Capital Logistics Uses Descartes Solutions to Help National Grocery Retailers Facing COVID-19–Driven Volatility
WATERLOO, Ontario, April 28, 2020 - Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that White Plains, NY-based Capital Logistics, a full service logistics provider with extensive expertise in domestic temperature-controlled transportation, is using the Descartes MacroPoint™ real-time freight visibility solution and the Descartes Aljex™ transportation management system (TMS) to move and track loads for national...
The Ritz-Carlton Residences Waikiki Beach, Phase 2 Recognized For Structural Excellence
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – The Ritz-Carlton Residences Waikiki Beach, Phase 2 was recognized with a Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI) Project Award for its exemplary use of post-tensioned concrete to overcome challenging aspects of the project, such as its rotation at the 27th floor to face Hawaii’s famous landmark Diamond Head. The project was designed by the Chicago and Honolulu offices of the structural engineering firm BASE and Guerin Glass Architects was the architect of record. The Phase 2 towe...
National Building Museum Announces Summer Block Party 2020 Partner
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind” National Building Museum and Folger Shakespeare Library bring the wonders of Shakespeare’s theater to the Great Hall beginning July 4, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Building Museum announced today its partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library, in association with the University of South Carolina, to design the 2020 Summer Block Party exhibition for the Museum’s Great Hall. Shakespeare's Playhouse will be the seventh in the Museum’s a...
Stantec named a Top 50 STEM Workplace by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Stantec structural engineer Bruce Hopper presents to a group of Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program students. Firm’s strong prioritization of inclusion and diversity efforts leads to prestigious recognition ANCHORAGE, AK, NYSE, TSX:STN: Stantec—a global architecture, engineering, and design firm—was recognized by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) as one of the Top 50 STEM Workplaces for Indigenous STEM Professionals. AISES released its listing...
Pandemic Preparedness: How Hospitals Can Adapt Buildings to Address Worst-Case Scenarios
A Canadian healthcare architect looks at how hospital staff can act now to modify facilities and contain a pandemic By Tim Eastwood, Healthcare Principal I spend much of my life thinking about hospital design. And these days, with the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), I’m sure many people around the world are looking at their hospitals in new ways, as patients and staff try to stay healthy. COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), has brought...
Thornton Tomasetti Team Receives American Concrete Institute Design Award
1900 Reston Metro Plaza in Reston, Virginia.(Picture Credit: Thornton Tomasetti) ACI Honors Co-Authors of Technical Paper on the Unique Structural Design of 1900 Reston Metro Plaza (New York, N.Y. – April 27, 2020) – Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that Managing Principal Mark J. Tamaro, P.E., LEED AP, and Senior Engineer Jennifer Greenawalt, P.E., S.E., of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and Principal Zachary D. Kates, P.E., LEED AP BD+C of...
State DOTs Feeling the Budgetary Impact of COVID-19
Steep reductions in motor vehicle travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic are adversely affecting state department of transportation budgets – to the point where some agencies are laying off workers and shelving planned transportation projects. [Above photo by the NCDOT.] The North Carolina Department of Transportation noted in an April 21 statement that as it is fully funded through the motor fuels tax, highway use tax and Department of Motor Vehicle fees, the traffic volume falloff is projec...
Jacobs Will be Net Zero Carbon in 2020 and Carbon Negative by 2030
DALLAS - On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Jacobs (NYSE:J) released a Climate Action Plan that outlines the commitments the company is making to help abate the climate crisis. Jacobs' Climate Action Plan commits to help solve the climate crisis by achieving and maintaining 100% renewable energy, net zero carbon for the company's operations and business travel in 2020 and carbon negative for its operations and business travel by 2030. "Today, we reveal a plan that sets us apart – captu...
AECOM Completes the Phase One Transformation of McCormick Place Convention Center Chicago Into an Alternate Care Facility For COVID-19 Positive Patients
LOS ANGELES - AECOM (NYSE:ACM), the world’s premier infrastructure firm, today announced that it has completed the first phase of the transformation of Chicago’s McCormick Place into an alternate care facility for patients considered COVID-19 positive. Fourteen days after the receipt of a Notice to Proceed, the first 500 beds of the McCormick Place Alternate Care Facility have accepted its first patients. “We are proud that AECOM and a talented group of partners could rapidly mobilize in supp...
Jacobs Participating in Research Study to Develop New Instrumentation and Methods for PFAS Site Characterization
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE:J), in collaboration with Principal Investigator Dr. David Hanigan with the University of Nevada, Reno, is participating in a research and development grant from the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) for Rapid Site Profiling of Organofluorine: Quantification of PFASs by Combustion Gas Analysis. SERDP is an environmental research collaboration between the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental P...
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