HNTB Names Chris Gale President of Great Lakes Division
INDIANAPOLIS – Chris Gale, PE, has been named president of HNTB Corporation’s Great Lakes Division, overseeing operations, project delivery and client service in seven states, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Gale leads 600 professionals who provide aviation, highway, bridge, transit and rail, and toll projects to improve mobility. Gale is based in the firm’s downtown Indianapolis office. “HNTB is growing in the Great Lakes Division as our co...
AISC Awards Inaugural Forge Prize to Innovative Architect
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) is pleased to award the inaugural Forge Prize to Jin Young Song of Dioinno Architecture and his promising interlocking module system. AISC established the Forge Prize in 2018 to celebrate innovative architects who create visionary designs that use steel as the primary structural component. Song and his collaborators received a total of $20,000 to continue the development of their submitted design in a June 7, 2019 event at the...
Brown Appointed to AWWA Leadership Role
(Harrisburg, Pa.) - Michael Brown, PE, Gannett Fleming vice president and Water Business Line principal engineer, recently joined the board of directors of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) serving as director of the Pennsylvania Section of the AWWA.“I look up to and respect many water industry professionals who have had filled these positions before me and I am honored that I was voted in by my peers,” said Brown. “Over the next three years I look forward to representing the Pennsylva...
Ready for an Encore, Boston? New Casino Resort Opens on the Harbor
This new resort on Boston Harbor marks history for Massachusetts and we led its architecture. Celebrate Encore Boston Harbor’s grand opening – from the 27th floor down to a 6-acre harbor walk – in this article. It’s the subject of the popular tune, “Over the River and Through the Wood,” a narrative driver in the novel “Mystic River” and later, the Clint Eastwood-directed film of the same name – and now, Mystic River is home to the new Encore Boston Harbor resort. Jacobs served as the...
Reaching New Heights in Boston with our Newest WELL-Certified Building
Inside the tallest building in Boston, Jacobs’ newest WELL™ - certified location at the John Hancock Tower or 120 Saint James, seats more than 200 employees. One of Boston Properties most iconic buildings, our office – representing our first U.S. WELL-certified building and first overall WELL Gold certification – occupies the entire fifth floor, 49,000 square feet of the 790-foot-tall building. WELL certifications recognize prerequisites and optimizations in seven categories, including air, w...
Weaver Consultants Group Moves to Delair UX11 UAV for Better Portability, Integration & Efficiency in Large Scale Aerial-Based Topographic Mapping
LOS ANGELES – Delair, a leading supplier of commercial drone solutions, along with one of its regional resellers, Seiler Instrument, today announced that Weaver Consultants Group has adopted the Delair UX11 high-performance UAV for its work in large-scale volumetric surveying and topographic mapping. The national firm provides a full range of engineering services and has a particular expertise in solid waste and landfill projects. The firm’s initial use of the new Delair platform has been in...
Gregory G. Deierlein and Jonathan Humble Receive Industry Recognition
Gregory G. Deierlein (left); Jonathan Humble Gregory G. Deierlein, PhD, PE, was recently named a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a high honor among civil engineers. A member of the AISC Specification Committee, Deierlein is a professor and director of the J.A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. He is well known for his research on steel and concrete composite structural systems, nonlinear structural analysis, and perform...
Two Longtime Employees of ODOT Named to lLadership Roles
Experience weighs in as two long-time Oklahoma Department of Transportation employees move in to new positions. Rick Johnson was named Director of Capital Programs and Jared Schwennesen was named Rail Division Manager at the July Oklahoma Transportation Commission meeting. The two bring with them years of experience at ODOT, having worked on a wide range of important projects and initiatives. Rick Johnson Johnson began his career with the agency in 1997 as a Transportation CADD Specialis...
Stantec’s Community-First Design Featured in New Sidewalk Labs Plan
Image Credit: Sidewalk Labs On Monday, Sidewalk Labs publicly released its Master Innovation Development Plan (MIDP) for the Quayside District in Toronto, which rethinks how infrastructure can be designed in a people-first community. Stantec’s innovative approach to infrastructure features heavily in the MIDP. The plan was submitted to Waterfront Toronto, the government agency overseeing the development, and is now under review. Sidewalk Labs turned to Stantec to help design the infra...
GSSI Announces Appointment of Amber Onufer as New Technical Sales Support Team Member
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, is pleased to announce the hiring of Amber Onufer as Technical Sales Support. She will support GSSI’s Geophysical, Environmental, and Transportation Infrastructure teams. With a B.S. in Geology, Amber has more than seven years of experience with ground penetrating radar technology. In prior roles, Amber provided consultative sales, customer training, applications engineering, and research and development. She...