Skanska builds care facilities in California, USA, for USD 90 M, about SEK 770 M
Skanska has signed a contract with San Mateo County to build five new buildings for Cordilleras Health System in Redwood City, California. The contract is worth USD 90 M, about SEK 770 M, which will be included in the US order bookings for the fourth quarter of 2020. The project includes four new Mental Health Rehabilitations Centers (MHRC) containing 16 beds for long-term mental healthcare. Additionally, there will be a new three-story, co-housing building that will support transitional clie...
Simpson Strong-Tie Donates $25,000 to American Red Cross for Atlantic Hurricane Relief
Pleasanton, Calif. — The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season has been the most active ever documented, with thirteen storms strengthening to hurricanes, the second highest number in recorded history. To help national and international communities recover, Simpson Strong-Tie has donated $25,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Arriving within two weeks of each other, Hurricanes Eta and Iota affected millions of people. Eta disrupted the lives of more than 2.5 million people from Pan...
Stantec bolsters environmental services capabilities in the Netherlands with acquisition of AGEL adviseurs
EDMONTON, AB; NEW YORK, NY TSX, NYSE:STN: Global design firm Stantec has expanded its capabilities in the Netherlands with the acquisition of AGEL adviseurs (AGEL), a multi-discipline engineering firm specializing in environmental services, spatial development, infrastructure, and GIS services. The 75-person firm, based in Oosterhout, is a recognized leader in the Netherlands with a longstanding history in the country’s southwest and central regions. Financial terms of the transaction were not d...
GSA/DOE RFI Deadline Extended Until Monday, December 7th Technologies for Healthy & Resilient Buildings
The deadline for the joint request for information (RFI) from the U.S. General Services Administration’s Proving Ground (GPG) program and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has been extended until Monday, December 7th. The RFI seeks responses from vendors and other interested parties on resource-efficient technologies that improve commercial building health and resilience. The joint GSA/DOE RFI will close on Monday, December 7th, 2020 at 11:59 pm ET. Read more about the RFI on gsa.gov...
Fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship Opens for Submissions
Students can win up to $10,000 USD in global competition Columbia, MD (December 2, 2020)—Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. announces its fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship. This global competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape design, entertainment and interior design who can now submit either new or old projects for a chance to win up to $10,000 USD. “This y...
Leading Engineers, Impact Investors, Scholars and Social Entrepreneurs Gather Online Dec. 3-4 to Cultivate and Accelerate Engineering Driving Sustainable Development
ASME’s fourth annual Impact.Engineered forum draws leaders from The Caterpillar Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The United Nations, Top Engineering Universities, and Private-Sector Tech Companies What: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)’s Engineering for Change (E4C) hosts its fourth annual Impact.Engineered forum, a FREE virtual event and networking experience, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. EST, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 3-4, 2020. The program focuses on “partnerships...
Tennessee’s Copperhill Watershed Restoration Named Year’s Most Outstanding Engineering Triumph
Nashville’s Barge Design Solutions Earns Top Award in Annual Awards Showcase of World’s Best Engineering Efforts WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Copperhill Watershed Restoration Project in Ducktown, Tenn. has won the 2020 “Grand Conceptor” Award signifying the year’s most outstanding engineering achievement, in the 53rd Annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA)—a national juried competition sponsored by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). Traditionally an annual black-tie di...
Revit Project Cleanup has Just Gotten Easier Thanks to the Newly Updated Ideate StyleManager
San Francisco, CA– Ideate Software, an Autodesk® AEC Industry Partner and Autodesk® Authorized Developer, is pleased to share enhancements to Ideate StyleManager, its Revit solution that allows users to analyze, delete or merge non-standard Revit styles. “Unapproved or non-standard styles within Revit models, templates or family files cause poor deliverable quality as well as delays due to the need to republish the documents,” said Glynnis Patterson, Director of Software Development, Ideate...
PointFuse Intelligent Point Cloud Software, Launches ‘PointFuse Pro’
PointFuse software which enables the fast, easy creation of intelligent mesh models of any environment from point cloud data has extended its product portfolio in tandem with the latest release going live, version 2020.02. Available immediately following research with current customers, a new version of the software has been created called PointFuse Pro. Users can now choose between PointFuse Standard, and PointFuse Pro. The key difference between the two is that PointFuse Pro includes the...
Q.E.D. Highlights Torpedo™ G1275 Pumps for Aggressive Pumping Applications
Heavy-duty slurry and solids pumps with cast iron and stainless steel construction for corrosive environments Dexter, MI – Q.E.D. Environmental Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of innovative environmental products and subsidiary of Graco Inc., announces its Torpedo™ G1275 pumps, a series of large-body pumps designed for aggressive pumping applications. These pumps work by means of a powerful stirring motion in the influent stream to allow slurries and solids to pass through. These p...