HNTB group director Mary Jane O’Meara honored with ARTBA lifetime achievement award
American Road & Transportation Builders Association honor awarded for outstanding leadership and long-term service in the transportation design and construction industry’s public or private sectors BOSTON – The American Road & Transportation Builders Association honored HNTB group director Mary Jane O’Meara with the Ethel S. Birchland Lifetime Achievement Award for her 40-plus year commitment to the transportation industry, including the advancement of female leadership. The presentation...
Bentley Systems Announces Winners of Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards
All Year in Infrastructure 2020 Award winners, finalists, and nominees will be featured in the 2020 Infrastructure Yearbook, which will be published in early 2021. EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards. The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout th...
HNTB Vice President, Georgia DOT Chief Engineer, Two Project Managers/Policy Researchers and A. Morton Associates Inc. Honored with ARTBA’s Women Leaders Awards
WASHINGTON)— A chief state transportation engineer, a vice president at HNTB Corp., two transportation policy project managers, and a women-led civil engineering firm are the 2020 winners of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s “Women Leaders in Transportation Design & Construction” awards. The awards were presented in three categories Oct. 20 at the ARTBA National Convention, held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethel Birchland Lifeti...
Building roads to save Yosemite toads
Caltrans installs the mini-culvert undercrossing for Yosemite toads along State Route 108 in Mono County. Credit: Kris Bason/Caltrans Yosemite toads collected along State Route 108 during the maintenance project. Credit: Kris Bason/Caltrans Each spring deep in the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite toads roam the alpine meadows in search of a mate. Biologists have been tracking the movements of these toads, and have noted that they travel surprisingly long distances for such small creatures. F...
Digital Twin Consortium Announces Liaison with buildingSMART
The Digital Twin Consortium® and buildingSMART International (bSI) have entered into a liaison agreement to accelerate the development, deployment, and wide-scale adoption of open digital twin technologies. Both have agreed to the following: Collaborating on standards requirements, including open-source standards Realizing interoperability by harmonizing technology components and other elements to enable connected data environments Aligning work in horizontal domains for ad...
UP42 Partners With Hexagon To Offer HxGN Content Program Aerial Imagery on Geospatial Marketplace
BERLIN, Germany – High-resolution aerial imagery from the HxGN Content Program is now available on the UP42 developer platform for Earth observation data and analytics. UP42 customers may now choose from nearly 11 million square kilometers of 30 cm orthorectified imagery for North America and Europe and over 500,000 sq km of 15 cm data for major U.S. cities in the Hexagon aerial image library. UP42 gives users direct access to extensive Earth observation data sets and advanced processing alg...
Fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship to Open December 1
Global competition will recognize design students’ best work Columbia, MD (October 20, 2020)—Continuing its commitment to cultivate future generations of designers, global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. will open submissions for its fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship on December 1, 2020. The Vectorworks Design Scholarship invites undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape, entertainment and inte...
Stantec to provide engineering services for three bridges in North Dakota
Leading global design firm, Stantec, was selected by the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) to provide engineering-design services for three bridge projects over the Maple River. The projects include the replacement of two bridges on I-94 and one on ND 10, as well as the construction of two median crossovers for traffic control on I-94 during bridge construction. Working in partnership with the state bridge office, Stantec will complete the preliminary utility coordination and...
SpeedCore Researcher Amit Varma Wins Higgins Lectureship Award, Will Address Industry Thursday
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded its 2021 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to Amit H. Varma, Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Bowen Laboratory of Large-Scale CE Research at Purdue University’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering. Varma will present “SpeedCore and Steel-Concrete Composite Construction: The Best of Both Worlds” as a keynote speaker during NASCC: The Steel Conference, which will take place April 14-16, 2021, in Lo...
DFI Announces Winners of 2020 Young Professor and Student Paper Competitions
Hawthorne, N.J. : DFI announces the winners of the 2020 Paper Competitions. Alejandro Martinez, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Kyle O’Hara, Ph.D., graduate student researcher, University of California, Davis, are the winners of the Young Professor Paper Competition. Their paper, “Applications of Frictional Directionality for Monotonically- and Cyclically-loaded Piles,” describes the load-transfer behavior of piles with surface inspired by the belly scales of snakes that mobilize a direction...
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