International Award Showcases Gannett Fleming's Urban Mobility Leadership
Jan. 28, 2019 (Harrisburg, Pa.) Gannett Fleming’s Uber SKYPORT design concept recently won a 2018 GOOD DESIGN® Award in the transportation category from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. GOOD DESIGN, which attracted a record number of applicants this year, is the oldest and most recognized global design award in the world. Founded by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and Edgar Kaufmann...
Leica BLK3D Recognised by Prestigious Global Awards for Innovation, Engineering, Design
(HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND, 23 January 2019) Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, today announced its ground-breaking Leica BLK3D 3D imager has earned multiple prestigious global design and innovation awards. The first BLK3D units began shipping to customers last month. Designed to impact the work of professionals across a range of industries, including architecture, construction, public safety and real estate, the compact handheld BLK3D improves productivity by enabling instant, precise 3D measur...
North Dakota State University Professor Denver Tolliver Honored with ARTBA’s Research & Education Award
(WASHINGTON) - Dr. Denver Tolliver, the director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University, is the 2018 recipient of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) prestigious S.S. Steinberg Award. He was honored Jan. 13 during the association’s annual Research & Education Division (RED) meeting, held in the Nation’s Capital. Named after the founding president of RED, the award recognizes “an individual who has made remar...
ACEC California Announces 2019 Engineering Excellence Awards
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Today the American Council of Engineering Companies, California (ACEC California) announced the 2019 recipients of its annual Engineering Excellence Awards. Projects were recognized for demonstrating an exceptional degree of innovation, complexity, achievement and value. Fourteen projects earned the prestigious Honor Award distinction, fifteen were recognized with Merit Awards, and eight Commendation Awards were granted. “Engineering and land surveying provide the innovati...
Council of University Transportation Centers Honors Leaders and Students for Advancing Transportation Research
WASHINGTON - Five students, four leaders in transportation academia and one long-time transportation industry advocate from both the public and private sector will be honored by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) for outstanding contributions to transportation research and education at a Jan. 12 awards banquet in the Nation’s Capital. Nuria Fernandez, CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, is the 2018 winner of the CUTC Lifetime Achievement Award for Tran...
HDOT Awarded Gold and Silver Level Recognition by the Water Environment Federation
HONOLULU – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) awarded the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) Highways Division, Oahu District with a Gold Level in Program Management and Silver Level in Innovation as part of the organization’s National Municipal Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Awards Program. The awards celebrate administrators of municipal separate storm sewer systems that perform beyond regulatory requirements. “We are honored to have received recognition for our Hi...
Whirlwind Steel Awarded 2018 Platinum Safety Partner Award for Commitment to Employee Safety
HOUSTON - Whirlwind Steel, a Houston-based metal building manufacturer, was awarded the 2018 Platinum Safety Partner Award for the second year in a row – an award that just one-third of one percent of policyholders receive. Each year, Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance – Texas' largest provider of workers' compensation – recognizes policyholders with a demonstrated commitment to employee safety through its Work Safe, Texas Program. Of the 70,000 eligible Texas Mutual policyholders,...
Highview Power’s Liquid Air Energy Storage Named Technology of the Year by BusinessGreen Magazine
LONDON – Highview Power, the global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, announced today that its proprietary liquid air energy storage technology took top honours at the 2018 BusinessGreen Technology Awards. Highview Power’s innovative long-duration energy storage system, which is installed at the Pilsworth plant in the U.K., was nominated for and selected as the Smart Grid Technology of the Year. Highview’s liquid air energy storage was later chosen over every other category awar...
Two ADOT Efforts Enhancing Highway Safety Win National Honors
PHOENIX – Arizona Department of Transportation efforts that have improved safety on a busy stretch of westbound US 60 in Tempe and advanced a first-in-the-nation system that reduces the risk from wrong-way drivers have been honored by a national organization dedicated to the management and operation of state highways. The National Operations Center of Excellence is presenting its Best Transportation Systems Management and Operations Project Award (Creative Solution) to ADOT for lane adjustmen...
Dxa Studio Wins Best Restoration & Preservation Category for 100 Barclay in 2018 Architect’s Newspaper Awards
New York – DXA studio, a New York based architecture and design firm known for a diverse range of projects primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn, has announced that their work on one of the most majestic buildings in New York City, 100 Barclay won the best Restoration and Preservation category in the prestigious Architect’s Newspaper Awards for 2018. Formerly known as the Barclay-Vesey Building by AIA designated "Architect of the Century," Ralph Walker, 100 Barclay has undergone an extensi...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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