Many New Resources to Help Los Angeles Shape an Equitable Vision for its Urban Forest
LOS ANGELES, CA — The City of Los Angeles has recently received a bounty of resources to help complete the City's tree inventory and Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP). With budget cuts looming for the coming fiscal year, these extra resources - including a $1.5 Million CalFire grant, a visiting scholar, tree donations and repurposing of an existing contract - could not have come at a better time for LA's urban forest. Together these new resources create a unique and remarkable opportunity to r...
ACI Foundation is Now Accepting Fellowship and Scholarship Applications
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – The ACI Foundation announces that applications are now being accepted from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2021-2022 academic year. Three new fellowships and one new undergraduate scholarship have been added to the program. Additionally, the ACI Middle East Fellowship has been re-named as the ACI Middle East & North Africa Fellowship and is available to students studying in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordon, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi...
DelDOT Announces Opening of New Christina River Bridge and Approach Roads at Wilmington Riverfront
The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces that the new Christina River Bridge and approach roads at the Wilmington Riverfront has opened to pedestrian, bicycle, and motor vehicle traffic as of 2:00pm today. The new access roads and bridge improve multimodal traffic flow around the Wilmington Riverfront and provides direct access to Route 13 and the southeastern side of Wilmington. The nearly $50 million project, which broke ground in June 2017, includes a 470-foot multi-mod...
Project ASLAN steers a new course for autonomous urban mobility
Unprecedented international collaboration to accelerate the commercial viability of autonomous vehicles in cities with the launch of a fully-functional open-source self-driving platform Global not-for-profit open-source collaboration with founders from Australia, Asia-Pacific and Europe The project announces ‘go live’ on a completely free and rapidly deployable open-source self-driving software stack for urban low-speed autonomy Project ASLAN invites additional capability to supp...
GSSI Announces Marc Lussier as New VP of Operations
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc Lussier as Vice President of Operations. In his new role Marc will lead GSSI’s initiative to build production capacity to meet the growing global demand for their products, while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction, quality and profitability. “It is with great pleasure that I join GSSI and I’m excited to be part of an organization renowned for its tec...
R&R Engineers - Surveyors, Inc. Adds New Controller to Team
Denver, Colo. - R&R Engineers - Surveyors, Inc., a Denver-based land survey and civil engineering firm operating primarily in the Rocky Mountain Region, announces that Timothy Rees is R&R's new Controller. Rees' duties at R&R include: Responsibility for leading the company's financial reporting; Cost accounting, budget management, A/R, A/P, and forecasting; Growing the overall competence of those involved in financial reporting and analysis; Effectively communicating res...
Revit Software Users Can Now Link PDF and Microsoft Word Documents to Revit Files Thanks to Ideate Sticky
San Francisco, CA – Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member, announced that recent updates to Ideate Sticky include one of the features most requested by Autodesk Revit software users. “As a developer of software that streamlines Revit workflows, we closely monitor the Autodesk Ideas Forum to identify Revit challenges we can address through our productivity tools,” said Glynnis Patterson, Director of Software Development. “We heard loud and clear that Revit users wanted t...
Melissa Elliott of Colorado takes gavel as AWWA president
Melissa Elliott of Greenwood Village, Colo., began her one-year term as president of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) today during a live-streamed gavel passing ceremony hosted at AWWA’s Denver headquarters. Today’s ceremony is available to view online. The Presidential Gavel Passing Ceremony usually takes place at AWWA’s Annual Conference and Exposition, but it was conducted virtually this year after the conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Elliott is director...
Stantec-XL Construction Design-Build Team to Deliver New UC Davis Health Administrative Building
Rancho Cordova, CA - Global integrated design firm Stantec and Northern California based General Contractor XL Construction have been selected by UC Davis Health to lead the forward-looking design and construction of new administrative office spaces that will comprise another well-planned facility in the University’s portfolio. The space will house members from the University’s executive leadership team, as well as employees in the Finance, Human Resources, Revenue, and IT sectors. The project a...
Terra Inspectioneering’s UT drones to aid Vopak
Bruinisse, The Netherlands – June 30, 2020 – Terra Inspectioneering, a group company of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has been awarded a confined space inspection contract for the Netherlands and Belgium by Dutch multinational tank storage company Vopak. Under the contract, Terra Inspectioneering will provide non-entry visual testing, ultrasonic thickness testing, and deformation analysis services to Vopak using the proprietary collision-proof Terra UT drone. The drone inspection servi...