Woolpert to Design $13M SkyWheel Newport Project at Newport on the Levee
NEWPORT, Ky. - Woolpert has been contracted by St. Louis-based SkyWheel Attractions and Koch Development to provide survey, civil and structural engineering for the $13 million SkyWheel Newport at Newport on the Levee. SkyWheel Newport will be approximately 235 feet above the Ohio River, or roughly 20 stories high, with 30 gondolas that hold six passengers each. It will be built north of the Newport Aquarium and Mitchell’s Fish Market in the Newport Festival Park area, between the Taylor Sout...
Stantec Named Technical Advisor for Metrolinx’s Bowmanville Rail Expansion
Global design firm Stantec, along with our partner, Amec Foster Wheeler, has been awarded a contract to provide technical advisory, design, and construction support services for Metrolinx’s Bowmanville Rail Expansion project. This commuter rail expansion project will provide infrastructure improvements to accommodate a 20 km extension of Metrolinx’s GO Transit service along their Lakeshore East rail corridor, from Oshawa to Bowmanville. “The Bowmanville rail expansion represents an exciting i...
CH2M Awards $1 Million for Endowed Professorship to Oregon State University
DENVER - CH2M has made a $1 million gift for one endowed professorship in OSU's College of Engineering. The endowment honors CH2M's founders and their roots at OSU while investing in the future workforce promoting science, technology, engineering and math education. "Our strong ties with CH2M are seen all over our campus, at Merryfield Hall, the CH2M HILL Alumni Center and the CH2M HILL Auditorium in Kearney Hall," said Scott Ashford, Kearney Professor and dean of OSU's College of Engineering...
Bechtel Names Project Director for Construction and Startup of World’s Most Complex Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant
Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, construction, and project management, today announced that Brian Reilly, a 35+ year veteran of nuclear construction, will become the next project director for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Reilly will guide completion, startup, and commissioning of WTP’s first phase: the seven-story, sports arena-sized Low Activity Waste Facility and its associated sup...
Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC) Selects Jacobs for Front-End Engineering Design for Greenfield Petrochemical Facility in Alberta
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) has been awarded a contract by Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a proposed greenfield, integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada. CKPC is a joint venture of Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) of Canada and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait. “Jacobs’ strength in front end project delivery, combin...
Gannett Fleming Names Tulumello as Northeast Region Facilities Business Line Leader
(Harrisburg, Pa.): Giuseppe (Joe) Tulumello, AIA, LEED® Green Associate, has been named leader of Gannett Fleming’s Northeast Region Facilities Business Line. In this role, Tulumello will oversee business strategy and planning, project delivery, and operational growth of Gannett Fleming’s facilities practice across Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.“There are tremendous opportunities in the northeast facilities markets, including tr...
Longest HDD Saves Miami Sewer Line - Wins Industry Honor
IRVING, Texas - The longest horizontal directional drilled (HDD) installation of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe in the United States and Canada was recognized as Project of the Year by the Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI). The award was presented to PPI member company, ISCO Industries (Louisville, KY), at the association's annual membership meeting in May 2017. PPI is the major North American trade association representing all segments of the plastic pipe industry, "Not only was...
Joe North Joins HNTB in Tallahassee as Senior GIS Analyst
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Joe North joined HNTB Corporation as senior geographic information systems analyst, based in the firm’s growing Tallahassee office. He is responsible for providing direction to HNTB’s West Florida team on the most effective GIS technology to improve the project life-cycle process, from planning to design, construction, maintenance, and most recently, to emergency management pre-event planning and post-event recovery. North has more than 20 years of experience in geospatial...
APTA Board Chooses Skoutelas as Transit Group’s Next CEO
The board of the American Public Transportation Association said it has chosen transit industry veteran Paul Skoutelas to become its new president and CEO effective Jan. 8. Skoutelas, who currently resides in Pittsburgh, will relocate to Washington, D.C., where the association is based, APTA said. "Skoutelas has been a highly successful and respected national leader in the public transportation industry for more than 40 years," the announcement said. It noted that he has headed transit sys...
FRA, FTA Award $197M to Positive Train Control Projects in 13 States
Two federal agencies recently awarded $197 million in grants to state departments of transportation, transit agencies and commuter rail lines to help them deploy crash-avoiding "positive train control" systems. Those systems use a combination of technology that include trackside signals, antennas connecting trains with global positioning satellites and distant dispatch centers, and gear inside the locomotive that can take control of a train's braking under certain circumstances to help preven...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
Redevelopment of Horseshoe Bay Terminal
June Issue 2026
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