ACI Foundation Funds Research Projects
Farmington Hills, Mich. – The ACI Foundation’s Concrete Research Council (CRC) selected eight research projects to receive grants this year. The ACI Foundation is committed to progress in the industry by contributing financially to necessary and worthy research. The following research projects will receive funding from the ACI Foundation: Standard Critical Chloride Threshold Test Variability due to Material Sources: principal investigator Ceki Halmen, University of Missouri - Kansas City....
Stantec helps City of Kirkland rehabilitate Cedar Creek to improve fish passage, reduce flooding
Replacement of 100th Avenue Northeast culvert removes 40-year-old barrier to anadromous fish KIRKLAND, WA - NYSE, TSX: STN: The City of Kirkland improved native fish habitat and reduced flooding risks along a fish-bearing stream by replacing an aging culvert that allows the creek to pass under one of the city’s busiest arterials. The new culvert on 100th Avenue Northeast and improvements to Cedar Creek were designed by Stantec—a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm. The...
Plex-Earth expands to BricsCAD to empower AEC professionals with premium satellite and aerial imagery
Plex-Earth, a full-blown popular platform for AutoCAD that brings the world’s largest aerial and satellite imagery providers under a single umbrella, now expands its offering to BricsCAD, to inform smart engineering with recent, historical, high-quality imagery and terrain data. By leveraging the power of premium imagery from leading providers like Maxar, Airbus, Nearmap, Hexagon or Google Maps within BricsCAD and visualizing designs into Google Earth, engineers understand project site cond...
TerraSim® Announces CDB Support and TerraTools Bundle Promotion
TerraSim is pleased to announce our latest release of TerraTools terrain generation software (version 5.9.1), which now includes support for importing terrain changes from VBS4’s VBS Geo mode and also a CDB Export capability to complement the existing CDB import capability. Additionally, TerraSim is launching a short-form one day TerraTools training course and a temporary six-month price promotion on TerraTools Core (TT Core) and TerraTools Gov (TT Gov) bundles. VBS4’s VBS Geo mode is a po...
HDR Transit Expert Shares Strategies for CIG Funding Success
Mark Fuhrmann Demystifies the FTA’s Capital Investment Grants Program in the Latest Experts Talk Interview OMAHA, Neb. — What does it take to secure federal grants for transit projects? More than $2 billion a year is dedicated to funding investments in rail, streetcar and bus rapid transit projects in the Federal Transit Administration’s Capital Investment Grants program. But there are more eligible projects than funding, and competition is stiff. Knowing how to navigate the program,...
EPA Awards $16 million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grants to Central Michigan and Clarkson Universities
CHICAGO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded two grants totaling $16 million to continue monitoring coastal wetlands and levels of contaminants in fish throughout the Great Lakes basin. The grants -- $10 million to Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and approximately $6 million to Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York -- will be funded through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and are part of a larger effort to restore and protect the Great Lake...
Novosound honoured in global awards ceremony for Belenus corrosion monitoring sensor
Novosound, a leading ultrasonic company based in Scotland, has overcome competition from some of the biggest organizations in the world to win its first international honor at the 2021 Materials Performance Corrosion Innovation of the Year Awards. Organized by the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), Novosound received the award in the Testing category for its revolutionary Belenus ultrasound sensor, which provides corrosion monitoring across a variety of structures an...
Trimble and Amberg Technologies Collaborate on a Solution for Tunneling Surveyors and Construction Professionals in North and South America
Increasing Productivity in Underground Construction with Amberg Tunnel Software in Combination with Trimble S Series Total Stations and Data Collectors SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Amberg Technologies announced today a collaboration to provide a tunnel survey solution. The combined hardware and software solution will enable construction, mining professionals and surveying service providers in underground environments to utilize a complete field-to-office workflow for in...
Patrick Watz to Lead Plains District at WSP USA
Watz brings industry-leading experience and focus on growth to new leadership position covering business in a nine-state region for the firm. MINNEAPOLIS, April 20, 2021 — Patrick Watz has joined WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as Plains District leader and a member of the leadership team in the firm’s Central Region. In his new role, Watz will be responsible for business delivery performance and client engagement in the nine-state Plains District...
Strategic Hires Across the U.S. Spur Growth of WSP USA Water Business
Addition of industry leaders in key markets enhances firm’s position in critical aspects of projects to improve management of surface water, drinking water and wastewater. NEW YORK — WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, significantly expanded its water business leadership with the recruitment of water resource experts Alex Shannon and Juan H. Diaz-Carreras in the West, Atri Sen in Texas, and Steve Tarallo in the Capital area. This group of hires reflec...
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