AISI Standards Council Seeks Proposals for Small Projects and Fellowships to be Awarded in 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) Standards Council is seeking research proposals for its 2020 Small Project Fellowship Program. Launched in 2014, AISI’s Small Project Fellowship Program identifies and provides funding for research projects that will significantly impact the reliability, performance and cost-competitiveness of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing products in a variety of end-use applications. The program provides a streamlined mechanism for AISI’s standa...
Improved Transmission Needed to Reap Benefits of Renewable Energy, According to White Paper
LYONS, NEBRASKA – Clean power commitments have increased at the county and city levels, with 11 counties and 104 cities nationwide pledging to 100 percent clean energy goals at the end of 2018. As more renewable energy is developed across the nation, regulators and policymakers must prepare for the changing electric power landscape, according to a white paper released today by the Center for Rural Affairs. “Capacity for Change: The Role of Transmission Infrastructure in Energy Transition” tak...
Tekla BIM Award Winners
Trimble has selected the 2019 winners of the Tekla BIM Awards. Precast Winner: Escondido Village Graduate Housing Escondido Village Graduate Residences is a collection of four residence halls of Type I construction, that range from 10, 8 and 6 stories providing 2,434 beds. Today, Stanford only houses about 55 percent of its 9,000 graduate students in on-campus housing. When complete, Stanford estimates the project will increase its on-campus graduate housing rate to approximately 75 p...
SCISYS Enables Welsh Government to Transform Common Land and Town or Village Greens Registers in Wales
Chippenham, Wilts, UK – Following a competitive procurement exercise SCISYS UK Ltd., has been chosen as the Welsh Government’s preferred software supplier to enable the on-going implementation of the Commons Act 2006. The SCISYS software will enable the development and introduction of electronic registers for common land and town or village greens throughout Wales. The Commons Act 2006 was introduced to protect common land from development, allow more sustainable management of common land and to...
2020 Starts a Rebound for the Energy Satcom Sector
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- NSR’s Energy SATCOM Markets, 8th Edition (ESM8) report, released today, forecasts retail revenues for key energy markets (Onshore and Offshore Oil & Gas, Midstream pipeline distribution, Mining, and Electrical Utilities) to yield nearly $10 Billion in cumulative revenues from 2018 – 2028. With growing demand for broadband data connectivity across nearly all segments, growth is right around the corner for the Energy SATCOM Markets, after years of stagnation and declines. With ov...
RigNet’s Intelie Delivers Machine Learning-Based Analytics for Advanced Drilling Operations
HOUSTON - RigNet (NASDAQ: RNET), the leading provider of ultra-secure, intelligent networking solutions, announced today that Ocyan, one of Brazil’s largest providers of solutions for the upstream oil and gas industry, has signed a multi-year agreement and selected Intelie Live, RigNet’s machine learning-based analytics platform, to be used at their Drilling and Marine Operational Support Center (CSD). Ocyan’s system will use Intelie as an integrated monitoring system for the company's entire f...
HNTB’s Atlanta office welcomes Robert “Perry” Jarrell as senior project manager, architecture
Design architect brings diverse experience in infrastructure and project management gained on work at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Georgia State Capitol ATLANTA – Robert “Perry” Jarrell, AIA, joined HNTB Corporation as senior project manager-architecture, based in the firm’s Atlanta office. Jarrell brings more than four decades of architecture experience to the firm. His list of accomplishments includes projects in educational, medical, military, residential, sp...
Philippines Drives Renewable Power to Improve Energy Security, says GlobalData
The Manila Electric Company (Meralco), the largest private sector electric distribution utility company in the Philippines, has launched auctions for 2.9 gigawatt (GW) of generation capacity. The utility also plans to deploy 1GW of renewable power. Tarun Bhutani, Power Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the development: “With the Philippines going through various energy challenges, the demand for energy is increasing significantly despite the in...
Stantec to Design Specialized Career Technical Education High School in New Mexico
New institute to offer an energy course cluster to promote jobs in the Energy sector Hobbs Municipal Schools (HMS) has selected Stantec to design a new Career Technical Education (CTE) Center in Hobbs, New Mexico. As a regional facility, the Center will potentially serve students from surrounding school districts in Lea County and provide the full spectrum of CTE Clusters and Pathways. The project features facilities to support a new Energy Cluster program that will provide students with...
Eight Transportation Projects Win MAASTO Awards
Eight transportation projects spearheaded by six state departments of transportation were honored with awards from the Mid-America Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials on August 14; the third of four regional competitions leading up to the 12th annual America’s Transportation Awards event. [Above photo by the Missouri DOT.] Sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the annual America’s Tr...
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