Dewberry Awarded Geographic Information System Contract with Hanover County
Dewberry was recently selected for a geographic information systems (GIS) contract with Hanover County, Virginia. The firm will provide general GIS consulting services to Hanover County on an as-needed basis and help support the county's GIS program. Services include data conversion, general consulting, programming, staff support services (augmentation), global positioning system (GPS), survey monumentation, structured query language (SQL) server, system architecture, database design, custom...
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Clients Win Five Tiger Grants
NEW YORK, NY – WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services organization, supported five of its clients in preparing successful applications for 2016 TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff supported five of the 40 winning applications, representing $66.3 million of the total $484 million awarded, according to John D. Porcari, president of WSP | Par...
U.S. Appeals Court Affirms Almost Half Billion Dollar Judgement in Favor of KBR Subsidiary
HOUSTON, Texas — KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) announced today that in a decision in ongoing litigation involving COMMISA, a subsidiary of KBR, the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment in excess of $465 million for COMMISA against PEMEX Exploracion y Produccion (PEP). This positive result follows a decade of litigation involving two offshore natural gas treatment, processing and reinjection platforms which COMMISA built for PEP, platforms which have been working and in us...
New London, Connecticut Extends Partnership with Veolia and Implements New Utility Billing Program
BOSTON - As operator for New London's water and wastewater system, Veolia, the global leader in environmental solutions and optimized resource management, will implement a new utility portal and billing software under a 5-year contract extension – highlighting the city's commitment to exceptional customer service and improving access to online billing and consumption data. Under a comprehensive operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement, the City of New London, Connecticut has partnered with...
Cardno Awarded Five-Year Contract for Marine Corps Facility Assessments Worldwide
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, has awarded the Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler Joint Venture a five-year, maximum $30 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) architect-engineering contract. The scope is for facility sustainment program support, including building condition assessments of Marine Corps facilities worldwide using the DoD’s BUILDER™ Sustainment Management System (SMS). The BUILDER™ SMS is a web-based software application developed...
Woolpert Dispatches Drones to Mitigate, Predict Landslides
WEST VIRGINIA, Aug. 3, 2016 — Woolpert has tasked its unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, with monitoring landslide areas and potential landslide areas in northern West Virginia. “This is an active weather time, with West Virginia experiencing historic rains,” said Aaron Lawrence, Woolpert GIS expert and UAS technology developer. “Access to this terrain can be challenging and viewsheds from ground level can be blocked due to overgrown vegetation. UAS gives us a tool to get as close to t...
Engineering News Record Ranks Hatch in the Top 25
On July 18, 2016, Engineering News Record released their Top 225 International Design Firms list, ranking Hatch 24th overall, based on annual revenue both at home and internationally across a variety of sectors. Hatch placed strongly in the industrial and manufacturing sectors, coming in at third and fourth respectively, additionally placing sixth in both water supply and sewer/waste industries, and 22nd in transportation. Complementing the list, ENR featured a dedicated story profiling H...
Study Will Quantify MSW Recycled Material and Its Economic Impacts in Texas
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 3, 2016 — A statewide survey will be launched August 15th that seeks to quantify the amount of recycling occurring throughout Texas and will assess the economic state of the recycling industry in Texas. Through a competitive bidding process, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) retained Burns & McDonnell to complete the study. The study is the result of a bill by Rep. Ed Thompson (R-Pearland) and Sen. José Rodríguez (D-El Paso) passed in the 84th Texas Legi...
Black & Veatch Adds Enterprise-level Sustainability Solutions to Service Offerings
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas – Black & Veatch, a global leader in the design and construction of advanced resource management solutions, today announced a new sustainability offering focusing on the enterprise-level market. The new offering will help large consumers of power, water and other critical resources achieve greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, increase usage of carbon-free renewable energy technologies, minimize water consumption, enhance resilience and promote greater operational eff...
Schlumberger Acquisition Closes
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff closed on its acquisition of Schlumberger Water Services on August 1. The firm specializes in the development, management and environmental protection of water resources. In the U.S., the firm will be integrating Schlumberger Water Services staff from Denver, Fort Myers, Reno and Tucson into its environment and water consultancy sectors. Water services teams in Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Chile will report to Jorge Chaves, our newly appointed president of Latin Ameri...
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