Brokk Welcomes Matt Lyons to North American Service Team
MONROE, Wash. (July 7, 2020) – Brokk, the world’s leading manufacturer of remote-controlled demolition machines, welcomes Matt Lyons to the team as its newest training and application specialist. Over the past year, the company has enhanced training and support services across North America, providing easier access to both in-person and digital educational opportunities for customers through facility upgrades and new hires. Lyons joins a highly skilled team of six training specialists who have m...
USGBC Announces European Leadership Award Recipients
Watch and see how five companies are advancing sustainable, healthy and resilient buildings, cities and communities. USGBC is honored to announce the 2020 Leadership Awards recipients from Europe. Five companies were selected: COIMA, Ecover, the International Olympic Committee, Palazzo del Monte di Pieta and Union Investment Real Estate. USGBC’s Leadership Awards recognize those advancing the development of sustainable, healthy and resilient buildings, cities and communities in regions around...
SimActive Software Used for Oil and Gas Seismic Exploration
Montreal, Canada, July 7th, 2020 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces that its Correlator3D™ product is being used by Texas-based company Dawson Geophysical for oil and gas seismic exploration. Orthomosaics and elevation models are generated from aerial imagery to aid in planning of seismic surveys. Dawson uses a medium format camera from Phase One to fly over areas of between 20 and 200+ square miles. The collected images are then processed by S...
CivilGEO Releases GeoHECRAS Version 3.0
Wisconsin, July 07, 2020 - CivilGEO, a leading provider of civil engineering software, has released a new version of the GeoHECRAS software. GeoHECRAS Version 3.0 utilizes an improved and easier to operate FlexNet software licensing technology from Flexera Software. This latest release provides key new features, updates, and bug fixes. GeoHECRAS is an AutoCAD, Bentley MicroStation and ESRI ArcGIS compatible interactive 2D/3D graphical user interface data wrapper to U.S. Army Corps of Engineer...
Haight Named Fellow by Society of American Military Engineers
Honored for distinguished four-decade career in public and private sector and focus on fostering engineering education and advancement. ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — William Haight III, a WSP USA engineer, retired U.S. Army colonel and a leader in contingency engineering for global U.S. military and civilian agency international development programs, was selected for induction into the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Academy of Fellows. Haight, a senior vice president at WSP U...
Jacobs to Deliver Upgrades of Koramangala & Challaghatta Valley Water Treatment Plant for Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected to provide project management consultancy to Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to rehabilitate the Koramangala & Challaghatta (K&C) Valley Used Water Treatment Plant in Belur Nagasandra, India. The project will deliver critical upgrades to the 248 million litres per day (MLD) facility as part of an innovative water reuse and groundwater rejuvenation program. Upgrades include the addition of a new biosolids management facility to improve en...
Michael Baker International Partners with the City of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership to Reimagine Streets during COVID-19 Pandemic
PITTSBURG – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services celebrating 80 Years of Making a Difference, has partnered with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility to reimagine several thoroughfares in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle, home to the City’s highest concentration of restaurants. Michael Baker’s Urban Design Studio has reconfigured streets in this area to allow for more outdoor, socially...
Dr. Kalavacharla Sree Rama Krishna Named 2020 DFI Distinguished Service Award Recipient
Hawthorne, N.J. (July 2, 2020): Kalavacharla Sree (K.S.) Rama Krishna, Ph.D., geotechnical consultant, chair of DFI of India and a member of the DFI Board of Trustees, is the recipient of DFI’s highest award to an individual, the Distinguished Service Award (DSA). This award recognizes individuals who have made exceptionally valuable contributions to the advancement of the deep foundations industry. The award is being presented during DFI’s 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations tentatively...
Woolpert Adds Vice President, Senior Strategic Consultant to ISO/TC 251 Asset Management Advisory Group
Woolpert Senior Strategic Consultant Bob Leitch (left) and Vice President David Feuer were named to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 251. David Feuer and Bob Leitch are the most recent members of the firm to be named to an International Organization for Standardization committee or group. DENVER (July 2, 2020) — Woolpert Vice President David Feuer and Senior Strategic Consultant Bob Leitch have been named to t...
House approves $1.5T plan to fix crumbling infrastructure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House approved a $1.5 trillion plan Wednesday to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into projects to fix roads and bridges, upgrade transit systems, expand interstate railways and dredge harbors, ports and channels. The bill also authorizes more than $100 billion to expand internet access for rural and low-income communities and $25 billion to modernize the U.S. Postal Service’s infrastructure and...