Skanska signs new tenant lease for office tower in downtown Houston, Texas, USA
Skanska has signed a 15-year lease with the international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright for its planned 28 floor office development in downtown Houston, Texas, USA. The law firm will rent 32 percent of the total space. The project is located in Houston’s Central Business District, adjacent to Discovery Green and close to Bank of America Tower which Skanska developed and sold in 2019. The building is being designed to achieve LEED Platinum certification. Project start and construction orde...
WSP USA Launches New Climate, Resilience & Sustainability Business
National business line consolidates solutions for lifecycle resilience, sustainability and emergency management. NEW YORK — WSP USA, a leading professional services consultancy, announced the new Climate, Resilience & Sustainability business line to partner with companies, government agencies and communities across the U.S. to solve the dynamic challenges of equitable climate mitigation, asset and infrastructure adaptation and emergency management. The Climate, Resilience & Sus...
Micatu Secures $10 Million Investment from Wave Equity Partners for Disruptive Grid Optical Sensor Platform
Safe, reliable, accurate optical sensor technology allows utilities to mitigate grid disruption from increased renewable use Micatu, Incorporated, a leader in optical sensing solutions, today announced a $10 million growth investment led by WAVE Equity Partners, LLC. The financing will support the company’s continued global expansion and ongoing deployment of its proprietary GridView optical sensing platform for industrial and utility grid measurement solutions. “Our nation’s electric grid...
Ohio city selects Arcadis to design new water treatment plant
Highlands Ranch, Colo. – The City of Lancaster, Ohio has selected Arcadis to design its new 6 million gallon per day water treatment plant. The plant will replace one of the city’s two water plants in order to upgrade local infrastructure, increase capacity and help strengthen the city’s resilient future. “We have a long-standing relationship with Lancaster,” said Chad Dunn, project manager at Arcadis. “We are thrilled that our partnership with the city now includes designing an up-to-...
View’s smart building network platform, AI-powered products to transform passenger wellness and travel experience in DFW’s New “Gate of the Future”
View, the market leader in smart glass, announced that its smart windows will be installed in Dallas Fort Worth International Airport’s new expansion of Terminal D, a project that adds 4 gates to the terminal and showcases DFW’s “Gate of the Future,” a fundamental rethink of gate design in which the health and experience of passengers take priority. The expansion will be the first in an airport to deploy View’s latest smart building digital network, AI and machine learning powered environmental...
Utah's Biggest Pedestrian Bridge to be Unveiled Thursday
The UVU pedestrian bridge spans more than three football fields and will provide students a safer and faster way to campus WHAT: Local officials will unveil a new pedestrian bridge that will connect Utah Valley University (UVU) with the UTA FrontRunner Orem Central Station at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The $30.7 million bridge was built through a partnership with UVU, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), the Utah Transit Authority (UTA), Orem City and the Utah State Legislature. Sp...
Jobs Report: Pandemic Wipes out 429k Clean Energy Jobs in 2020
For first time, clean energy sector ends year with fewer workers than when it began At current recovery rate, sector would not reach pre-COVID employment level until 2023 Women and Hispanic workers lost jobs in December despite overall uptick in employment WASHINGTON (January 13, 2021) – Due to the hard-hitting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the clean energy industry finished 2020 with its fewest number of workers since 2015. It also marked the first year clean energy saw...
Honolulu selects Stantec to lead transit operations analysis
The City and County of Honolulu has selected global design firm Stantec to lead a comprehensive operations analysis for Oahu Transit Services in Honolulu, Hawaii. The 7-year, US$10 million project will study passenger movement to design a bus service that encourages ridership growth and better meets the needs of the growing region. The analysis will help implement a new vision for the city’s multimodal transportation system including the integration of the phased opening of Honolulu’s Rail Trans...
Autodesk Construction Cloud Increasingly Adopted by Leading Infrastructure Construction Teams to Boost Collaboration and Safeguard Public Budgets
Owners, specialty trades and the majority of ENR-ranked top contractors managing infrastructure projects such as roads, marine facilities and airports are choosing Autodesk's construction solutions SAN RAFAEL, Calif.- Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) today announced the majority of ENR-ranked top contractors building critical infrastructure such as highways, piers, airports, railways and tunnels are now using Autodesk Construction Cloud to seamlessly connect teams and data across design...
Deery Joins Gannett Fleming as Senior Vice President, Expands Infrastructure Growth in Western U.S.
(Harrisburg, Pa.) Gannett Fleming recognizes that solutions implemented today must also deliver safe, efficient, and reliable functionality in the infrastructure ecosystem of the future. To expand the firm’s multi-market services and help clients navigate the next era of infrastructure delivery, Gannett Fleming is pleased to welcome Joseph Deery, PE, as a senior vice president and market executive. As market executive, Deery will lead client and project development strategies with an emp...