Brightmark Energy Closes $260M in Financing for Nation’s First Commercial-Scale Plastics-to-Fuel Plant
SAN FRANCISCO – Brightmark Energy, a San Francisco-based waste and energy development company, today announced the closing of a $260 million financing package for the construction of the nation’s first commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant, which will be located in Ashley, Indiana. The financing for “Brightmark Energy Ashley Indiana” includes $185 million in Indiana green bonds, which were underwritten by Goldman Sachs & Co. As part of the financing closure, Brightmark has become the controlli...
Wood Wins Key Strategic Role on Hinkley Point C Project
Wood has secured a new contract to provide a construction design management advisor service for the Hinkley Point C new build nuclear power station project in the UK. This gives Wood a key strategic role in the project’s Technical Management and Acceptance team, which is responsible for implementing construction regulations and managing design risk assessments. Effective immediately, the contract with station developers EDF Energy will see Wood engineers working to help mitigate design ris...
Start-up Energy Transition Award 2019 Winners
Winners come from Australia, Germany, Sweden and Uganda / Innovations from hydrogen electrolysis to bamboo briquette / Over 450 applications received from 80 countries The winners of the international SET Award 2019 for the most innovative and effective business models in the areas of energy transition and climate protection have been selected: Enapter (Germany) in the category Low-Carbon Energy Production; Planet Ark Power (Australia) in the category Intelligent Grids, Platforms & Cyber Secu...
Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center Earns Design Award from Planning Commission
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (April 11, 2019) — On Wednesday, the Virginia Beach Planning Commission honored Waller, Todd & Sadler, a Woolpert Company, with a 2019 Planning Commission Design Award for its Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center. The firm earned a Merit Award in the Public Facilities category. The $27 million, 63,000-square-foot Housing Resource Center is a three-story facility that includes dormitories with 49 beds for singles needing emergency shelter, 40 beds in short-term motel-styl...
Western Specialty Contractors Provides “3 Keys to Doing Successful Property Inspections”
(St. Louis, MO ) If you are a building owner or manager and want to reduce facility maintenance costs, there are a lot of advantages to performing routine property inspections. To begin with, property inspections provide valuable information that makes the stressful maintenance decision-making process much easier and straightforward. Proper building inspections involve more than just walking around a property looking for potential issues. There are plenty of property inspections that don’t...
Trimble Announces High-Accuracy Field Solution for GIS Applications
SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today a new high-performance field computer for its Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) portfolio—the Trimble® TDC150 handheld. Designed for GIS data collection, inspection and management activities, the TDC150 provides users a rugged solution that has the flexibility of a handheld, a modern interface with open Android™ operating system, and scalable high-accuracy positioning for professional field workflows. The TDC150 provides...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $1.36 Billion Funding Allocation for 16 New and Existing Transit Projects Nationwide
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a total of $1.36 billion in federal funding allocations to 16 new and existing transit projects in the Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. FTA is allocating approximately $424.8 million in appropriated Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 CIG funding to two projects that have existing construction grant agreements and five new projects, subject to further review and approval, that are nearing readi...
Topcon Announces Cloud-Connected Logistics Application for Paving
LIVERMORE, Calif., U.S./ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, the Netherlands – Topcon Positioning Group announces the introduction of Pavelink, a cloud-based logistics application designed to connect every stakeholder in real-time throughout the paving process. The mobile application is designed to complete a connected ecosystem workflow between the asphalt plants, delivery trucks, company office, and paving site. The software as a service (SaaS) application has been developed by the Topcon Technology Ein...
See What’s New in Revit 2020
Written by Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, Ian Molloy, and Pawel Piechnik The Revit team is thrilled to release Revit 2020, incorporating improvements in Revit 2019.1 and Revit 2019.2. The release year “2020” is epic, and Revit 2020 lives up to the name, reflecting both your requests submitted to the Revit Ideas page and also introducing new features and functionality. With Revit 2020 all disciplines will see new tools and enhancements that help you generate consistent, coordinated,...
Under the Hood: How Design Automation with Dynamo for Civil 3D Helps Drive Creative Infrastructure Solutions
BY NIGEL PETERS Every month, an Autodesk expert gets technical and provides an overview of the AEC Collection's most powerful workflows. Read on to find out more about automated design processes and their benefits, using Dynamo for Civil 3D. To meet the demands of a growing population, it is estimated that the world needs $94 trillion in new infrastructure spending on everything from roads to clean water delivery systems between now and 2040. That is over three percent of the world's...
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