Wärtsilä Wins Repeat Power Generation Order from Major Cement Producer
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply the equipment to enable an efficient, reliable, and independent power source for an Iraqi cement producing plant. The 20 MW engine power plant is being built by Al Shumookh Lucky Investments Ltd, a JV company of Lucky Cement Limited and a limited liability company registered in the United Arab Emirates. The power plant will serve the Najmat Al-Samawa cement factory in Iraq. The order with Wärtsilä was booked in Q1, 2019. Wärtsilä has a long-establishe...
Stantec Leads Construction Management Support of King County’s Eastside Interceptor Rehabilitation Project
Critical wastewater pipe project requires four-month bypass near Boeing’s Renton Factory Bellevue, WA, NYSE, TSX:STN: Earlier this month, the Wastewater Treatment Division of King County’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks (WTD) started an important rehabilitation project in Renton along Logan Avenue near the Boeing Renton Factory and The Landing mixed-use development. The Eastside Interceptor Section 2 Rehabilitation Phase 2 project will clean, improve, and extend the life of nearly...
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao Announces Availability of $900 Million in Infrastructure Grant Funds
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has formally announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to apply for $900 million in discretionary grant funding through the Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) Transportation Discretionary Grants program. “These BUILD Transportation grants will provide needed infrastructure investment to better connect rural and urban communities around our nation,” said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao....
Two AASHTO AII Lead Technologies Win Awards
Two systems designated by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Innovation Initiative, known as A.I.I., as “lead technologies” recently won a pair of safety awards. The Michigan Department of Transportation recently took home the Governor’s Traffic Safety Advisory Commission 2018 Outstanding Traffic Safety Achievement Award for its Gateway Treatment. That low-cost safety treatment puts typical in-street “Yield to Pedestrian” signs on the edge lines, the...
SCDOT Repairs Continue to Damaged College Park Road Bridge Over Interstate 26, Closures Planned
Repair work is continuing on a major overpass of Interstate 26 in Berkeley County that was damaged earlier this month when a tractor-trailer crashed into it. The S.C. Department of Transportation has modified pavement markings, signs and overhead signals so that the overpass can continue to accommodate traffic, officials stated. State transportation officials issued an emergency contract to repair the bridge as soon as possible and restore normal operations. ...
USDOT Unveils $900M BUILD Grant NOFO
The U.S. Department of Transportation published a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register on April 18 for $900 million worth of fiscal year 2019 Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development or BUILD transportation grants. [Above photo by the Ohio Department of Transportation.] The agency said funds for the FY 2019 BUILD Transportation grants program – which underwent a name change in 2018 – will be awarded on a competitive basis for surface transportati...
Jacobs to Acquire KeyW, Capturing Leading Position in Multi Billion Dollar Space-Intelligence Market and the High Growth C5ISR Sector
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE: JEC) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Jacobs will acquire KeyW for $11.25 per share in cash. The transaction has an enterprise value, net of tax assets, of approximately $815 million, including an estimated $272 million of KeyW net debt. The transaction value represents an enterprise value-to-expected 2020 adjusted EBITDA multiple of approximately 10x, assuming full run-rate cost synergies of $15 million. This t...
Infrastructure Fix and Plastics Recycling Go Hand-In-Hand Industry Executives Tell Congress
During the Plastics Industry’s DC Fly-In event, March 26 -27, Dan Currence (left) and Tony Radoszewski (right) of the Plastics Pipe Institute met with members of Congress including Daniel Webster (R) from Florida’s 11th District, who is a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Opening up federally funded infrastructure projects to include thermoplastic pipe can increase the elimination of plastic waste. That was the position of Tony Radosz...
Profile Products Welcomes Jeff Knape as Director of Business Development
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (April 22, 2019) — Profile Products is pleased to announce the hiring of Jeff Knape as director of business development. He will focus on developing new and unique growth opportunities for the horticulture business. “Jeff has established himself as a leader in the horticulture industry and we are thrilled to have him on the Profile team,” said Jim Tanner, president and CEO of Profile Products. “His extensive experience and knowledge of horticulture will add to our already...
Bradley Miller Named Group Director for HNTB in Seattle
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Bradley Miller has been named HNTB Corporation’s Seattle group director, based in the firm’s Bellevue office. An associate vice president, Miller brings 28 years of transportation industry experience to the position. He recently transferred to the Seattle area from HNTB’s Indianapolis office where he was office delivery manager. Miller joins a team of more than 230 transportation infrastructure and architecture professionals delivering aviation, toll, highway, transit, rail...
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