Burlington, North Carolina Becomes Battery-Electric with Delivery of Two BYD | RIDE Buses
Burlington, NC. (8/25/23) – BYD | RIDE delivered two K7M 30’ battery-electric buses to the City of Burlington in North Carolina to serve the passengers of its Link Transit Fleet. The zero-emission BYD | RIDE buses will be utilized in Burlington’s public transit system, Link, which has five routes covering Burlington, Gibsonville, Elon, and Alamance Community College. The 30-foot buses fit up to 22 passengers and are equipped with the industry’s safest batteries, providing a smooth, quiet, and...
Simpson Strong-Tie Donates $100,000 to American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to Aid Recovery from Maui Fires
Pleasanton, Calif. — As fires continue to burn in Lahaina on Maui, Hawaii, destroying more than 2,200 structures and displacing thousands of residents, Simpson Strong-Tie is donating $100,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund to help with immediate relief efforts. The Red Cross opened 12 emergency shelters in Maui and Oahu for evacuees, and they have more than 300 trained disaster relief workers who are providing relief supplies, health services, support for find...
Woolpert Earns Google Cloud Application Development Partner Specialization
This is the Digital Innovations team’s second Google Cloud Specialization, having achieved the Location-Based Services Specialization in 2018. DAYTON, Ohio (Aug. 25, 2023) — Woolpert has earned the Application Development Specialization through the Google Cloud Partner Specialization Program. Google Cloud partners who achieve a specialization have established a Google Cloud services practice, have proven customer service, and have been vetted by a third-party assessor. Woolpert also earned th...
CGMF's Warren named EPA senior advisor
Austin (August 24, 2023)—Dr. Emily R. Warren, the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation’s director, land conservation and water programs, has been named senior advisor to the Office of Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The one-year assignment, beginning August 28, is through an intergovernmental personnel act agreement. According to EPA’s Office of Water, Dr. Warren will provide guidance and build new partnerships between the philanthropic, private sector, and technical a...
HCSS Announces its Partnership with Clearstory to Help Streamline Operations
This partnership further integrates clear oversight and helps contractors and their customers streamline the documentation of time and materials work SUGAR LAND, Texas -- HCSS, a leading provider of software helping heavy civil construction businesses streamline their operations, announce a new integration and partnership with Clearstory, the commercial construction industry's only Change Order communication tool purpose-built to reduce risk for all stakeholders. This purpose-built integra...
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, Crowley Advance U.S. Wind Energy
(NEW YORK) – Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”), through Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (“MSIP”), and U.S. maritime, energy and logistics solutions leader Crowley announced today the creation of a new joint venture to advance offshore wind energy solutions for the United States. The joint venture will strategically combine Crowley’s end-to-end maritime and logistics capabilities through the newly created Crowley Wind Services Holdings, LLC (“Crowley Wind Services Holdings”...
National Institute of Building Sciences Sets Agenda for Building Innovation 2023
Keynote speakers include HUD Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman and Trimble Vice President & Executive Director Albert H. Anoubon Momo (WASHINGTON, DC) – The schedule for the National Institute of Building Sciences annual meeting, Building Innovation 2023, is final. BI2023 keynote speakers are Deputy Secretary Adrianne Todman, of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Trimble Vice President and Executive Director Albert H. Anoubon Momo. Building Innovation is one...
Oregon State University Team Wins 2023 PCI Big Beam Competition
The student team from Oregon State University won the 2023 PCI Big Beam competition. Photo: PCI CHICAGO, August 24, 2023 – Oregon State University has won the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institue’s (PCI) 2023 Engineering Design Competition, also known as the Big Beam Competition. The national competition, in its 23rd year, teaches college students important structural engineering skills in an applied learning environment that will benefit them in their future professions. Teams of student...
Spectacular Bridges Grace Stamps
Presorted First-Class Mail Stamps Highlight Engineering, Architecture PORTLAND, CT — The U.S. Postal Service today issued four new Presorted First-Class Mail stamps featuring striking photographs of bridges. The structures range from modern to historic, pedestrian to car-carrying, and all are important landmarks in their communities. The Bridges stamps are intended for business mail users and are sold in self-adhesive coils of 3,000 and 10,000. Use of these stamps requires a special pe...
SSSBA and Barron County, Wisconsin to Co-Host Short Span Steel Bridge Workshop and Tour on September 6
Photo: The 15th Avenue Bridge in Barron, Wisconsin is the first steel press-brake-formed tub girder (PBFTG) bridge in the state of Wisconsin and will be highlighted on the bridge tour. Please credit Barron County, WI. WASHINGTON, DC – The Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance (SSSBA) and officials from Barron County, Wisconsin will host a complimentary short span steel bridge workshop and tour of a recently constructed innovative local county bridge on September 6, 2023 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00...
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Redevelopment of Horseshoe Bay Terminal
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