U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $281 Million Funding Allocation for Transit Projects in Arizona, California, Minnesota, and Texas
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a total of $281 million in additional Fiscal Year 2018 federal funding allocations to five transit projects in Arizona, California, Minnesota, and Texas. Funding will be provided through FTA’s Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. "These significant investments in the public transit systems in five communities across the country will improve mobility for riders who depend upon public t...
Oxford Direct Services recognised with Oxford Preservation Trust Award for sensitive highways project
Oxford Direct Services has been recognised by the Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT) for its work improving a high profile city centre road junction in a Grade One listed conservation area in a project jointly funded by the City and County Councils and Oxford University. The OPT awarded the Broad Street/Parks Road/Holywell Street/Catte Street junction improvement an award in the Landscape and Public Realm category. The ODS Highways team installed a raised asphalt table top roundabout and pe...
Utility Coordination Expert Kevin VanHouten Joins Cardno's Atlanta Office
ATLANTA - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Kevin VanHouten, EIT, has joined the firm as Utility Coordination Manager in the company’s Atlanta, GA, USA office. Kevin has more than 20 years of civil engineering experience in project management, construction engineering and inspection, and risk management for transportation and intermodal projects with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). “Kevin has a great deal of insight into GDOT procedures. Together with his experience m...
Phoenix Industries Recently Announced the Addition of a New Product to its PelletPAVE™ Line of Additives for the Asphalt Paving Industry
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz., Nov. 29, 2018 - Phoenix Industries recently announced the addition of a new product to its PelletPAVE™ line of additives for the asphalt paving industry. The new PelletPAVE |TR is a specifically formulated PG 64 -22 binder with 12% - 15% of a very fine crumb rubber (SBR) used to enhance the performance of dense graded hot mix asphalt. Kelly Sockwell, Technical Director for Phoenix Industries stated, "We're excited about the addition of this product to our line. Our...
New Study Shows Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions for North American Steel vs. Chinese Steel for Building Construction
PITTSBURGH, PA - Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from production of Chinese steel are substantially greater than emissions from production of comparable steel in North America, according to a series of reports released today by the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). Two peer-reviewed reports ( North America and China ) compare hot-dip galvanized (HDG) steel coils produced in North Americ...
WSP Boosts Tolling Practice with Appointment of Jeffrey Heilstedt
NEW YORK — WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, has appointed Jeffrey Heilstedt as its national tolling market leader. Heilstedt, a 30-year industry veteran, will lead a company-wide effort to bring clients the most advanced and innovative tolling solutions, enhancing WSP’s presence in the tolling market. As a national resource, he will work closely with tolling entities across the country that are looking to build new or rehabilitate aging facili...
Newforma Announces General Availability of a Connector with Bluebeam to Streamline Project Workflows
Manchester, NH - Newforma, a leader in Project Information Management (PIM) software for architects, engineers, contractors and owners (AECO) worldwide, announces a new connector with Bluebeam Revu, the AEC industry’s leading project efficiency and collaboration solution. The connector increases productivity throughout the build process by connecting Newforma Project Center with Studio Sessions, the real-time collaboration capability within Revu. The Project Center – Studio Sessions con...
Why the Upsurge in Microgrid Development?
For more than a century, advanced economies abided by the ‘bigger is better’ philosophy for electric power supply. The world built massive grids that connected power plants to homes and businesses via wires that traversed thousands of miles. As a result, the US grid, alone, now contains enough high-voltage transmission wire to circle the Earth six times over, making it what some describe as the world’s biggest machine. The grid build-out served its purpose well; 84 percent of the global popul...
To Address Climate Change, New ITIF Report Calls for Robust Energy Innovation Agenda
WASHINGTON — Addressing climate change requires dramatically reducing carbon pollution. Toward this end, a new report released today by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the world’s leading think tank for science and technology policy, offers an energy innovation agenda that would tackle the hardest challenges impeding the transition to a low-carbon energy system. The report diagnoses the limits of the current clean energy innovation agenda, identifies sectors and tech...
Microvi MNE Solution to Restore Billions of Gallons of Drinking Water in California at Cucamonga Valley Water District
HAYWARD, Calif. - Microvi Biotech Inc. (Microvi) announced today that Microvi MNE was selected to treat nitrate for the Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) in Rancho Cucamonga, California. A contract was awarded to WesTech Engineering Inc. (WesTech) to design and build a full-scale groundwater nitrate treatment solution, featuring the breakthrough Microvi MNE™ technology. The multi-million-dollar turnkey project, to be completed in Fall 2019, will reduce nitrate contamination without produ...
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Redevelopment of Horseshoe Bay Terminal
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