Project Innovation Award Winners 2016 Address Global Water Challenges
The Hague – Today The International Water Association announced the Project Innovation Award Winners 2016 from Australia, China and South Africa. The International Water Association Project Innovation Awards are a prestigious global competition and the winners have been selected for their innovation and excellence in water management. Project Innovation Awards winners are: Applied Research Award Sydney Water, Australia Advanced Condition Assessment and Pipe Failure Prediction Project...
InfraWorks 360 Is Growing Up: From Conceptual Tool to Detailed Design, InfraWorks Adds Engineering-Grade Features
Since its initial release a few years ago, Autodesk InfraWorks 360 (IW360) has been received as an interesting software-development exercise in what a BIM application for infrastructure could look like, with some promising but limited functionality. Some robust features such as Model Builder, which enables users to quickly and easily compile data on existing site conditions, are powerful and were ready for “prime time” right from the start. A project surface (top) was obtained from the In...
USDOT Issues Federal Policy for Safe Testing and Deployment of Automated Vehicles
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Transportation is issuing Federal policy for automated vehicles, laying a path for the safe testing and deployment of new auto technologies that have enormous potential for improving safety and mobility for Americans on the road. “Automated vehicles have the potential to save thousands of lives, driving the single biggest leap in road safety that our country has ever taken,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “This policy is an unprecedented ste...
Bentley Announces the Finalists in 2016 Be Inspired Awards Program Recognizing Innovation in Infrastructure Design, Construction, and Operations
Bentley Announces the Finalists in 2016 Be Inspired Awards Program/ / / / EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the project finalists in the 2016 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 distinguish...
Hot-Dip Galvanized Steel Industry Will Be Featured on New Episode of Innovations TV Series
CENTENNIAL, CO - The American Galvanizers Association (AGA) is pleased to announce the October 13, 2016 episode of Innovations with Ed Begley, Jr. will feature a segment on hot-dip galvanizing. The episode, scheduled to broadcast on Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 7:30am ET/7:30am PT via Discovery Channel, will explore how hot-dip galvanized steel impacts your daily life. The seven minute segment, produced by DMG Productions, will take a behind-the-scenes look at the hot-dip galvanized steel i...
Autodesk Highlights the Future of Making Things for AEC with Excellence Awards Finalists
For the past four years Autodesk has sponsored the Excellence in Infrastructure Competition to showcase stellar examples of Building Information Modeling [BIM] in action within the civil engineering industry. Click here to see last year’s winning projects - The results were spectacular. This year’s competition now includes building and construction categories, and showcases projects embracing the future of making things for AEC [architecture, engineering and construction] and civil...
Quickly Produce Conceptual Roadway Designs
Bentley Systems announces OpenRoads ConceptStation, a conceptual modeling application that empowers highway engineering professionals to quickly create conceptual road and bridge models in a matter of hours – not days. OpenRoads ConceptStation enables rapid and iterative conceptual and preliminary design, leveraging contextual information obtained through point clouds, reality meshes, GIS, and other sources. OpenRoads ConceptStation combines engineering drawing tools and project costs to...
Proceed with Caution: Concrete Cloth GCCM Provides Erosion Protection at Nuclear Power Plant
A nuclear power-plant site in the southeastern United States faced an erosion problem on a steep, 2:1 slope near dry-cast storage containers of spent nuclear fuel. The shotcrete finish covering the slope was intended to serve as a protective layer that would prevent the backfill material from eroding. However, the design of the erosion protection left it susceptible to shrinkage and temperature cracking, as no control joints were constructed. As a result, escape paths for the backfill material t...
Live, "Take You There" Report from Italy Earthquake Scene
CENTRAL ITALY – Miyamoto International releases the first of its Earthquake Journals reported live from Italy as engineers follow first responders into historic areas devastated by the M-6.2 earthquake that struck Wednesday in this "take your there" account. Expert earthquake engineers Devis Sonda and Andrea Pollini of Italy report here… Central Italy Earthquake Journal - Day 1 - Miyamoto International/ / / / / / / / / / t;t++)(function(t){i[t]=function(){return i._e.push([t].concat(Arr...
Italian Earthquake Engineering Report Released
EARTHQUAKE REPORT – NORCIA, ITALY: M-6.2, 24 August 2016 The M-6.2 earthquake had a shallow depth (10 km) and struck approximately 10 km SE of Norcia, Italy on 2016 August 24 at approximately 1:36 AM local time. As of this writing, there are 247 dead and more than 100 missing. This event occurred on shallow normal faulting on a NW-SE oriented fault in the Central Apennines. According to reports our engineers are receiving, there is only one road going to the destroyed villages and it’s prese...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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