AECOM awarded five-year, US$23.5 million USAID Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices project
GERMANTOWN, Md. — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has been awarded the Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices project from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) South America Regional office in Peru. The five-year contract award is worth up to US$23.5 million. AECOM’s work will focus specifically on the following sectors: hydropower, oil and gas, mining and roads. The company plans...
Jeanneret Named ARTBA Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
(WASHINGTON) - Matthew J. Jeanneret has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), effective Nov. 1. Jeanneret, who joined ARTBA in 1998 as director of public affairs, has been serving as the association’s deputy chief operating officer since January. As ARTBA’s senior vice president of communications and marketing over the past decade, he led its award-winning external communicatio...
USDOT Announces Final Rule to Accelerate Project Delivery
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a final rule today to amend Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that will accelerate project delivery. To date, the new rule is one of the department’s most expansive regulatory realignments of federal environmental transportation policy. “As directed by Congress, this much-needed rule will accelerate the delivery of new...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $5.95 Million Loan to Fund Marine Terminal Rail Improvements at the Port of Everett
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the “Bureau”) will provide up to a $5.95 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan to the Port of Everett in the State of Washington. The loan is for the Marine Terminal Rail Improvements Phase II Project (the “Project”). “This funding will help fund a key port in Washington state to handle more cargo, thereby helping our co...
Highway Deaths Account for 95 Percent of all Transportation Fatalities in 2017
Highway crashes claimed the lives of 37,133 people in 2017, accounting for 95 percent of the 38,958 who died in transportation related accidents that year, according to data provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The data indicate 712 fewer people died in transportation accidents in 2017, compared to the 39,670 who died in 2016. Aviation, marine and highway deaths decreased while rail and pipeline fata...
Cortec® Designs Low Conductivity / Low Sodium Corrosion Inhibitor for Generator Stator Cooling Systems and Nuclear Applications
Corrosion in generator stator cooling systems is a serious problem because it can obstruct the flow of cooling water and reduce the efficiency of the cooling system, leading to operational problems as time goes on. Because of low conductivity requirements, corrosion inhibitors must meet special parameters for use in generator stators. Corrosion inhibitors for hydrostatic testing and layup of cooling water systems in the nuclear industry are also limited, in this case by low sodium restrictions....
Natgasoline Successfully Places Around $900 Million of New Debt at More Attractive Terms Than Existing Financing
BEAUMONT, Texas - Consolidated Energy Limited ("CEL") and OCI N.V. (Euronext: OCI) have today announced that their subsidiary Natgasoline LLC, the largest methanol production facility in the United States and one of the largest globally, has priced around $900 million of new senior secured debt financing, including a $565 million Term Loan B facility (the "Term Loan B") and $336 million of bonds in the US tax-exempt market to be issued by the Mission Economic Development Corporation, the proceed...
IECA Region One Welcomes New Executive Director
Denver, CO – The International Erosion Control Association (IECA) Region One board of directors and staff welcomes Samantha Roe, IOM, as the new executive director of the association. “We’re excited to announce Samantha as the new executive director to take our association in a new direction,” stated Tom Schneider, CPESC, IECA president. “IECA is looking to expand our value to our membership, develop an initiative to attract a younger audience and continue to expand our importance in bot...
Agile Frameworks CEO Bob Tuttle to Present at the Geoprofessional Business Association Fall Conference on Leveraging Field and Sensor Data to Drive New Revenue Opportunities
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Agile Frameworks®, the leading provider of collaborative, cloud-based corporate, field, and lab information management enabling Profitable Engineering® for the construction and engineering services sector, today announced that CEO Bob Tuttle will speak at the upcoming GBA Fall Conference 2018 on key strategies AEC firms can deploy to gain better insight into data to help drive new revenue streams. Tuttle will be joined by Todd Williams, senior managing director, Dillon K...
Arup Selected as Financial Advisor to Support Procurement Efforts for Los Angeles Street Civic Building
LOS ANGELES – The City of Los Angeles’ Bureau of Engineering (BOE) has selected Arup, a global consulting leader in the built environment, as its financial and procurement advisor for the procurement of the Los Angeles Street Civic Building. Arup will lead the development of the RFQ/P documents and will conduct financial analysis and market soundings for the City’s preferred DBFOM and DBF+OM delivery options. Arup will also assist BOE with the management of the procurement process, including ev...
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