Ground-breaking of flexible 90MW Wärtsilä combined heat and power plant for public utility in Dresden
A ground-breaking ceremony for the combined heat and power plant to be engineered, procured and constructed by Wärtsilä in Dresden-Reick, Germany, took place on 22 April 2020. Image courtesy of DREWAG A ground-breaking ceremony for the combined heat and power (CHP) plant to be engineered, procured and constructed by Wärtsilä in Dresden-Reick, Germany, took place on 22 April. Commissioned by the local public utility DREWAG to secure reliable energy supply while increasing the share of ren...
Jenny Manansala Joins Stantec’s Growing Hawaii Buildings Design Team
Honolulu, HI - NYSE, TSX:STN - Jenny Manansala, IIDA, LEED AP, has joined Stantec—a global integrated design firm—as senior interior designer for its Buildings team in Honolulu. With more than 20 years of experience focusing on healthcare and commercial interiors, Manansala joins the firm’s growing Hawaii design team. The addition of Manansala enhances Stantec’s architectural and interior design expertise in Hawaii. With staff on Oahu and neighboring islands, Stantec is involved with the desi...
New in Skyward: Risk Assessment for Safer Drone Operations
Every aviation operation wants to maintain a low risk profile, and corporate drone programs are no exception. But tracking and recording risk across distributed teams flying dozens of missions is a big challenge. That’s where Skyward’s Aviation Management Platform comes in. We help you manage all your drone flights, personnel, aircraft, and more. And with our brand new risk assessment tool, we’re helping drone program managers proactively identify and document critical risks to an operation....
Providing Positive Environmental Impacts in the Phoenix Community
The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure recently awarded the Stage 2 of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport Sky Train (PHX Sky Train®) project team with the Envision Gold Award for sustainability. Gannett Fleming is the lead designer for this project, and this is the first-ever Envision Gold Award win for the firm. Gannett Fleming Project Wins ISI Envision Gold Award (Phoenix) Increasing service reliability. Encouraging travelers to use more sustainable modes of transporta...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces More Than $22 Million in Grants to Restore and Enhance Intercity Passenger Rail Network
U.S Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 www.transportation.gov/briefingroom News WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced more than $22 million in grant funding to three projects that collectively span eight states. Funding is provided through FRA’s Restoration and Enhancement (R&E) Grants Program to initiate, restore, or enhance intercity passenger rail service...
REC Solar and DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express announce completion of solar microgrid project
Completion of first project phase provides reliability, savings and more to leading Hawaiian-based freight hauler New microgrid system combines solar and battery storage for a zero-emissions energy system with a backup power supply CHARLOTTE, N.C. –Today, DHX – Dependable Hawaiian Express (DHX)– and REC Solar, an unregulated affiliate of Duke Energy, announce the completion of a solar microgrid solution designed to bring reliability, savings, zero-emissions generation and more to the le...
U.S. Department of Labor Issues Guidance for Respiratory Protection During N95 Shortage Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued interim enforcement guidance to help combat supply shortages of disposable N95 filtering face piece respirators (N95 FFRs). The action marks the department’s latest step to ensure the availability of respirators and follows President Donald J. Trump’s Memorandum on Making General Use Respirators Available. Due to the impact on workplace conditions caused by limited supplies of N95 F...
New in Skyward: Live Flight Tracking for Drone Operations
Over the last few months, Skyward has been hard at work on the latest developments in our Aviation Management Platform. Today, I’m excited to announce a brand new feature to support program oversight and risk mitigation: Live Flights. With today’s release, you can monitor your drone flights anywhere you have connectivity: from the office, the field, or even at home. Live Flights also serves as a foundation for Skyward’s implementation of Remote ID. You can learn more about Live Flights and ot...
Coast-to-Coast U.S. Coverage Now Deployed for Trimble’s CenterPoint RTX Fast Correction Service
Trimble’s CenterPoint RTX U.S. and Canada coverage map One-Inch GNSS Accuracy in Under a Minute, Delivering Seamless High-Precision Performance Across the U.S. and Southern Canada SUNNYVALE, Calif. —Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the completion of the breakthrough expansion of its CenterPoint® RTX Fast correction service, with coverage now spanning the contiguous U.S. and southern Canada. This expansion is central to Trimble’s vision to transform how and where users can l...
Microvi MNE Outperforms Established Tertiary Ammonia Removal Process at Thames Water Wastewater Treatment Plant
Thames Water Utilities Ltd. and Microvi Biotechnologies completed a collaborative 9-month trial demonstrating Microvi's novel wastewater treatment, Microvi MNE™ (MNE). The fully automated MNE demonstration plant was configured as a tertiary nitrification system for ammonia removal. Operating between 5-22 degrees Celsius, MNE consistently removed ammonia from wastewater during continuous operation outperforming the ammonia removal rates of the existing nitrifying sand filters. MNE showed resi...