Fluor Joint Venture Selected for Texas Southern Gateway Project
IRVING, Texas (May 4, 2017) – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the Fluor-led joint venture comprised of Fluor and Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc., was selected by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) as the design-build and capital maintenance team for the estimated $625 million Southern Gateway reconstruction and improvement project located along Interstate I-35E and U.S. 67 in Dallas. Fluor will book its share of the contract value into backlog in the second qua...
Atlas Copco Announces Epiroc as Name of the Company to be Dividended out in 2018
Stockholm, Sweden: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has decided that Epiroc will be the name of the company that the Group will dividend out in 2018 provided shareholder approval. “With Epiroc we have found a short, distinct and timeless name that is spot on for the mining and civil engineering business,” said Annika Berglund, Senior Vice President Corporate Communications and Governmental Affairs. On January 16, 2017, Atlas Copco Board of Directors an...
Atlas Copco Completes Acquisition of Pump Rental Business in Brazil
Stockholm, Sweden: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has completed the acquisition of Itubombas Locação Comércio Importação e Exportação Ltda, a pump rental company in the Brazilian market. Itubombas is based in Itu in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The company rents out diesel and electric driven centrifugal pumps to professional customers in the oil and gas, construction and mining sectors in Brazil. Itubombas has about 40 employees and had revenues of...
Joseph Heller, P.E., Wins Arizona DOT Partnering Spirit Award for US 60 and Bell Road Traffic Interchange Project
T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces Joseph (Joe) Heller, P.E., TYLI Design Engineer, received an Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Partnering Spirit Award for the US 60 and Bell Road Traffic Interchange Design-Build (D-B) project in Surprise, Arizona. ADOT bestows Partnering Spirit Awards to individuals who have played a significant role as members of partnerships achieving exceptionally positive results through ag...
House Sends Bill Repealing Burdensome MPO Rule to the President
Washington - A bill to repeal regulatory mandates on Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and keep decision-making authority for transportation improvements at the local level overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 417 to 3 today. The House passed S. 496, a bill that repeals the rule entitled “Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform,” a rule that increases burdens on MPOs and states in excess of what is required in law. The...
“Waters of the United States” Rule Fundamentally Flawed, ARTBA Tells Senate Committee
(WASHINGTON) - The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) April 26 told a U.S. Senate panel the controversial “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule is scientifically and legally flawed and should be repealed. In comments submitted for an Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing, the association said the WOTUS rule threatens recent bipartisan achievements in reducing transportation project delays, noting “[a]ny reduction in delay gained from improvements to...
AECOM Achieve UK Permissions for Commercial Drone Operations
AECOM’s UK based Drone Team this week achieved their Civil Aviation Authority permissions for commercial operations. This marks a major milestone in the integration of drone technology into workflows. Our Nottingham Centre of Excellence will host and be accountable for maintaining our Operations Safety Case and Operations Manuals. We have the skills and service agreements with Bentley, AutoDesk and other software providers to process data and create tailored 2D or 3D models and deliverables...
T.Y. Lin International Wins 2017 ACEC Honor Award for Sellwood Bridge Replacement
SAN FRANCISCO –T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized, full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the Sellwood Bridge Replacement project (Sellwood Bridge) in Portland, Oregon, has received an Honor Award in the 2017 Engineering Excellence Awards competition of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). TYLI served as Prime Consultant, Final Design, on the fast-track project, working closely with the Project Owner, Multnomah County, design subconsultant...
Five Cities Bid for World Design Capital 2020
Montreal (Canada) – The World Design Organization (WDO)™ today announced that its call for World Design Capital 2020 is now closed. WDO is pleased to have received five applications from design driven cities across Asia, Europe, and Oceania. By participating in the WDC 2020 bid process, these five cities have seized a unique opportunity to mobilize their design community, showcase their city’s design merits and create value around the power of design to improve urban quality of life. As WDO P...
IMAGINiT Technologies Acquires Advanced Technologies Solutions
OWINGS MILLS, MD — Rand Worldwide (OTCBB: RWWI), a global leader in providing technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, announces that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has acquired Advanced Technologies Solutions (ATSI), an Autodesk Gold Partner headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. “ATSI is a great addition to our presence in the Southeastern US and we are excited to carry on the tradition of providing great customer servi...
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