Flint Safe Water Case Update: 2019 Terms Will Improve Efficiency in Pipe-Replacement Program
Flint, MI – The City of Flint agreed to use a data-driven approach to finding the remaining lead pipes delivering drinking water to residents’ homes, as part of the landmark legal settlement directing the City’s response to the water crisis. The agreement filed today imposes detailed requirements to improve the efficiency of the City’s pipe replacement program to ensure that all remaining lead pipes are identified and removed. The parties to the settlement in Concerned Pastors for Social A...
ARTBA Foundation Announces Key 2019 Scholarship, Awards & Recognition Program Deadlines
WASHINGTON - The American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation (ARTBA-TDF) has announced key deadlines for its 2019 scholarship, awards and recognition programs. They include: The Lanford Family Highway Worker Memorial Scholarship Program Established in 1999, this first-of-its-kind scholarship fund provides post-high school financial assistance to the children of highway workers killed or permanently disabled on the job. More than 160 scholarships...
Oklahoma City Selects Woolpert for Asset Management, Sewer Condition Assessment
OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 13, 2019) — The Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust (OCWUT) has signed Woolpert to an eight-year, multimillion-dollar contract to provide asset management and sewer condition assessment services throughout the city. The information will be used to establish an asset management program based on the likelihood of failure and consequence of failure for assets throughout the system, and to form the basis for OCWUT’s annual Capital Improvement Prioritization Report and Operations...
Ballard-Powered New Flyer Fuel Cell Electric Buses Ready to Deliver Zero-Emission Transit Throughout United States
VANCOUVER and ALTOONA, PA- Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) today announced that the New Flyer Industries Canada ULC and New Flyer of America Inc. (collectively "New Flyer") 40-foot and 60-foot Xcelsior fuel cell-electric buses (FCEBs), powered by Ballard FCveloCity®-HD 85 kilowatt (kW) modules, have completed rigorous testing at The Altoona Bus Research and Testing Center under a program established by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). With this important accomplishme...
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Expected to Announce Commitment to Scrap Plans to Rebuild Coastal Gas Plants
Los Angeles—Today, Mayor Garcetti’s office notified Food & Water Watch that the Mayor will announce plans tomorrow to scrap an update of Los Angeles’ three coastal gas-fired power plants, in favor of replacing the aging turbines with renewable energy. The announcement is expected to be made at a press conference at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). Food & Water Watch and its partners have campaigned against investing in updating the aging, dirty gas plants and in favor of sw...
DXA Studio Mentors FutureHaus Dubai Team from Virginia Tech to Win First Place at 2018 Solar Decathlon Middle East
New York – DXA studio, a New York based architecture and design firm known for a diverse range of projects primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn, has served as advisors for a team of students and faculty from Virginia Tech. Known as the FutureHAUS Dubai team, the students took the first place for designing the world’s best solar home during the 2018 Solar Decathlon Middle East competition. DXA studio worked with the architecture department at Virginia Tech and lead faculty of FutureHAUS Professor...
Stantec Welcomes Experienced Practitioners to Gulf Water Group
Tampa, FL - NYSE, TSX: STN - Stantec has welcomed three strategic hires amidst ongoing growth in the Gulf region. The addition of Water experts in Stantec’s Tampa, Sarasota, and Jacksonville offices brings a collective 80 years of industry expertise to the team. New hires in the Gulf include: Tina Nixon, PE, BCEE, Associate, Senior Civil Engineer – Nixon joins the Tampa office with 28 years of extensive design, management, construction and commissioning experience in civil, mechanic...
ForneyVault® – the Most Transformative Innovation in Materials Testing Introduces Further Capabilities
PITTSBURGH - Forney LP, the premier supplier of construction material testing equipment, is pleased to announce continuing upgrades to its transformative ForneyVault® technology. ForneyVault® – a cloud based system, helps testing laboratories efficiently provide trustworthy test results owing to its auditable, unalterable test management capability. The system improves productivity in the lab, affords the end user of the test data with a significantly higher level of confidence, and backstop...
ACEC of Washington Awards Three Stantec Projects
US 12 Wildcat Creek Bridge Replacement Stantec has been honored with three awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Washington in its annual Engineering Excellence Awards Program. The awards recognize projects that represent a wide range of engineering achievements and demonstrate the highest degree of skill and ingenuity. Best in State Gold Award: Unique or Innovative Applications US 12 Wildcat Creek Bridge Replacement The Stantec/Graham...
APAC to Remain Largest Combined Heat and Power Market through 2025, Says GlobalData
Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to remain the largest combined heat and power (CHP) market in the world due to an increase in capacity installations, led by countries such as China, India and Japan, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. The company’s latest report ‘Combined Heat and Power Market, Update 2019– Global Market Size, Segmentation, Regulations, and Key Country Analysis to 2025’ reveals that the global CHP capacity is estimated to grow significantly from 864.2...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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