ECS Global Solutions Delivers Smart Building Platform to Regent Medical Properties
NEW YORK, NY - ECS Global Solutions, a leading provider of integrated Smart Building and energy intelligence solutions, is near completion on the installation of a Smart Building Platform for Regent Medical Properties, LLC, located at 438 W. 51st St. in Manhattan. The integrated Smart Building Platform delivered through ECS' 'Smart Building as a Service' program includes open-architecture building automation for HVAC, intelligent LED lighting, IP Camera & Card Access and integrated sub-meteri...
Amec Foster Wheeler and Interserve Secure £160m Sellafield Framework
London – OneAIM, a joint venture between Amec Foster Wheeler and Interserve, has won a key framework contract to support reprocessing plants and facilities at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria. Operations Site Works, which is worth up to £160 million over four years, covers engineering support services for asset care and maintenance. OneAIM’s participation in the full project lifecycle is designed to produce greater cost-efficiencies for Sellafield Limited, the company re...
Fluor Announces Agreement with Texas Central
IRVING, Texas (August 14, 2017) – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that an agreement was reached with Texas Central Rail Holdings, LLC (Texas Central), to advance the preliminary development of the 240-mile high-speed passenger rail line connecting Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston. “Fluor’s global expertise in developing the world’s largest megaprojects, matched with its ability to provide integrated solutions to clients across the globe, position the company well with Texas Ce...
Elliott Bay Seawall Project Receives Multiple Awards
AUBURN, Wash. (AUGUST 2017) –Throughout the year the Elliott Bay Seawall project has received multiple awards for design, leadership, environmental, sustainability, emergency construction, engineering and management. Oldcastle Precast Auburn, Washington supplied the custom precast structures for this project. The $210M seawall project made extensive use of unique modular precast concrete components, which significantly helped speed up construction time, reduced project costs, and minimize...
CH2M Pilots Multi-State, Mileage-Based User Fees Effort to Support I-95 Corridor Coalition
DENVER - The I-95 Corridor Coalition is set to test the design, implementation and acceptance of user-based alternative revenue mechanisms for funding transportation after the U.S. Federal Highway Administration awarded the Delaware Department of Transportation, on behalf of the Coalition, a Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives grant for the multi-state project along the eastern seaboard. CH2M is performing the overall project management, planning and technical work for the proj...
Virginia Transportation Secretary Layne Joins Elizabeth River Crossings and SKW Constructors to Celebrate Completion of Elizabeth River Tunnels Project with Ribbon Cutting and 5K Run
Virginia Transportation Secretary Layne joins Elizabeth River Crossings and SKW Constructors to Celebrate Completion of Elizabeth River Tunnels Project with Ribbon Cutting and 5K Run WHAT: Elizabeth River Crossings (ERC) and SKW Constructors (the Skanska-led construction joint venture of Skanska, Kiewit Construction and Weeks Marine), will celebrate the completion of the design-build phase of the Elizabeth River Tunnels (ERT) project, spanning Portsmouth and Norfolk, VA. The...
USDOT Finalizes Nearly $629M TIFIA Loan for Orange County (Calif.) I-405 Project
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau said it will provide up to a $628.93 million TIFIA loan to the Orange County (Calif.) Transportation Authority to cover about a third of the estimated cost to expand both general highway capacity and add 16 miles of express toll lanes along Interstate 405. The bureau said the loan is at a 2.91 interest rate with a term of 35 years after substantial completion for the I-405 Improvement Project. As previously reported, the OCTA boa...
Michael Baker International Awarded Consolidated Addressing Project to Improve Data Use for the City of San José
Pittsburgh, Pa. – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that the City of San José, Calif., has awarded a master address database development and implementation project to the firm. Once completed, the project will improve the use of location data and other vital information throughout city government. The work will draw on Michael Baker’s database management expertise and utilize the firm’s DataMark® suite of geographic in...
Tennessee Officials Celebrate I-40/240 Interchange Project in Memphis
Gov. Bill Haslam and Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner John Schroer joined state and local officials in Memphis July 19 to celebrate prior completion of a major interchange project at Interstate 40/240. When the project began in 2013, it was the largest contract in TDOT history at $109 million, the department said. The work included building a new four-level interchange, the first of its kind in western Tennessee. The project widened sections of Interstates 40 and 240, bu...
Fugro's Integrated Capabilities Clinch Further Work for Sirius Minerals at World's Largest High Grade Polyhalite Deposit
Fugro continues its provision of site characterisation services at Sirius Minerals’ North Yorkshire polyhalite project with the award of two major new contracts integrating geotechnical and geophysical investigations. The geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions leader has won a new geotechnical package comprising seven deep boreholes in shaft and tunnel locations at the new UK mine located 3.5 kilometres south of Whitby in North Yorkshire. Fugro is undertaking strength tests of th...