American Concrete Institute Announces New Structural Concrete Specifications
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., July 22, 2016 – The American Concrete Institute announces the availability of two important new documents for concrete industry professionals: ACI 301-16 Specifications for Structural Concrete, and the ACI Field Reference Manual. ACI 301-16 Specifications for Structural Concrete is a reference specification that an architect or engineer can apply to any construction project involving structural concrete by citing it in the project specifications. A mandatory requ...
Skanska Sells Hotel Hagaplan in Stockholm, Sweden, to SPP for About SEK 970M
Skanska has signed an agreement with SPP on the transfer of Hotel Hagaplan in Stockholm, Sweden, for about SEK 970M. The divestment will be recorded by Skanska Sweden in the third quarter 2016. The transfer of the property to the buyer will take place in December. The combined hotel and office building is located in Hagastaden, next to the square Hagaplan and a planned new metro station. The building is 17 stories high with underground parking. The gross area totals about 16,200 square meters...
Stork Awarded Multi-Services Contract by Repsol Sinopec Resources UK
IRVING, Texas & FARNBOROUGH, England - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that Stork, a Fluor company and global provider of maintenance, modification and asset integrity services to a range of sectors, was awarded a two-year fabric maintenance and asset support services contract by Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Limited across six of their North Sea assets. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract award in the second quarter. Stork will deliver a range of integrated fabric maintenance s...
HNTB Corporation Continues to Expand Operations in Southern California
LOS ANGELES – Preparing to meet the present and future infrastructure needs in the region, HNTB continues to attract a number of key industry talent in top leadership positions and to offer that talent throughout Southern California. As part of this expansion, HNTB opened a new Inland Empire office to better serve regional transportation clients. HNTB, a national infrastructure solutions firm celebrating more than a century of service to clients, now operates five offices in Southern Califor...
ContextCapture Improves Quality of Reality Modeling Within Geospatial Workflows
Bentley Systems announces general access to the latest release of ContextCapture and ContextCapture Center. This release enhances the accessibility, scale, and quality of reality models that can be produced for use in BIM and geospatial workflows. Key capabilities include: New multi-resolution mesh support for third-party formats including Esri i3s, Google Earth KML, SpaceEyes3D, OSGB (OpenSceneGraph), and LODTreeExport formats. Multi-resolution mesh support for ContextCapture’s nat...
Ayyeka & SIGFOX: First U.S. Channel Partnership to Enable Smart Cities Across The U.S.
San Francisco, CA — Ayyeka, a technology company developing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions, today announced a first-of-its-kind channel partnership in the United States withSIGFOX, the world’s leading provider of dedicated communications service for the Internet of Things (IoT). Ayyeka’s remote monitoring systems are SIGFOX-certified and will operate on the SIGFOX network.There are currently 7 million devices operating on the global SIGFOX network, with Ayyeka joining in to deplo...
Arup Adopts Agile Working to Support Development of Industry Architecture for Digital Railway
Arup has supported BAE Systems by providing consultancy on human factors, ergonomics, reliability, availability, maintenance and operations in the development of the first industry architecture for Digital Railway. This new industry architecture provides a framework that will lead the way in the digital transformation of the rail network. A cross-disciplinary team was assembled by Arup to work alongside BAE Systems to ensure the framework was reliable and fit for purpose. The team adopted agi...
Rainwater Harvesting and Make Up Water: The Why, When, and How
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) stores rainwater for reuse to supply non-potable uses like irrigation, wash water, toilet flushing, and laundry. During long dry periods the demand will drain the storage cistern down to a critical level where the pressurization pump(s) will need to shut down to prevent dry run damage. Make up water is typically a potable connection to the rainwater harvesting system to supply water, allowing the RWH system to continue to supply the non-potable end use applications u...
Maintaining a Safe and Secure Tunnel Infrastructure
By Urs Rufener, Security Applications Director, Siemens Building Technologies Globalization – the ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a worldwide network of communication, trade and travel – has shown tremendous acceleration over the past few decades. Global trade has increased nearly thirty-fold since 1950. This is also reflected in transport networks. Freight transport worldwide is forecast to increase over 60 percent by 2030....
Big Data Moves Into Buildings
Reduce operating costs, boost energy efficiency, achieve sustainability goals: The energy data of a building or enterprise holds the key. But in and of itself, even a massive amount of data does not represent meaningful information. This is why building technology needs big data methods – processes to meaningfully correlate large amounts of data, like those that are being used in finance and marketing. Powerful analysis tools for energy management provide the necessary data from which suitable m...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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