Jacobs to Design Korea Air Operations and Intelligence Center for US Army Corps of Engineers
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE: J) has been selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide architecture and engineering design for the Korea Air Operations and Intelligence Center (KAOIC), one of the largest projects that is currently part of the U.S. Military Construction and Host Nation Funding Program. The KAOIC will oversee air operations and distributed common ground station weapon systems supporting the U.S. Forces Korea and the U.S. and Korea Combined Forces Command in defense of the K...
How can sustainability in construction be achieved without compromising efficiency? The Hybrid City initiative calls for innovation
Metsä Wood’s Hybrid City initiative is searching for ways to make construction more sustainable while maintaining efficiency using current building methods. Improving sustainability is imperative: construction alone uses 50% of the world’s resources. However, the transition will only happen if construction companies can maintain efficiency. The world needs a Plan B. Conventionally used materials such as concrete and steel dominate the construction industry, and construction alone uses half th...
WSP USA Announces Executive Leadership Appointments, Promotion
Firm welcomes Andrew Esposito, Steve Summers to U.S. executive leadership team; promotes U.S. property and buildings practice leader Rich Driggs. NEW YORK CITY (March 5, 2020) — Lou Cornell, president and CEO of WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, has announced appointments and promotions to the firm’s executive leadership team. The new arrivals to the executive leadership team are: Andrew Esposito, who joins the firm as chief financial officer;...
Big Blue Bus Selects Stantec to Lead Transition to Zero-Emission Bus Fleet
Santa Monica, CA - Top 10 global design firm Stantec has been selected by Big Blue Bus— which serves Santa Monica and the Westside of Los Angeles, one of the most densely populated areas in L.A. County— to help the transit agency transition to a zero-emission bus (ZEB) fleet. Stantec will assist the municipal bus operator to devise an electric vehicle charging strategy as it switches its fleet of 195 buses by 2030. The Big Blue Bus implementation date is a decade ahead of a statewide mandate....
ModelStream® 2.0 EAM Application Boasts Improved Performance and Integrated AI in Latest Version
New York, NY - Global BIM Management Consulting Firm Microdesk, a leading provider of business and technology services for the design and construction industry, has released ModelStream® 2.0, an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) application that provides bi-directional synchronization of assets and location data between Autodesk Revit and IBM® Maximo®. The application alleviates the time and personnel resources needed to combine assets from IBM® Maximo® with the attributes and location data a...
Miami Condominium Tower Cited In National Engineering Competition
Innovative Structural System Creates New High-Rise Landmark WASHINGTON, DC – DiSimone Consulting Engineers of New York City has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 53rd annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) for One Thousand Museum, a new condominium tower in Miami, Fla. The 709-foot-tall tower incorporates a distinct, undulating façade comprised of glass fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC)...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $8.5 Million Funding Opportunity to Help Communities Prosper through Transit
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to apply for $8.5 million in Fiscal Year 2020 competitive grant funding for projects that help lift communities out of poverty and support recovery from substance abuse. The new Helping Obtain Prosperity for Everyone (HOPE) program supports planning, engineering and technical studies or financial planning to improve transit services in areas experiencin...
RINA Awarded Structural Health Monitoring Contract for Storstrøm Bridge
RINA, a business at the forefront of infrastructure health monitoring solutions, has been awarded the structural health monitoring system (SHMS) and corrosion monitoring system (CMS) contract for the Storstrøm Bridge project in Denmark. The new system will provide comprehensive information about structure integrity along with analysis of bridge parameters and environmental conditions. The construction of the Storstrøm Bridge is being carried out by SBJV, an Italian joint venture lead by Itine...
VRMesh V11.2 Adds Two-Sided Meshing for Visualizing Large-Volume Scans
Seattle, WA – VirtualGrid announced today the release of VRMesh v11.2, the latest version of its powerful point cloud and mesh processing software. This release presents a new method of point cloud meshing that enables users to convert point clouds to a two-sided mesh for visualizing intricate environments such as construction sites.As a technology pioneer in the field of point cloud meshing, VRMesh has been famous for creating an accurate mesh to represent original objects with high details. To...
Gexcel announces RECONSTRUCTOR 4.2
Reconstructor 4.2 increases the capability to manage data from tunnels, underground and open-pit mines 3D surveys, thanks to new and improved tools that help users get the result done by a smart process. Gexcel has announced the release of Reconstructor that introduces some very interesting improvements for mining, tunneling, construction, and infrastructure applications thanks to new strategic workflows designed to easily guide customers to final deliverables from the surve...