Ellipse-D Inertial Navigation System to Equip Their New Backpack-Based Scanning Solution
March 28th2018, Carrières-sur-Seine, France - 2018 VIAMETRIS , specialist of SLAM-based mobile scanning systems, completes its product range with a backpack-based scanning system called the “bMS3D-360”. The company continues to rely on SBG Systems’ expertise in inertial navigation by integrating the Ellipse2-D, an inertial navigation system with embedded RTK GNSS receiver. VIAMETRIS has been developing SLAM-based scanning systems for more than 10 years, including the iMS3D, a full indoor...
Stantec Celebrates Advancement of Tri-State Infrastructure Group
NEW YORK, NY (March 28, 2018) NYSE, TSX: STN: Stantec has recognized the continued success and advancement of its Tri-State team, celebrating 30 recent promotions across the region’s Transportation, Community Development, Environmental Services, Project Management, Architecture, and Design practices. Among these advancements are several leadership-level promotions in the region’s Infrastructure group. “We are proud to recognize this talented group of professionals who are committed to driving...
Wilo USA Pressure Boosting Systems Receive NSF Certifications
Rosemont, IL. Wilo USA, a provider of pumps and pump solutions for building services, water management and groundwater, is pleased to announce its newly acquired NSF-61 and NSF-372 certifications for its entire range of vertical multistage pressure boosting systems. Wilo pressure boosting systems are used in residential, commercial and industrial applications such as potable water supplies, irrigation, municipalities, agriculture and industrial processes. NSF certification indicates that a...
Mason Mega Rail Breaks Ground
Savannah, Ga. - The Georgia Ports Authority broke ground on its $126.7 million Mason Mega Rail Terminal Monday. The expansion will increase the Port of Savannah's rail lift capacity to 1 million containers per year, and open new markets spanning an arc of cities from Memphis to St. Louis, Chicago to Cincinnati. "Today is a great day for Georgia and the nation," said Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal. "Not only will this new intermodal facility take trucks off the road and bring our products to market...
Current-Year Spending Bill Adds Billions to Highway, Transit, Rail, Air, Grant Programs
Congress approved a government-wide spending measure for the 2018 fiscal year that began Oct. 1 and included billions of dollars in additional funds for federal-aid highway, transit, rail and transportation grant programs. After negotiating the deal and releasing the documents March 21, the House and Senate were pushing to pass it ahead of the midnight March 23 expiration of the previous stopgap appropriations bill that had held most federal programs to 2017 funding levels. The House voted...
Urbahn Architects Hires Hugh Lester, PhDc as Senior Justice Planner
New York, NY – Hugh Lester, PhDc, a leading criminal justice planner and designer, has joined the New York City architecture, design, and planning firm of Urbahn Architects as Senior Justice Planner. Building Design & Construction ranks Urbahn as the 89th-largest architectural firm in the United States. “Hugh Lester’s experience designing and planning secure facilities, jail and prison complexes, and other criminal justice projects will tremendously benefit Urbahn’s clients in New York C...
HNTB’s Diana Mendes Receives 2018 Shirley A. DeLibero Award at COMTO Celebrating Women Who Move the Nation Breakfast
ARLINGTON, Va. – At an event held yesterday in Washington, D.C., Diana Mendes, AICP, HNTB Corporation Mid-Atlantic Division president, received the 2018 Shirley A. DeLibero Award, which was presented during the 7th Annual Celebrating Women Who Move the Nation Awards Breakfast. The event was hosted by the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials. “COMTO is an extraordinary organization and I’m so honored and humbled to be recognized with this national award,” Mendes said. “HNTB is prou...
Protacon to Become a Shareholder of Inray, a Finnish Company Providing Real-Time Measurement Systems: Automated Fuel Management Brings Remarkable Savings to Power and Thermal Plants
Technology company Protacon has purchased a substantial part of Inray Ltd, a Finnish company supplying X-ray technology based measurement systems to power and thermal plants. Together, Protacon and Inray can now offer a complete solution for fuel measurement and analysis to bioenergy-fired thermal plants, for example. The solution is fully automated and provides real-time data. “The fuel quality influences, among other things, the efficiency ratio, emissions and fuel pricing. Ultimately, cust...