Schlumberger's Water Management Division is Now Part of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has finalized the acquisition of Schlumberger’s industrial water consultancy business on August 1st 2016. The transaction, which was announced in mid-June, enables the company to provide water consulting services and project solutions to clients worldwide. "The industrial water consultancy team will bring an increased presence in the attractive global water market, more specifically, in the supply, management, control and environmental protection of water," comme...
HNTB Grows Architecture Practice to Accommodate New Projects
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 1, 2016 – HNTB Corporation’s architecture practice has added a significant number of new architects, representing approximately a 20 percent increase in the firm’s total architecture staff over the past fourteen months. Hires include senior and mid-level architects and designers, plus recent graduates and interns, most of whom are based in Kansas City, Missouri. By the end of 2016, HNTB’s architecture practice expects to grow by an additional 30 percent in Kansas City and...
HDR Expands Dam, Levees, Civil Works Practice with Addition of Three Key Hires
HDR has recently added three industry-recognized leaders to the dams, levees and civil works practice. They are Dan Osmun, national technical advisor for dam safety and risk, and Jeff Allen, national technical advisor for heavy civil construction, both based in HDR's Denver, Colorado, office; and Ed Zapel, senior hydraulics engineer, based in HDR's Seattle, Washington, office. Over the past 25 years, Osmun has worked as the lead geotechnical engineer and project manager for major dam design...
IoT Paves Its Way Into Commercial Construction
Have you ever sat in a meeting and suddenly wondered if you closed your garage door in the morning? It tends to leave you in a bit of a panic, making it difficult to concentrate on the task at hand. Those days are long gone since the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) – there seems to be an app for just about everything you do (and yes, there are several for garage door systems!). Over the past few decades our lives have slowly been transformed with technology and information, but tha...
Skanska Divests Skanska Installation to Assemblin for about SEK 225M
Skanska has signed an agreement to sell 100 percent of the share capital in Skanska Installation to Assemblin. The purchase price is about 225 million on a debt free basis. The transaction will not have any material result effect. The sale, which takes place after a strategic review, includes the entire Skanska Installation operations, all employees and assets. In 2015 Skanska Installation had about 830 employees. The revenue amounted to about SEK 1.5 billion. The sale is conditional on ap...
Atkins Chemical Engineer Quizzes MPs on Brexit and UK Science
Jack Melton, a graduate chemical engineer in Atkins’ Bristol office visited the Houses of Parliament to discuss ‘Science After the Referendum: What Next?’ at a Parliamentary Links Day. Parliamentary Links Day is an annual event organised by the Royal Society of Biology (RSB). It brings together UK science and engineering institutions and invited members with MP’s, to strengthen ties between the UK Government and the scientific community. Jack was one of seven chemical engineers chosen to r...
Skanska Adapts to the Current Market in Poland
Recent developments in the Polish construction market where Skanska is active has resulted in the notification of employees of redundancies within Skanska S.A. We have informed the union that a total of 1,150 employees in Poland could be affected in collective redundancies. The decision will not affect our Commercial Property or Residential Development units in Poland. "Poland is still a good and important market, but we are experiencing a shift in the market to larger projects and must ad...
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Named GEC for Extension of State Road 167 in Tacoma
SEATTLE, WA – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has awarded a contract to WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff to serve as general engineering consultant (GEC) on a planned extension of SR 167 in Tacoma. The project will provide a better freight connection between the Port of Tacoma and the Puyallup/White River Valley and also link industrial and urban centers. SR 167 will be extended four miles westward to connect with I-5, and then continue as the SR 509 spur an additional two...
Norton Rose Fulbright Launches Interactive PPP Risk Allocation Tool with GI Hub
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, working in partnership with the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), has produced a tool for governments and stakeholders in developing economies to assist in building a pipeline of viable public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects. The GI Hub is an organization established by the G20 group of nations to foster innovative approaches to global infrastructure development. The tool forms part of the GI Hub’s G20 commitment to deliver guida...
Jeff VanDyke Joins HNTB in Atlanta as Senior Project Manager
ATLANTA, July 28, 2016 – Jeff VanDyke joined HNTB Corporation as senior project manager. He is based in the firm’s Atlanta office. VanDyke has more than 30 years of comprehensive transportation experience, with 14 years in private-sector consultation and 16 years in the public sector at the Georgia Department of Transportation. In his new role, VanDyke serves as the primary point of contact for large projects in the Office of Innovative Delivery, and coordinates with GDOT to develop altern...
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