ARTBA Foundation Announces Key 2018 Scholarship, Awards & Recognition Program Deadlines
(WASHINGTON) - The American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) has announced key deadlines for its 2018 scholarship, awards and recognition programs. They include: Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship Program Established in 1999, this first-of-its-kind scholarship fund provides post-high school financial assistance to the children of highway workers killed or permanently disabled on the job. More than 125 scholarships h...
Congress Extends Past-Year Government Funding Levels Two Weeks to Dec. 22
The House and Senate voted Dec. 7 to extend fiscal 2017 appropriations levels another two week to Dec. 22, avoiding a potential shutdown but preventing federal programs including those for highway projects tap into higher authorized levels for the fiscal 2018 that began Oct. 1. The House approved the "continuing resolution" in a 235-193 vote, and the Senate followed by approving the measure 81-14. The votes came one day before a temporary funding measure was due to expire, and agencies were r...
Acrow Bridge Recognized by Department of Commerce for ‘Export Achievement’
(Parsippany, New Jersey) – 12 December, 2017 – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, today noted that Sandra Montoya, Acrow’s international sales coordinator, accepted on behalf of the company the Export Achievement Certificate from the U.S. Commercial Service, the trade promotion arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. The award was presented to Montoya by Brian Beams, senior international trade specialist for the De...
SCIA Engineer 17.1 – A Productivity Booster for Structural Engineers, Enhanced by User Feedback
Herk-de-Stad, Belgium – Tuesday, December 12, 2017 – Today, SCIA announced the release of SCIA Engineer 17.1. The new version of the structural analysis and design software extends the functionalities introduced in SCIA Engineer 17 (released in June 2017), which was designed to help structural engineers boost their productivity in their day-to-day work. Version 17.1 delivers a number of enhancements in the areas of concrete design, BIM, loading and overall usability. The version also features...
Michael Baker International Strengthens Operations in Houston, Texas, with Appointment of Cory Wilder as Office Executive
Houston – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that Cory Wilder has been appointed to Senior Vice President and Office Executive of the Houston, Texas, office. To meet the increased infrastructure demands throughout the state of Texas, Mr. Wilder will position the Houston office for growth by leveraging his extensive background in oil and gas as well as his diverse experience in other areas, such as highways. With...
Woolpert to Design $13M SkyWheel Newport Project at Newport on the Levee
NEWPORT, Ky. - Woolpert has been contracted by St. Louis-based SkyWheel Attractions and Koch Development to provide survey, civil and structural engineering for the $13 million SkyWheel Newport at Newport on the Levee. SkyWheel Newport will be approximately 235 feet above the Ohio River, or roughly 20 stories high, with 30 gondolas that hold six passengers each. It will be built north of the Newport Aquarium and Mitchell’s Fish Market in the Newport Festival Park area, between the Taylor Sout...
Stantec Named Technical Advisor for Metrolinx’s Bowmanville Rail Expansion
Global design firm Stantec, along with our partner, Amec Foster Wheeler, has been awarded a contract to provide technical advisory, design, and construction support services for Metrolinx’s Bowmanville Rail Expansion project. This commuter rail expansion project will provide infrastructure improvements to accommodate a 20 km extension of Metrolinx’s GO Transit service along their Lakeshore East rail corridor, from Oshawa to Bowmanville. “The Bowmanville rail expansion represents an exciting i...
CH2M Awards $1 Million for Endowed Professorship to Oregon State University
DENVER - CH2M has made a $1 million gift for one endowed professorship in OSU's College of Engineering. The endowment honors CH2M's founders and their roots at OSU while investing in the future workforce promoting science, technology, engineering and math education. "Our strong ties with CH2M are seen all over our campus, at Merryfield Hall, the CH2M HILL Alumni Center and the CH2M HILL Auditorium in Kearney Hall," said Scott Ashford, Kearney Professor and dean of OSU's College of Engineering...
Bechtel Names Project Director for Construction and Startup of World’s Most Complex Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant
Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, construction, and project management, today announced that Brian Reilly, a 35+ year veteran of nuclear construction, will become the next project director for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Reilly will guide completion, startup, and commissioning of WTP’s first phase: the seven-story, sports arena-sized Low Activity Waste Facility and its associated sup...
Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC) Selects Jacobs for Front-End Engineering Design for Greenfield Petrochemical Facility in Alberta
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) has been awarded a contract by Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a proposed greenfield, integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada. CKPC is a joint venture of Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) of Canada and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait. “Jacobs’ strength in front end project delivery, combin...
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