State DOTs, Road-Building Groups Urge Congress to Fix Trust Fund in Tax Measure
State highway department CEOs joined with officials from two major road-building industry groups to urge Congress to make a permanent fix to the ailing Highway Trust Fund as lawmakers take up tax legislation. The 52-member board of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials voted Sept. 28, at its annual meeting in Phoenix, to endorse the policy position that was developed by a joint committee of AASHTO, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association and th...
Going Digital: Bentley Announces iModel 2.0 Cloud Platform and Its iModelHub Cloud Service – Automating Change Synchronization, Digital Alignment, and Immersive Visibility
SINGAPORE — The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference — Today, Bentley Systems’ founder Keith Bentley introduced the company’s “iModel 2.0” cloud platform and its first new service, iModelHub, to accelerate “going digital” for users of its ProjectWise Design Integration services. Without requiring changes to existing BIM applications or processes, the iModelHub cloud service, invoking application-specific “iModel bridges” triggered automatically by ProjectWise: synchronizes and distr...
Going Digital: Bentley Announces Microsoft Azure-based Cloud Services Extending ProjectWise CONNECT Edition for Comprehensive Project Delivery
SINGAPORE — The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference — Today, Bentley Systems announced new ProjectWise CONNECT Edition cloud services, powered by Microsoft Azure. The Azure-based services complement ProjectWise Design Integration service, the proven workhorse for work-sharing across collaborating engineering teams—which can be deployed on-premises, as a cloud service, or in any hybrid combination. By virtue of the shared Azure platform, project delivery organizations using both ProjectWise C...
Hydroseeding Takes Root at the Panama Canal
In a country that receives more than 100 inches of rain per year, on slopes as steep as 45 degrees, controlling soil erosion is crucial. In 2006, when the $5.7 billion Panama Canal expansion project kicked off, headlines were awash with news about the engineering feats required to expand one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. What received much less attention—but just as critical to the project’s success—was the stabilization of the banks along the nearly 50-mile-long canal. After seeding...
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...
In Response to Lawsuit, Highway Administration Reinstates Transportation Clean Air Rule
WASHINGTON – In a big win for climate and clean air, the Federal Highway Administration today responded to a lawsuit brought by environmental groups by reinstating a federal requirement that state and local planners track and curb carbon pollution from cars and trucks on the national highways, which is a major contributor to climate change. On July 31st, the Natural Resources Defense Council, U.S. PIRG, and the Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of Clean Air Carolina, sued the Federa...
Video: Reimagine the Canals Engineering Competition
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a global competition that will award $2.5 million for the best ideas to reimagine New York’s canal system, which will soon begin its third century of operation. Civil engineers are among those who are being solicited for entries.
U.S. Department of Transportation Hurricane Maria Recovery Efforts in Puerto Rico
The U.S. Department of Transportation is committed to helping Hurricane Maria recovery efforts in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and all affected regions. As communication with local authorities improves throughout Puerto Rico, the Department will have more information available to provide the critical assistance to begin rebuilding damaged infrastructure. Please see below for more details on current relief efforts in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria as of Se...
Journal from Ground Zero: Death, Sadness and Mariachi Music
Mexico City Earthquake Day 1: Death, sadness and mariachi music I crawl through a bunch of cracked concrete, twisted reinforcing bars and pancaked furniture. Overhead, the concrete deck is getting narrower and narrower as I progress the gap in this collapsed concrete building. The floor above is skewed 45 degrees, with outside light streaming through. The floor essentially collapsed onto this floor. The smell of death is everywhere. Our team arrived here in Mexico City at 3 am last nigh...
Eight States Sue USDOT for Suspending GHG Emissions From Performance Measures
Eight states filed suit Sept. 20 against the U.S. Department of Transportation, news services reported, over the Trump administration's suspension of a greenhouse gas performance measure for the federal-aid highway system, which was in a regulation scheduled to take effect soon after President Trump took office. Courthouse News said California led the suit, which was joined by the California Air Resources Board and the states of Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont and Wa...
Video: New Roundabout Under Construction at McIver and Old Florence Roads in Darlington County
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