Senate Passes Water Bill 99-1; Sends to President for Signature
Over a month after being passed by the House of Representatives, the reconciled America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 passed the U.S. Senate with a vote of 99-1 on Oct. 10, “President Trump called on Congress to take action on the country’s water infrastructure and we have done that today,” noted Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in a statement. “America’s Water Infrastructure Act will cut Washington red tape, grow the nation...
Proposed Bill would Cancel Electric Vehicle Subsidy, Tack on User Fees
Legislation proposed Oct. 9 by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, aims to terminate and repeal the up to $7,500 electric vehicle federal tax credit, impose a “federal highway user fee” on the owners of alternative fuel vehicles and require that those fees be collected with the user’s tax return – with the monies gained from those fees to be transferred into the Highway Trust Fund. “The electric vehicle tax credit largely benefi...
State DOTs Mobilize as Hurricane Michael Hits Southeastern U.S.
The Florida panhandle took the brunt of Hurricane Michael’s 155-mph winds and storm surge as it came ashore on Oct. 9; a hurricane that, as it travelled inland and dissipated, brought high winds, heavy rain, and renewed flooding to North and South Carolina as well as Georgia; states still recovering from Hurricane Florence, which struck the East Coast in late September. The storm is the most powerful ever to hit northwest Florida, noted Gov. Rick Scott in news conference, who called it an “ab...
Atos and Bentley Systems Announce Strategic Partnership to Create Digital Twins for Owner-operators of Industrial and Infrastructure Assets
LONDON - The Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and Bentley Systems, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership through which they will offer a complete solution to create and operate digital twins on behalf of industry and infrastructure asset owners. Atos’ global experience and expertise in digital trans...
Topcon and Bentley Strengthen Constructioneering Initiatives and Programs
LONDON – The Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference – Topcon Positioning Group, a world leader in positioning technology for the survey and construction industries, and Bentley Systems, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announce new developments in the constructioneering workflow initiative. Constructioneering Academy The Bentley Year in Infrastructure Conference 2018 (YII) marks the fir...
Siemens and Bentley Systems Announce PlantSight™ Digital Twin Cloud Services
LONDON -The Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference – Siemens and Bentley Systems announced today the introduction of PlantSight, resulting from development together based on their highly complementary software portfolios. PlantSight is a digital solution to benefit customers through more efficient plant operations. PlantSight enables as-operated and up-to-date digital twins which synchronize with both physical reality and engineering data, creating a holistic digital context for consistently und...
Bentley Acquires Agency9 to Realize Digital Twins for Every City
LONDON - The Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference –– Bentley Systems Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the acquisition of Agency9, based in Stockholm. Agency9 has already provided nearly half of Sweden’s larger municipalities with city-scale digital twin cloud services for city planning and related web-based 3D visualization. Since 2012, Agency9 has taken advant...
Suffolk Hires Nick Dhimitri As National Vice President Of External Affairs
NEW YORK - Suffolk, one of the most innovative and successful privately held building contractors in the country, announced it has hired Nick Dhimitri as National Vice President of External Affairs. Nick will work out of Suffolk's New York office at One Penn in Manhattan and will be responsible for building Suffolk's national external affairs operation and expanding the company's presence in New York and throughout the country. "The construction business is all about building trust and relati...
Thornton Tomasetti Vice Chairman Aine Brazil Inducted into National Academy of Engineering
(New York, New York – October 15, 2018) – Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that Vice Chairman Aine Brazil P.E., F.SEI, LEED AP, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She was selected for her leadership in the design of innovative buildings and contributions to engineering literacy. Brazil, along with nearly 100 other new members from around the world, was inducted during a ceremony at the NAE’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Septem...
Bart Sweeney Joins HNTB as Senior Project Manager
ROCKY HILL, Conn. – Bart Sweeney, PE, joined HNTB Corporation as senior project manager and associate vice president. Based in the firm’s Rocky Hill office, Sweeney has 25 years of transportation infrastructure experience that includes project management, design, construction, maintenance and operations. “Bart is recognized throughout the state as a transportation leader with comprehensive knowledge of Connecticut’s bridges and highways,” said Jennifer Carrier, PE, HNTB Connecticut office lea...
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