The Stantec Team is Making Progress on the Imagine Clearwater Downtown Revitalization Project
TAMPA, FL: The City of Clearwater approved international consulting design firm Stantec to provide architecture and engineering services on Imagine Clearwater, a Community Vision Plan for the Downtown Waterfront. Imagine Clearwater is a plan to reactivate the city’s waterfront and downtown in efforts to spur economic development. The Stantec team is currently working to provide master plan concept validation and pre-design services. The team recently finished several noise studies of the existin...
Michael Baker International Selected to Design and Develop the Livingston Executive Airport in Louisiana
Pittsburgh (March 21, 2018) - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that it was recently selected by the Livingston Parish Airport District to design and develop the new Livingston Executive Airport in Livingston, Louisiana. As part of the five-year contract, Michael Baker will provide aviation engineering services for the new general aviation airport that will include a 5,000-foot runway, a flight service station, airplane...
$2 Billion Riverline Mega-Development Divides into Separate Residential Projects
Less than two years after breaking ground on one of Chicago’s most ambitious residential developments, Riverline’s owners have split the $2 billion plan into two projects along the Chicago River. Riverline’s developers said the eight-tower South Loop mega-development is now two separately controlled projects, with Australia’s Lendlease taking over work on the 7-acre portion north of River City Condominiums and Chicago-based CMK Cos. keeping the 8-acre parcel south of the Bertrand Goldberg-des...
Haiti: Eight Years After
Miyamoto International created a video of the eight-year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti, describing improvements that have been made to make the new buildings (and people) more earthquake resistant.
Video: Under a Collapsed Building
I’m in Mexico City a week after the earthquake and this is our first day assisting a local engineering team. A seven-story concrete office building has collapsed. They call it Site 286. More than 40 people died here, probably the largest number of fatalities in a single structure. “Let me radio in for them to stop throwing concrete debris in our pathway.” “Alto! (Halt!),” a Spanish urban search-and-rescue (USAR) officer yells at me. “Let me radio in for them to stop throwing...
Civil Engineers Gather Resilience Data in Mexico Post Earthquake
Mexico City – The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) has a team of experts in Mexico City, Mexico this week to gather information on infrastructure resilience in earthquakes, following the Sept. 19 quake. The IRD team will investigate the performance and recovery of the infrastructure systems impacted by the 7.1 earthquake. The group will be collecting data in Mexico from Nov. 12 to Nov. 18, led by Craig Davis, Ph.D., G.E., P.E., and Allis...
Motherboard Investigates the Uncertain Future of Nuclear Cleanup in America
Inside Colorado's Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a former Superfund site that embodies the painful past and uncertain future of nuclear cleanup in America. The Raid Dominick "Dom" Sanchini wasn't sorry until he got caught. He was, at the time, a third-year manager at Rocky Flats Plant, a nuclear weapons facility in Colorado that produced around 70,000 plutonium triggers and other hazardous components for nuclear weapons made in the United States through the...
Seoul Transforms Aging Overpass into Skygarden
Seoul Transforms Aging Overpass into Skygarden from V1 Media on Vimeo. Seoul has embraced a series of urban-planning projects to make public spaces more attractive to pedestrians. The latest is Seoullo 7017, an old highway overpass that has been converted into a garden in the sky. Much like New York City's Highline, the project has turned a hulking eyesore into green space for the public. Seoul's government built it, and the people came. More than 3 million pedestrians have visited the walkwa...
Materials Industry Members Prod Congress to Fix Trust Fund as Part of Tax Measure
The National Stone Sand & Gravel Association used a Sept. 24-28 legislative and policy forum in Washington, D.C., to try to build support for an effort to use tax reform discussions to find a long-term revenue stream to close the projected shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. Ahead of the meeting, Laura O'Neill-Kaumo, NSSGA's senior vice president for government and regulatory affairs, said her group's members would send "a small army of advocates" to Capitol Hill "and urge Congress to use ta...
Atlas Copco Wins Orders in Kazakhstan for Highly Productive Mining Operations
Stockholm, Sweden: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has won recent orders from Kazakhmys Corporation, a leading copper producer in Kazakhstan. The mining equipment will enhance the customer’s productivity, safety and ergonomics. The orders include dozens of mine trucks, loaders and drilling rigs for use in 11 mines, including the major Zhomart copper and silver mine in Central Kazakhstan. The orders total MEUR 22.5 (MSEK 215) and were received in the sec...
Video: Crashes Drop Measurably After Rural Road Safety Improvement Project on US 521 in Lancaster County
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