Trimble Announces Tekla 2020 Global BIM Awards Winners
SUNNYVALE, Calif.— Trimble (NASDAQ; TRMB) announced today the winners of its Tekla Global Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards, a biennial competition showcasing the world’s most impressive structural construction projects that use Tekla solutions. The winner of the best BIM project of 2020 is the Randselva Bridge in Norway, which holds the distinction of being the world’s longest bridge to date that has been designed and constructed using a drawing-free, model-based process, and illustrat...
AISC Education Foundation Awards $161,000 in Scholarships
HICAGO - The AISC Education Foundation and its industry partners will award $161,000 to students in architecture, engineering, and construction fields for the 2020-2021 academic year. The scholarships will support 37 college juniors, seniors, and masters’-level graduate students studying civil engineering, architectural engineering, construction engineering, construction management, and architecture at schools in the United States. “We received applications from so many outstanding student...
FIU’s Robotics Academy Gains National Recognition for Construction Industry Virtual and Augmented Reality Training Tools
MIAMI – FIU’s Robotics Academy has won a Dynamite Award in the “Incubator” category from the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council. The national honor recognizes the Robotics Academy – the work of College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) architecture professor Shahin Vassigh and an interdisciplinary team of researchers from FIU –for an innovation that is “not yet in production with the greatest potential.” Other winners included Google, Adobe, the Dep...
Open Source Wood challenged architecture students participating in the EASA 2020 event – Here’s the winning design
The Open Source Wood initiative challenged the architecture students participating in EASA 2020 to create a concept for a wooden multi-storey building using the element and module designs available on Opensourcewood.com. Metsä Wood’s Open Source Wood initiative is an open collaboration and knowledge-sharing platform for modular wood construction. EASA (the European Architecture Student Assembly) is a network that organises a two-week workshop event every summer. However, this year the event w...
Lebanese Wastewater Solution Wins Global Tech Innovation Competition
• Mrüna’s digital idea revolutionises access to sanitation and recycled water • Low-cost, rapid tech solution for refugee camps and global urbanisation • Winning InfraChallenge will help Mrüna transform urban infrastructure The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) has crowned Lebanese tech start-up Mrüna the winner of its first global innovation competition, InfraChallenge, following a live pitch against nine other finalists from the UK, US, Sierra Leone, Australia, Mexico, Singapore and Spai...
Three State Technology Initiatives Selected as Finalists for National Awards
Harrisburg, PA – Secretary of Administration Michael Newsome announced today that three state technology initiatives have been selected as finalists by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) for its 2020 state IT recognition awards. The projects are among 30 finalists selected from over 90 state nominations. Winners in 10 categories will be announced at NASCIO's annual conference in October. "Pennsylvania continues to be at the forefront of technology and inn...
New York Honors Town of Dover as Climate Smart Community
WSP USA collaborated with Mid-Hudson community to create a comprehensive sustainability plan to guide adaption to climate change and resiliency activities. DOVER, New York —The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) announced that the Town of Dover is among the communities certified as a Climate Smart Community (CSC). WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, assisted the Town of Dover to achieve bronze-level CSC certification wit...
Georgia Department of Transportation Announced as the 2020 NOCoE TSMO Awards Overall Winner
Data initiative could have implications for agencies throughout the nation. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE), announced today that the Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) was selected as the 2020 NOCoE TSMO Awards Overall Winner. The announcement was made by Jim Tymon, Executive Director of the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO) during a YouTube Live event today. These awards celebrate the expan...
Lucy Moses Preservation Award for iconic 280 Broadway renovation
Photo by Ola Wilk/Wilk Marketing Communications $17.5 Million Historic Façade Restoration of the 240,000-square foot National and New York City Landmark 280 Broadway Building, by DCAS, DDC, Urbahn Architects, and Jablonski Building Conservation, Wins 2020 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy Historic 1846 structure is New York City’s first commercial building designed in the Italianate style New York, NY – The historic restoration of the mar...
The National Operations Center of Excellence to Make Live Announcement of the 2nd Annual TSMO Award Overall Winner and Honor TSMO Champions
Georgia, North Carolina, Washington DOTs and Houston TranStar are in the running to become the 2020 TSMO Award Overall Winner. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE), today announced they will reveal the overall winner of NOCoE’s 2nd Annual TSMO Awards on Thursday, September 24, 2020 at 2 p.m. The reveal will take place during a YouTube Live Event, hosted by Jim Tymon, Executive Director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Offi...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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