AECOM completes two temporary hospitals in partnership with the New York City Department of Design and Construction in response to COVID-19 crisis
LOS ANGELES - AECOM (NYSE:ACM), the world’s premier infrastructure firm, announced today it has completed the New York City Department of Design and Construction’s (DDC) project to construct two temporary hospitals in response to the COVID-19 emergency. AECOM provided construction management, emergency engineering and grant management services for the facilities, located in Brooklyn and Queens, NY, which increased the city’s hospital capacity by more than 1,000 beds. AECOM was awarded the con...
States Projecting Big Budget Cuts Due to COVID-19
State governments continue to ratchet back current spending and projected budget outlays due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; reductions that are starting to include planned transportation infrastructure investments. [Above photo by the New York State DOT.] “The coronavirus outbreak has quickly upended state budgets with states now facing significant revenue declines and increased spending demands as they contend with both a public health emergency and a severely deteriorat...
Black & Veatch’s Connected Data Real-Time Mapping Technology Keeps Projects Moving and Workers Safe
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Black & Veatch, a global provider of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, has developed a geospatial tracking tool to additionally safeguard field services and construction crews during the current COVID-19 global health crisis. The rollout of “BV Safe Contact” comes at a time when essential power, water and telecommunications services are in high demand, making large infrastructure projects more critical than ever. Because project work must continue...
ARTBA Chairman Steve McGough Makes Case for Infrastructure Package with Trump Administration
WASHINGTON — American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Steve McGough April 29 called on the Trump administration and Congress to take immediate steps to stabilize state transportation programs and enact a multi-year plan that dramatically increases federal highway, bridge and public transportation investment. McGough, the president and CFO of Houston-based HCSS, delivered his remarks during a U.S. DOT virtual "listening session" led by Secretary Elaine Chao, Federal Highway...
Engineers Learn from Home, Strengthen Skills for Current and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Workplace
ASME brings flexible, affordable and applicable virtual training solutions to engineers everywhere NEW YORK – Lifelong learning for engineers doesn’t stop, even under quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a recent survey of approximately 3,000 engineers conducted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), eight in 10 engineers anticipate a change in operations due to COVID-19 and reduction of business overall. This escalation of change in an already evolving...
College of DuPage Architecture Alumna Helps Transform McCormick Place Into Alternative Care Facility for COVID-19 Patients
Glen Ellyn, Ill. - In just two weeks, hundreds of workers converted McCormick Place from a convention center to a medical facility with 2,250 rooms to treat COVID-19 patients. College of DuPage Architecture alumna Michelle Binet had the unique experience of working on the design team as an architectural designer at AECOM where she works full-time. “My team and I, along with hundreds of others, including the Illinois National Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers, worked non-stop trying to get...
Capital Logistics Uses Descartes Solutions to Help National Grocery Retailers Facing COVID-19–Driven Volatility
WATERLOO, Ontario, April 28, 2020 - Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that White Plains, NY-based Capital Logistics, a full service logistics provider with extensive expertise in domestic temperature-controlled transportation, is using the Descartes MacroPoint™ real-time freight visibility solution and the Descartes Aljex™ transportation management system (TMS) to move and track loads for national...
Pandemic Preparedness: How Hospitals Can Adapt Buildings to Address Worst-Case Scenarios
A Canadian healthcare architect looks at how hospital staff can act now to modify facilities and contain a pandemic By Tim Eastwood, Healthcare Principal I spend much of my life thinking about hospital design. And these days, with the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), I’m sure many people around the world are looking at their hospitals in new ways, as patients and staff try to stay healthy. COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), has brought...
State DOTs Feeling the Budgetary Impact of COVID-19
Steep reductions in motor vehicle travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic are adversely affecting state department of transportation budgets – to the point where some agencies are laying off workers and shelving planned transportation projects. [Above photo by the NCDOT.] The North Carolina Department of Transportation noted in an April 21 statement that as it is fully funded through the motor fuels tax, highway use tax and Department of Motor Vehicle fees, the traffic volume falloff is projec...
AECOM Completes the Phase One Transformation of McCormick Place Convention Center Chicago Into an Alternate Care Facility For COVID-19 Positive Patients
LOS ANGELES - AECOM (NYSE:ACM), the world’s premier infrastructure firm, today announced that it has completed the first phase of the transformation of Chicago’s McCormick Place into an alternate care facility for patients considered COVID-19 positive. Fourteen days after the receipt of a Notice to Proceed, the first 500 beds of the McCormick Place Alternate Care Facility have accepted its first patients. “We are proud that AECOM and a talented group of partners could rapidly mobilize in supp...
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