Smart Cities to Create Business Opportunities Worth $2.46 Trillion by 2025, says Frost & Sullivan
In observance of World Cities Day on October 31st, our experts reveal key findings on the smart city ecosystem SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The uncertain post-pandemic situation will compel smart cities to focus more on developing collaborative, data-driven infrastructure to provide appropriate healthcare facilities as well as public security services. They will create significant business opportunities with a market value of $2.46 trillion by 2025. For further information on this analysis, or to...
Gov. Justice awards over $1.6 million in Transportation Alternatives and Recreational Trails Program grants benefitting Metro Valley region
CHARLESTON, WV – Gov. Jim Justice awarded over $1.6 million in Transportation Alternatives and Recreational Trails Program grants today for a dozen projects in cities and towns all across West Virginia’s Metro Valley region. https://youtu.be/OPv3TWTR8ag “I’ve been excited to award a bunch of these grants over the past few days, and not just in Charleston, but all over the state,” Gov. Justice said. “We just got these grants in on Monday and I said let’s get these out the door right away, b...
USDOT Announces $291 Million in ‘State of Good Repair’ Grants to Improve the Reliability and Safety of America’s Rail Network
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao today announced an investment of more than $291 million in grants for 11 intercity passenger rail projects in nine states through the Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair Program (Partnership Program). “This $291 million in federal grants will upgrade rail infrastructure and enhance railroad safety and reliability in communities across America,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao. The Partnership Prog...
USDOT Announces $6.5 Million to Seven States and Pawnee Nation for Highway Innovations
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today announced the latest recipients of federal funds to help enhance safety and rebuild infrastructure with cutting-edge innovations that can potentially be replicated nationwide. In this round of awards, Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, and the Pawnee Nation in Oklahoma will receive a combined $6.5 million. “These federal grants will advance innovative transportat...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signs $1.9 billion public works bill
Gov. Tim Walz signed a $1.9 billion public works infrastructure package into law Wednesday, touting the jobs it will add as a growing number of Minnesotans have given up on looking for work amid the pandemic. “The ability to create jobs, get them in the pipeline and be able to build is going to be absolutely critical for keeping these folks employed and keeping the state moving forward,” Walz said as he signed the bill at the Ironworkers Union Local 512 training center in St. Paul. The measure...
New funding to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia by 2024
New funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) will support global research and practice to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia. The FCDO’s grant to the University of Oxford will now extend to 2024 and increase to £22.5 million, to support the REACH programme improve water security by delivering world-class science to transform policy and practice. Professor Charlotte Watts, Chief Scientific Advisor and Director of Research & Evidence Divisi...
FutureOn Secures Investment from the Bentley Acceleration Fund for Oil & Gas Digitalization
Gains commitment from global infrastructure software developer to advance next generation of digital twin solutions OSLO – 19 October 2020 – FutureOn, the fast-growing Norwegian software company that works with an expanding portfolio of global energy companies, announced today that it has secured an investment from the Bentley Acceleration Fund and established a strategic partnership with US-based Bentley Systems to accelerate the digitalization of the oil and gas industry. FutureOn...
ACEC Research Institute Panel Pushes for New Federal Council to Coordinate Infrastructure Policies and Funding
Washington, D.C. – A panel of national infrastructure funding experts pressed for establishment of a new federal infrastructure planning council that could coordinate multiple agency policies and funding programs improve federal response to the nation’s infrastructure needs. Panelists applauded new strategies outlined in the “America’s New Playbook for Infrastructure” developed by the non-profit Accelerator for America in collaboration with the new National Infrastructure Partnership, which...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $8.5 Million in Grant Awards to 25 Projects That Use Transit to Help Disadvantaged Communities
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced 25 projects in 17 states will receive a share of approximately $8.5 million in funding through the Helping Obtain Prosperity for Everyone (HOPE) program to use transit systems as a springboard to create better lives for people in rural communities and areas experiencing long-term economic distress. "This $8.5 million federal investment in the transportation systems of economically distres...
Congress Extends FEMA Flood Mapping, Highway Bill, Through September 30, 2021
Fairfax, VA – Two of the most important geospatial programs in the Federal government were extended for a full year by the Continuing Appropriations bill enacted this week. Authorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which produces Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) and the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act or "FAST Act", commonly known as the Highway bill, were both slated to expire on September 30, 2020. Both progra...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
