COVID-19 Intensifies the Urgency to Expand Sustainable Energy Solutions Worldwide
To meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets by 2030, countries must safeguard the gains already attained and accelerate efforts to achieve affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. WASHINGTON — Despite accelerated progress over the past decade, the world will fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030 unless efforts are scaled up significantly, reveals the new Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress...
Lahti Aqua selects UROS for Sanitation Safety Planning
The regional water supply company owned by the Finnish City of Lahti deploys UROS Sense liquid quality monitoring solution to systematically identify and manage risk along sanitation chain Oulu, Finland. UROS today announced that Lahti Aqua, a regional water supply company owned by the City of Lahti, has deployed the UROS Sense liquid quality monitoring solution to support quality monitoring and risk management across critical points of its wastewater treatment process and sanitation chain....
IMAGINiT Technologies Becomes Epic Games Reseller for Twinmotion Real-time Immersive Visualization Tools
BALTIMORE, MD — Committed to providing best-in-class products and services to architects, engineers, and designers, IMAGINiT Technologies today announces that it has become Epic Games’ first partner to offer the popular Twinmotion software in the United States and Canada. Twinmotion’s 3D visualization technology allows architecture, construction, urban planning, and other building professionals, to share designs that have been created using many of today’s design tools. “To build a strong fo...
SOLV3D Garners New Esri Specialty and Becomes a Marketplace Provider
CALGARY, AB – May 28, 2020 – SOLV3D, a leading provider of 3D processing, geospatial data visualization and collaboration solutions, is excited to announce that it has been recognized by Esri as a Release Ready Specialty partner and has also been approved as an ArcGIS Marketplace provider. Partners in the Release Ready Specialty offer industry expertise along with solution using the latest ArcGIS products. As early adopters of Esri software releases, partners with this designation are leader...
Southern California’s Marengo Charging Plaza Officially Opens to The Public
Stantec assists Pasadena Water and Power with nation’s largest electric vehicle charging station Pasadena, CA - To keep up with the increase in demand for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, the City of Pasadena—in partnership with Tesla—installed 44 fast chargers made available to the public at the Marengo Charging Plaza, the largest public fast charging station in the nation. Global design and engineering firm Stantec and Greenlots, a developer of electric vehicle charging and...
DART Awards Uber Contract for Rideshare Services
On Tuesday, May 26, the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Board awarded a three-year contract to Uber Technologies, Inc., (Uber) for rideshare services to supplement the agency’s successful GoLink program, providing additional capacity across the agency’s 13 GoLink service zones. In January 2017, DART was awarded a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Mobility on Demand Sandbox grant to pilot test an on-demand microtransit service integrated into DART’s GoPass mobile app. Beginning in March...
Clinton County Contracts with Woolpert for STREAM:RASTER Imagery Hosting Service
The subscription software will house and support the Southwest Ohio county’s orthoimagery in the cloud, while reducing maintenance costs. WILMINGTON, Ohio — Clinton County, Ohio, has signed an annual contract with Woolpert for STREAM:RASTER, a subscription software service that hosts, maintains and facilitates access to geospatial imagery in the cloud. The county owns large volumes of high-quality orthoimagery for use by the public and local, state and federal agencies. “Most counties map...
MALA MIRA HDR - 3D GPR AT ITS BEST
MALA GPR Australia is proud to present MALÅ MIRA HDR, the new GPR array system. It’s the professional choice for large scale 3D GPR mapping and will help customers around the world to create detailed 3D maps of the subsurface with the highest resolution on the market. MALA GPR Australia launches all new MALÅ MIRA HDR, a large area 3D GPR mapping solution with the highest data quality and resolution on the market, highway speed survey capability, improved mechanical design and new user-friendl...
ARTBA Foundation Announces Financial Assistance to 11 Children of Fallen Highway Workers
(WASHINGTON) - Eleven children of highway workers who were killed or permanently disabled on the job will receive post-high school financial assistance for the 2020-21 school year from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation’s (ARTBA-TDF) “Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship” fund. Now in its 21st year, the program was established with a gift from two Roanoke, Virginia, highway contracto...
Oklahoma Turnpike Authority Receives $120M Build America Loan
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau is providing up to a $120.1 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act or TIFIA loan to the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority to help finance the Gilcrease Expressway West project. [Above photo by the Ohio Turnpike Authority.] That project consists of a five-mile four-lane divided tollway that includes 22 bridges – two of which span the Arkansas River – four major interchanges, and a 10-foot-wide multi-use trail....