ILMF 2018: Call for Papers Deadline is August 14!
The 18th Annual International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF), taking place in Denver, Colorado, USA, February 5-7, 2018, has announced a Call for Papers and invites interested parties to submit their abstracts by August 14, 2017. ILMF is a technical conference and exhibition focused on surveying and mapping technologies including aerial, mobile and bathymetric lidar as well as other emerging remote sensing technologies. Aerial, mobile and underwater measurement and monitoring are being aided...
Shortlisted Projects Announced for ITA Tunnelling Awards in Paris
November 13-16 2017 will see leading international specialists in the global tunnelling sector attend the AFTES Congress in Paris which will include a special one-day event: November 15 will be dedicated to the presentation of the shortlisted projects, followed by a banquet and the ITA Tunnelling Awards ceremony. Launched in 2015 by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES), the first two ITA Tunnelling Awards events attracted more than 450 attendees and 2...
HNTB Shares Expertise at P3 Airport Summit in San Diego
SAN DIEGO – HNTB Corporation continued its aviation industry leadership at the P3 Airport Summit held recently in San Diego. The conference focused on public-private partnership development, project management and networking for airport owners, operators and industry professionals. Tom Rossbach, AIA, HNTB aviation architecture market sector leader and vice president, moderated a panel titled “Eyes Wide Open: Airport Owner P3 Preparedness,” addressing the unique issues facing airports when prepa...
What Happened at LiDAR for Drone 2017 - YellowScan User Conference
LiDAR for Drone 2017 – YellowScan International User Conference was held on the 29th and 30th of June, in the Château de Flaugergues, Montpellier. For this special event, YellowScan had put together a diverse and exciting agenda, proving the broad usage of YellowScan LiDAR equipment in applications such as archeology, forestry, powerlines, surveying, mining and civil engineering. The guests were hence served to industry case studies from all over the world (Japan, USA, Bolivia, Spain, France...)...
Key Resolutions Passed at NARUC Policy Summit, Focus on Innovation
WASHINGTON—The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners concluded four days of focused discussions on energy, telecommunications and other utility issues at its Summer Policy Summit held in San Diego, California, July 16-19. The NARUC board of directors passed three substantive resolutions and several honorary resolutions. President Robert F. Powelson, of Pennsylvania, presided over the event and served as moderator for the opening general session, which focused on innovative...
Jacobs Wins Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation Awards
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) has received the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) / Tarmac Health & Safety at Work Award 2017 in recognition of its Mental Health Matters program, which focuses on promoting positive mental health across the business, its staff and their families. The U.K. CIHT Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of those working in the highways and transportation sector by promoting their work as best practices to the indu...
State Transportation Funding Champion Legislators & Better Roads Advocates from Six States that Increased Gas Taxes in 2017 on Tap for July 12 National Workshop on Capitol Hill
(WASHINGTON) - The American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) Transportation Investment Advocacy Center (TIAC) will host its 4th Annual “National Workshop for State & Local Transportation Advocates” July 12 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. The event brings together more than 100 transportation professionals, chamber of commerce executives and state officials to share best practices, playbook secrets and other keys to success in advancing state and local legislative and ba...
First Workshop Completed Within the CITT Project
The Carbon Infrastructure Transformation Tool (CITT) project seeks to develop an open access solution for calculating and managing embodied carbon emissions across the project lifecycle of infrastructure projects. In late April the project conducted its first workshop to introduce the tool to key industry bodies and to gain feedback to develop and improve the tool further. The workshop saw attendees from across the infrastructure industry spectrum in the UK participate in interactive worksho...
Impressions from Intersolar 2017
Intersolar Europe 2017 delivers on its reputation as the leading event of the solar industry with a large and enthusiastic crowd, cutting edge innovations and a general feeling of the solar industry’s growing importance worldwide. The renewable energy revolution is here and it has been here for some time. An infographic from Bloomberg New Energy Finance summarizes the past 10 years in a nice and concise way. For the most part it is graphs pointing up and to the right. Greenbyte, the compan...
Idaho One of Two Western States to Win Multiple Regional Awards from National Transportation Organization
BOISE - Two Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) efforts -- a massive clean up of a landslide in north-central Idaho, and the final piece of an interchange construction plan in eastern Idaho that significantly cut serious crashes -- won regional awards yesterday (Wednesday, June 28) in Juneau, Alaska. Regional winners in the America's Transportation Awards were announced during the annual conference of the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (WASHTO). Idaho was...
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