Western Specialty Contractors Cleans, Restores Limestone Façade of Historic Decatur, IL Courthouse
(St. Louis, MO, April 16, 2019) Throughout its history, the Macon County Courthouse in Decatur, IL has inhabited a variety of buildings, from a log cabin built in 1829 where Abraham Lincoln practiced law, to a stone and brick four-story building with a clock tower built in 1892 to its current location -- a five-story limestone building constructed in 1939. Façade expert Western Specialty Contractors - Springfield, IL branch was recently tasked with restoring the historic courthouse’s 80-year-old...
New ASCE Infrastructure Resilience Publication Focuses on Buildings and Lifeline Standards
Reston, Va. – ASCE’s new book, Resilience-Based Performance: Next Generation Guidelines for Buildings and Lifeline Standards, IRP 3, focuses on the enhancements that are needed in the design and construction of buildings and lifeline systems to support a community’s social stability, economic vitality, and environmental sustainability. Lifelines are networks that are vital to the communities they serve, and include communications, electric power, water, transportation. This book is divided into...
Fugro Supports Targeted Maintenance of Dutch Roads Under New 5-Year Survey Contract
Fugro is commencing a five-year contract to undertake road pavement condition surveys in the Netherlands for Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management). The contract includes an option to extend to 10 years. Collecting surface condition and road measurement data from 8,600 kilometres of principal highways each year, Fugro will use the latest generation of its Automatic Road Analyzer (ARAN), which is adapted to meet European specifications and includes...
KAI Announces Acquisition of Fratto Engineering, Inc. in Arlington, Texas
(St. Louis, MO, April 16, 2019) KAI has acquired woman-owned Fratto Engineering, Inc. based in Arlington, TX. Founded in 1997, Fratto Engineering specializes in Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineering and has more than 40 clients that include higher education institutions, hospital systems and healthcare centers, local municipalities, architectural firms, electrical contractors, general contractors and other institutions. Fratto Engineering President Debbie Fratto said the KAI Enterpr...
Quanta UAV, New INS/GNSS to Increase the Productivity of UAV-based Surveying Solutions
Carrières-sur-Seine, France - SBG Systems will present for the first time at AUVSI’s Xponential show in Chicago (U.S.), the Quanta UAV Series, a brand new line of Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) dedicated to UAV-based Surveying Integrators. More Productivity for UAV-based Mapping Systems Because SBG Systems wants UAV surveyors to save autonomy for additional survey lines, the company has designed a small, lightweight, and low-power inertial navigation system offered on two levels o...
Pason Power Joins Eguana Technologies on CED Greentech Annual Solar Roadshow
HOUSTON — Pason Power, a provider of adaptive intelligent software for energy assets, announced today it will be joining Eguana Technologies, a leading supplier of residential and commercial energy storage systems, on the CED Greentech Annual Solar Roadshow April 16th (Wallingford, Connecticut), April 17th (Auburn, Massachusetts), and April 19th (Ronkonkoma, New York). CED Greentech Northeast, one of the nation’s largest distributors of solar, electrical and renewable energy products, will host...
HLW New Jersey’s 2 Journal Square
In need of an innovative perspective that would help revitalize and reactivate Jersey City’s Downtown streetscape, Gaia Real Estate engaged HLW to refresh an existing 300,000 square foot building into a Class A office space with retail and restaurant capabilities on the ground floor. Originally constructed in 1987, HLW was tapped to handle full services for the renovation, which includes architecture, interiors, and signage as well as provide a landscape concept study in their redesign of the bu...
Gannett Fleming’s LIRR Expansion Project Wins ACEC New York Gold Award
April 15, 2019 (Harrisburg, Pa.) The American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) presented a Gold Award to the Gannett Fleming-AECOM Rail Road Expansion Partnership joint venture for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Expansion Project during the Engineering Excellence Gala on April 13. Gannett Fleming was the managing partner that provided preliminary design and developed the final environmental impact study (FEIS) with the goal to increase the capacity of the busie...
Neste and Air BP Ready to Deliver Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Sweden
Neste, the world’s leading renewable products producer from wastes and residues, and Air BP, the international aviation fuel products and services supplier, have entered into an agreement to deliver sustainable aviation fuel to airline and airport customers in Sweden in 2019. Neste and Air BP announced in 2018 their plans to explore and develop supply chain solutions for delivering sustainable aviation fuel to airports and airlines. As a next step in their collaboration Neste will combine its...
Wärtsilä Continues to Invest in a 100% Renewable Energy Future by Providing Seed Funding to Soletair Power Oy
The technology group Wärtsilä has agreed to provide EUR 500,000 in seed funding to Soletair Power Oy, a Finland based startup company operating in the field of Power-to-X. Soletair Power Oy has developed a unique concept to improve air quality in buildings by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and converting it to synthetic renewable fuel. Soletair Power’s concept represents an important step towards carbon neutral societies and supports Wärtsilä’s strategy in leading the energy sector’s transformat...
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