Stantec-designed San Luis Obispo RTA Bus Operations & Maintenance Facility Breaks Ground
27,500 square-foot, $17 million facility designed with wellness, functionality, and sustainability in mind San Luis Obispo, CA: The San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority (RTA) recently broke ground on a new bus operations and maintenance facility. Top ten global design firm, Stantec, planned and designed the bus facility, which will play a vital role in the RTA’s ability to deliver safe, reliable transit services for San Luis Obispo County. In support of the agency’s wide coverag...
CFSEI to Launch Virtual Expo on September 3, 2020
Eight webinars to be offered over eight weeks for 12 PDH credits WASHINGTON, DC — The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) will launch the first-ever CSFEI Virtual Expo on September 3, 2020 which will include four live webinars and four on-demand webinars conducted by nationally known experts for a total of 12 continuing education credits. The webinars will begin on September 3, 2020 and conclude on November 12, 2020. The CFSEI Virtual Expo replaces the annual live CFSEI Expo th...
Cityzenith gets green light on $500 Million Orlando Sports & Entertainment District Digital Twin project
A ground-breaking Digital Twin project by Cityzenith promote, optimize, and future proof the ambitious $500 million Orlando Sports & Entertainment Smart District (OS+ED), aiming to drive the Florida city’s millions of annual visitors to the downtown hotspot. Confirmation follows a commercial agreement with SISCO, the project’s technology provider, finalizing terms with Cityzenith (CZ) and the project owners, OS+ED Dev Corp, to deploy CZ’s award-winning SmartWorldPro2™ Digital Twin platform f...
Tensar Announces Winner of First Annual Civil Engineering Scholarship Program
ATLANTA, GA – Tensar International, a leading geosynthetic products innovator known for its unique geogrid solutions, announced two winners of it first annual Tensar Civil Engineering Scholarship competition program. The two students each won a $1000 scholarship for completing a specific construction design challenge: one challenge was in flexible pavement design and the other in mechanically stabilized earth wall design. The scholarships are one component of Tensar’s ongoing professional educat...
State DOTs Win Regional Awards for Transportation Projects
Thirty-one transportation projects from 27 state departments of transportation around the country earned regional recognition in the 2020 America’s Transportation Awards competition for providing solutions that increase safety and save lives, make infrastructure more resilient, while improving the quality of life for their communities. [Above photo by the Montana DOT.] Patrick McKenna “The people who planned, engineered and built these projects deserve recognition for the positive impacts t...
FARO® Acquires ATS AB
Swedish Firm’s Solution Enables Strategic Acceleration in 3D Digital Twin Market Lake Mary, FL – FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), a global leader for 3D measurement, imaging and realization solutions for 3D Metrology, AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction), and Public Safety Analytics, today announced that the Company has acquired Advanced Technical Solutions in Scandinavia AB (“ATS”), a Swedish-based leader in 3D...
University partners with cities to study COVID-19 virus prevalence in wastewater
The Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility serves the majority of the population in the region, making it an ideal location to conduct the environmental surveillance of wastewater. College of Engineering leads wastewater environmental surveillance in the Truckee Meadows RENO/SPARKS, Nev. – The Nevada Water Innovation Institute based at the University of Nevada, Reno, along with regional agency partners, is monitoring Truckee Meadows wastewater to determine the level of COVID-19 in...
WPAFB Gate 26A Earns LEED Silver Certification from USGBC
Woolpert, emersion DESIGN and Messer Construction created this environmentally efficient entrance to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Commercial Entry Control Facility. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Gate 26A recently was awarded LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Architecture for the gate was provided by emersion DESIGN, engineering and landscape architecture were performed by Woolpert, and Messer Construction was the con...
UC Davis: COVID-19 Having Major Impact on Transportation
New research by the University of California-Davis Institute for Transportation Studies indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have a “profound impact” on how much people move around, their means of transportation, and on who gets to stay at home; trends that will create “long-term shifts” in transportation usage across the country. [Above photo by WSDOT.] The researchers conducted surveys targeting 15 regions of the United States and two in Canada – polling more...
Cintec North America Announces Restoration And Anchoring Work On Massey Hall, Famed Canadian Concert Venue
North American firm helps complete restoration of historic Toronto building Cintec North America announces its reinforcement anchors offer stability and support during the revitalization of Canada’s most renowned concert venue, Massey Hall. As Massey Hall marks its 125th anniversary, a century and a quarter of Canadian history has been stripped bare to be massively restored, not only to recapture the hall’s original sound, but to make sure it will serve audiences for generations to come. T...