Schindler Elevator Rising with Construction of Tallest Midtown Manhattan Office Tower: One Vanderbilt
MORRISTOWN, NJ –Forty-two Schindler elevators and five Schindler escalators will ultimately move thousands of building workers and visitors every day at One Vanderbilt, the 58-story, 1.7 million square-foot commercial office tower being constructed in midtown Manhattan directly adjacent to Grand Central Terminal. Thirty of the elevators will be equipped with Schindler’s PORT Technology. Schindler Elevator Corporation was awarded a multi-million-dollar contract by Construction Manager AECOM Tish...
Vortex Companies Enters Formal Strategic Partnership with Advantage Reline
HOUSTON - Vortex Companies recently announced a strategic partnership with Advantage Reline, developer of a Sprayed-In-Place Pipe (SIPP) trenchless technology for the municipal, industrial and commercial market sectors. The Vortex family of brands, which includes Schwalm USA, Quadex, Picote and Deep Trekker, combined with Advantage Reline's technology, will help broaden awareness and application opportunities for SIPP. "The industry has placed great emphasis on CIPP alternatives and by partnerin...
Beamex Launches Intuitive and Powerful Multi-platform Mobile Paperless Solution for Executing and Documenting Calibrations and Maintenance Inspections
The concept of a paperless calibration process is not new, yet many companies still use paper based solutions for executing and documenting calibration events, ignoring the many improvements that a paperless solution can bring, such as efficiency and data quality improvements. Beamex has long provided paperless calibration solutions using CMX Calibration software as an online solution and with Beamex Documenting Calibrators in an offline mode. bMobile 2.0 complements both the CMX software and...
World Green Building Council and China Green Building Council Announce Partnership to Accelerate Commitment to Reduce Carbon in the World’s Largest Building Market
Zhuhai, China - World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and China Green Building Council (China GBC) announce partnership to collaborate efforts to increase green buildings around the world and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. This partnership is hugely significant as China is the largest building construction market [1] in the world, with up to 2 billion square meters constructed annually, accounting for nearly half of new construction globally in the coming decad...
DEWALT Announces New Structural Design Software: DEWALT Design Assist
TOWSON, MD – DEWALT Design Assist is a new structural design software program that streamlines, automates, and optimizes DEWALT anchoring products in accordance with the latest national and international building codes. The free software revolutionizes anchor design with innovative customization tools for both connections and anchor properties. DEWALT Design Assist offers several new features and tools to optimize the design process for a variety of applications. The DEWALT Engineered by Pow...
Carl Von Hake, CPA Joins ROG+ Partners
Rusk O’Brien Gido + Partners is pleased to announce the addition of Carl Von Hake, CPA to the ROG team. Carl specializes in corporate financial advisory services including strategic business planning, financing strategies, operational effectiveness, ownership transition, stock structuring, business valuation, corporate governance and profit enhancement. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Carl will lead ROG’s expansion efforts in the Western U.S. and brings the unique perspective of an A/E business o...
Topcon and Bentley to hold collaborative Constructioneering Academy in Brisbane
LIVERMORE, Calif., U.S./ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, the Netherlands – Topcon Positioning Group and Bentley Systems announce the second collaborative Constructioneering Academy initiative. The session is scheduled for April 12, 2018 in Brisbane, Australia. The Constructioneering Academy is designed by Topcon and Bentley Institute to allow construction industry professionals to learn best practices for constructioneering, a process of managing and integrating survey, engineering, and construction dat...
Michael Baker International Selected to Implement 33 Smart Mobility Corridor Along U.S. Route 33 Near Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio (April 3, 2018) - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced it was selected by the NW 33 Innovation Corridor Council of Governments for a $1 million contract to provide program management and technical oversight for the implementation of connected vehicle technologies along a 35-mile section of U.S. Route 33 between and within the City of Dublin and the City of Marysville near Columbus, Ohio. Michael Bake...
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Chinese Language Version of Vectorworks 2018 Software
Columbia, MD (April 2, 2018)—As part of a worldwide rollout that began with the English release in September 2017, global design and BIM software developer Vectorworks, Inc. announces the release of the Chinese version of its Vectorworks 2018 software line, which includes Vectorworks® Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Designer and Fundamentals, as well as BraceworksTM, a structural load analysis add-on module. The Chinese language version is the final installment to join other languages, including...
University of Oregon Knight Campus Breaks Ground
As University of Oregon students hit the books this spring term, shovels hit the dirt for the first phase of the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, which broke ground March 2 in Eugene, Oregon. Working in collaboration between its Seattle and New York offices, Thornton Tomasetti is providing structural, bridge and façade engineering services to New York-based Ennead Architects, the design architect, and Portland-based Bora, the architect of record, for the project. The facilities...
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