Tom Harjung Joins Stantec’s Transportation Practice
ATLANTA, GA, NYSE, TSX:STN: Leading global design firm Stantec has hired Tom Harjung as a Senior Project Manager in the Transportation practice. Joining the firm’s Atlanta office, he will be responsible for helping grow Stantec’s client base and services as well as project management leadership, technical design expertise, and exceptional project delivery. Harjung brings 30 years of professional experience, including five years at the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). With project...
Autodesk Acquires ProjectExplorer
On May 11, 2020, Autodesk announced the acquisition of ProjectExplorer for Autodesk® Civil 3D® (ProjectExplorer) from 3AM Solutions (UK) Limited, a UK-based privately-owned technology company. This product delivers easy to use, user-configurable report generator and design review tools into Civil 3D, enabling Civil 3D users to: simplify project data navigation, review, and model editing; more easily discover and evaluate design criteria warnings to help meet design standards; and, generate custo...
State Transportation Commission Adopts Updated 12-Year Transportation Program
Harrisburg, PA – The State Transportation Commission (STC) today updated the 12-Year Program. The new plan anticipates $64.8 billion being available over the next 12 years for improvements to roads, bridges, transit systems, airports and railroads. The 12-Year Program, or TYP, is a multimodal, fiscally-constrained planning tool used to identify and prioritize Pennsylvania's transportation projects and the funds needed to complete them. State law requires the STC to review and update the 12-Ye...
Skanska builds new water supply system in Oslo, Norway, for NOK 2.88 billion, about SEK 2.8 billion
Skanska has signed a contract with The Agency for Water and Wastewater Services in Oslo Municipality, Norway, for preparatory work in the project New Water Supply Oslo. The contract is worth about NOK 2.88 billion, about SEK 2.8 billion, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings the third quarter 2020. The project consists primarily blasting of rock chambers and three large tunnels with a total length of five kilometres. A total of 1.2 million cubic meters of solid rock masses will...
The Great Reopening: Architects and Engineers Help Schools Envision Safe Designs for COVID Era
K-12 schools now have a range of immediate, short-term, and future design options they can use to create safer buildings and still serve most of their regular student enrollment. New York – The most contentious debate of the COVID-19 era is unfolding this summer as elected officials, administrators, educators, parents, and students all grapple with how to safely open schools for the coming academic year. And schools are discovering that – alongside public health directives and revised cu...
DelDOT Office of Civil Rights Receives $75,000 Grant
The Delaware Department of Transportation's (DelDOT) Office of Civil Rights is pleased to announce the recent award from the Delaware Department of Labor - Division of Employment Award in the amount of $75,000 for the implementation of the TRAIN Program (Today's Reinvestment Around Industry Needs). The program will be administered as a collaborative effort between DelDOT, FHWA Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Delaware Contractors Association (DCA), DiSabatino Construction, Buccini/Polli...
Seattle Department of Transportation passes critical Federal milestone to move forward with Madison Bus Rapid Transit – RapidRide G Line Project
We’ve passed an important milestone with the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) moving the Madison Bus Rapid Transit (Madison BRT) project, also known as the RapidRide G Line, forward in the Small Starts Grant review process. A draft report released by the FTA this month determined SDOT has the resources, skills, capacity, and sound plan necessary to move forward with the Madison Bus Rapid Transit Project . Read more about this important project on our website. The...
MHTC Selects Team to Deliver $21.3 Million Bootheel Bridge Bundle Project
Robertson Contractors Team to Improve Bridges Across Southeast Missouri SIKESTON – Southeast Missouri travelers can soon expect to see more than 15 bridge improvement projects coming to fruition through the Bootheel Bridge Bundle design-build project. During today’s Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission meeting, the Robertson Contractors Team, headquartered in Poplar Bluff, Missouri was selected to design and construct the $21.3 million project. The Robertson Contractor...
Milwaukee Tool Integrates One-Key™ with Autodesk BIM 360®
MILWAUKEE, WI - Milwaukee Tool is proud to announce that their One-Key™ digital platform now integrates with Autodesk Construction Cloud™’s BIM 360® construction management software, enabling customers to seamlessly share information between the two solutions and enhance asset tracking, project management, and reporting. As the industry’s largest and most robust asset management platform and tracking network, One-Key™ incorporates industry-leading tool electronics with a custom-built, cloud-b...
Seiler Design Solutions Announces Partnership with PointCab
LOUIS, Missouri, 13 August 2020 - Seiler Design Solutions, a leading provider of scan-to-BIM products and services, today announced a partnership with PointCab out of Stuttgart, Germany. The new agreement adds the easy-to-use PointCab point cloud processing software to Seiler’s robust offering of solutions for the Geospatial and AEC (Architecture Engineering Construction) industries. “The Seiler product catalog is designed to provide the full scan-to-BIM workflow. We distribute laser scanners...