Acrow Bridge’s Bill Killeen and Paul Sullivan Share Insights During Panels at Corporate Council on Africa’s U.S.-Africa Business Summit
(Parsippany, New Jersey) – Bill Killeen, CEO, and Paul Sullivan, Senior Vice President – International at Acrow Bridge, and Darren Keep, General Sales Manager for Acrow’s British unit Mabey Bridge, both leading international bridge engineering and supply companies, recently took part in Corporate Council on Africa’s 12th biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit. The event took place from June 18-21, 2019 in Maputo, Mozambique and was attended by more than 1,000 U.S. and African private sector execut...
ClockSpring|NRI Adds Milliken Infrastructure Solutions to its Portfolio
Leading Composite Repair Manufacturer Expands Suite of Rehabilitation Products for Critical Infrastructure HOUSTON – ClockSpring|NRI, a leading manufacturer of highly innovative and engineered products for the repair and rehabilitation of global critical infrastructure, today acquired Milliken Infrastructure Solutions, LLC, previously a subsidiary of Milliken & Company, expanding its line of superior composite solutions for industrial process and transmission pipelines and adding new, pi...
Clayco Announces Lamar Johnson Collaborative
CHICAGO - Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC), a subsidiary of top 20 constructor Clayco, has announced that it will combine with Clayco-owned architecture firm BatesForum, creating one firm of more than 240 professionals in five offices with industry-leading capabilities in integrated design and delivery that promises to transform the industry. “The inefficiency that remains in the traditional design-bid-build construction model needs to change,” noted CEO Lamar Johnson. “We believe we can lev...
AASHTO Makes Two Committee Appointments
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials recently made appointments to its Committee on Human Resources and Committee on Civil Rights. The organization re-appointed Lee Wilkinson (above left), director of the operations and finance division at the Iowa Department of Transportation, to a new two-year term as chair of the Committee on Human Resources, which researches, recommends, and shares best practices and policy initiatives to enable the human resource functio...
USDOT Offers $293M in Port Infrastructure Development Grants
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity on June 13 for $292.7 million in discretionary grant funding through its new Port Infrastructure Development Program, which aims to support public coastal ports by improving the safety, efficiency, or reliability...
FTA Provides Grants to Transit Projects in Minneapolis, San Francisco
The Federal Transit Administration approved two Capital Investment Grants in late June for transit projects in Minnesota and California; grants helping fund construction of a Bus Rapid Transit or BRT line in Minneapolis and boosting capacity of the Bay Area Rapid Transit or BART heavy rail system between the city of Oakland and downtown San Francisco. FTA is providing a $74.1 million grant to the Metropolitan Council of Minneapolis to help fund construction of its $150.7 million Orange Li...
Air Travel Consumer Report: April 2019 Numbers
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today released its June 2019 Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on reporting marketing and operating air carrier data compiled for the month of April 2019. The full consumer report and other aviation consumer matters of interest to the public can be found at http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer. April On-Time Performance In April 2019, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 79.8%, down from both...
U.S. Department of Transportation Allocates $300 Million to San Francisco Transbay Corridor Core Capacity Project
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced that the Transbay Corridor Core Capacity project will receive a Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 funding allocation of $300 million through FTA’s Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. The project will improve capacity on the existing Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) heavy rail system between the City of Oakland and downtown San Francisco. "This investment in public transportation infrastructure will...
Army Signs Woolpert-Black & Veatch JV to $49M Mapping, Surveying Contract
WIESBADEN, Germany (June 24, 2019) — The U.S. Army has selected the Woolpert and Black & Veatch joint venture and Quantum Spatial Inc. to a $49 million contract to provide surveying and mapping services. Work locations and funding will be determined with each task order. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Wiesbaden, Germany, is the contracting activity. The USACE received 10 bids via an online solicitation process for the firm-fixed-price contract, according to the U.S. Department of D...
NYC School Construction Authority and CTA Architects Complete UPK Q368, the First-Ever Pre-Kindergarten Built Within a Passive House Building in the United States
The 4,700-square foot school uses only one-eighth the amount of energy of a typical pre-K Corona, NY – New York City School Construction Authority (SCA) and CTA Architects, P.C. (CTA) have completed New York City’s and United States’ first-ever pre-Kindergarten built within a passive house building. Located in the Corona section of Queens, UPK Q368 – also known as the Mosaic Pre-K Center at 54-25 101st Street – is situated near LeFrak City. According to Craig Tooman, AIA, LEED-AP, the...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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