Van Port Fleet Tapped as Michigan DOT’s Director
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder named Mark Van Port Fleet (seen above) as director of the Michigan Department of Transportation on Oct. 30 to replace Kirk Steudle, who retired on Oct. 31 after serving as the agency’s director for the past 12 years. Van Port Fleet’s appointment, subject to the advice and consent of Michigan’s legislature, is effective Nov. 1. A 38-year veteran of the Michigan DOT, Van Port Fleet previously served as the agency’s senior chief deputy and has championed “innovative con...
Datumate's DatuSurvey™ 5.5 supporting Large Scale Construction Projects
Wide area construction projects require large amount of data to be processes effectively (scale and time) on a desktop or in the Cloud. With the fast adoption of drones and photogrammetry solutions by land surveyors and construction project managers who want to process their project "as-built" data on their desktop or organizational network, Datumate is happy to announce its enhanced new offering for individual or organizations' Survey and Construction Professionals. With its new DatuSurvey™...
Kiely Family of Companies Continues Growth, Announces New Office in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
TINTON FALLS, N.J., Nov. 5, 2018 - The Kiely Family of Companies, an ENR 600 company located in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, announces its latest expansion with the opening of the firm's location in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The new office is located approximately 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, at 2400 Ansys Drive: Suite 102, Canonsburg, PA. This is the third Pennsylvania location for the growing company, which employs more than 1200 team members throughout the United States and abroad. The n...
Woolpert to Collect, Process Data for Highway Assets Throughout Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — Woolpert has been hired to collect and process data of highway condition assets for the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), as a subconsultant to Leidos. Woolpert will conduct a random sampling of assets on roadways throughout the state, evaluate the assets according to standard VDOT criteria and grade the performance of those assets. The firm will then process all of the data collected for this project and submit it to Leidos for the final analysis. Woolpert Project...
Stantec wins Building Better Healthcare’s International Design for Cleveland Cancer Taussig Cancer Center
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center was recognised at this year’s Building Better Healthcare Awards where it won Best International Design. The Building Better Healthcare Awards are held each year in London to celebrate innovation and improvement in the design of healthcare environments. The judges said: “It is a serious and reassuring building appropriate for high quality patient care. Inside it’s lovely: the interiors are clean and bright and rationally organised.” Cleveland Clinic Ta...
AECOM awarded five-year, US$23.5 million USAID Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices project
GERMANTOWN, Md. — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has been awarded the Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices project from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) South America Regional office in Peru. The five-year contract award is worth up to US$23.5 million. AECOM’s work will focus specifically on the following sectors: hydropower, oil and gas, mining and roads. The company plans...
Jeanneret Named ARTBA Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
(WASHINGTON) - Matthew J. Jeanneret has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), effective Nov. 1. Jeanneret, who joined ARTBA in 1998 as director of public affairs, has been serving as the association’s deputy chief operating officer since January. As ARTBA’s senior vice president of communications and marketing over the past decade, he led its award-winning external communicatio...
USDOT Announces Final Rule to Accelerate Project Delivery
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a final rule today to amend Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that will accelerate project delivery. To date, the new rule is one of the department’s most expansive regulatory realignments of federal environmental transportation policy. “As directed by Congress, this much-needed rule will accelerate the delivery of new...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $5.95 Million Loan to Fund Marine Terminal Rail Improvements at the Port of Everett
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the “Bureau”) will provide up to a $5.95 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan to the Port of Everett in the State of Washington. The loan is for the Marine Terminal Rail Improvements Phase II Project (the “Project”). “This funding will help fund a key port in Washington state to handle more cargo, thereby helping our co...
Highway Deaths Account for 95 Percent of all Transportation Fatalities in 2017
Highway crashes claimed the lives of 37,133 people in 2017, accounting for 95 percent of the 38,958 who died in transportation related accidents that year, according to data provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The data indicate 712 fewer people died in transportation accidents in 2017, compared to the 39,670 who died in 2016. Aviation, marine and highway deaths decreased while rail and pipeline fata...
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Redevelopment of Horseshoe Bay Terminal
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