Epiroc Awards Recognize Customer Collaboration and Autonomous Drill Rigs
Stockholm, Sweden: Epiroc’s first annual awards recognize close customer collaboration in Mongolia and innovative autonomous drill rigs in Australia. The United in Performance Award honors exceptional customer collaboration. This inaugural award is presented to Anders Berglund, Bayar Torguud, Batzorig Jamsranjav and Alf Lawrence at Epiroc’s Customer Center in Mongolia, as well as to mining company Oyu Tolgoi LLC. Their far-reaching collaboration is boosting productivity and safety at Oyu Tol...
Two AASHTO AII Lead Technologies Win Awards
Two systems designated by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Innovation Initiative, known as A.I.I., as “lead technologies” recently won a pair of safety awards. The Michigan Department of Transportation recently took home the Governor’s Traffic Safety Advisory Commission 2018 Outstanding Traffic Safety Achievement Award for its Gateway Treatment. That low-cost safety treatment puts typical in-street “Yield to Pedestrian” signs on the edge lines, the...
Dewberry Receives ESRI Partner Conference Award
Fairfax, VA- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, recognized Dewberry with a Partner Conference Award for Maximizing ArcGIS in Service Offerings at this year’s Partner Conference. The firm was selected based on its work with Esri to integrate elevation and hydrography tools in its new ArcGIS Pro software. For more than 30 years, Dewberry has been an industry leader in geospatial and remote sensing technologies, and recently published the third edition of the DEM Users Manual, whi...
3D Laser Scanning Mobile-Device App Wins IF DESIGN Award
(HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND - Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, announced the Leica Cyclone FIELD 360 laser scanning mobile-device app won an iF DESIGN AWARD 2019. Along with user-experience (UX) company Ergosign, Leica Geosystems submitted the app under the category of communication. For 66 years, the iF DESIGN AWARD has been recognised as an arbiter of quality for exceptional design. The Cyclone FIELD 360 app was selected by a 67-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the w...
Improving Water Quality with Operations Research: Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Tetra Tech Awarded the 2019 INFORMS Edelman Award
AUSTIN, TX, April 16, 2019 – INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, announced it has awarded Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Tetra Tech its 2019 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science for its use of operations research (O.R.) to maximize all aspects of its wastewater collection and treatment facilities to better protect the environment and realize hundreds of mi...
Gannett Fleming’s LIRR Expansion Project Wins ACEC New York Gold Award
April 15, 2019 (Harrisburg, Pa.) The American Council of Engineering Companies of New York (ACEC New York) presented a Gold Award to the Gannett Fleming-AECOM Rail Road Expansion Partnership joint venture for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Expansion Project during the Engineering Excellence Gala on April 13. Gannett Fleming was the managing partner that provided preliminary design and developed the final environmental impact study (FEIS) with the goal to increase the capacity of the busie...
GWI Announces Winners of the 2019 Global Water Awards
Global Water Intelligence (GWI) today announced the winners of the 2019 Global Water Awards, which were presented on Tuesday 9 April at the Natural History Museum, London as part of the Global Water Summit 2019. The coveted awards ceremony recognises the industry’s greatest achievements over the previous year, rewarding the initiatives and companies in the water, wastewater and desalination sectors that are moving the industry forward through improved operating performance, innovative technology...
2019 SEAOI Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Finalists Announced
Chicago, IL: The Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI) is pleased to announce the projects that have been selected as finalists in the 2019 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. This illustrious design competition takes place each year to recognize excellence in structural engineering. The projects selected are: 41st Street Steel Arch Pedestrian Bridge, AECOM 905 W Fulton, FOREFRONT Structural Engineers Brother James Gaffney, FSC, Student Center, Wight &...
Bentley Systems Announces Drummond Community High School Team as Winners in First Future Infrastructure Challenge: DEC Hyperloop
Winners of the 2019 Future Infrastructure Challenge: DEC Hyperloop is the Drummond Community High School Team (Alizah Mughal, Ryan Gordon, Wiktor Rauba, Faye Fulton) with Harj Dhaliwal, Managing Director Middle East & India, Virgin Hyperloop One, who was a member of the judging panel for the event. LONDON – 11 April 2019 – Bentley Systems, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, announced Dr...
Innovative use of Cellular Data Earns National Transportation Planning Award
(STATELINE, Nev.) – Stantec Consulting Services Inc. and the Tahoe Transportation District (TTD) have been recognized with a Gold National Planning Achievement Award for Transportation Planning by the American Planning Association (APA). The award recognizes Mobility Planning on the Cellular Level, an initiative that used cellular data to understand visitor trips and develop recommendations to reduce congestion and increase transit mode share during Lake Tahoe’s busiest tourism seasons. “Usin...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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