New Jersey DOT Obligates $23M for Local Bicycle and Pedestrian Projects
The New Jersey Department of Transportation awarded $23 million in federal funding has been obligated to local bicycle and pedestrian projects through its Transportation Alternatives Program or TAP grants on Oct. 26, the agency said in a statement. [Above photo by the New Jersey National Guard.] There were 18 projects totaling $18.6 million in TAP grants, NJDOT added, along with 14 “Safe Routes to School” grants totaling $2.3 million. An additional $2.2 million was authorized for “Safe Rou...
Airport, Toll Road, and Port Activity All Expected to Increase, Fitch Ratings Says
In a report issued Oct. 18, credit agency Fitch Ratings said that airports, toll roads, and ports are all facing “potential increases in borrowing costs” should the Federal Reserve continue to increase interest rates – and it has already increased interest rates three times in 2018 alone and eight times since 2015. [Above photo by formulaone.] That, coupled with increasing capital improvement spending needs, has the potential to slow growth in those three transportation sectors, noted Fitc...
Van Port Fleet Tapped as Michigan DOT’s Director
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder named Mark Van Port Fleet (seen above) as director of the Michigan Department of Transportation on Oct. 30 to replace Kirk Steudle, who retired on Oct. 31 after serving as the agency’s director for the past 12 years. Van Port Fleet’s appointment, subject to the advice and consent of Michigan’s legislature, is effective Nov. 1. A 38-year veteran of the Michigan DOT, Van Port Fleet previously served as the agency’s senior chief deputy and has championed “innovative con...
Datumate's DatuSurvey™ 5.5 supporting Large Scale Construction Projects
Wide area construction projects require large amount of data to be processes effectively (scale and time) on a desktop or in the Cloud. With the fast adoption of drones and photogrammetry solutions by land surveyors and construction project managers who want to process their project "as-built" data on their desktop or organizational network, Datumate is happy to announce its enhanced new offering for individual or organizations' Survey and Construction Professionals. With its new DatuSurvey™...
Kiely Family of Companies Continues Growth, Announces New Office in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
TINTON FALLS, N.J., Nov. 5, 2018 - The Kiely Family of Companies, an ENR 600 company located in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, announces its latest expansion with the opening of the firm's location in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The new office is located approximately 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, at 2400 Ansys Drive: Suite 102, Canonsburg, PA. This is the third Pennsylvania location for the growing company, which employs more than 1200 team members throughout the United States and abroad. The n...
Woolpert to Collect, Process Data for Highway Assets Throughout Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. — Woolpert has been hired to collect and process data of highway condition assets for the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), as a subconsultant to Leidos. Woolpert will conduct a random sampling of assets on roadways throughout the state, evaluate the assets according to standard VDOT criteria and grade the performance of those assets. The firm will then process all of the data collected for this project and submit it to Leidos for the final analysis. Woolpert Project...
Stantec wins Building Better Healthcare’s International Design for Cleveland Cancer Taussig Cancer Center
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center was recognised at this year’s Building Better Healthcare Awards where it won Best International Design. The Building Better Healthcare Awards are held each year in London to celebrate innovation and improvement in the design of healthcare environments. The judges said: “It is a serious and reassuring building appropriate for high quality patient care. Inside it’s lovely: the interiors are clean and bright and rationally organised.” Cleveland Clinic Ta...
AECOM awarded five-year, US$23.5 million USAID Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices project
GERMANTOWN, Md. — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has been awarded the Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices project from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) South America Regional office in Peru. The five-year contract award is worth up to US$23.5 million. AECOM’s work will focus specifically on the following sectors: hydropower, oil and gas, mining and roads. The company plans...
Jeanneret Named ARTBA Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
(WASHINGTON) - Matthew J. Jeanneret has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Washington, D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), effective Nov. 1. Jeanneret, who joined ARTBA in 1998 as director of public affairs, has been serving as the association’s deputy chief operating officer since January. As ARTBA’s senior vice president of communications and marketing over the past decade, he led its award-winning external communicatio...
USDOT Announces Final Rule to Accelerate Project Delivery
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a final rule today to amend Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that will accelerate project delivery. To date, the new rule is one of the department’s most expansive regulatory realignments of federal environmental transportation policy. “As directed by Congress, this much-needed rule will accelerate the delivery of new...
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