Design-Build Bill Becomes Law in Missouri
/ / KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 29, 2016 — For two decades, countless lawmakers, municipal and county officials, and engineering and construction professionals have worked behind the scenes to enact legislation that would allow local Missouri public agencies to use the design-build construction process for everything from roads and bridges to water and wastewater infrastructure. This week, the long-awaited...
A New Space for Special Collections Opens at the San Diego Natural History Museum
/ A new space for special collections opens at the San Diego Natural History Museum | Arup | A global firm of consulting engineers, designers, planners and project managers. We provided structural engineering services for the renovation of a wing of the museum that once provided back-of-house storage space. Redeveloped to showcase a special collections gallery, what was once a forbidding, closed-off space is now an integrated and enticing part of the museum experience....
Dewberry to Design Green Infrastructure Improvements Using GIS Innovations
Dewberry has been awarded a contract by the New York City Department of Design + Construction (NYCDDC) to provide design services for green infrastructure improvements in New York City. The task order includes preparing contract plans using the Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) standard design for right-of-way bioswales, right-of-way rain gardens, and stormwater greenstreets. The plans adhere to DEP's site selection, survey, and geotechnical investigation procedures and will appl...
Arup Appointed Lead Building Designer for Kemsley energy from waste plant
Arup will deliver the building design for a new combined heat and power facility which will convert household waste into steam and electricity in Kent, UK. Wheelabrator Technologies' new £340 million facility will divert 550,000 tonnes per annum of waste from Kent and the South East of England. This is waste that would otherwise have been sent to landfill sites or have been exported to Europe for treatment. The facility has also been designed to provide steam for the neighbouring papermill an...
Arcadis to Lead Climate Risk and Vulnerability Study for City of Boston
Highlands Ranch, Colo. — As part of its Climate Ready Boston initiative, the City of Boston has selected Arcadis to assess the city’s vulnerabilities related to climate change. Arcadis, the leading design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets, will lead the project team responsible for technical assessment, design and communications support for Climate Ready Boston. This multi-disciplinary team consists of Sasaki Associates and the UMass Boston Climate Institute. The ambitious...
Clayco Begins Work on New Central Campus Health Center
CHICAGO—Cook County and the Cook County Health and Hospital Systems have hired Clayco, Inc., as the developer and design/builder to program, design and construct the new 9-story, 282,000-square-foot Central Campus Health Center. Under the leadership of the Preckwinkle Administration, Clayco and CBRE have assembled a world-class team including Forum Studio, Executive Architect, Gensler, Design Architect, and Brook Architecture, Inc. as Office & Administration Design Architect. The new facil...
HDR, with LBL Architects, Selected to Master Plan and Design a Courts Expansion at the Scott D. Moore Tarrant County Juvenile Services Facility
HDR, in Association with LBL Architects, has been selected by the Tarrant County Commissioner's Court to plan and design a major expansion and alterations to the County's new Scott D. Moore Juvenile Center in Fort Worth, Texas. The new Juvenile Service Center will include up to 50,000 square feet of new construction, with additional demolition and other work possible (based on the approved construction amount). The comprehensive Center dedicated to juveniles will include Administration Services,...
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Named GEC for Extension of State Road 167 in Tacoma
SEATTLE, WA – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has awarded a contract to WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff to serve as general engineering consultant (GEC) on a planned extension of SR 167 in Tacoma. The project will provide a better freight connection between the Port of Tacoma and the Puyallup/White River Valley and also link industrial and urban centers. SR 167 will be extended four miles westward to connect with I-5, and then continue as the SR 509 spur an additional two...
Toronto Pearson Unveils Latest Phase of Terminal 3 Redesign
Toronto Pearson today unveiled the latest redesigned space in the airport’s Terminal 3 – Node C. Designed by Stantec, Node C has been transformed into a passenger-focused space, full of natural light and dynamic retail. Stantec served as lead designer of the revitalized Node C, which is part of the ongoing enhancement of Toronto Pearson’s Terminal 3. “When we reimagined Node C, our focus was on creating the best possible passenger experience,” said Paul Gogan, Stantec’s Commercial Buildings P...
Transportation Engineers Make More Informed Decisions by Visualizing Multiple Years in a Single View with Fugro iVision 4.5
Many asset managers face the daunting challenge of making appropriate maintenance decisions at the right time especially when sites are miles away from them. With time-saving advancements in computer technology, asset managers can now readily analyze road conditions to determine if they have been maintained properly or are in need of maintenance. They can quickly review the road conditions to determine if additional site characterization surveys are required. The data collected from the survey c...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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