Birmingham New Street Station Celebrates First Anniversary of Reopening
One year on from its reopening by her Majesty the Queen on September 20, 2015, visitors to Birmingham New Street station are enjoying a step-change in their experiences of what a station can offer. In addition to keeping over 170,000 passengers/day moving, the UK's biggest station outside London offers extensive retail and leisure facilities, in a light, aesthetically pleasing and dynamic environment. Atkins, one of the world's most respected design, engineering and project management consult...
Amec Foster Wheeler Wins Contract for Second CFB Unit in the Philippines
Amec Foster Wheeler announces today that it has been awarded a contract by JGC Corporation to design and supply a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generator for the SEC210 Phase 2 Project in the Philippines for Sarangani Energy Corp. (SEC), part of Alsons Power. Amec Foster Wheeler’s Global Power Group will design and supply the 105-MW second unit of the baseload CFB power plant including auxiliary equipment and onsite technical advisory services for the project located in Maasim, Sarang...
Jacobs Secures Design Role on Darlington Upgrade Project in Australia
PASADENA, Calif.- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it is part of a design joint venture sub-contracted by the Gateway South Consortium which was recently selected to design and construct the Darlington Upgrade project in Adelaide, Australia. The Gateway South Consortium is a joint venture between Fulton Hogan and Laing O’Rourke. The design joint venture consists of Jacobs, KBR and SMEC Australia. The major transport project, with a budget of approximately $440 million...
Atkins Designed Substation Installed at DONG Energy’s Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm
The first of two Atkins-designed offshore substations for Race Bank offshore wind farm has been successfully installed at the site in the North Sea, a milestone achievement in the wind farm’s offshore construction phase. As a critical piece of infrastructure, the substation is the first major piece of the Race Bank wind farm to be installed, and the second substation Atkins has designed for DONG Energy now in place in UK waters after the successful installation of the Burbo Bank Extension sub...
AECOM Selected by INDOT for MAASTO Truck Parking Design
LOS ANGELES — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has been selected by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to provide design services for its initial Truck Parking Information Management System (TPIMS) deployment. This project is part of the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) US$25-million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant to provide innovative solutions to critica...
Unicorns Exist. They Live in Sweden
It’s Tuesday morning and 20 people are gathered around a table, facing a large screen. What they are looking at is a 3D model of the new subway line in Stockholm, a massive and very complex project. They are all specialists with different expertise and they are discussing the location of a new emergency exit to the station “Odenplan”, in the centre of Sweden’s capital. The Virtual Reality (VR) specialist then turns the model around to figure out whether the suggested locations might collide w...
HDR to Design Airport Runway Rehabs in Florida and Kentucky
HDR continues to grow its aviation planning and engineering practice, most recently by adding commercial airfield rehabilitation contracts in Florida and Kentucky. "These projects strengthen HDR's qualifications for airfield design per the latest Federal Aviation Administration design requirements," said Tim Fish, HDR aviation technical services director. "Our approach, values and culture continue to distinguish us in the aviation infrastructure marketplace." Fish credits the firm's client...
Cardno Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) Expert Publishes Article on Reducing Risks During SUE Project Work
Cardno’s Aaron Hopkins has authored an article, “Subsurface Utility Engineering Benefits Trenchless Installation,” which has been published in the June 15, 2016, issue of Trenchless Technology magazine. Although subsurface utility engineering (SUE) has predominantly applied during the engineering or design phases of projects, Aaron describes how it provides critical existing underground information as an effective means of reducing the risk of damages, claims, significant project delays, and...
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff to Design Widening of Mountain Parkway in Kentucky
LEXINGTON, KY – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has awarded a contract to WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff to finalize design plans for the widening of a segment of the Mountain Parkway in Wolfe County. The project entails widening to four lanes an 11-mile segment of the parkway in Eastern Kentucky, including reconstruction of two interchanges and numerous crossroads. Structural plans will be developed for nine bridges and 11 box culverts, and numerous retaining walls and lighting plans will be...
Stantec Receives Two Awards for Outstanding Interior Design
Stantec Architecture has received national recognition for its interior design of buildings at two Pennsylvania campuses: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Folger Dining Hall, Indiana, PA and Delaware County Community College’s (DCCC), Learning Commons in Media, PA. The projects are featured in the August 2016 American School and University magazine’s Interiors Showcase issue. IUP’s Folger Dining Hall involved a full interior demolition and reconfiguration of the dining room, serv...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
