Gannett Fleming Names Tulumello as Northeast Region Facilities Business Line Leader
(Harrisburg, Pa.): Giuseppe (Joe) Tulumello, AIA, LEED® Green Associate, has been named leader of Gannett Fleming’s Northeast Region Facilities Business Line. In this role, Tulumello will oversee business strategy and planning, project delivery, and operational growth of Gannett Fleming’s facilities practice across Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.“There are tremendous opportunities in the northeast facilities markets, including tr...
Longest HDD Saves Miami Sewer Line - Wins Industry Honor
IRVING, Texas - The longest horizontal directional drilled (HDD) installation of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe in the United States and Canada was recognized as Project of the Year by the Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI). The award was presented to PPI member company, ISCO Industries (Louisville, KY), at the association's annual membership meeting in May 2017. PPI is the major North American trade association representing all segments of the plastic pipe industry, "Not only was...
Joe North Joins HNTB in Tallahassee as Senior GIS Analyst
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Joe North joined HNTB Corporation as senior geographic information systems analyst, based in the firm’s growing Tallahassee office. He is responsible for providing direction to HNTB’s West Florida team on the most effective GIS technology to improve the project life-cycle process, from planning to design, construction, maintenance, and most recently, to emergency management pre-event planning and post-event recovery. North has more than 20 years of experience in geospatial...
APTA Board Chooses Skoutelas as Transit Group’s Next CEO
The board of the American Public Transportation Association said it has chosen transit industry veteran Paul Skoutelas to become its new president and CEO effective Jan. 8. Skoutelas, who currently resides in Pittsburgh, will relocate to Washington, D.C., where the association is based, APTA said. "Skoutelas has been a highly successful and respected national leader in the public transportation industry for more than 40 years," the announcement said. It noted that he has headed transit sys...
FRA, FTA Award $197M to Positive Train Control Projects in 13 States
Two federal agencies recently awarded $197 million in grants to state departments of transportation, transit agencies and commuter rail lines to help them deploy crash-avoiding "positive train control" systems. Those systems use a combination of technology that include trackside signals, antennas connecting trains with global positioning satellites and distant dispatch centers, and gear inside the locomotive that can take control of a train's braking under certain circumstances to help preven...
Gov. Cuomo Taps Consultant Karas to Head NYSDOT
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he has appointed infrastructure consultant and former Chicago public works commissioner Paul Karas to be commissioner of the state Department of Transportation. In the same personnel announcement, Cuomo also said he appointed Cathy Calhoun, who had been acting NYSDOT commissioner since August, to serve as director of state operations. The governor said that Karas most recently worked for four years as vice president and manager of RS&H Inc., a tra...
Gov. Hickenlooper Names Lewis CEO of Colorado DOT as Bhatt Leaves for ITSA
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper named Michael Lewis to take over as executive director at the state Department of Transportation, as agency CEO Shailen Bhatt exits to head the Washington, D.C.-based trade association Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Lewis has been CDOT's deputy executive director and chief operating officer since 2015, and was formerly director of the Rhode Island DOT from 2008 until early 2015. He had also been president in 2012-13 of the American Associ...
Jubran Whalan Joins Constant Energy Capital Management LLC as Managing Director
(Portland, ME ) – Constant Energy Capital, a distributed energy and power-focused private investment firm, today announced that Jubran Whalan has joined the firm as Managing Director. From 2011 to 2017, Mr. Whalan was Managing Director at BP where he served as Managing Director, Global Structured Products. Catherine York Powers, CEO of Constant Energy Capital said, “Jubran Whalan is among the most knowledgeable and experienced leaders in the global energy and power industries today. Over his...
NJDOT & DEP Announce $9.5 Million Grant Program to Improve Air Quality through Projects Reducing Mobile-Source Emissions
(Trenton) – The Christie Administration today marked the state’s continued success in improving air quality in New Jersey by announcing a partnership between the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) and the Department of Environmental Protection to fund three new air-quality enhancement projects targeting mobile sources of pollutants. The two agencies are working with regional transportation planning agencies to use $9.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Transport...
Federal Agencies Celebrate Groundbreaking for U.S. Courthouse in Saipan
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands -- The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands today joined the Marianas Management Corporation at a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction for a new U.S. Courthouse in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The new courthouse is the result of a 20-year lease construct arrangement between the federal government and Marianas Management Corporation. The three-stor...
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