HDR Establishes New Los Angeles Office
Nearly 150 HDR professionals live and work in Los Angeles County. In fact, the firm’s architecture and engineering staff recently took over an entire floor—28,000 square feet—at Two California Plaza in the Bunker Hill District of downtown Los Angeles. HDR’s new office reflects the firm’s strong commitment to connect and improve lives through the design of the built environment, clean water and transportation projects throughout Los Angeles. The firm’s current projects include: Link Union Stat...
Bentley Systems Announces Agreement to Acquire ACTION Modulers’ Water Modeling Software Business
SINGAPORE — The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference — 9 October 2017 — Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire ACTION Modulers’ water modeling software business based near Lisbon, Portugal. The team of environmental modeling scientists and researchers, led by general director, Frank Braunschweig, develops ACTION’s modeling software products including MO...
Bentley Systems and Topcon Collaborate for Constructioneering Academy Initiative
SINGAPORE – The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference – Topcon Positioning Systems, a world leader in positioning instruments for survey and construction, and Bentley Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, announced today that they have joined efforts to provide opportunities for construction industry professionals to learn best practices in constructioneering, a process of managing and integrating survey, engineering, and construct...
Tetra Tech Broadens High-End Sustainable Infrastructure Design Capabilities with the Acquisition of Glumac
PASADENA, Calif. - Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has acquired Glumac, a leader in sustainable infrastructure design. The company has more than 300 employees and incorporates innovative sustainable technologies and solutions into each of its designs, including the design and engineering of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard and Net-Zero infrastructure. “Our clients, now, more than ever, are looking for sustainable solutions to their infrastr...
Atlas Copco Completes Divestment of Road Construction Equipment Business
Stockholm, Sweden, October 5, 2017: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has completed the divestment of its Road Construction Equipment division to French industrial and construction company Fayat Group. Atlas Copco announced on January 19, 2017, that it had agreed to sell the business to Fayat Group. The deal includes sales and service operations in 37 countries and production units in five countries; Sweden, Germany, Brazil, India and China. The business...
GeoSLAM and Bentley Systems Join Forces to Take Mobile Reality Modelling Indoors
BENTLEY YII 2017, SINGAPORE - GeoSLAM - the experts in “go anywhere” 3D mobile mapping technology, and Bentley Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced a partnership to enable the simple and fast production of hybrid reality models in any environment. Mark Reid, VP of Product Management, GeoSLAM said, “GeoSLAM has already disrupted the reality capture industry by changing the economics of 3D laser scanning enabling b...
Atlas Copco Collaborates with Saab and Combitech to Develop Safe Mining Digitalization Solutions
Stockholm, Sweden - Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity, will collaborate with defense and security company Saab AB and its subsidiary Combitech AB to provide mining customers with solutions for advanced and secure digitalized operations. The collaboration builds upon Atlas Copco’s strong position in the mining industry, Saab’s technical platforms, and Combitech’s working methods and experience gained from successfully digitalizing the Gripen E fighter aircraft. The n...
EagleView Receives Patent for New Drone Property Inspection Process
Bothell, WA – Eagle View Technologies (“EagleView®”), a leading provider of aerial imagery and property data analytics, has won an authoritative patent for property inspection using an unmanned aerial system (UAS), or drone. On April 4, 2017, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) granted EagleView Pat. No. 9,612,598, Unmanned Aircraft Structure Evaluation System and Method. EagleView’s new technology automatically generates a flight path around a structure to capture imagery an...
IMAGINiT Technologies to Offer Leica’s BLK360 Laser Scanner
OWINGS MILLS, MD — Customers looking to add the revolutionary new Leica BLK360 imaging scanner to their portfolio, can work with IMAGINiT Technologies to discover how to incorporate the smallest, most affordable and first of its kind scanner, into their workflows. Creating a class of its own, the Leica BLK360 scanner is the world’s smallest and lightest laser scanner. As Leica Geosystems’ Laser Scanning Reseller of the Year, IMAGINiT is now offering customers the opportunity to reserve the BL...
Kenyan Government Mapping Mines with Correlator3D
Montreal, Canada, October 3rd, 2017 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce that the Directorate of Resource Surveys & Remote Sensing (DRSRS) under the Ministry of Mining in Kenya is using Correlator3D™ for extensive mapping of mining activities. The software generates orthomosaics, contour lines, and digital terrain models of fluorspar mines in the Kerio valley in Kenya. “The DRSRS provides the Ministry of Mining with spatial inform...