Terra Drone Eyes Middle East Market with New Joint Venture to Provide UAV Solutions for Survey Activities
Terra Drone sets up joint venture with NDTCCS, the largest NDT inspection services provider in the Middle East Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – One of the largest providers of industrial drone solutions in the world, Tokyo-headquartered Terra Drone Corporation, has entered into an investment agreement with NDT Corrosion Control Services Co. (NDTCCS), a leading Saudi company which has been providing nondestructive testing and inspection services in the Middle East since 1975. With this agreem...
Western Specialty Contractors Expands Roofing Business in Kansas City Area with Acquisition of Great Plains Roofing and Sheet Metal
(St. Louis, MO) – Western Specialty Contractors has acquired the assets of full-service, commercial roofing and sheet metal contractor Great Plains Roofing and Sheet Metal of Kansas City, KS. The acquisition will expand Western’s existing roofing business in the Kansas City area and provide Western’s customers with a more comprehensive range of roofing, concrete, masonry and waterproofing services. “The acquisition of Great Plains expands our roofing services in Kansas City and broadens our...
Woolpert First Provider Approved by PennDOT to Operate Drones for State Projects
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation requires UAS operators to undergo extensive PennDOT training in addition to attaining the FAA’s Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate. HARRISBURG, Pa. — Woolpert had numerous surveying, mapping and geospatial professionals complete the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) training July 2. The training is part of PennDOT’s certification process, along with attaining a Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate thr...
Black & Veatch/Brown and Caldwell Team up to Map out Winter Haven’s Water Future
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — The engineering and design team of Black & Veatch/Brown and Caldwell has been selected to develop a water sustainability blueprint for Winter Haven, Florida. As home to the “Chain of Lakes”, an important regional water and recreational resource, and with a growing population of more than 37,000 potable-water customers, the City views water resiliency as critical to Winter Haven’s continued prosperity. The planned, integrated master plan will adopt a “One Water” approach...
Aberdeen Standard Investment to Acquire 42 MW of Solar Plants in Poland from Sun Investment Group and E Energija
The signing of the share purchase agreement. Credit: Sun Investment Group Sun Investment Group (SIG), Poland’s leading solar energy investment and development management company, and E energija group, a strategic renewables investor, have sold their portfolio of solar energy plants in Poland with a total capacity of 42.37 MW to Aberdeen Standard Investments - a leading European asset management company with assets under management of EUR 650 billion. Aberdeen Standard Investments has...
Terra Drone invests in RoNik Inspectioneering to Grow Confined Space Inspection Portfolio in the Process Industry
Tokyo, Japan – July 2, 2019 – Terra Drone Corporation, one of largest providers of industrial drone solutions in the world, is announcing the completion of its investment in RoNik Inspectioneering, a leading Dutch company that performs visual and ultrasonic inspections using wireless robotics. With this investment, RoNik Inspectioneering becomes a part of the Terra Drone group and gets renamed as Terra Inspectioneering. The company will focus on the inspection of industrial, hazardous, and enclo...
MANN+HUMMEL acquires shares in Seccua Holding AG
- Expansion of the portfolio in the water filtration business - Expansion of the range of solutions for drinking water applications for Point of Entry & Point of Use applications - Strategic partnership for joint growth Ludwigsburg (Germany) July 1, 2019 - MANN+HUMMEL has announced its strategic investment in Seccua Holding AG, based in Steingaden in Southern Germany. In addition to the share purchase, the transaction also includes growth financing for the company. Since t...
Hexagon Strengthens 3D Visualisation Capabilities with the Acquisition of Melown Technologies
ZUG, Switzerland (1 July 2019) — Hexagon’s Geosystems division today announced the acquisition of Melown Technologies, a Prague-based technology company from Ivo Lukačovič´s investment company Helifreak Limited. Melown Technologies develops mass-scale computer vision and advanced visualisation technology for interactive web-based rendering, enabling high performing 3D visualisation of digital urban and natural landscape models that are derived from aerial and terrestrial reality capture sen...
Stantec Selected as Partner on Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization for Science (AIMS) Project
Parsons, a subcontractor to the Leidos Antarctic Support Contract, has selected Stantec, through a competitive process, as the lead designer and design manager on a design-build team to handle design, architecture leadership, and interiors-planning assessments for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization for Science (AIMS) project. AIMS is designed to ensure that major portions of McMurdo Station—the logistics hub for the NSF-managed U.S. Antarctic Prog...
Dewberry and Gannett Fleming Awarded Joint Venture Contract by the South Florida Water Management District
Fairfax, VA- The joint venture of Gannett Fleming and Dewberry was recently awarded a contract by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) to provide professional engineering services for restoration, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, and rehabilitation projects. The SFWMD manages and protects South Florida water resources throughout a 16-county region, providing flood control, water supply planning, water quality improvement, and ecosystem restoration. The con...
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