City of Charlotte Selects Woolpert for Streetscape Projects in Prosperity Village
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 21, 2016 — The city of Charlotte has contracted with Woolpert on two projects to improve the connectivity, safety and aesthetics of Prosperity Village, as part of the city’s Comprehensive Neighborhood Improvement Program (CNIP). The first project will address the upgrade of DeArmon Road, a 0.9-mile “farm-to-market” connector between Browne and Benfield roads. DeArmon will be converted from a narrow, variable road section into a complete street, including two travel lanes...
Stork Awarded Multi-Services Contract by Repsol Sinopec Resources UK
IRVING, Texas & FARNBOROUGH, England - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that Stork, a Fluor company and global provider of maintenance, modification and asset integrity services to a range of sectors, was awarded a two-year fabric maintenance and asset support services contract by Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited across six of their North Sea assets. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract award in the second quarter. Stork will deliver a range of integrated fabric maintenance s...
Dewberry's Dmitry Smirnov Appointed to National Emergency Management Association Work Group
Dewberry is proud to announce the appointment of Dmitry Smirnov, Ph.D., to the National Emergency Management Association's (NEMA) Extreme Weather Adaptation work group. The group is tasked with creating an extreme weather adaptation plan for NEMA. Smirnov, a meteorologist with Dewberry in the Denver, Colorado, office, will help develop better practices for the management of severe and frequent natural disasters for state directors across the nation who are responsible for preparing and mitiga...
HNTB Corporation Continues to Expand Operations in Southern California
LOS ANGELES – Preparing to meet the present and future infrastructure needs in the region, HNTB continues to attract a number of key industry talent in top leadership positions and to offer that talent throughout Southern California. As part of this expansion, HNTB opened a new Inland Empire office to better serve regional transportation clients. HNTB, a national infrastructure solutions firm celebrating more than a century of service to clients, now operates five offices in Southern Califor...
MMFX Steel Corporation Appoints Vice President of Sales and Marketing to Support Industry Growth and Market Potential
IRVINE, Calif. — MMFX® Steel Corporation of America (www.mmfx.com) has appointed Sherry Sweitzer as the new Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Sherry is responsible for growing sales through the effective management of the company’s North American sales team, as well as educating customers on the benefits of MMFX products through strategic marketing and communication efforts. “Sherry’s experience in the engineering and construction fields and her knowledge of effective sales managem...
McKim & Creed Growing in Charlotte
Charlotte—The national engineering, surveying and planning firm of McKim & Creed, Inc. has added six engineering and geomatics professionals to its Charlotte office. This brings the company’s local staff size to more than 50, offering a wide array of engineering, surveying and land planning services. The new employees include Adam Mills and Alfred Arce, mechanical designers; Clayton Blackwell and Jennie Casanova, engineering interns; and Casey McClain and Michel Muanzamina, geomatics crew mem...
ContextCapture Improves Quality of Reality Modeling Within Geospatial Workflows
Bentley Systems announces general access to the latest release of ContextCapture and ContextCapture Center. This release enhances the accessibility, scale, and quality of reality models that can be produced for use in BIM and geospatial workflows. Key capabilities include: New multi-resolution mesh support for third-party formats including Esri i3s, Google Earth KML, SpaceEyes3D, OSGB (OpenSceneGraph), and LODTreeExport formats. Multi-resolution mesh support for ContextCapture’s...
Ayyeka & SIGFOX: First U.S. Channel Partnership to Enable Smart Cities Across The U.S.
San Francisco, CA — Ayyeka, a technology company developing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions, today announced a first-of-its-kind channel partnership in the United States withSIGFOX, the world’s leading provider of dedicated communications service for the Internet of Things (IoT). Ayyeka’s remote monitoring systems are SIGFOX-certified and will operate on the SIGFOX network.There are currently 7 million devices operating on the global SIGFOX network, with Ayyeka joining in to deplo...
St. Anthony Regional Stormwater Treatment and Research System
An estimated 169 million gallons of polluted stormwater runoff will be captured and cleaned each year by this underground treatment and research facility near St. Anthony Village. The $1.6 million project is projected to cut pollution levels by more than half for stormwater runoff flowing from the southern half of the city into the Mississippi River. https://youtu.be/paN404heKGA The system will use a combination of technologies to remove an estimated annual average of 39 tons (63 percent)...
NGRAIN Announces Open-Source Viewer for Android, Enabling Fast Creation of 3D Industrial Applications on Smart Glasses
Vancouver, BC, Canada – NGRAIN today announced the availability of NGRAIN Viewer for Android, a new app for Android tablets and smart glass devices, enabling the deployment of industrial 3D content created with NGRAIN Producer Pro. NGRAIN Viewer for Android offers organizations working with heavy equipment, assemblies, and other industrial assets in the field, the opportunity to easily explore possible use cases for smart glasses and 3D content without the need to invest in the development of...