Entries Open: 2020 North American Copper in Architecture Awards
(McLean, VA) ─ Entries are now open for the 2020 North American Copper in Architecture (NACIA) awards. Architects, designers, and sheet metal contractors are invited to submit their building projects for consideration through January 31, 2020. For over a decade, the NACIA program has been North America’s premier award program in the field of copper architecture, craftsmanship, and design. Since its launch in 2008, NACIA award-winning projects demonstrate a wide range of variety, including gov...
Alexa Mitchell Joins HDR as Highways & Roads BIM Director
OMAHA, Neb. — Continuing HDR’s national leadership in Building Information Modeling for infrastructure, Alexa Mitchell has been named HDR’s highways and roads BIM director. Mitchell will further bolster our capabilities as a trusted partner for our transportation clients, who are increasingly incorporating BIM into projects, including through the development of signed and sealed BIM deliverables. Based in our Phoenix, Arizona, office, Mitchell will provide strategic support and specialized te...
Registration Open for International Deep Mixing Conference June 15-18, Gdańsk, Poland
Hawthorne, N.J. (Jan. 6, 2019): Registration is open for Deep Mixing 2020 — Best Practice and Legacy being held June 15-18, 2020, in Gdańsk, Poland. DFI is hosting the conference in conjunction with leaders in the international deep mixing community. It is the 7th conference in a series on deep mixing. This year’s conference is aimed at defining the future of deep mixing and transferring the charge of advancing the industry to the next generation of practitioners. The technical program...
DFI-PFSF to Host Piling & Ground Improvement Conference in Australia, March 2020 Registration Open
Hawthorne, N.J. (Jan. 6, 2019): Registration is open for the 2nd DFI-PFSF Piling & Ground Improvement Conference taking place March 23-25, 2020, at International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney in Australia. This conference — being hosted by Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and Piling & Foundation Specialists Federation (PFSF) is intended to promote all aspects of the deep foundations, earth retention and ground improvement works. The technical program focuses on the following topics: De...
Siemens Utilizes Fugro’s UXO Screening Technology in Herne, Germany
Fugro has completed an unexploded ordnance (UXO) screening project for Siemens AG at the site of a new gas-fired power station in Herne, Germany. Over 1300 foundation pile locations were screened for UXO and cleared down to 15 m below ground level without affecting other site preparation activities. In Germany, any areas that suffered bombing during the Second World War must have a UXO site survey before construction can begin. Conventional survey methods involve drilling boreholes that creat...
Proposed Modifications to AASHTO Culvert Load Rating Specifications
Over the past decade, significant state and federal resources have been expended to develop a state‐of-the-art set of reliability‐based bridge design and load rating specifications, including Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) and Load and Resistance Factor Rating (LRFR). However, these design and rating methods were developed for larger bridge structures, and may result in overly conservative ratings when applied to buried culverts. Of the more than 600,000 records in the National Bridge...
BYD and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Make the Holidays Greener
Los Angeles, Ca. (12/23/2019) –Holiday travel is a lot greener this season atHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport(ATL)with theaddition of two BYD (Build Your Dreams) zero-emission buses. The two green technology, battery-electric K9M 40-foot busesare part of the airport’s fleet of “terminal-to-terminal” shuttles used to transport passengers between the international and domestic terminals,and from theinternational terminal to the RentalCar Center. “We applaud Hartsfield-Jackson...
CCFSS Extends Deadline for Specialty Conference Abstracts to January 15, 2020
The deadline for conference abstracts has been extended to January 15, 2020. Photo from CFSEI. ROLLA, MO – The Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures (CCFSS) at the Missouri University of Science and Technology has extended the deadline for abstracts in response to its call for papers for the biennial International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures. The new deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2020, with final papers due by April 3, 2020. The Inter...
South Dakota State University Students Move into New Apartment-Style Housing Development Designed by KWK Architects
St. Louis, MO, Dec - South Dakota State University upperclassmen and graduate students have a new apartment-style housing development in a prime location adjacent to campus to call home. Junior, senior and graduate students moved into a new $20 million, multi-building apartment/townhouse development this fall as part of the university’s Southeast University Neighborhood Redevelopment. The new apartment-style housing and adjacent Starbucks were designed by residential housing experts KWK Archi...
State Awards $18 Million for Transportation Economic Development Projects in Five Communities
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced awards for five state highway projects that will help support growing industry and businesses, leverage private funding and improve the transportation system for all users. The five projects will receive a total of $18 million as part of the state’s Transportation Economic Development Program. The Department of Employment and Economic Development has also awarded $2.86 million for three additional projects in Mankato, Sher...
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