Environmental Compliance & Coastal Infrastructure Specialist Brenton Jenkins, PE, Joins Cardno's Baton Rouge Office
BATON ROUGE, LA - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Brenton Jenkins has joined the firm as a Project Engineer in the company’s Baton Rouge, LA, USA office. Brenton has more than five years of experience performing environmental project management, engineering and construction services, primarily for the oil and gas sector. His specific project management expertise includes due diligence, environmental compliance, and wetland support for a number of coastal infrastructure projec...
DealPoint Merrill Secures a $6.6 Million Construction Loan for Their Redevelopment Project in Cleveland, Ohio
LOS ANGELES- DealPoint Merrill has secured a $6.6 Million construction loan for the redevelopment phase of the Giant Eagle Shopping Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The redevelopment will focus on the renovation of the existing building structures, landscaping and additional 60,000 square feet of building. Reconstruction is underway and scheduled for a 1Q 2019 grand opening. DealPoint Merrill's executives, David Frank, CEO, negotiated the transaction, and Sterling McGregor, President, handled the d...
FARO® Introduces the ScanPlan™ Handheld Floor Mapper
Lake Mary, FL — FARO® (NASDAQ:FARO), the world’s most trusted source for 3D measurement and imaging solutions for public safety forensics and factory metrology, announces the availability of FARO® ScanPlan™ (www.faro.com/scanplan/sg), a solution for fast and easy mapping of floor plans. This next generation 2D handheld mapper is specifically designed to enhance the effectiveness of public safety professionals such as emergency responders, fire and crime scene investigators and security managers....
Boral Resources Acquires Natural Pozzolan Source for Fly Ash Blending
ATLANTA - Boral Resources has acquired 4.5 million tons of pozzolanic deposits located in central Utah that will be processed for blending with fly ash to extend supplies for Western states concrete markets. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed by Boral. Boral procured the natural pozzolans from an active mining company. The material is contained in large surface piles that are immediately accessible for excavation. "Extensive core drilling, testing and characterization...
Software Tool Could Help Architects Design Efficient Buildings
Typically, when architects or engineers design a new building, it’s only at the end of the process — if ever — that a lifecycle analysis of the building’s environmental impact is carried out. And by then, it may be too late to make significant changes. Now, a faster and easier system for doing such analyses could change all that, making the analysis an integral part of the design process from the beginning. The new process, described in the journal Building and Environment in a paper by MIT r...
REPORT: Energy Efficiency Employs 2.25 Million Americans
Energy efficiency jobs grew 3% in 2017 17 states have more than 50,000 energy efficiency workers; 25 have more than 30,000 Energy efficiency employs 2X as many Americans as fossil fuel industries WASHINGTON AND BOSTON – (September 6, 2018) – Energy efficiency added more new jobs than any other industry in the entire U.S. energy sector in 2017, and now employs nearly 2.25 million Americans, according to a new jobs analysis from E4TheFuture and the national, nonpartisan business grou...
Department of Energy Announces $80 Million Investment in Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 42 projects totaling $80 million to support advanced vehicle technologies that can enable more affordable mobility, strengthen domestic energy security, reduce our dependence on foreign sources of critical materials, and enhance U.S. economic growth. This work supports DOE’s goal to invest in early-stage research of transportation technologies that can give families and businesses greater choice in how they...
Governor Cuomo Announces New York to Invest $127.7 Million Volkswagen Settlement in Clean Vehicles
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced New York will utilize the $127.7 million received from the 2016 Volkswagen settlement to dramatically increase the number of electric vehicles and other clean vehicles in the state. Covered vehicles include new buses, trucks, locomotives, ferries, tug boats, and cargo handling equipment, as well as the availability of electric vehicle charging equipment statewide. At the Governor's direction, the state Department of Environmental Conservation in concert w...
Topcon Monitoring Systems Selected by Vibranalysis for LIRR Expansion Project
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Topcon Positioning Group announces New York-based Vibranalysis has selected Topcon Delta Solutions deformation monitoring systems for work on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Expansion Project. The $2 billion expansion is included in the $5.6 billion LIRR Project announced in 2017. Vibranalysis will utilize Topcon MS measuring stations, Delta Link controllers and Delta Watch software for the project, providing the ability to determine how the existing track and any adjac...
Solv3D Releases New Features within SiteVisit360™ Geospatial Collaboration Platform
CALGARY – September 6, 2018 – Solv3D Releases New Features within SiteVisit360™ Geospatial Collaboration Platform. Solv3D, a leading provider of 3D processing, geospatial data visualization and collaboration tools announced that a number of new features were currently released within SiteVisit360™, further enhancing the client’s experience and making it an even more efficient and effective tool in enabling visualization and collaboration of geospatial data across the enterprise. The first...