Woolpert Signs 6-year Deal to Map Maine
BANGOR, Maine — Woolpert has signed a contract to collect high-resolution, four-band orthoimagery throughout the state of Maine. The six-year deal, which has a three-year initial term and a three-year renewal option, has an estimated value of $1.7 million. The imagery will be used by the Maine GeoLibrary to maintain its mission to provide geospatial data products to all levels of government, the University of Maine, and private and nonprofit businesses. These up-to-date, digitally accessi...
Woolpert Ascends Top Airport Design Firms List
DAYTON, Ohio — Roads & Bridges magazine released its seventh annual Go-To List for Design Firms, which ranks Woolpert tied for fifth among airport design firms industrywide. This ranking is a jump from the publication’s previous list, in which Woolpert was tied for 10th. Roads & Bridges reported that this list is not based on gross earnings, but is compiled through surveys conducted with more than 10,000 government officials. Woolpert—a national architecture, engineering and geospatial fi...
Panasonic and Silver Spring Networks Extend Smart City Reach Through New Alliance
Las Vegas, NV – Today at CES 2017, Panasonic CityNOW, a business of Panasonic Corporation of North America, and Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE: SSNI) announced a new go-to-market alliance that leverages Silver Spring’s Starfish™ Internet of Things (IoT) platform and CityNOW’s diverse portfolio of smart and sustainable solutions for cities, real estate developers, utilities, and other smart city customers. CityNOW integrates best-in-class Panasonic and third-party technologies across five sm...
Thornton Tomasetti Acquires Swallow Acoustic Consultants
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Swallow Acoustic Consultants Limited (SACL), a specialist in acoustics, noise and vibration control engineering based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The addition of Swallow will bolster Thornton Tomasetti’s Structural Engineering and Forensics practices as well as its Canadian presence. The deal is scheduled to close in early 2017. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. K...
AECOM, EnergySolutions Joint Venture Wins San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Decommissioning Contract
LOS ANGELES — AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, and EnergySolutions, a nuclear waste management and decommissioning services firm, announced today they have been selected as the decommissioning general contractor for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station through their joint venture, SONGS Decommissioning Solutions (SDS), by Southern California Edison (SCE). The Decommissioning General Contract represents a significant portion of the work requir...
Jacobs Named in Forbes Just 100 List
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) has been named in the inaugural Forbes Just 100, a list of America’s best corporate citizens. Jacobs was ranked as one of the most just companies in the Capital Goods category. The list ranks large publicly-traded companies against the expectations of American employees on several drivers of justness, including pay and benefits, worker treatment, leadership and ethics, environmental impact and others. “At Jacobs we are committed to keeping...
Great Lakes Selects Lasse Petterson as CEO and Appoints him to its Board of Directors
OAK BROOK, Ill. - The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, announced today the selection of Lasse Petterson as CEO and his appointment to the Company’s Board of Directors. Chairman of the Board Michael J. Walsh said, “After a thorough and comprehensive search process, I am confident that the Board id...
Hill International Agrees to Sell Construction Claims Group to Private Equity Firm Bridgepoint in $147 Million All-Cash Transaction
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, - Hill International (NYSE:HIL), the global leader in managing construction risk, announced today that it has entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement to sell its Construction Claims Group to Bridgepoint Development Capital, part of international private equity group Bridgepoint, for $147 million in an all-cash transaction. The transaction is expected to close in approximately 60 days, subject to certain closing conditions. Hill's Construction Claims Group, wi...
Burns & McDonnell Acquires Wisconsin-Based Industrial Contracting Firm AZCO Inc.
Burns & McDonnell has acquired AZCO Inc., a 250-employee industrial contracting company in Wisconsin, in a stock-and-cash deal. The financial terms of the acquisition, which was completed Friday, were not disclosed. Chief executive-elect Ray Kowalik said AZCO gives the Kansas City-based engineering firm a “missing piece” in its construction business. “One of the business lines that is the highest growth in our industries is the ability to do engineering-procure-construction — some people...
Heathrow Airport Appoints Jacobs to Integrated Design Team
DALLAS- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) has been awarded a four-year contract by London’s Heathrow Airport Ltd to provide airport planning and engineering services to support the airport’s sustainable expansion. Jacobs joins Heathrow’s new Integrated Design Team (IDT) of seven aviation planning and design organizations selected to develop plans for the airport’s expansion. The team will collaborate to help deliver one of the most complex airport developments in the world. Heathrow Ai...
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