White House, Senate Panel Advance USDOT Nominations
President Trump announced his nominee to become general counsel at the U.S. Department of Transportation, while the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee advanced nominees for a senior USDOT post and to fill a seat on the National Transportation Safety Board. The president named attorney Steven Bradbury to be the USDOT's general counsel, and said that from 2005 to 2009 he headed the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. Bradbury is currently a litigation par...
Oklahoma Legislature Cuts DOT Budget Less Than Planned
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation will have to absorb a spending cut of more than $150 million as a result of the Legislature's budget actions, but ODOT Executive Director Mike Patterson said that cut is about $100 million less than lawmakers had initially proposed. Legislators tapped the ODOT funding to help close a projected $878 million deficit in the state's overall budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. Patterson told the state Transportation Commission June 5 that his...
Energy Infrastructure Expert, Darren Bishop, PWS, Joins Cardno's Tampa Office
Tampa, FL (June 13, 2017) -- Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Darren Bishop, PWS, has joined the firm as a senior consultant in the company’s Tampa, FL, USA office. Darren has more than 15 years of experience managing and implementing science-based studies and offering planning, permitting, technical report preparation, and construction support skills on complex, multi-year projects. He has managed projects in multiple disciplines throughout the United States as well as in Mexic...
Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure Launches Incident Command System Application
Huntsville, Alabama, June 13, 2017 – Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has launched Intergraph® Planning & Response, an application for managing major incidents and events. The system integrates and coordinates resources, procedures and communications during large-scale emergencies, natural disasters, festivals, sporting events and more. It supports individual or multiple agencies and works across jurisdictions and tiers of command. Formerly a regional Hexagon product, Intergraph Planning & Res...
Sunnova Raises nearly $1 Billion Based on Strength of Business Approach
HOUSTON, June 13, 2017 — Sunnova Energy Corporation, a leading residential solar service provider in the U.S., announced today it has raised aggregate capital of nearly $1 billion in the past three months after closing a $140 million round of debt funding with CIT Group and other investors this past week. The amount raised in such a short amount of time, all while increasing customers' and investors' faith in the business, is further proof that Sunnova's innovative approach is driving solar i...
Transportation Construction Coalition Statement on Graves-Norton Highway Trust Fund Letter
(WASHINGTON)—The Transportation Construction Coalition commends the 253 bipartisan members of the House of Representative who joined together to advocate for a long-term solution to the Highway Trust Fund’s structural revenue deficit. 119 Republicans and 134 Democrats—a majority of each party’s membership in the chamber—signed a June 12 letter, led by House Highways & Transit Subcommittee Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Ranking Member Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-D.C.), to House Ways and Means...
Aircuity Announces its Airside Efficiency Platform to Improve Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality
NEWTON, Mass., USA – Aircuity, maker of smart automated airside solutions, announces that its airside efficiency platform has been included in a major retrofit project by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The NRC’s building in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is utilizing two Aircuity Sensor Suites (SSTs) in its laboratory spaces and one SST for exhaust fan control. “Over the last decade, airside efficiency has proved to be the biggest single energy efficiency conservation measure av...
RIGOL Expands Portfolio of Power Analysis Solutions with New DL3000 Programmable DC Electronic Load
Beaverton, OR - RIGOL Technologies, Inc. announces an expansion of its Power Analysis test portfolio. The new DL3000 Series of DC Electronic Loads gives engineers evaluating power, optimizing power efficiency, and maximizing battery life a new powerful and affordable solution to quickly determine their power needs, debug their designs, and reduce their time to market. Starting at just $499, the DL3000 DC Loads can draw max power up to 350W, 150V, and 60A providing the baseline performance...
MARS Launches New Water Meter Test Bench Technology and Feature Enhancements
OCALA, Fla.- MARS Company, global leader in water meter testing and technology solutions, announced today that it has launched new water meter test bench technology and feature enhancements that provide unique abilities with regard to meter testing performance, form factor and application. Patented, Ultra-Low Flow Water Meter Testing and Accuracy Measurement – Optional Feature MARS Company announces that it has optimized the design of a patented, test bench meter adapter to assist in acc...
First in France: A Commercial Drone Successfully Completes a BVLOS Flight of 30 Miles via 3G Cell Network
Today at 11:00 a.m., RTE and Delair-Tech set a new distance record when they flew a civilian drone 30 miles (50 kilometers). This official purpose of the flight, which took place in France, was to inspect by remote camera RTE’s power lines as well as recording data that would allow it to build models of its European power grid. Pioneer in BVLOS technology, Delair-Tech drones are fit to travel long distance. With this 30 miles long UAV flight, Delair-Tech continues to demonstrate its cap...
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