BYD Institutes Stringent SafetyProtocolsas it Reopens Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Plant in California
LOS ANGELES - BYD (Build Your Dreams), a leading manufacturer of zero-emission vehicles and a major employer in Los Angeles County, announced it has implemented stringent safety protocols and begun a phased reopening of its Lancaster Coach and Bus manufacturing plant. As it reopens, BYD will continue to follow guidelines for safe operations set by California, Los Angeles County, and the City of Lancaster while ramping up production of all-electric transit buses and motor coaches that meet str...
Bentley Systems Announces the Acquisition of NoteVault, Provider of Voice-based Field Automation for Construction Management
Advancing the Scope of Construction Digital Twins EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the acquisition of NoteVault, a San Diego-based provider of voice-based field automation for construction management. The acquisition expands Bentley’s SYNCHRO digital construction environment with industry-leading mobile field...
Leica Geosystems announces latest version of public safety software
Leica Map360 v4.0 introduces three editions to digitize and document any crash or crime scene (HEERBRUGG, Switzerland) – Leica Geosystems, a Hexagon company, announced today the latest version of Leica Map360 crash and crime scene diagramming and reconstruction software, bringing three editions to meet specific customer needs based on the technology used to measure and collect any scene. With an entirely new user experience (UX) and interface, Map360 v4.0 simplifies incident reconstru...
DigEplan Announces New Partnership with Cityworks to Deliver Fully Integrated Electronic Plan Review for Vital Government Services
DigEplan, a global leader in fully integrated electronic plan review, announces a new partnership with Cityworks, the leading GIS-centric solution for public asset management, to bring city and county government permitting departments an end-to-end, fully integrated electronic plan review that is aligned with today’s public sector budgets. Deployed in days, DigEplan and Cityworks are enabling vital government services to continue, providing business continuity whilst adhering to Covid-19 rules....
Woolpert Designs Cityworks GeoPhoto Tool to Improve Work Order Management
The tool layers the technology of Esri and the functionality of Cityworks to spatially represent linear assets. RICHMOND, Va. — Woolpert has designed the Cityworks GeoPhoto Tool to enable field crews and end users to spatially view linear assets and relevant work order information at the exact location along each asset. The tool leverages the GIS capabilities of Esri with Cityworks asset management software functionality and allows work orders to be started, accessed and completed from the f...
Renewables Increasingly Beat Even Cheapest Coal Competitors on Cost
Competitive power generation costs make investment in renewables highly attractive as countries target economic recovery from COVID-19, new IRENA report finds Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — Renewable power is increasingly cheaper than any new electricity capacity based on fossil fuels, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published today finds. Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2019 shows that more than half of the renewable capacity added in 2019 achiev...
‘NEXT Coalition’ of leading U.S. engineering and construction firms challenges industry to enhance health, safety amid COVID-19 pandemic
‘Construction Safety Challenge’ seeks rapidly deployable, scalable innovations that address outbreak-related challenges today with an eye towards future While the COVID-19 pandemic has forced shutdowns of many global businesses, a coalition of leading critical infrastructure and construction companies has banded together to launch the “NEXT Coalition” to promote and share industry safety best practices. Black & Veatch, DPR Construction, Haskell and McCarthy Building C...
OriginClear Dedicates COO Marchesello to Increased Revenue
MCKINNEY, Texas - OriginClear Inc. (OTCQB: OCLN), a pioneering provider of water treatment solutions, announces that it has dedicated the duties of Chief Operating Officer Tom Marchesello to seeking to increase revenues from existing profit centers at its Texas headquarters. “As we reported Friday in our annual report, we reduced Operating Losses and Operating Expenses, but Sales and Gross Profit declined from 2018,” said Riggs Eckelberry, OriginClear CEO. “Now that we find sales to be contin...
More U.S. Engineering Firms See COVID-19 Related Business Growth, Record Support for PPP Program According to New ACEC Research Institute Survey
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A majority of U.S. engineering firm leaders report their businesses are engaging in more COVID-19 pandemic response and are seeing other areas of their businesses outperforming today compared to just a few weeks ago, the latest ACEC Research Institute Business Impact Survey 7 reveals. Results show that 16% of engineering firms are now engaged in COVID-19 pandemic response compared to only 8% in March. Strikingly, almost one fourth of firms surveyed (22%) report having busi...
ForneyVault® Partners with Quadrel on Concrete Management Software Integration
Martin Marietta, Inc., Is First to Use Pittsburgh, PA: ForneyVault®, an integrated construction materials testing platform, recently added Quadrel, LLC, to its growing list of software integration partners. The interface allows Quadrel’s customers to have easy access to ForneyVault along with its own technologies for concrete and aggregate management. Martin Marietta, Inc., in Denver, CO, is the first Quadrel customer to use the integrated materials testing platform with concrete cylinde...
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