Michael Baker International Promotes Juan Contreras to Head Gulf Region
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced today the promotion of Juan Contreras, P.E., to director of the company’s Gulf Region. Michael Baker’s Gulf Region consists of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Mr. Contreras has more than 30 years of experience in the design and management of transportation projects and most recently served as the office executive for Michael Baker’s Dallas operation. In his regional r...
Michael Baker International Promotes Dale Spaulding to Lead New Pennsylvania Headquarters Region
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced today the promotion of Dale Spaulding, P.E., to director of the newly created Pennsylvania Headquarters Region. Michael Baker’s Headquarters Region consists of the company’s Pittsburgh (corporate headquarters), Harrisburg and Fort Washington/Philadelphia offices. To recognize its significant home-base presence in Pennsylvania and acknowledge the company’s largest single client, the Pennsy...
NM Group Become First to Test Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight LiDAR UAV for Electricity Transmission in USA
In July 2016, a Midwest utility completed a project with NM Group to deploy an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with LiDAR technology testing its suitability for vegetation compliance analysis. This project was the first time a LiDAR equipped UAV has been tested Beyond Visual Line of Site (BVLOS) for a power utility. The project demonstrated the suitability of LiDAR scanning for vegetation management applications, and the capability of the platform to operate in a BVLOS capacity. Nick Ferguso...
Latin America Responds to Urban Earthquake Disaster Before It Happens
THE AMERICAS – Miyamoto International has expanded to Latin America with two project offices for USAID, one in San José, Costa Rica and the other in Pasto, Colombia. The project helps first responders and governments better understand the impacts of large earthquakes – before they happen. Located on the “Ring of Fire,” Costa Rica and Colombia are in one of the most seismically dangerous regions in the world. Called “PREPARE,” the earthquake risk identification and preparedness program was est...
Jacobs Wins Contract for Vastly Manufacturing Plant in Virginia
PASADENA, Calif. - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it was awarded a contract from Vastly (formerly Tranlin, Inc.) to lead permit acquisition and provide design services for its new $2 billion manufacturing plant in Chesterfield, Virginia. The plant represents Vastly’s first investment in North America and the single largest Chinese greenfield economic development project in the United States. Under the terms of the agreement, Jacobs is responsible for supporting permi...
Exprodat Software Revolutionises Unconventionals Planning
Exprodat, the oil and gas ArcGIS platform specialist, Esri Gold Partner and Getech group company, has released a new version of its Unconventionals Analyst software. The company developed the Unconventionals Analyst extension to ArcGIS Desktop to help oil and gas companies simplify and speed up the processes of optimising unconventional well patterns and managing reserves. Version 222 of Unconventional Analyst includes a host of new features all of which have been designed to give the user...
New Pathways to Credit Announced
The Build America Bureau (Bureau) began offering an Emerging Projects Agreement in addition to a Master Credit Agreement for the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998 (TIFIA) and the Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing (RRIF) programs. The Bureau can provide technical assistance and contingent commitments under the TIFIA and RRIF programs. The use of these two new agreements will help infrastructure projects at different phases of development reach project...
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure Acquires GISquadrat
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has acquired GISquadrat GmbH of Vienna, Austria. The acquisition will enhance Hexagon's geospatial, cloud and mobile solutions for governments and utility providers in Europe. A Hexagon partner prior to the acquisition, GISquadrat uses Hexagon software in a cloud environment to provide data capture and management services and applications, including task-specific field solutions for infrastructure networks and public services. GISquadrat's...
HNTB Names Sanja Zlatanic as Chair, National Tunnel Practice
NEW YORK – HNTB Corporation expanded its national leadership team by naming Sanja Zlatanic as chair, national tunnel practice. In this role, Zlatanic, PE, a senior vice president of the firm, directs the firm’s tunneling and underground projects and leads HNTB’s global marketing and business development for tunneling and underground within transportation and water resources market sectors. She is based in the firm’s New York City office in the Empire State Building. “Tunnels and complex u...
New Partnership Offers Hope for Florida’s Algal Bloom Crisis
TALLAHASSEE — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, and BLOOM Holdings, LLC, a materials development company, have announced a strategic teaming agreement to deploy technology to mitigate harmful algal blooms. The joint initiative aims to provide an economic and ecologically sound solution to a problem that increasingly affects the world’s water resources. BLOOM harvests wild algae from water bodies around the world, solar-dries the biomass and converts it to a key fe...
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