Dewberry Wins Land Conservation Award for Innovation Center South
Dewberry has been recognized with a 2016 Land Conservation Award in the Large Commercial category from Fairfax County, Virginia, for its site/civil engineering and land planning development and design work on Innovation Center South for Rocks Engineering Company. This transit-oriented, high-density, mixed-use development aims to create a vibrant community where people can live, work, learn, and play, while leading to better connectivity between activity centers from Loudoun County, Virginia, to...
Jacobs Receives Six Awards at Canadian Safety Achievement Awards Ceremony
Our field services operations in Canada recently received six awards across three categories during the General President’s Maintenance Committee and National Maintenance Council’s Canadian Safety Achievement Awards ceremony in July. Created to promote safety as a top priority in the maintenance sector, the awards acknowledge industry leaders who work together to achieve exceptional performance. William Warchow’s Safety Leadership & Innovation Award In honor of William Warchow, one o...
Celebrate SteelDay with the U.S. Structural Steel Industry September 15
(Chicago, IL) – You’re invited to join in celebrating the structural steel industry’s ninth annual SteelDay on September 15! Hosted by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and its members and partners, SteelDay offers the opportunity for AEC professionals, students and others to gain insight into the work, experience and accomplishments of the U.S. structural steel industry at events occurring all over the country. In addition, AISC is hosting free lunchtime webinars tailored to e...
Cardno Drones Challenge Helps Students’ Ideas Take Flight
Some of the University of Sydney’s best and brightest undergraduate engineering students have spent the first few weeks of Semester 2 coming up with innovative new ideas to help leading engineering firm Cardno navigate a drone-enabled future. The students were invited to participate in Cardno’s Fast Response Challenge, as part of the University’s Advanced Engineering Program. This program offers students demonstrating outstanding academic ability the opportunity to work on a small supervised gr...
Six Southern States Receive Top Awards in National Competition
NORFOLK, VA – State department of transportation projects that swiftly addressed a spike in wrong-way driving fatalities and that used safety improvements to encourage pedestrian and bicycle travel were winners in the southern regional America's Transportation Awards competition. Now in its 10th year, the competition attracted 21 project nominations from 10 southern states. Six of those states today received awards for eight winning projects at the Southern Association of State Highway and Tr...
Bentley Announces Finalists in 2017 Be Inspired Awards Program Recognizing BIM Advancements in Infrastructure Design, Construction, and Operations
EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the finalists in the 2017 Be Inspired Awards program. The annual awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world. Ten independent jury panels comprising distinguished industry experts selected the 51 finalists from more than 400 nominations submitted b...
Key Resolutions Passed at NARUC Policy Summit, Focus on Innovation
WASHINGTON—The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners concluded four days of focused discussions on energy, telecommunications and other utility issues at its Summer Policy Summit held in San Diego, California, July 16-19. The NARUC board of directors passed three substantive resolutions and several honorary resolutions. President Robert F. Powelson, of Pennsylvania, presided over the event and served as moderator for the opening general session, which focused on innovative...
Vectorworks Announces Seven New Speakers for 2017 Design Summit
Columbia, MD (August 10, 2017)—Vectorworks, Inc., a global design and BIM software developer for the architecture, landscape and entertainment design industries, announces the addition of seven new speakers to the schedule for the 2017 Vectorworks Design Summit, to be held Monday, September 18 to Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference will include 35 speakers, more than 75 hours of hands-on training, one-on-one technical...
Projects Worth US$ 5.4 Billion in Kuwait are in the Bidding Stage and About to be Awarded
Kuwait’s market has seen healthy project awards of US$ 4.6 billion in the first quarter of this year and is expecting another US$ 5.4 billion worth of projects that are in the bidding phase to be awarded by the end of the year. Following the announcement of the ‘New Kuwait’ vision and national development plans, Advanced Conferences & Meetings partnered with the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning & Development, Ministry of Electricity & Water and Kuwait Institute of Scien...
Unique Course Launched to Help International Companies Enter the Swedish Construction Market
The strong construction market in the Stockholm region has created lucrative opportunities for international companies. A requirement to be able to seize these opportunities is to have an understanding of the procedures and regulations of the industry in Sweden. To help foreign companies enter and succeed on the Swedish market, Invest Stockholm, Tyréns and SABO have joined forces to launch a two-day intensive course covering the fundamentals of the Swedish construction industry. The course is ne...