Arcadis Selected to Join Team to Design for Resiliency in San Francisco Bay
San Francisco – Arcadis, the leading global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets, announced today its selection as part of a team to participate in Resilient by Design’s Bay Area Challenge in San Francisco. Arcadis will join a team of engineers, architects, designers and other local and international experts to address sea level rise and storm flooding in San Francisco’s Bay Area over the next year. The team, called Public Sediment, is a multidisciplinary design team that...
Vectorworks Releases Version 2018 and Entertainment Rigging Analysis Module
Columbia, MD (September 12, 2017)—Global design and BIM software developer Vectorworks, Inc. announces the English-version release of its 2018 Vectorworks software. The release includes Vectorworks® Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Designer and Fundamentals, as well as Vision. New this year is Braceworks™, a structural load analysis add-on module targeted to designers and riggers working on temporary entertainment structures. “With Vectorworks 2018, we focused on user workflows, making them mo...
Hexagon Receives Recognition from Huawei for Safe City Solution
Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, received the “Best Developer Partner Award” and the “Business Win-Win Award” at Huawei Connect 2017 this week. This expo and forum brings together global IT leaders with the industries Huawei serves. With most of the world’s population living in cities, Hexagon and Huawei have collaborated on the first end-to-end Safe City solution. He...
BioPouch Powered by a NANO-VpCI- Breakthrough in Green Corrosion Protection Technology
Cortec® Corporation, a world leader in innovative, green, sustainable technologies presents the latest advancement in environmentally safe corrosion protection - BioPouchTM. This brand new, revolutionary “green” Vapor phase Corrosion Inhibitor is aimed for protection of metal parts in a non-ventilating space. BioPouch is powered by newest NANO VpCI® technology, primarily made from agricultural by-products. NANO-VpCI®'s emit from the pouch and saturate the enclosure via diffusion, filling all voi...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $500 Million Funding Opportunity through TIGER Program
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced the opportunity for state and local stakeholders to apply for $500 million in discretionary grant funding through the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. “The TIGER grant program is a highly competitive program whose winners will be awarded with the funding they need to rebuild the infrastructure of their communities,” said Secretary Elaine L. Chao. “TIGER grants will continue to fund innova...
Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, Partners with NVIDIA to Enhance AI for Robotic Inspection and Automated Defect Recognition
Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, is partnering with NVIDIA to use some of the latest advances in artificial intelligence computing to optimize the use of robotics for inspection and better detect defects on industrial assets with advanced data analytics. Avitas Systems can target specific points of inspection and develop paths to collect data in the form of images and video for a variety of robotics, including drones, robotic crawlers, and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). These paths, driven...
Virtual Reality, Fabrication and Other Capabilities Come to Autodesk’s AEC Collection at No Additional Cost
Tools that extend Revit models for virtual reality, fabrication, computational design, and analysis support BIM processes from planning and design through preconstruction. By Vikram Dutt, Sr. Director, Building Business Line We have some exciting news for our Architecture, Engineering and Construction Collection subscribers. Starting today, we’ve made some significant additions to the AEC Collection software portfolio that support the next generation of BIM—and Revit-based—workflows...
Atlas Copco Acquires U.S. Industrial Products Distributor
Stockholm, Sweden, September 7, 2017: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has acquired the operating assets of C.H. Spencer & Company Co., a U.S. distributor and service provider of industrial pumps, compressors and related products. C.H. Spencer is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and also operates in the states of Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho in the central United States. The business is focused on distribution and service of industrial pumps, compressors and...
New Leadership Team Brings Capital to Fuel Growth and Drive Innovation for Building Systems Design (BSD)
ATLANTA – Building Systems Design (BSD), a leading provider of specification content for the architecture, engineering, construction and owner-operated (AECO) sector, announced today that two well-respected and highly experienced industry experts, Arol Wolford and Iain Melville, have joined the company and closed an investment from Caltius Structured Capital. BSD will continue to lead the built tech industry toward more accurate, collaborative and efficient design and construction through innova...
Williams, Formerly of Maryland DOT, Takes Deputy Administrator Position at FTA
The Trump administration announced Aug. 29 that former Maryland transit official K. Jane Williams is now deputy administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, an appointed position that makes her the agency's chief executive until a new CEO can take office. President Trump has not yet named his choice to be the FTA administrator, a position that requires Senate confirmation. The FTA provides financial and technical assistance to more than 3,000 local public transit providers In U....
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