Michael Baker International Creates Safer Roadway with Widening of Highway 70 in Central Arkansas
Pittsburgh (June 13, 2017) - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, is playing a critical role in the transformation of the heavily traveled Highway 70 between Interstate 30 and the City of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The firm recently completed a $4.5 million design project for the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) to widen the 19-mile stretch of highway from two lanes to four, in an effort to increase capacity and pro...
Aircuity Announces its Airside Efficiency Platform to Improve Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality
NEWTON, Mass., USA – Aircuity, maker of smart automated airside solutions, announces that its airside efficiency platform has been included in a major retrofit project by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The NRC’s building in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan is utilizing two Aircuity Sensor Suites (SSTs) in its laboratory spaces and one SST for exhaust fan control. “Over the last decade, airside efficiency has proved to be the biggest single energy efficiency conservation measure av...
T.Y. Lin International Wins 2017 IBC Arthur G. Hayden Medal for Idaho Avenue Pedestrian Overcrossing
SAN FRANCISCO - T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized, full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the Idaho Avenue Pedestrian Overcrossing (POC) in Santa Monica, California, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 International Bridge Conference (IBC) Arthur G. Hayden Medal. The Arthur G. Hayden Medal acknowledges a single recent outstanding achievement in bridge engineering demonstrating innovation in special use bridges, such as pedestrian, people-mover, or non-tr...
Metro Regional Connector Tunnel Boring Machine Surfaces at New L.A. Station
The $1.55 Billion Metro Regional Connector Transit Project, a 1.9-mile long subterranean twin rail tunnel linking L.A.’s Gold, Blue and Expo lines, last week punched through the site of the future 2nd/Hope Station in Bunker Hill. The tunnels, scheduled to wrap up by early 2018, will connect three new stations along the Connector’s expanded path, from Little Tokyo to the Financial District in downtown L.A., including the 1st /Central Station in Little Tokyo and the 2nd /Broadway Station in the Ci...
Oldcastle Precast Bridge Projects Win Design Excellence Awards
REHOBOTH, Mass. (JUNE 2017) – Oldcastle Precast’s Skilton Road Bridge Rehabilitation and Interstate-10 Tex Wash Bridge Emergency Replacement Projects were recipients of Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI) 2016 Design Excellence Awards. During the 54th annual PCI Design Award Program, twenty-six awards were presented to projects across North America, including best-in-class awards for both transportation structures and buildings, as well as special awards for industry advancement, s...
Haven Plaza Square LLC, Association of New York Catholic Homes, New York Institute for Human Development, CTA Architects, and The Wavecrest Management Team Break Ground for a New Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure Building and Other Upgrades at Manhattan’s Haven Plaza Affordable Housing Complex
Despite its utilitarian function, CTA Architects designed the new $9.89 million Haven Plaza Resiliency Building to be visually attractive by incorporating interesting architectural details into the concrete structure, such as a fully glazed front façade and vertical concrete fins. Rendering courtesy of CTA Architects New York, NY–Haven Plaza Square LLC, an affiliate of the Association of New York Catholic Homes and the New York Institute for Human Development (IHD); CTA Architects; and the...
Project Alloyed Wins Backing from Government's £31 Million Future Fund to Boost UK's Research and Development of Driverless Cars
LONDON - The consortium-led Project Alloyed has been awarded a government grant, having identified technical solutions for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technology, as part of the government's bid to promote the UK auto sector, as well as improve air quality and reduce energy consumption. One of 24 UK winners of the CAV2 competition, Project Alloyed will deliver a 12-month project that will study the viability of integrating the required in-car systems, therefore enabling standard ac...
A Few Months Before Its Official Opening, Tappan Zee Bridge Is Drivable
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Several months remain before it officially opens to long-expectant commuters, but it is now possible to drive across the entire three-mile length of the new Tappan Zee Bridge, a critical crossing in the suburbs of New York City. Like beavers steadily piling branches and mud into a dam, hundreds of workers have cobbled together enough of the outward-sloping towers, the radiating cables, the steel framework and the concrete-paneled roadway of the first of twin bridges so that...
Before Disaster: Resilient by Design Launches with Open Call for Community Ideas to Address the Local Impacts of Climate Change
Oakland, Calif. – Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, an innovative new approach to prepare the Bay Area for the effects of climate change, launched today with an open call for community leaders, local elected officials, national experts and residents to come together and address this critical issue before disaster strikes. The project, which will develop ten creative, implementable and long-lasting infrastructure solutions, will serve as a blueprint to flip the switch on traditional disas...
Amtrak Taps Developer for $1 Billion-Plus Redevelopment of Union Station
Amtrak has chosen a Chicago development firm to lead a more than 3 million-square-foot real estate redevelopment of Union Station and surrounding land, a project expected to take about six years to complete and cost more than $1 billion. Riverside Investment & Development, led by John O'Donnell, will lead the redevelopment team, according to a news release on the project. More details are expected to be announced Thursday by the developer, Amtrak and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The total development...
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