Geospatial Expert Dan Wobbe, PLS, PIC, Joins Cardno's Portland Office
Portland, OR - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Dan Wobbe, PLS, PIC, has returned to the firm as Regional Manager in the company’s Portland, OR, USA office. Dan brings over 30 years of surveying experience in areas such as boundary, location, construction, right-of-way-surveying, land planning and mapping, and remote sensing LiDAR and GIS services for public and private sector clients in North America and internationally. Dan’s consulting experience includes geospatial positioni...
Dru Whitlock Joins Stantec to Grow Global Biosolids and Energy Recovery Practice
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NYSE, TSX:STN- Dru Whitlock has joined global architecture, engineering, and consulting firm Stantec as the global practice leader for biosolids and energy recovery, based in the Cottonwood Parkway office in Salt Lake City, Utah. In his role, Whitlock will focus on growing the firm’s biosolid and energy recovery practice in the Southwestern Region of the United States and globally. Whitlock is a recognized leader in anaerobic digestion and biogas utilization who rec...
Propex Holding, LLC Announces Sale of its Concrete Division
Chattanooga, Tenn. (Nov. 6, 2018) – Today Propex Holding, LLC announced the sale of its global concrete division, Fibermesh, to Sika. Sika is a leading supplier of specialty chemical products and industrial materials serving construction and industrial markets. Fibermesh manufactures a complete line of fiber solutions to deliver reinforced concrete from its Chattanooga-based plant. Fibermesh employees located in North and South America, the United Kingdom and Australia will join the Sika te...
Trimble Announces New Versions of eCognition Software for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Professionals
LAS VEGAS — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today eCognition® version 9.4 featuring updates to eCognition Developer and the eCognition Oil Palm Application. Trimble’s eCognition is a software platform for advanced geospatial image analysis for environmental, agriculture, forestry and infrastructure applications.The software extracts accurate geo-information from remote sensing data. eCognition’s intelligent information extraction capabilities accelerate mapping, change detection and object reco...
Darlene Gee Assumes National Pursuit Champion Role for HNTB
OAKLAND, Calif. – Darlene K. Gee, PE, was named national pursuit champion for HNTB Corporation. In this new role, she remains based in the firm’s Oakland office, offering continued counsel for HNTB’s clients in the San Francisco Bay Area while growing the firm’s national footprint as part of the national sales team. “Over the past six years, Darlene has clearly demonstrated tremendous leadership and skill in transforming our Northern California practice,” said Art Hadnett, HNTB West Division...
Trimble Announces Forensics GNSS Solution
LAS VEGAS —Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the launch of the Trimble® Forensics GNSS solution. The solution combines the Trimble T10 tablet or TDC100 handheld with the Trimble Forensics Capture software and the Trimble R4sLE GNSS receiver. The announcement was made at Trimble Dimensions. The solution enhances forensics fieldwork by improving efficiency and broadening the range of data collection technologies available using the same, proven software. Trimble Forensics Capture sof...
Trimble Unifies Business Center Software to Provide a Single Version for Survey and Civil Construction
LAS VEGAS — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today version 5.0 of Trimble® Business Center, which merges two products, Trimble Business Center and Business Center - HCE, to provide both surveying and civil construction customers with a complete office software solution. Combining both products into one platform provides a larger set of tools for customers to leverage for more services and value for their clients. The announcement was made at Trimble Dimensions. The combined softw...
Video: National Contest Selects Two State DOT Projects
For eleven straight years the America's Transportation Awards competition sponsored by AASHTO, Socrata, AAA and the US Chamber of Commerce has showcased the very best transportation projects in nation. This video highlights the 2018 competition which attracted 79 project nominations from 35 state DOTs. 12 projects earned the right to compete for the grand prize and the Socrata People's Choice Award. The top two prizes and $10,000 cash awards—to be given to a charity or transportation-related sch...
New Jersey DOT Obligates $23M for Local Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects
The New Jersey Department of Transportation awarded $23 million in federal funding has been obligated to local bicycle and pedestrian projects through its Transportation Alternatives Program or TAP grants on Oct. 26, the agency said in a statement. [Above photo by the New Jersey National Guard.] There were 18 projects totaling $18.6 million in TAP grants, NJDOT added, along with 14 “Safe Routes to School” grants totaling $2.3 million. An additional $2.2 million was authorized for “Safe Rou...
Airport, Toll Road, and Port Activity All Expected to Increase, Fitch Ratings Says
In a report issued Oct. 18, credit agency Fitch Ratings said that airports, toll roads, and ports are all facing “potential increases in borrowing costs” should the Federal Reserve continue to increase interest rates – and it has already increased interest rates three times in 2018 alone and eight times since 2015. [Above photo by formulaone.] That, coupled with increasing capital improvement spending needs, has the potential to slow growth in those three transportation sectors, noted Fitc...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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