Infrastructure Fix and Plastics Recycling Go Hand-In-Hand Industry Executives Tell Congress
During the Plastics Industry’s DC Fly-In event, March 26 -27, Dan Currence (left) and Tony Radoszewski (right) of the Plastics Pipe Institute met with members of Congress including Daniel Webster (R) from Florida’s 11th District, who is a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Opening up federally funded infrastructure projects to include thermoplastic pipe can increase the elimination of plastic waste. That was the position of Tony Radosz...
Profile Products Welcomes Jeff Knape as Director of Business Development
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (April 22, 2019) — Profile Products is pleased to announce the hiring of Jeff Knape as director of business development. He will focus on developing new and unique growth opportunities for the horticulture business. “Jeff has established himself as a leader in the horticulture industry and we are thrilled to have him on the Profile team,” said Jim Tanner, president and CEO of Profile Products. “His extensive experience and knowledge of horticulture will add to our already...
Bradley Miller Named Group Director for HNTB in Seattle
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Bradley Miller has been named HNTB Corporation’s Seattle group director, based in the firm’s Bellevue office. An associate vice president, Miller brings 28 years of transportation industry experience to the position. He recently transferred to the Seattle area from HNTB’s Indianapolis office where he was office delivery manager. Miller joins a team of more than 230 transportation infrastructure and architecture professionals delivering aviation, toll, highway, transit, rail...
Mikros Systems and Energy Professionals Announce Pilot Project to Take Defense-Grade Solutions to Commercial Markets
Princeton, NJ – Mikros Systems Corporation (OTCQB: MKRS), an advanced technology company specializing in advanced maintenance in military, industrial and commercial applications, and Energy Professionals, LLC, a national leader in helping organizations to significantly reduce energy costs and reach energy sustainability objectives, announced today that they have commenced a pilot program to offer data collection for energy consumption and condition-based maintenance solutions for commercial and...
The Wild Announces Speech-to-Text Comment Tool Annotation for VR Design Reviews
Portland, OR – Today, The Wild announced an update to their cloud-based immersive collaboration platform. The Wild enables teams to experience design together, in real time, from anywhere in the world. Now, when schedules and timezones don’t align, users of The Wild—namely, architects and environmental designers using Revit and SketchUp—can collaborate with their team asynchronously via speech-to-text comment annotations in a space. “VR is great for a lot of things, but typing is not one o...
New Thomas Jefferson Solar Canopy at Mount Rushmore National Memorial Amps up Efforts by Xanterra Travel Collection to Create Greener National Parks & Memorials
MOUNT RUSHMORE (KEYSTONE), SOUTH DAKOTA – On Earth Day, Monday, April 22, at 2 p.m Xanterra Travel Collection is set to unveil the new Thomas Jefferson Solar Canopy at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. This extraordinary structure provides over half of the electricity used by Xanterra’s gift shop and restaurant at Mount Rushmore. The system is the second largest solar installation in the state. It will reduce Xanterra’s greenhouse gas emissions by 24 percent or 56 MT CO2e/yr which is the equival...
Vectorworks, Inc. is First to Receive IFC4 Export Certification
Columbia, MD —Global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. announces that it is the first architectural software developer to achieve IFC4 Reference View 1.2 Export Certification (Architectural Reference Exchange). The certification comes from buildingSMART International (bSI), the worldwide authority driving the transformation of the built asset economy through creation and adoption of open, international standards. The new IFC4 certification means Vectorworks official...
Dewberry Receives ESRI Partner Conference Award
Fairfax, VA- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, recognized Dewberry with a Partner Conference Award for Maximizing ArcGIS in Service Offerings at this year’s Partner Conference. The firm was selected based on its work with Esri to integrate elevation and hydrography tools in its new ArcGIS Pro software. For more than 30 years, Dewberry has been an industry leader in geospatial and remote sensing technologies, and recently published the third edition of the DEM Users Manual, whi...
Wärtsilä’s Fuel Flexible Engine Power Plant will Enhance Nigerian Cement Factory’s Output and Sustainability
The technology group Wärtsilä is to supply an engine power plant based on Smart Power Generation technology that will enhance the output and reduce the carbon footprint of a Nigerian cement production facility. The 48 MW plant has been ordered by the BUA Group, following the decision to construct a new cement line in Sokoto, in northwest Nigeria. The engineering and equipment order with Wärtsilä was booked in Q1 2019. The plant will operate without connection to grid and provide the power nee...
3D Laser Scanning Mobile-Device App Wins IF DESIGN Award
(HEERBRUGG, SWITZERLAND - Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, announced the Leica Cyclone FIELD 360 laser scanning mobile-device app won an iF DESIGN AWARD 2019. Along with user-experience (UX) company Ergosign, Leica Geosystems submitted the app under the category of communication. For 66 years, the iF DESIGN AWARD has been recognised as an arbiter of quality for exceptional design. The Cyclone FIELD 360 app was selected by a 67-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the w...
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