Project Frog Announces Autodesk Investment, Bolsters Industrialized Construction Movement by Linking Architectural Design to Fabrication
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 17, 2017 –Project Frog, a leading technology and building systems provider, today announced an alliance with Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) to develop a transformational cloud-based platform to standardize and simplify data flow between the architecture studio, the factory and the jobsite. The agreement, which will strengthen the industrialized construction movement, is made possible through an investment from the Autodesk Forge Fund. The funding from Autodesk will accelerat...
Leif Law, Environmental Services Expert, Joins Cardno's Client Development Team
Los Angeles, CA - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Leif Law has joined the firm as Senior Business Development Manager in the company’s Los Angeles (Lake Forest, CA, USA) office. Leif has a background in environmental remediation and in-depth operational experience leading projects for federal, state, and local governments and private sector clients in the oil and gas industry. He has more than 15 years of business development experience in supporting project implementation, in...
Idaho Transportation Board Approves Additional $100 Million in Funding for I-84 Corridor
BOISE – The Idaho Transportation Board approved a resolution to allocate more than $100 million toward funding expansion in the Interstate 84 Caldwell to Nampa Corridor during the monthly meeting today (Thursday, Oct. 12) in Boise. “The Transportation Board recognizes the need to address congestion in this corridor and are focusing funds here to make greater gains toward improving the corridor,” said Transportation Board Chairman Jerry Whitehead. Funding sources include the Transportation...
NavVis Partners with PrecisionPoint to Bring the American Indoors Online
NavVis, the global leader in indoor mapping, visualization, and navigation, announces a new partnership with PrecisionPoint, a leading reality capture solutions provider in the USA. PrecisionPoint is now an official NavVis technology service provider offering NavVis indoor reality capture solutions to its business customers in the United States. PrecisionPoint, based in Carmel, Indiana, has been leading the way in capturing existing condition documentation since 2009. PrecisionPoint has...
D.A. Davidson & Co. Acts as Exclusive Financial Advisor to RISA Technologies in Its Sale to Nemetschek
PORTLAND, Ore.- D.A. Davidson & Co. announced that it has served as exclusive financial advisor to RISA Technologies, Inc. in its sale to Nemetschek SE. Headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA, RISA offers one of most popular structural engineering software suites in the U.S. for multi-material structures such as steel, concrete, masonry and wood. With around 10,000 users, RISA has leading market share and is a key provider to top design firms in the U.S. RISA was acquired by the Nemetschek Group...
Michael Baker International Adds Long-Range, Highly Durable Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to Improve Large-Scale Mapping Operations
Pittsburgh – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, has expanded its cutting-edge inspection services with the purchase of an Altavian Nova unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The new fixed-wing Altavian Nova joins the company’s expanding UAS fleet, and offers a new tool for Michael Baker pilots to utilize when conducting aerial inspections and mapping of large sites or during inclement weather conditions. With flight times of 45-90 min...
Vectorworks Receives Nine Nominations in this Year’s Construction Computing Awards
Columbia, MD —Global design and BIM software developer Vectorworks, Inc. has been nominated as a finalist in nine categories in this year’s Construction Computing Awards. Known as “The Hammers,” the Construction Computing Awards showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering projects of all sizes. The awards categories are divided into thr...
Mississippi Commission Chair Presley Appointed to NARUC’s Board of Directors
WASHINGTON—National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners President John Betkoski III has appointed Mississippi Public Service Commission Chair Brandon Presley to the NARUC Board of Directors. Chairman Presley was elected to the Mississippi PSC in 2007 and then re-elected in 2011 and 2015. Presley is also the former mayor of Nettleton, Miss., having served from 2002 to 2007. His leadership experience includes serving as the vice chair of NARUC’s Natural Gas Access and Expansion Tas...
Oregon Awarded U.S. Dept. of Transportation Grants to Enhance its Premier Road Usage Charge System
SALEM, Ore. – The U.S. Department of Transportation last week awarded Oregon a grant of $2,315,000 to enhance Oregon’s existing road usage charge program (OReGO), as well as a $2,590,000 grant to implement a joint project with California that will integrate the states’ road charging programs. Both grants will help expand the state’s understanding of the technology used in the OReGO program and its ability to support local, state, regional and even national transportation funding needs. “...
Airborne LiDAR Production Now Fully Integrated with Leica HxMap Workflow
Heerbrugg, Switzerland – Leica Geosystems, industry leader for reality capture and measurement technology, announced today the release of LiDAR data processing capability in the Leica RealCity solution package. Leica Geosystems partnered with international asset integrity and geo-intelligence solutions provider, Fugro, to begin acquiring and processing data over multiple cities and coastal regions across the US. Using CityMapper, Fugro conducted aerial surveys over some of North America’s m...