ABB Wins Major Industry Award for Submersible Transformer Inspection Robot
ABB’s free-swimming robot that redefines transformer inspection services received the 2019 ‘Power Product of the Year’ award On May 30, 2019, ABB was honoured with an Electrical Review Excellence award for its ABB Ability™ inspection for transformers – TXplore™ -- in the ‘Power Product of the Year’ category. Electrical Review is the leading electrical industry publication in the UK. The judging panel, under the leadership of the highly-respected industry figure – Prof. Ian F. Bitterlin, C...
New ASCE Report Promotes Understanding of Subsurface Utility Engineering
Reston, Va. – Subsurface utility engineering (SUE) is ideally knowing as much about a subsurface project prior to starting the design process; incorporating technology to identify, characterize, and map underground utility facilities. ASCE’s new book, Subsurface Utility Engineering for Municipalities: Prequalification Criteria and Scope of Work Guide, is a resource for understanding SUE and bringing up-to-date practices to the application of SUE for public works projects. This book answers ba...
Regulatory Expert Heidi Wahto Joins Stantec to Strengthen Northwest WaterPower & Dams Practice
Bellevue, WA: NYSE, TSX:STN- Heidi Wahto has joined Stantec—a global engineering, architecture, and consulting firm—as a principal and senior environmental regulatory expert in the firm’s Bellevue, Washington, office. Wahto will apply her 20-plus years of experience to serve and grow the firm’s WaterPower & Dams practice. Wahto specializes in analyzing requirements for and advising clients in licensing, permitting, and developing compliance programs for hydropower and water-resource related p...
Stantec Selected as Partner on Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization for Science (AIMS) Project
Parsons, a subcontractor to the Leidos Antarctic Support Contract, has selected Stantec, through a competitive process, as the lead designer and design manager on a design-build team to handle design, architecture leadership, and interiors-planning assessments for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization for Science (AIMS) project. AIMS is designed to ensure that major portions of McMurdo Station—the logistics hub for the NSF-managed U.S. Antarctic Prog...
GeoCue Introduces True View, The Industry's First Drone LIDAR/Imagery Fusion Sensor
Nashville, TN – GeoCue Group Inc. unveiled its new True View™ line of drone sensors at an invitation only industry event on June 25th in Nashville, Tennessee. True View sensors offer surveyors an innovative lidar + dual oblique mapping camera configuration integrated in a single lightweight payload for use on commercial drone platforms. True View allows for fast, easy automated generation of true 3D colorized point clouds, oblique imagery and orthophotos from a single flight. In addition to...
Highview Power Unveils CRYOBattery, World’s First Giga-Scale Cryogenic Battery
LONDON and NEW YORK – June 27, 2019 – Highview Power, the global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, is pleased to announce that it has developed a modular cryogenic energy storage system, the CRYOBattery, that is scalable up to multiple gigawatts of energy storage and can be located anywhere. This technology reaches a new benchmark for a levelized cost of storage (LCOS) of $140/MWh for a 10-hour, 200 MW/2 GWh system. Highview Power’s cryogenic energy storage system is equivalent...
ARTBA’s Transportation Safety Industry Division Turns 40
(WASHINGTON) - A landmark anniversary in the effort to improve traffic safety is being celebrated this year with the 40th anniversary of the creation of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) “Traffic Safety Industry Division” (TSID). The anniversary was commemorated at the division’s recent annual summer meeting and social in Columbus, Ohio, held in conjunction with meetings of the American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the National...
USGS Research Helps Identify Impacts to Amphibians in the Prairie Pothole Region from Historic Oil and Gas Production
Advancements in wastewater disposal practices in recent years have greatly reduced ecological risks from oil and gas development, but impacts at some previous energy production sites still persist. Recent USGS research, however, may help prioritize some mitigation and restoration efforts and help with responses to future spills should they occur. USGS scientists studied how historic oil and gas production in a portion of the Williston Basin has affected native amphibians in the Prairie Pothol...
Leers Weinzapfel Associates Completes UMass Amherst North Chiller Plant
Boston, MA – Leers Weinzapfel Associates’ new 10,592-square-foot chiller plant at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the latest in the firm’s extensive portfolio of infrastructure work. A component of the university’s 2012 Campus Master Plan, it will increase the reliability and capacity of chilled water service throughout its growing north campus core by reimagining the existing regional plant it replaces. Located in the engineering quadrant, the North Chiller Plant was planned for a...
Subsea Electric Power Conversion Provides Bi- Direction MVDC Transmission
A new electrical power conversion technology for subsea power distribution requirements being developed as a Phase II SBIR for the U.S. Navy has been introduced by Diversified Technologies, Inc. of Bedford, Massachusetts. The PowerMod™ Subsea MVDC Power Distribution System converts 10 kVDC to 375 VDC directly at the seafloor and is bi-directional for grid or loop configuration with multiple power sources. Allowing the transmission of megawatts at medium voltages over thousands of kilometers,...
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