Mid America Logistics Announces Expansion to New Markets and Expansion of Trucking Division Fleet
SAINT LOUIS, MO - Mid America Freight Logistics, LLC and Mid America Freight Handlers, LLC collectively operated as Mid America Logistics, answering strong demand for its asset and brokerage business, today announced plans to expand in multiple markets throughout North America and to expand its fleet respectively. The expansion will augment office openings this year in Cincinnati, Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida. Each office starts initially with four employees with bu...
Wall-Smart Collaborates With URC to Offer New Construction and Retrofit Mounts to Authorized URC Dealers in the United States
NEW YORK - Wall-Smart LTD. is pleased to announce a new partnership with URC, offering new construction and retrofit mounts available through URC sales channels. The New Construction Flush mounts for URC TKP-7600, TKP-5600 and TKP-100 integrate into any wall for unobtrusive installations that preserve the room décor. These Flush mounts can simply be painted any color to truly appear to be part of the wall and create a uniform look and feel. Wall-Smart collaborates with URC to offer New Co...
Autodesk University 2017 Celebrates the Future of Making Things
LAS VEGAS - Autodesk University -- At its annual flagship user event starting today, Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) welcomed thousands of architects, designers, engineers and digital artists from around the world to experience the future of making things. Now in its 25th year overall and its third carbon-neutral year, Autodesk University (AU) brings together nearly 10,000 people to learn, network and explore new ways to make buildings, infrastructure, products and entertainment as these industri...
CH2M Team Selected by the Port of San Francisco to Secure Resilient Waterfront for the Future
SAN FRANCISCO - The Port of San Francisco has selected CH2M, a leading program management firm and provider of global maritime engineering and coastal resiliency services, in partnership with Arcadis, a global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets, to lead the design and engineering for the 10-year, $40 million Seawall Resiliency Project. This monumental urban coastline initiative will reduce the seismic and flood vulnerability of San Francisco's 3.5-mile long Embarcadero s...
AECOM Receives Perfect Score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2018 Corporate Equality Index
LOS ANGELES — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has earned a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation’s 2018 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) and the distinction of “Best Places to Work for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality” in the United States. The Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to LGBT employees. “This year’s perfect rating fr...
NTL Launches New Public Access Repository ROSA P
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Transportation Library (NTL) in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has launched ROSA P (Repository and Open Science Access Portal), a new public repository for NTL’s collection of over 30,000 items. Members of the transportation community and the general public can use ROSA P for all the open data and publications NTL acquires, manages and preserves for their benefit. ROSA P offers NTL users a better, more useful and more reliable exper...
Engineering, Architecture Sector Adds 3.8K Jobs in October
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 261,000 in October, and the unemployment rate edged down to 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment in food services and drinking places increased sharply, mostly offsetting a decline in September that largely reflected the impact of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. In October, job gains also occurred in professional and business services, manufacturing, and health care. Household Survey Data The unemployment rate...
HNTB Opens New Pennsylvania Office in Lehigh Valley
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Ongoing growth and commitment to client service led HNTB Corporation to open a new office, the firm’s fifth in Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region on Oct. 12. Located at 640 Hamilton Street, in Allentown, the office enables the firm to enhance services to clients in the region. “As our footprint continues to expand in Pennsylvania, a presence in the Lehigh Valley gives us the ability to better serve regional clients and attract new hires to help address critical infr...
Microdesk Expands Services In United Kingdom And Europe As A Newly Authorized Autodesk Reseller
NEW YORK – Microdesk announced the expansion of its services in the United Kingdom and Europe as a newly Authorized Autodesk Reseller. Microdesk is the United States’ largest AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Owner/Operator) industry consulting firm with expertise in Connected BIM, Enterprise Development, and Asset Management. Microdesk, an Autodesk Platinum Partner in the United States, has been delivering Building Information Modeling (BIM) and implementation services...
Sierra Leone Makes Fourth Licensing Round Pre-Announcement
The Director General of the Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone (PDSL), Raymond Kargbo, announced at this week’s Africa Oil Week Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, that his country’s Fourth Offshore Petroleum Licensing Round will take place between mid-January and the end-May 2018. This License Round will be exclusively supported by the Getech Group (AIM; GTC), through its wholly owned subsidiary ERCL. ERCL and the Petroleum Directorate have worked together since 2016 to provide the...