USDOT Unveils $900M BUILD Grant NOFO
The U.S. Department of Transportation published a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register on April 18 for $900 million worth of fiscal year 2019 Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development or BUILD transportation grants. [Above photo by the Ohio Department of Transportation.] The agency said funds for the FY 2019 BUILD Transportation grants program – which underwent a name change in 2018 – will be awarded on a competitive basis for surface transportati...
Jacobs to Acquire KeyW, Capturing Leading Position in Multi Billion Dollar Space-Intelligence Market and the High Growth C5ISR Sector
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE: JEC) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Jacobs will acquire KeyW for $11.25 per share in cash. The transaction has an enterprise value, net of tax assets, of approximately $815 million, including an estimated $272 million of KeyW net debt. The transaction value represents an enterprise value-to-expected 2020 adjusted EBITDA multiple of approximately 10x, assuming full run-rate cost synergies of $15 million. This t...
Infrastructure Fix and Plastics Recycling Go Hand-In-Hand Industry Executives Tell Congress
During the Plastics Industry’s DC Fly-In event, March 26 -27, Dan Currence (left) and Tony Radoszewski (right) of the Plastics Pipe Institute met with members of Congress including Daniel Webster (R) from Florida’s 11th District, who is a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Opening up federally funded infrastructure projects to include thermoplastic pipe can increase the elimination of plastic waste. That was the position of Tony Radosz...
Profile Products Welcomes Jeff Knape as Director of Business Development
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (April 22, 2019) — Profile Products is pleased to announce the hiring of Jeff Knape as director of business development. He will focus on developing new and unique growth opportunities for the horticulture business. “Jeff has established himself as a leader in the horticulture industry and we are thrilled to have him on the Profile team,” said Jim Tanner, president and CEO of Profile Products. “His extensive experience and knowledge of horticulture will add to our already...
Bradley Miller Named Group Director for HNTB in Seattle
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Bradley Miller has been named HNTB Corporation’s Seattle group director, based in the firm’s Bellevue office. An associate vice president, Miller brings 28 years of transportation industry experience to the position. He recently transferred to the Seattle area from HNTB’s Indianapolis office where he was office delivery manager. Miller joins a team of more than 230 transportation infrastructure and architecture professionals delivering aviation, toll, highway, transit, rail...
Mikros Systems and Energy Professionals Announce Pilot Project to Take Defense-Grade Solutions to Commercial Markets
Princeton, NJ – Mikros Systems Corporation (OTCQB: MKRS), an advanced technology company specializing in advanced maintenance in military, industrial and commercial applications, and Energy Professionals, LLC, a national leader in helping organizations to significantly reduce energy costs and reach energy sustainability objectives, announced today that they have commenced a pilot program to offer data collection for energy consumption and condition-based maintenance solutions for commercial and...
The Wild Announces Speech-to-Text Comment Tool Annotation for VR Design Reviews
Portland, OR – Today, The Wild announced an update to their cloud-based immersive collaboration platform. The Wild enables teams to experience design together, in real time, from anywhere in the world. Now, when schedules and timezones don’t align, users of The Wild—namely, architects and environmental designers using Revit and SketchUp—can collaborate with their team asynchronously via speech-to-text comment annotations in a space. “VR is great for a lot of things, but typing is not one o...
New Thomas Jefferson Solar Canopy at Mount Rushmore National Memorial Amps up Efforts by Xanterra Travel Collection to Create Greener National Parks & Memorials
MOUNT RUSHMORE (KEYSTONE), SOUTH DAKOTA – On Earth Day, Monday, April 22, at 2 p.m Xanterra Travel Collection is set to unveil the new Thomas Jefferson Solar Canopy at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. This extraordinary structure provides over half of the electricity used by Xanterra’s gift shop and restaurant at Mount Rushmore. The system is the second largest solar installation in the state. It will reduce Xanterra’s greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent or 56 MT CO2e/yr which is the equival...
Vectorworks, Inc. is First to Receive IFC4 Export Certification
Columbia, MD —Global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. announces that it is the first architectural software developer to achieve IFC4 Reference View 1.2 Export Certification (Architectural Reference Exchange). The certification comes from buildingSMART International (bSI), the worldwide authority driving the transformation of the built asset economy through creation and adoption of open, international standards. The new IFC4 certification means Vectorworks official...
Dewberry Receives ESRI Partner Conference Award
Fairfax, VA- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, recognized Dewberry with a Partner Conference Award for Maximizing ArcGIS in Service Offerings at this year’s Partner Conference. The firm was selected based on its work with Esri to integrate elevation and hydrography tools in its new ArcGIS Pro software. For more than 30 years, Dewberry has been an industry leader in geospatial and remote sensing technologies, and recently published the third edition of the DEM Users Manual, whi...
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