Western Specialty Contractors Offers FREE Downloadable Visual Guide & Checklist for Parking Garage Inspections
(St. Louis, MO) Maintaining multi-million-dollar parking garages can be a daunting task for building owners and their facility managers. Identifying and tracking problem areas within parking structures has just become easier with Western Specialty Contractors’ new online Visual Guide & Checklist for parking garage inspections. Available for FREE download at http://online.fliphtml5.com/vvef/bzai/, facility managers now have a visual reference for easily identifying and tracking damage to a par...
Forney LP Announces ForneyVault® - An Auditable, Unalterable, Materials Testing Management System
PITTSBURGH - Forney LP, the premier supplier of construction material testing equipment, has released ForneyVault® – the most transformative innovation in materials testing in many years. (Quote from Jeff Dziki, CEO): "We're excited to tell the world how ForneyVault® positively impacts the construction process – improving laboratory testing efficacy, optimizing access to material test data, and speeding information throughput for critical decisions." Test labs must produce reports as q...
Assessment & Remediation Expert Therese McCarthy-Watson Joins Cardno's Ventura Office
Ventura, CA - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Therese McCarthy-Watson has joined the firm as Senior Project Manager in the company’s Ventura, CA, USA office. Therese has nearly 30 years of experience in conducting soil and groundwater assessments and remediation within the private sector and for the oil and gas industry throughout the United States. Therese has performed specialized services with assessment and remediation, as well as environmental facility audits, regulatory permit...
Mattamy Homes Expands Phoenix Presence with Camelback Ranch Purchase
PHOENIX, AZ - Mattamy Homes is pleased to announce that it has acquired a significant property in Phoenix, AZ, located next to Camelback Ranch-Glendale Field, the home of spring training and year-round player development for the LA Dodgers and Chicago White Sox. This purchase will enable Mattamy to bring new homes and the company's unique community design into an area that has been otherwise developed for many years. The acquisition is for a 59-acre piece of property, zoned for 199 lots in t...
Geotechnical and Construction Consulting Startup Insight Group Streamlines Engineering Workflows with Agile Frameworks
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Agile Frameworks®, the leading provider of collaborative, cloud-based corporate, field, and lab information management enabling Profitable Engineering® for the construction and engineering services sector, today announced Insight Group, a recently formed geotechnical startup, has selected its flagship MetaField® solution which provides a single application to schedule, dispatch, test, collect and assemble results to accurately deliver information to clients in real time....
Fourth Edition Of The Contractor's Guide to Quality Concrete Construction Is Now Available
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - The American Concrete Institute (ACI), Farmington Hills, MI, and American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC), St. Louis, MO, announce the fourth edition of the best-selling Contractor's Guide to Quality Concrete Construction is now available in printed and digital formats. The new guide provides up-to-date knowledge of quality concrete construction practices and was unveiled today at World of Concrete in Las Vegas, NV. Written by and for contractors, and refe...
Virtual Surveyor 6.2 Now Processes Larger Drone Survey Projects
LEUVEN, Belgium, 22 January 2019 – Virtual Surveyor drone surveying and mapping software has added new functionality that enables users to process larger projects without buying more powerful computers or expensive cloud services. The enhancement is among several included in Virtual Surveyor 6.2 released this week in response to requests from an international client base that doubled in 2018. “Our objective with Version 6.2 is to make our users more productive while saving them money by...
SJI Design Awards Call for Entries
Steel Joist Institute is excited to announce call for entries for the Design Awards. Submit your favorite project or projects from the last three years to be considered for an award in three major categories. Industrial, non-industrial and unique applications of steel joists will be recognized by the Steel Joist Institute Design Awards. Click the ‘Submit’ button to read more about the judging criteria and rules for entry. All entries must be submitted by March 1, 20...
Trimble’s Tekla Structures Covers the Complete Bridge Design Workflow with New Bridge Creator Extension
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 22, 2019—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today Tekla Bridge Creator, a new extension for Tekla Structures Building Information Model (BIM) software that integrates the complete bridge design workflow from design geometry to constructible modeling and detailing. This new solution expands upon Trimble’s Constructible Process, an innovative approach for enabling the digital transformation of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) workflows. The new software ex...
Stantec Awarded Comprehensive Wastewater Project
Portland, OR - Stantec, a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm, is providing Program Controls, Engineering Services and Construction Management to the City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) during the design development, construction, startup and commissioning of significant infrastructure upgrades for two major local wastewater treatment plants: Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant (CBWTP) and the Tryon Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (TCWTP). BES...