Dewberry Awarded Second Consecutive HGACBuy Contract
Dewberry was recently awarded a three-year, all hazards preparedness, planning, consulting, and recovery services contract through the HGACBuy cooperative purchasing program. Services will be provided in the areas of homeland security, disaster preparedness and recovery, emergency response and all hazards planning, as well as continuity of operations and recovery services. Also included are services related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) programs, policies, and recovery a...
Gannett Fleming Wins Two USGBC Central PA Forever Green Awards
(Harrisburg, Pa.) Two Gannett Fleming projects were honored by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Central Pennsylvania at the 2016 Forever Green awards on Nov. 3 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Denver Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility was named the Innovative Project of the Year. The building set a precedent as the first LEED® Gold commuter rail maintenance facility in the nation and is a model of best practices in transit maintenance facility design. The Shippensburg University ene...
Loudoun County Celebrates the Grand Opening of Sheriff's Station
Local government leaders and residents from Loudoun County and the town of Round Hill, Virginia, recently gathered to celebrate the opening of the Western Loudoun Sheriff's Station, a facility that will enhance public safety services in the western part of the county. Designed by Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, the free-standing station in Round Hill has enabled the deputies serving the area to relocate from leased space on the second floor of the town office to more expan...
Fleet Readiness Center Opens New Navy Primary Standards Laboratory
LOS ANGELES — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced that Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) recently held a ribbon-cutting event for the completion of a new Calibration Laboratory. FRCSW’s Commanding Officer, Captain Craig Owen along with AECOM Senior Project Manager Marcel Ruegg, cut the ribbon and welcomed the staff of the Navy Primary Standards Laboratory, including members of the team who contributed to building the lab. FRCSW collaborated with AEC...
Thornton Tomasetti’s Shanghai Tower Project Wins CTBUH Award for Best Tall Building Worldwide 2016
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that Shanghai Tower in China has won the Best Tall Building Worldwide 2016 award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). Thornton Tomasetti provided structural design for the 632-meter tower, working with owner/developer, Shanghai Tower Construction & Development, design architect Gensler. The award was presented on November 3 at the 2016 Awards Symposium, Ceremony & Dinner at the Illinois Institute of Techno...
Arup has been selected as a member of Heathrow’s integrated design team.
Arup has been chosen as one of seven companies that have been contracted by Heathrow to design plans for the airport’s sustainable expansion. The firm will help deliver the world’s best connected hub airport designed around the needs of passengers, local community, business and the environment. The group –AMEC Foster Wheeler, Arup, Atkins, Grimshaw, Mott MacDonald, Jacobs and Quod – will now be known as the Integrated Design Team (IDT). The seven were chosen because of their experience in...
Arup Wins at Landscape Institute (LI) Awards
Arup and The Crown Estate have been presented with the Landscape Science, Management and Stewardship Award for The Crown Estate London Ecology Masterplan. The Ecology Masterplan aims to encourage biodiversity and ecology across central London by implementing more green infrastructure in both new developments, existing assets and the public realm. It seeks to create an extensive network of green stepping stones connecting the Royal Parks through heavily built up areas. This includes install...
Jacobs Wins Contract from ExxonMobil for Polyethylene Expansion
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a contract from ExxonMobil Chemical Company to provide engineering, design and construction management services as part of a new 650 kTa polyethylene facility to be located at ExxonMobil’s Beaumont polyethylene plant. Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is delivering front end engineering, detailed design and construction management to support enabling works and installation of offsite facilities, including rail...
Dewberry to Deliver Disaster Debris Management Planning and Consulting for Pennsylvania Taskforce
Dewberry has been awarded a contract to provide disaster debris management planning and consulting services for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Regional Task Force. The taskforce includes the City of Philadelphia, as well as Montgomery, Delaware, Bucks, and Chester counties. The firm will be assessing each of the counties in terms of their readiness to respond to the requirements of a debris cleanup operation. Following the assessment, a training exercise will be developed and delivered to prov...
Skanska Upgrades Rail Network in Southern England for GBP 165M, About SEK 1.9 Billion
Skanska has, in alliance with Aecom, Colas Rail and Mott MacDonald, been awarded a contract by Network Rail to design and construct the Waterloo and South West Upgrade on the South West Trains network in the South of England. The total contract value is GBP 453M. Skanska will include its part of the contract, worth GBP 165M, about SEK 1.9 billion, in the order bookings for Skanska UK in the fourth quarter of 2016. The project includes full design and construction to bring back the Waterloo...