Hammes Company Relocates Denver Office to Downtown
Milwaukee, Wis. – Hammes Company, the nation’s leading healthcare developer as ranked by Modern Healthcare’s Construction and Design Survey, has relocated its Denver office from Highlands Ranch to downtown. Located at 1600 Broadway near the city’s downtown business district, the new office location further aligns Hammes with the growing number of client projects and opportunities in Denver and the surrounding region. Since first opening its Denver office more than 20 years ago, Hammes has ha...
West Virginia Utilizes New Technology to Build Innovative, Cost-Effective Short Span Steel Bridge
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance (SSSBA) is working with the West Virginia Department of Highways (WVDOH) to construct a press-brake-formed steel tub girder bridge, the first one in the state to demonstrate this innovative technology. Girder erection for the 58-foot span Fourteen Mile Bridge in Lincoln County (District 2) near East Lynn is scheduled to begin on August 20, 2019. The contractor is ORDERS Construction Company based in Saint Albans, WV. The project is schedu...
New ASCE Report Offers Guidance for Stormwater Control Measures
Reston, Va. – While the stormwater management field has experienced exponential innovation over the last decade, there are no universally agreed upon maintenance protocols. This new publication, Inspection and Maintenance of Stormwater Control Measures, describes the functions and operations of stormwater control measures, offers trouble-shooting suggestions, and provides valuable information on the implementation of inspection and maintenance procedures. Topics covered in this book include t...
Stantec’s Boston Landscape Architecture Practice Welcomes Chris Bridle as Design Director
BOSTON, MA, NYSE, TSX:STN: Chris Bridle has joined Stantec, a leading global design and engineering firm, as a design director for landscape architecture and urban design in the firm’s Boston office. Bridle brings nearly 20 years of award-winning design expertise spanning a range of project scales and typologies across the globe. In his role at Stantec, Bridle will play a key role in leading all phases of project design, as well as contributing to team growth and development. He will also s...
New ASCE Book Uses Case Studies to Focus on Steel Structure Failures
Reston, Va. – ASCE’s new publication, Failure Case Studies: Steel Structures provides case studies of failures observed in steel structures between 1970 and 2013. Findings from eight steel structure failure investigations and a valuable collection of references are supplied. Designed to promote learning from failures by disseminating information regarding previous failure cases, each case study is comprised of a summary description of a documented civil engineering failure followed by lessons le...
Transportation Projects that Benefit Communities and Businesses Win Regional Awards
NDIANAPOLIS, IN— Six mid-American state departments of transportation won regional awards today for eight outstanding transportation projects that are credited with helping to revitalize communities and provide access to employment centers, medical institutions, and recreation facilities. “For 12 years, the America’s Transportation Awards have recognized state DOT projects for making communities safer, less congested, and better connected,” said Carlos Braceras, executive director of the Utah...
Increasing Sustainability of Healthcare Facility Distributed Energy Systems
By Tim Kelley, Director of Renewable and Storage Solutions at Russelectric, Inc. Continuous power supply is critical to maintain healthcare facilities and the health and safety of patients during emergency operations. As a result, hospitals must have robust power systems to continue operations in the event of a grid outage. Most of these systems are powered by diesel generators. As healthcare companies seek to improve their sustainability and to protect their power systems against risk...
UFPI Announces Structure Change to Promote Growth, Effective Jan. 1, 2020
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.- Universal Forest Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UFPI) today announced a new organizational structure that is designed to position the Company for accelerated sales and profit growth in the coming years and provide more opportunity for its employees. As of Jan. 1, 2020, the Company will be known as UFP Industries, Inc. The Company will seek to ratify the name change at its April 22, 2020, shareholder meeting. Under the new structure, also effective Jan. 1, 2020, the Company will...
Leading Engineering and Design Firm Stantec Consolidates Three Salt Lake City Offices
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NYSE, TSX:STN- Stantec, a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm is consolidating Salt Lake City area employees from three offices into one existing location at 2890 East Cottonwood Parkway in Salt Lake City. Team members from the firm’s Water, Mining, Environmental Services, and Community Development business lines will occupy approximately 20,000 square feet in Suite 300. Located at the entrance of several of the most famous ski resorts in the world, the...
Sustainability Expert Chris Kline Returns to Cardno and Joins Firm's Walkerton Office
Walkerton, IN - Cardno is pleased to announce Chris Kline has returned to the firm as Senior Business Leadership & Development Manager in the company’s Walkerton, IN, USA office. Chris brings more than 30 years of experience in supporting and leading business development, sustainability and strategy development, and planning efforts. Chris is an experienced business development professional who has led wide-ranging sales and marketing efforts, with expertise in developing sustainability curri...