Wilo USA Supports ToolBank’s Flood Response in Illinois, Texas and Beyond
Rosemont, IL.: ToolBank USA, a non-profit which partners with other non-profits to facilitate rebuilding after disasters, has joined forces with Wilo USA to assist communities impacted by floods. Wilo USA, headquartered in Rosemont, Illinois, donated critically needed sump pumps to the Chicago Community ToolBank to equip organizations actively responding to late summer floods in Illinois and Wisconsin. Wilo donated an additional 100 dewatering pumps that were to be pre-positioned at the...
Highway Trust Fund Excise Tax Receipts Showed No Growth in Fiscal 2017
The government's combined receipts from all excise taxes in the Highway Trust Fund showed no growth in the federal fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the Treasury reported, as a large decline in retail taxes on commercial trucks more than offset mild gains from fuel taxes. In its monthly statement for September...
New York City Ranks First in Sustainable Urban Transportation in North America
Highlands Ranch, Colo., Oct. 30, 2017 – New York City ranks No. 1 among 23 North American cities for overall sustainability of its urban transportation systems, according to the first Arcadis Sustainable Cities Mobility Index. No city in the United States or Canada makes it into the top 20 cities ranked in the global index. New York City, sitting in 23rd place globally, is the most sustainable city for transportation in U.S. and Canada, buoyed by an efficient, expansive and heavily used...
Engineered Solutions: Autodesk InfraWorks: Not Just for “Mega Projects”
Even Pump Stations Get the Blues 3D Visual Presentation Pushes Wastewater Project Forward The retrofit of a wet-well/dry-well pump station into a submersible pump station isn’t normally the type of project that requires a glossy 3D model as part of design work—most firms would reserve that for more glamorous, higher-profile infrastructure such as a railway station or a new bridge. But for Wright-Pierce, a nine-office, employee-owned consulting firm based in New England and Florida, it made...
Autodesk Publishes Civil Infrastructure Industry Foresight
As the global population increases and a demographic shift sends more people to urban areas, so too will the demand for adequate and more resilient infrastructure, including clean water and utility infrastructure, transportation, and other critical assets supporting life and the movement of people and goods. Globally we face a $57 trillion infrastructure challenge, which can be overcome through improved design, construction, operations and maintenance of our civil infrastructure assets. ...
Industrial IoT: Fulfilling the Promise of the Digital Oilfield
By Tal Avrahami The price of crude oil began a precipitous decline from its summer-2014 highs of approximately $110 per barrel to a bottom near $25 per barrel in the winter of 2016. Few would have forecast that almost three years after falling off that cliff, the price of crude would remain stubbornly low in a price band around $50 per barrel. What initially appeared to be a short-term market correction now looks more like an indefinite disruption to the days of $80-100 per barrel oil that...
Stormwater Management: D.C.’s Capitol Crossing Project Takes Innovative Approach
Stormwater management is a challenge for most cities, but this is particularly true for highly urbanized areas such as Washington, D.C., where there’s little remaining open space for conventional stormwater management infrastructure such as detention or retention ponds. Under federal law, the city is required to control the amount of stormwater that enters its local watersheds (Potomac and Anacostia) and reduce the amount of pollutants the stormwater contains. District agencies, such as the Dep...
Water Tariffs in Major Cities Growing at Twice the Global Inflation Rate in 2017
The results of Global Water Intelligence’s 2017 Global Water Tariff Survey, published last month, have revealed that water and wastewater tariffs rose by 3.91% on average across 385 cities between July 2016 and July 2017, more than two times the global inflation rate. The results were released in a new White Paper entitled The Global Value of Water, published by GWI and the Global Water Leaders Group (GWLG) in partnership with Arup, and featuring commentaries from GWLG members and Alexander D...
Reports: Trump Tells Senators Tax Reform Can Pay for Infrastructure Plan
President Trump told members of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee that lawmakers can find funds to pay for a major infrastructure investment program out of a pending tax overhaul, and could perhaps combine those measures, news reports said. That, along with reports that Trump also told lawmakers he is still pushing for an infrastructure plan while aides said they continue to develop an administration proposal, raised the issue's profile at a time that some observers felt a project fund...
Billion-Dollar Projects Fuel Spike in Private Sector Infrastructure Investment
Singapore: Multi-billion dollar projects are fueling stronger private sector investment in infrastructure projects in developing countries, which increased by 24 percent from 2016 levels, reflecting US$36.7 billion across 132 projects, says a new World Bank Group report. However, although the growth of larger-sized projects is contributing to improved figures for the first half of 2017, investment levels remain 15 percent lower than the half-year averages of the past five years, reports...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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