Jacobs Arup JV Recognized with Five Awards for Iconic Queensferry Crossing
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) and Arup, as part of Transport Scotland's project delivery team, have received five awards for the Queensferry Crossing project, the longest three-tower, cable-stayed bridge in the world. Major innovations and technology solutions comprise the Queensferry Crossing, allowing the structure to carry substantial volumes of traffic while bringing it firmly into the digital age. The bridge is equipped with smart technologies that monitor weather, c...
Woolpert Receives 2017 Google Cloud Partner Award for Customer Success in Google Maps
DAYTON, Ohio — Woolpert has received the 2017 Google Cloud Global Partner Award for Customer Success in Google Maps. This year’s award was presented today in San Francisco at the Google Cloud Next Partner Summit, an event that showcases Google Cloud partners spanning G Suite, GCP, Maps, Devices and Education. Woolpert was honored for its demonstrated sales, marketing, technical and support excellence to help customers of all sizes take advantage of the Google Cloud product suite to transform...
The US Navy, Supported by Jacobs, Receives Prestigious Environmental Restoration Awards for Puerto Rico Cleanup Efforts
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC), the Comprehensive Long-term Environmental Action Navy (CLEAN) program contractor, is part of the Navy's team that has received the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) award, the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) award and the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) award for Environmental Restoration Team at Vieques for its cleanup efforts in Puerto Rico. The environmental restoration awards honor individuals, teams, ships and installations for their outstand...
Highview Power a Finalist for Utility-Scale Storage Project of the Year
LONDON – Highview Power, a leader in true long-duration energy storage solutions, announced today that its Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) system at the Viridor Pilsworth site near Manchester, UK, is a finalist for the 2018 Solar Power Portal and Energy Storage News Awards. The winners will be announced 17th October at the sixth-annual awards ceremony in Birmingham. “The Pilsworth LAES plant was only officially launched at the beginning of June, yet this is already the second major industr...
Northeast Transportation Projects Win Big in National Competition
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – State departments of transportation across the country are working to make transportation systems stronger and safer every day through life-changing projects. Today, six of those projects from four northeastern states were honored in the regional America's Transportation Awards competition for their work in optimizing and expanding transit for inner-city users, saving lives on a busy seasonal roadway, and helping drivers avoid a 42-mile detour with an innovative bridge rep...
Online Voters to Choose America’s Favorite Transportation Photo
WASHINGTON – Online voting is now underway in the annual Faces of Transportation photography and video contest sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. One of 96 images entered in four song title categories will be voted America’s favorite. The categories are: Highway Song” by Blackfoot; “Sailing Away” by Christopher Cross; “The Subway Song” by The Icarus Account; and “Watching Airplanes,” by Gary Allan. Each photograph depicts the many ways tr...
Buckminster Fuller Institute Recognizes The Bark House In Fuller Challenge
SPRUCE PINE. NC – As a manufacturer of whole-building products, The Bark House is honored to be a part of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Curated Archive as a Catalyst Program recipient. The Bark House architectural product design and business process is based on a whole-systems design philosophy that is regenerative to the environment, local culture and challenged economy in a remote region of the country. Bark House products include unique bark wall coverings of pure nature that have been c...
Texas North Tarrant Express Project & Meridiam Infrastructure’s Garvey Receive National Public-Private Partnership (P3) Awards
(WASHINGTON) - The $2.1 billion North Tarrant Express project in Texas and Jane Garvey, North American Chairwoman of Meridiam Infrastructure, have been recognized as models of excellence in innovative transportation finance by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The awards were presented July 19 in two categories during ARTBA’s 30th Annual Public Private Partnerships (P3s) in Transportation Conference, held in the Nation’s Capital. P3 Champion of the Year: Ja...
FDOT’s Florida 511 Receives Two National Marketing Awards
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-The Florida 511 Traveler Information System was recently awarded two top honors by separate national and renowned organizations in the areas of marketing and social media. FL511 received the Award of Distinction honors during for 24th Annual Communicator Awards by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA). The work awarded was the campaign’s creative design of the FL511 promotional car, used as a photo backdrop at conference events and community engagements. In ad...
Profile’s Dr. Michael Robeson Earns Esteemed ASTM International Awards
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (July 11, 2018) — Profile Products is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael D. Robeson, PE, CPESC, CPSWQ, CESSWI received the Standards Development Award and the Special Service Award from Committee D18 on Soil and Rock as part of ASTM International, an international standards development organization. The Standards Development Award is given to those who create new ASTM standards. Robeson earned the award for development of ASTM Standard Designation D7986 “Standard practic...