Jacobs Joint Venture Wins Contract for First Intercity Bus/Metro Station in West Africa
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA), the company's joint venture with OCP S.A. (OCP), was awarded a contract to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services to the African Society of Investments and Infrastructure (SA2I) for the Intercity Bus/Metro Station in Abidjan in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. JESA is providing PMC services for a capital expenditure of approximately $80 million. Located on a 25-hectare site, th...
Arup Awarded the Business Working Responsibly Mark in Ireland
Arup received today the Business Working Responsibly Mark at the Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) annual CEO Breakfast Forum in Dublin Castle. Arup is the first engineering company in the country and one of 23 companies in Ireland to achieve the Business Working Responsibly Mark. Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, a world-renowned professor of economics, was the keynote speaker at the BITCI CEO Breakfast Forum. An Tánaiste, Frances Fitzgerald, presented Eoghan Lynch, Group Leader of Arup Ir...
USACE Awards Tetra Tech $400 Million Environmental Remediation Contract
PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 24, 2016-- Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that they were one of seven contractors selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, for a multiple-award contract valued at $400 million. Under this five-year contract, Tetra Tech will provide comprehensive environmental remediation services on behalf of the USACE Omaha District to the Department of Defense (DOD) and other federal agency customers throughout the...
Atkins Calls for Collaboration in Intelligent Mobility to Relieve Congested Cities
Atkins, one of the world’s leading design, engineering, and project management consultancies, today calls on government and industry to take a collaborative and holistic approach to transport design and delivery that will address the urban curses of traffic congestion, air pollution and overcrowded transport networks. By 2030, 60 per cent of the global population will live in cities and some predictions estimate vehicle ownership will double by 2030 to 2.4 billion. Intelligent mobility is the...
Wärtsilä’s Sustainability Recognized by Selection to Ethibel PIONEER Investment Register
Wärtsilä has been selected for inclusion in the Ethibel PIONEER Investment register since September 2016, as well as reconfirmed for inclusion in the Ethibel EXCELLENCE Investment Register. This selection by Forum ETHIBEL indicates that the company can be qualified as a sector leader in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). “Wärtsilä plays a key role in providing environmentally sound solutions and services that enable its customers to develop their businesses in a sustainable way. T...
Nutonian and Autodesk Team to Offer IoT Analytics and Simplify Data Science
BOSTON - Nutonian, the machine intelligence company, today announced an OEM relationship with Autodesk, the global leader in design software and services. Autodesk’s Fusion Connect, an IoT cloud platform, will embed Nutonian’s artificial intelligence (A.I.) modeling engine, Eureqa, to interpret IoT data and maximize business outcomes. Eureqa automatically discovers the simplest possible predictive models from raw data, enabling any user in an organization to solve data-driven business problem...
Jacobs Wins Contract Extension for Transperth Route Information System in Australia
PASADENA, Calif. - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a five-year contract extension from the Western Australia Public Transport Authority (PTA) to provide support services for the Transperth Route Information System (TRIS). Transperth provides the Perth metropolitan region with bus, train and ferry public transport services. Jacobs has provided support services for PTA’s TRIS for 15 years, including design, implementation and ongoing management. The system...
Arup Appointed to Advisory Role for Sydney’s Parramatta Light Rail
Parramatta Light Rail is an upcoming twin track light rail line that will connect the growth areas surrounding Western Sydney’s CBD. Arup is supporting the NSW Government as Infrastructure Technical Advisor for the project, providing definition design services. By 2036, more than half of Sydney’s population will reside in Western Sydney. This shift is pulling the heart of metropolitan Sydney westward and will increase the importance of Parramatta as the region’s centre. Parramatta Light Ra...
Bentley Systems 2017 Year in Infrastructure Conference to be Held in Singapore Oct. 10-12
EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced that The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference will be held Oct. 10-12 in Singapore. The conference will take place at Sands Expo and Convention Centre at Marina Bay Sands, a world-class hotel and conference facility, and one of the most iconic buildings in Asia. The Singapore location brings the conference to a city recognized globally...
Indonesian Telco Uses Advanced Analytics Aechnology to Double Subscribers
State-owned telecommunications company Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) has turned to advanced location-based analytics technology as part of its efforts to double the number of their IndiHome subscribers from 2 million to 4 million by 2020. Their new location-based analytics tool is a military-grade mapping technology – known as the ArcGIS platform - capable of integrating data from multiple business systems, performing advanced analytics, and representing actionable data on a dynamic m...
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