FTA Funding to Help Chicago Rebuild for the 21st Century
At the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), our mission often involves bringing brand-new trains, buses, and infrastructure to communities looking to create a new transit system or expand a current one. However, a growing issue nationwide is a backlog of important repair and reconstruction work to revamp older public transportation systems expand capacity and accommodate growing ridership. That’s the thinking behind the Core Capacity program, which was added to FTA’s portfolio of Capital Inv...
Tetra Tech Announces Planned Dates for First Quarter 2017 Results and Conference Call
PASADENA, Calif.- Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today the planned dates for its first quarter 2017 results and conference call. On Wednesday, February 1, 2017, after market close, Tetra Tech intends to announce its first quarter 2017 results. On Thursday, February 2, 2017, at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Tetra Tech plans to host a conference call to further present and discuss the Company’s financial results and forward outlook. Investors and other interested parties can access a live...
“First Class Meal” Student Team Secures Top Prize in AECOM and Van Alen Institute’s Latest “Urban SOS” Competition for Imagining New Roles for the U.S. Postal Service in Addressing Los Angeles’ Food Deserts
LOS ANGELES — AECOM and Van Alen Institute, with 100 Resilient Cities — Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation, today announced the winner of the Urban SOS: Fair Share student competition, which challenged multidisciplinary student teams around the world to explore the nexus of the sharing economy and urban infrastructure to solve our cities’ most urgent issues. The winning team, students at Washington University in St. Louis, proposed reusing United States Postal Service (USPS) post office...
Woolpert Signs 6-year Deal to Map Maine
BANGOR, Maine — Woolpert has signed a contract to collect high-resolution, four-band orthoimagery throughout the state of Maine. The six-year deal, which has a three-year initial term and a three-year renewal option, has an estimated value of $1.7 million. The imagery will be used by the Maine GeoLibrary to maintain its mission to provide geospatial data products to all levels of government, the University of Maine, and private and nonprofit businesses. These up-to-date, digitally accessi...
Cortec Corporation Awarded 63rd Patent in 40 Years of Business!
Cortec® Corporation is pleased to announce the formal patenting of its CorroLogic Filler! US Patent #9,518,328 was granted to Cortec Corporation on December 13, 2016, in recognition of the novelty of CorroLogic VpCI Filler. This is the 63rd patent that has been awarded to Cortec Corporation since its founding almost 40 years ago in late 1977. It is yet another example of the innovative solutions Cortec creates to fit the specific needs of its customers. CorroLogic® VpCI® Filler was designed...
Miyamoto Thought Leaders at Global Earthquake Engineering Conference
SANTIAGO, CHILE – From the seismic protection of one of Michelangelo’s most famous statues to new technical studies on the performance of pagodas, heritage cathedrals and high-rises in large earthquakes, Miyamoto International will present no fewer than six technical papers by its PhDs and structural engineers at the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering that began Monday. Held only once every four years, the conference, this one in Santiago, Chile, will host 3,000 of the world’s to...
Open Source Tool Will Help Drive Emission Reduction
A new research project seeks to develop a tool to identify and reduce carbon in the construction supply chain. The project is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh Business School and Costain Group and is funded by the Construction Climate Challenge (CCC) initiative hosted by Volvo Construction Equipment. The Carbon Infrastructure Transformation Tool project (CITT) started from the need to solve two key problems facing the construction industry - the pressing need to reduce GHG...
New Technology by Michael Baker International Empowers City of Richmond to Visualize Change and Establish a More Connected Transit System
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, is helping residents and city officials in Richmond, Va., rethink the design of the Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC) bus system and establish a more connected transit network through the innovative use of technology. To assist the community in visualizing various transit options and to identify a more effective system, Michael Baker planning experts developed a unique Geographic Information Syst...
Hanes Geo Components Announces Acquisition of Terrafix
Hanes Geo Components, of Winston Salem, NC, announces they have reached an agreement to acquire Terrafix of Toronto, Canada. John Dowdell, President of Hanes Geo Components, commented that “Terrafix is a clear leader within the Canadian market in the distribution of geosynthetic products. Their expertise in manufacturing of geosynthetic clay liners and their experience in liner installations offer important market expansion opportunities to the Hanes family of companies. We are delighted to welc...
CH2M Experts Share Remediation Management and Contaminated Sediment Strategies at Battelle Remediation Conference
Industry-leading experts and practitioners from CH2M will share insights, experience and best practices in remediation management and contaminated sediments at the Ninth International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments January 9-12, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Recognized remediation industry leaders William DiGuiseppi (Emerging Contaminants/PFOAs) and George Hicks (Sediment Remediation and Management) will lead a CH2M team of technical experts and practitio...
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