Major Trade Association Announces Continued Support of Department of Energy Program
IRVING, Texas - The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) said today that it will continue to support the Department of Energy's (DOE) Race to Zero Student Design Competition. The announcement was made by Tony Radoszewski, president of the trade association that represents all segments of the plastic pipe industry. He also said that the Director of Engineering for PPI's Building and Construction Division, Lance MacNevin, P. Eng, will serve on the panel of jurors who will evaluate the projects...
Guam Power Authority Selects Landis+Gyr for Advanced Grid Analytics Solution
ATLANTA — Landis+Gyr has been selected by Guam Power Authority (GPA) for a comprehensive suite of advanced grid analytics solutions to support a wide range of utility objectives related to loss reduction, improving asset life and distribution system reliability and efficiency. Landis+Gyr is providing its advanced grid analytics platform and full suite of applications along with professional implementation and consulting services. This includes the use of its asset loading, voltage analysi...
Construction Climate Talks Episode 6 focuses on How to Redefine Value
The first five episodes in the Construction Climate Talks series have looked at sustainable development in the construction industry and the concept of green buildings. In the sixth film, released today, Roland Hunziker, Director of the Sustainable Buildings and Cities programme at the WBCSD*, talks about how to redefine value and get businesses to understand how to drive sustainable outcomes. https://youtu.be/COAp3GAXTko Since November 2015, the web TV series Construction Climate Talks ha...
Here's How We Scale Up Participation and Savings in Residential Retrofits
Our existing housing stock is an underutilized energy efficiency resource. We’ve only scratched the surface of its potential to save energy. Decades of research and thousands of retrofits show that even the most basic home retrofits can cut energy use by 15-20% while more comprehensive retrofit projects can double or even triple the energy savings. Residents benefit not only from lower energy bills, but also from improved comfort, better health, and safer, more durable homes. Despite the widely-...
An Innovative Solution to Become “Energy Positive”
Oslo, Norway – Using the system for Guarantees of Origin (GO) and an innovative financing model companies now can become energy positive; creating more renewable energy than they consume. This is the ECOHZ GO2 solution. ECOHZ, a provider of global renewable energy solutions, is now launching two product options GO² United and GO² Signature to allow for both collaborative and exclusive strategies to become energy positive. “GO² United and GO² Signature help companies produce new renewable ener...
City Leaders Must Take Control of Own Energy Future
Cities have more power to secure their own cleaner energy supply than they realise, a study at the 23rd World Energy Congress shows. Growing cities, already accounting for over 50% of global energy consumption, can no longer afford to rely on a centralised energy supply and will need to take greater control to meet growing demand. Arup's “Innovating Urban Energy” perspective paper provides insight for the World Energy Council Scenarios Report and shows that new technologies, innovative fin...
PHMSA Issues Interim Final Rule To Implement Expanded Authority to Issue Emergency Orders, Improve Pipeline Safety
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today issued an Interim Final Rule (“IFR”) to implement the agency’s expanded authority to address unsafe pipeline conditions or practices that pose an imminent hazard to life, property, or the environment. The regulations adopt a provision of the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines Enhancing Safety Act of 2016 (PIPES Act), that allows the agency to impose emergency re...
PHMSA Awards $900,000 to Higher Educational Institutions to Support Pipeline Safety Research
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced it is providing a total of $900K to three educational institutions as part of its Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP) for pipeline safety research. The awards announced today will go to Iowa State University, West Virginia University and North Dakota State University to spur the development of research projects that could prevent or mitigate pipeline corr...
Atkins Awarded Major Nuclear Contract by US Department of Energy
Atkins has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), along with joint venture partners Westinghouse and Fluor, to operate the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities at DOE’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The contract to the Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC (MCS) joint venture is valued at $318 million over a five-year period of performance beginning this year. The projec...
U.S. Department of Energy Awards Tetra Tech Joint Venture $400 Million Contract
PASADENA, Calif.- Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that its joint venture with Sealaska Technical Services was selected to provide design-build services to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Under the Design, Integration, Construction, Communication, and Engineering (DICCE) contract, the joint venture will share in the $400-million contract ceiling over seven years. The DICCE contract is administered by the NNSA Office of Nuclear Sm...
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