Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Building Advisor Wins FacilitiesNet.com Vision Award for Analytics & Management Software
HONG KONG SAR- 14 September 2021 - Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced its recognition in the FacilitiesNet.com Vision Awards. In a year of record-breaking Vision Awards entries, an independent panel of judges chose Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Building Advisor as a winner in the Analytics & Management Software category. Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Building Advisor is a suite of analytic monitor...
Study from Autodesk and FMI Finds Better Data Strategies Could Save the Global Construction Industry $1.85 Trillion
New research shows that implementation of formal data strategies is linked to positive project outcomes, cost savings and competitive advantages San Francisco, Calif. – September 14, 2021 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) and management consulting firm FMI Corporation today released the results from a new study, “Harnessing the Data Advantage in Construction,” which surveyed over 3,900 professionals across the global construction industry on their data practices in 2020. In the study, Autodesk...
CIRCOR | RTK ® Introduces All-In-One REflex Quick Change (QC) Control Valve with Balanced Trim
Balanced trim design saves cost by eliminating need for powerful actuator RTK®, a CIRCOR International brand, and an international leader in the design and manufacture of control valves and actuators, introduces the RTK® REflex QC Control Valve with balanced trim, which compensates for high differential pressures within the trim to a minimum and thus allows high pressure drop and high volumes to be controlled. With the balanced trim, costs can be saved by eliminating the need for a la...
Stan Brown, P.E., PWLF, Assumes Presidency of APWA
Kansas City, Mo. – The American Public Works Association (APWA) is honored to announce that Stan Brown, P.E., PWLF, Member Services Consultant, Georgia Municipal Association, Atlanta, Ga., has been sworn in as President of APWA effective September 1, 2021. Affirmed by APWA’s more than 30,000 members, President Brown will lead the organization for the 2021-2022 term. President Brown succeeds APWA President Mary Joyce Ivers, CPFP, PWLF. Stan Brown has worked in local government for more than 34...
Epiroc to acquire specialist in mining vehicle battery conversions
Stockholm, Sweden: Epiroc, a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has agreed to acquire the business and assets of FVT Research Inc., a Canadian company with expertise in converting diesel-powered mining machines to battery-electric vehicles. FVT Research, based in Vancouver, Canada, designs diesel-to-battery conversion kits and rebuilds mining machines to electric versions. The company has also recently been part of a successful proj...
Enhancements to Ideate Explorer Streamline Revit Warnings Management
San Francisco, CA– Ideate Software, an Autodesk® AEC Industry Partner and Autodesk® Authorized Developer, is pleased to announce that Ideate Explorer, which allows additional exported data from Revit to Excel for easy reviewing, is now integrated with Ideate Automation, a scripting solution that schedules the process to run at times convenient to the users. Ideate Explorer users will now find these additionally requested data fields included within the manual export to Excel or CSV file forma...
Sofia Berger to Lead U.S. Transportation Business at WSP USA
Third-generation engineer with extensive international transportation experience and leader of New York’s Penn Station master plan will succeed Joseph Pulicare, who is retiring. NEW YORK — Sofia Berger has been named executive leader of the Transportation national business line at WSP USA, one of the nation’s largest engineering and professional services consultancies. Berger, who currently is deputy director of the Advisory national business line, will assume her new role leading the c...
AISI Publishes AISI S250-21, “North American Standard for Thermal Transmittance of Building Envelopes With Cold-Formed Steel Framing, 2021 Edition”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has published AISI S250-21, “North American Standard for Thermal Transmittance of Building Envelopes With Cold-Formed Steel Framing, 2021 Edition,” as a single source for calculating the thermal transmittance (U-factors) of walls and ceiling/roof envelope assembles that contain cold-formed steel framing. The standard is intended for adoption and use in the United States, Canada and Mexico and is available for free download at www.ai...
Two New Directors Join AASHTO’s Management Team
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently appointed a new director of communications and marketing while hiring a new director of technology and digital strategy. Maggie Kasperski Maggie Kasperski, AASHTO’s new director of communications and marketing, joined the organization in 2011 and held multiple positions during her tenure – interrupted briefly between 2014 and 2016 when she worked as a consumer issues media manager at the National Association of Rea...
Connections Researcher Amit Kanvinde Wins 2022 Higgins Lectureship Award
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded its 2022 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to Amit Kanvinde, PhD, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the College of Engineering at University of California, Davis. Kanvinde will present "Column Base Connections: Research, Design, and a Look to the Future" as a keynote speaker during NASCC: The Steel Conference, which will take place March 23-25, 2022 in Denver. Kanvinde will share his findings from 15 years of re...
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