Western Specialty Contractors Provides Seven Safety Tips to Protect Construction Workers From Extreme Heat
(St. Louis, MO)– Summer is a great time for construction work, but a brutal time for construction workers. Excessive heat and sun exposure pose significant dangers, such as sunburn, dehydration, heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Every year, construction workers become ill on the job and some even lose their lives due to heat exposure. To protect its workers from the extreme summer heat, Western Specialty Contractors manages a heat illness training program and a safety hotline for...
Two Landscape Architecture Leaders Join HDR’s Denver Architecture Studio
Anthony (Tony) Mazzeo, site design principal, and Kent Freed, RLA, AIA, senior landscape architect, have joined HDR’s Denver architecture studio as leaders of its landscape architecture department. Previously owners of PLOT Project, LLC, in Denver, they have more than 50 years of combined experience in the Denver market. Notable projects have included a freight garden and landscapes at the TAXI development in Denver’s River North Art District; a mixed-use office building streetscape and rain...
New Update to Materials Standards Released
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials released the second of three updates to its Materials Standards publication on June 13, which contains the specifications, test methods, and recommended practices covering all the materials used to build bridges and roads – from asphalt and concrete to metal and wooden timbers. Part one contained the specifications and practices for materials; part two includes methods of testing and specifications for testing equipment, w...
FAA Activates Initial $677M in Airport Improvement Grants
On June 8, the Federal Aviation Administration greenlighted $677 million in airport infrastructure grants, the first allotment of the total $3.2 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the U.S. Airports can get a certain amount of AIP funding each year based on activity levels and project needs. If their capital project needs exceed their available entitlement funds, the FAA said it can supplement their entitlements with discretionary funding....
NAS Report: FAA Needs to Change its Drone Safety Risk Assessment Strategy
A Congressionally mandated report issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on June 11 is calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to change its approach to analyzing the safety risks posed by drones, which are formally known as either unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The NAS report said an "overly conservative approach" to safety risk assessments by the FAA "tends to overestimate the severity and likelihood of risks from...
Iowa Commission Signs Off on Five-Year $3.4B Transportation Plan
On June 12 the Iowa Transportation Commission approved a five-year, $3.4 billion transportation improvement plan that includes $1.8 billion for "modernizing" the Hawkeye state's existing highway system as well as adding "enhanced highway safety features," according to the Iowa DOT. The agency noted in a statement that its plan "continues to maintain a balance between rural and urban investment," with approximately 55 percent of the program's $3.4 billion in overall funding invested in rural a...
Brown and Caldwell Selected for Environmental Post-Closure Maintenance of Guam’s Ordot Closure Facility
Images courtesy GBB and GHD WALNUT CREEK, Calif., June 19, 2018 — Brown and Caldwell, a leading environmental engineering and construction firm, today announced its selection by Federal Receiver Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB), to provide operations and maintenance services for the post-closure care of Guam’s Ordot Closure Facility. In operation from the 1940s through 2012, the 42-acre Ordot Dump had been the sole disposal facility for Guam’s civilian solid waste. Before the...
Streamlining Automated Inspection Technology for Transportation
Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, provides state-of-the-art, robotic based autonomous and semi-autonomous inspection management, smart scheduling, and safety compliance. The Avitas Systems cloud based platform uploads inspection data from a wide variety of sensors, fuses the data with regulatory and external sources, such as weather, and outputs advanced risk-based insights that are accessible 24/7 via an online inspection interface and mobile application. The Avitas Systems solution protects asse...
U.S. DOT Announces $7.7 Million for First Round of Regional University Transportation Center Grants
WASHINGTON: As part of the University Transportation Centers (UTC) program, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has selected the University of Maine, Rutgers University, and Pennsylvania State University for regional grants authorized under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act for fiscal years 2016-2020. All three UTCs will receive their first-year funding now: Region 1: University of Maine – Transportation Infrastructure Durability Center: $2,570,600 Regi...
Neste and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) are Collaborating to Drive Sustainable Aviation Operations
Neste, the leading renewable products producer and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), a global leader in airport sustainability are collaborating in an effort to reduce air pollution, especially carbon dioxide emissions, from aircraft at DFW. Both parties share the view that environmental awareness is growing globally and actions to combat climate change are needed in aviation, the fastest growing means of transport in the world today. “We are happy to partner up with leaders such...
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