Gregory Lebo joins Stantec to lead Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Practice
WEST CHESTER, PA - NYSE, TSX:STN: Gregory Lebo has joined leading global design firm Stantec as a Senior Associate. Based in the firm’s West Chester office, he will be responsible for managing the design and delivery of large transportation projects, business and staff development, and fostering relationships with existing clients. Lebo brings 38 years of diverse transportation, business development, and multi-disciplinary team leadership experience, with a portfolio that spans the Mid-Atlant...
Flow Labs, Leading Transportation Artificial Intelligence Company, Joins #FREEtheMIBS Campaign
Predictive Traffic Control solution provider broadens the coalition’s membership and reach. SAN DIEGO, California – Flow Labs, a California-based transportation technology solution provider specializing in Predictive Traffic Control and cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI), is the #FREEtheMIBS campaign’s newest member. The announcement was made today by campaign founding partner, Tom Stiles. The company, whose core product automatically manages modifications in traffic signal timing, brin...
DuPont Water Solutions and Waterise Collaborate Toward Sustainable Subsea Desalination
Subsea Process, which Reduces Energy Requirements of Desalination by 40 percent, Requires Durable, Long-Lasting Membranes WILMINGTON, Del. – DuPont (NYSE:DD) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with Waterise to provide seawater reverse osmosis membranes and expertise to the company’s subsea desalination plants. Subsea reverse osmosis (RO) desalination presents a sustainable and more economical new way to turn seawater to freshwater. As subsea desalination leverage...
€200m European venture capital tech fund launched with a mission to de-carbonise cities
A new venture capital fund, 2150, has been launched to invest €200 million ($240 million) in start-up companies developing sustainable technologies to target the carbon footprint of cities. The advisory board for 2150, including former chief sustainability officer in the Obama administration and renowned urbanist and academic, Richard Florida, will review candidate firms working on everything from injecting carbon dioxide into concrete to monitoring energy use in buildings. Based across L...
Stantec expands its Federal and Commercial US Power and Dams practice with the addition of Kung Ven to lead the Southeast team
ALPHARETTA, GA TSX, NYSE:STN: Leading global design firm Stantec has enhanced its Power and Dams and Federal sector capabilities in the southeastern United States, adding veteran engineering director Kung Ven as regional sector leader. Ven brings extensive expertise supporting federal agencies, departments of defense, local government, and commercial entities, increasing the firm’s ability to serve its public and private clients throughout the region. Ven is an experienced engineering directo...
Bureau of Reclamation Partners with US Army Corps of Engineers and HeroX to Crowdsource Portable Devices for Field Assessment of Composite Structures
Reclamation to Award $380,000 for Innovative Solutions That Help Move Water Infrastructure into the 21st Century Washington, D.C. -- March 4, 2021 -- The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the nation’s largest wholesale water supplier, in partnership with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and HeroX, the leading crowdsourcing platform for solutions to global problems, today announced the crowdsourcing competition “The Imperfection Detection Challenge”. The challenge calls on the global...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Up to $448 Million Loan for the 183A Phase III, 183S, and 290E Phase III Road Projects in Austin
Refinancing Projected to Save Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority More Than $80 Million WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) has provided an up to $448.38 million consolidated Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority (CTRMA) for tollway projects in the Austin, Texas metropolitan area. This is the...
Caltrans Unveils Vision for Future of Transportation
California Transportation Plan 2050 details roadmap to innovative, sustainable, and integrated system over next three decades District: Headquarters Contact: Tamie McGowen Phone: (916) 416-8615 SACRAMENTO — Moving around California three decades from now will be safer, cleaner and simpler with more mobility options under a plan Caltrans unveiled today. The California Transportation Plan (CTP) 2050 details the state's long-range transportation vision and establishes a roadmap to improve...
HDR’s Cameron Schaefer Promoted to Transportation Data Acquisition & Reality Mesh Director
OMAHA, Neb. — Digital design expert and dedicated innovator Cameron Schaefer, P.E., has been promoted to HDR’s transportation data acquisition & reality mesh director. Schaefer will work in coordination with HDR’s corporate data acquisition program to develop and use unmanned aerial systems, artificial intelligence, light detection and ranging, geophysics, geomatics survey and reality mesh services for our clients’ most complex programs. (Mesh models can be used for visualizing projects in d...
Accelerating exploration for geothermal energy with UAV magnetometry conducted in North-Central Nevada
Reno, Nevada, USA; Riga, Latvia - Geophysics faculty and graduate students from the University of Nevada, Reno, announce new exploration for blind geothermal systems with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) magnetometry. The study site is located in the Humboldt Range, Nevada. By improving the margins of safety and ease of deployment, geophysicists can now conduct larger regional analysis for geothermal or mineralogical interests. Geothermal power is produced in many regions throughout the world a...