Building roads to save Yosemite toads
Caltrans installs the mini-culvert undercrossing for Yosemite toads along State Route 108 in Mono County. Credit: Kris Bason/Caltrans Yosemite toads collected along State Route 108 during the maintenance project. Credit: Kris Bason/Caltrans Each spring deep in the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite toads roam the alpine meadows in search of a mate. Biologists have been tracking the movements of these toads, and have noted that they travel surprisingly long distances for such small creatures. F...
Digital Twin Consortium Announces Liaison with buildingSMART
The Digital Twin Consortium® and buildingSMART International (bSI) have entered into a liaison agreement to accelerate the development, deployment, and wide-scale adoption of open digital twin technologies. Both have agreed to the following: Collaborating on standards requirements, including open-source standards Realizing interoperability by harmonizing technology components and other elements to enable connected data environments Aligning work in horizontal domains for ad...
UP42 Partners With Hexagon To Offer HxGN Content Program Aerial Imagery on Geospatial Marketplace
BERLIN, Germany – High-resolution aerial imagery from the HxGN Content Program is now available on the UP42 developer platform for Earth observation data and analytics. UP42 customers may now choose from nearly 11 million square kilometers of 30 cm orthorectified imagery for North America and Europe and over 500,000 sq km of 15 cm data for major U.S. cities in the Hexagon aerial image library. UP42 gives users direct access to extensive Earth observation data sets and advanced processing alg...
Fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship to Open December 1
Global competition will recognize design students’ best work Columbia, MD (October 20, 2020)—Continuing its commitment to cultivate future generations of designers, global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. will open submissions for its fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship on December 1, 2020. The Vectorworks Design Scholarship invites undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape, entertainment and inte...
Stantec to provide engineering services for three bridges in North Dakota
Leading global design firm, Stantec, was selected by the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) to provide engineering-design services for three bridge projects over the Maple River. The projects include the replacement of two bridges on I-94 and one on ND 10, as well as the construction of two median crossovers for traffic control on I-94 during bridge construction. Working in partnership with the state bridge office, Stantec will complete the preliminary utility coordination and...
SpeedCore Researcher Amit Varma Wins Higgins Lectureship Award, Will Address Industry Thursday
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction has awarded its 2021 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to Amit H. Varma, Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Bowen Laboratory of Large-Scale CE Research at Purdue University’s Lyles School of Civil Engineering. Varma will present “SpeedCore and Steel-Concrete Composite Construction: The Best of Both Worlds” as a keynote speaker during NASCC: The Steel Conference, which will take place April 14-16, 2021, in Lo...
DFI Announces Winners of 2020 Young Professor and Student Paper Competitions
Hawthorne, N.J. : DFI announces the winners of the 2020 Paper Competitions. Alejandro Martinez, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Kyle O’Hara, Ph.D., graduate student researcher, University of California, Davis, are the winners of the Young Professor Paper Competition. Their paper, “Applications of Frictional Directionality for Monotonically- and Cyclically-loaded Piles,” describes the load-transfer behavior of piles with surface inspired by the belly scales of snakes that mobilize a direction...
New funding to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia by 2024
New funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) will support global research and practice to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia. The FCDO’s grant to the University of Oxford will now extend to 2024 and increase to £22.5 million, to support the REACH programme improve water security by delivering world-class science to transform policy and practice. Professor Charlotte Watts, Chief Scientific Advisor and Director of Research & Evidence Divisi...
World’s leading power system operators launch global consortium
Global effort aimed at reaching 50% emission reductions over next 10 years (LONDON) – Earlier today during the BloombergNEF Summit, Audrey Zibelman, CEO of the Australia Energy Market Operator (AEMO) announced the launch of the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST). Speaking during the European Energy Infrastructure in Transition Session, Zibelman highlighted the need for a major global collaborative effort in overcoming technical barriers related to the integration of clean e...
Skanska renovates and expands historical library in Charlottesville, USA, for about USD 112 M, about SEK 990 M
Skanska has signed an additional contract with University of Virginia to renovate and expand the historical Alderman library in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. The contract is worth USD 112 M, about SEK 990 M, which will be included in the US order bookings for the fourth quarter 2020. The work will include a complete demolition of a 1967 addition, replacing it with a six-story concrete framed addition of approximately 11,600 square meters. The existing 9,300-square-meter library will also be...
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