E-470 Public Highway Authority Selected for 2020 Toll Excellence Award from the International Bridge,Tunnel and Turnpike Association
E-470 is Recipient of Toll Operations, Engineering & Maintenance Award for Proactive Traffic Management Program WASHINGTON, D.C. – The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA) today announced the E-470 Public Highway Authority has been awarded a 2020 Toll Excellence Award for Toll Operations, Engineering & Maintenance for its proactive traffic management program during extreme weather situations. This year, IBTTA has awarded seven prestigious awards acknowledging industry...
METRO Named Outstanding Public Transportation System of the Year
METRO has received a national award recognizing the transit agency's numerous achievements over the last three years. The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has honored the Authority with its 2020 "Outstanding Public Transportation System Achievement Award." METRO President & CEO Tom Lambert made the announcement at the transit authority's August board meeting. Lambert commended staff for its contributions to the organization and the community, and thanked Board members for their...
Wisconsin bicycle route recognized by national organization
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) approved U.S. Bike Route (USBR) 30 and USBR 230 as Wisconsin’s first nationally designated bicycle routes. The 269-mile USBR 30 crosses the state from east to west. It begins in Milwaukee, at Lake Michigan, and ends in Bluff Siding, on the Mississippi River. The route uses multiple types of existing bicycling infrastructure, including: state and county bike trails local roads and bike paths state and coun...
Meet the 2020 Leadership Award recipients in Latin America
Watch our video about green building leaders creating healthy, sustainable buildings, businesses and communities. In Latin America, there are more than 4,000 LEED projects and over 1,700 active LEED professionals working to transform buildings, cities and communities into places that improve the living standard for every person. USGBC is honored to recognize eight 2020 Leadership Award recipients whose work across Latin America puts them at the forefront of green building. These leaders h...
TransComm Skills Award Winners Announced at Virtual Meeting
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Committee on Communications – known as TransComm – announced the winners of its yearly skills awards competition during its virtual annual meeting on August 25. TransComm’s skills award competition – which for more than 35 years has recognized the best communications and marketing work by state departments of transportation – hosted 132 entries submitted by 27 state DOTs in 30 categories that reflect the “broad range” of e...
Video: WASHTO Regional Winners Announced in 2020 America’s Transportation Awards Competition
Every year, state departments of transportation from AASHTO’s four regions nominate projects that are making a significant difference for the people that live, work, and play in our communities. The America’s Transportation Awards competition, sponsored by AASHTO, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce selects the best of those nominated projects and programs in three categories for making our communities safer, stronger, and better. In this special presentation video we announce the winners in t...
PennDOT Partnership Receives Award
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has received regional and national recognition for a couple of recent projects. PennDOT was named a regional winner in the America’s Transportation Awards competition in the operational excellence category for their Automated Work Zone Speed Enforcement Program. This program is a five-year pilot to address work zone safety through the deployment of mobile units to detect vehicles traveling at least 11 miles per hour over the speed limit. A camera...
Tensar Announces Winner of First Annual Civil Engineering Scholarship Program
ATLANTA, GA – Tensar International, a leading geosynthetic products innovator known for its unique geogrid solutions, announced two winners of it first annual Tensar Civil Engineering Scholarship competition program. The two students each won a $1000 scholarship for completing a specific construction design challenge: one challenge was in flexible pavement design and the other in mechanically stabilized earth wall design. The scholarships are one component of Tensar’s ongoing professional educat...
State DOTs Win Regional Awards for Transportation Projects
Thirty-one transportation projects from 27 state departments of transportation around the country earned regional recognition in the 2020 America’s Transportation Awards competition for providing solutions that increase safety and save lives, make infrastructure more resilient, while improving the quality of life for their communities. [Above photo by the Montana DOT.] Patrick McKenna “The people who planned, engineered and built these projects deserve recognition for the positive impacts t...
WPAFB Gate 26A Earns LEED Silver Certification from USGBC
Woolpert, emersion DESIGN and Messer Construction created this environmentally efficient entrance to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Commercial Entry Control Facility. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Gate 26A recently was awarded LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Architecture for the gate was provided by emersion DESIGN, engineering and landscape architecture were performed by Woolpert, and Messer Construction was the con...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
