MDOT Projects Win Awards at Annual Maryland Quality Initiative Conference
Agencies Honored for Planning, Design and Construction Projects in 2019 BALTIMORE, MD – Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) projects received 17 awards at the recent Maryland Quality Initiative (MdQI) conference at the Baltimore Convention Center. The MdQI Awards of Excellence recognized project teams and private sector partners for exceptional projects in 2019. MdQI, a consortium of agencies and associations representing Maryland's transportation industry, was founded by MD...
L3Harris Technologies Selected by US Air Force for Artificial Intelligence Contract
MELBOURNE, Fla.- The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) a multimillion-dollar contract to develop a software platform that will make it easier for analysts to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify objects in large data sets. The U.S. military and intelligence community are inundated with massive amounts of data generated by remote sensing systems. Automated searches using algorithms that can identify pre-loaded images of objects makes pi...
Registration is Open for 2020 CFSEI Expo to be Held May 19-20 in Tampa, Florida
WASHINGTON, DC —The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) is now accepting registrations for the 2020 CFSEI Expo, which will be held May 19-20, 2020 at the Marriott Tampa Water Street, 505 Water Street in Tampa, Florida. This event is designed for architects, builders/contractors and engineers, with an educational program geared toward both skilled cold-formed steel (CFS) framing professionals as well as newcomers. The 2020 CFSEI Expo will also include an exposition featuring state-of-th...
Registration Open for DFI’s SuperPile ‘20 — June 3-5, 2020, St. Louis, Missouri
Hawthorne, N.J. : Registration is now open for SuperPile ’20 taking place June 3-5 at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark in Missouri. Hosted by DFI, in partnership with ADSC, this three-day event includes presentations on the latest developments in augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, drilled shafts, driven piles, helical piles and tiebacks, marine foundations, micropiles, seismic and lateral loads, and testing and evaluation of foundation systems. Presentations will include t...
Terracon Foundation Awards $67,450 in Community and University Grants
OLATHE, Kan. – The Terracon Foundation is pleased to announce the award of $67,450 in community and university grants and scholarships. The Terracon Foundation was established as the community investment arm of Terracon with a goal to reach out and become a real part of the lives of company employees and the communities where they live and work. “We are pleased to award grants to a number of universities in order to provide students with equipment and scholarships to further their educations,...
Wärtsilä Operation and maintenance agreement with major cement producer extended to its 25th year
The technology group Wärtsilä has signed a further four-year extension to its Operation and maintenance (O&M) agreement with Cemex Colombia S.A., one of Colombia’s major cement producers. The continued O&M agreement relationship between Wärtsilä and Cemex Colombia that started in 1998 with a 15-year agreement is one of the longest made by Wärtsilä with an energy customer throughout the company’s history. The latest extension to the end of 2023 was signed in December 2019, marking thus 25 year...
Lepore Named Florida Area Construction Services Manager
Former WSP USA engineer returns to firm to lead construction services for Florida transportation projects. ORLANDO — Rico Lepore has joined WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, as construction services manager for Florida. In his new role, Lepore will partner with key area and regional leaders and other stakeholders to champion the delivery of world-class construction management projects for public and private clients in Florida. Additionally, he will...
FiberSPAN FRP Bridge Deck Connects Pedestrians With Key Locations In Lower Manhattan As Part Of 9/11 Rebuild Project For Downtown New York
DAYTON, Ohio - Manhattan has an estimated 1.63 million people living in 23 square miles, making the New York borough one of the most crowded places in the U.S. In 2017 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the Battery Park City Authority chose Composite Advantage’s FiberSPAN fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) pedestrian bridge system to replace the temporary structure installed after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The FRP West Thames Street crossing spans 230 ft. over six-lane West Street...
Electricity’s past and future in America
HOUSTON – As Americans integrate renewable energy resources into the nation’s power supply, a new research paper from the Baker Institute for Public Policy reviews how the country’s electrical system developed and says that an understanding of its past can offer insights about its future. A debate over how Americans should electrify their lives has continued throughout the 150 years of power network expansion in the United States, according to Julie Cohn, a research historian at the Universi...
OnScale Joins the Revolution in Simulation Initiative
Parametric 3D piezoelectric structural and acoustic cloud simulation of a MEMS PMUT for ultrasonic fingerprint sensor applications. This time-explicit 134 million degrees of freedom OnScale simulation ran in 29 minutes on 40 cores. Sharing the same vision of making simulation accessible to all engineers, OnScale joined the non-profit Revolution in Simulation initiative as a sponsor to collaborate and form alliances with leading CAE experts, organizations, and providers. Sili...
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