Aries Industries Strengthens Market Outreach With Management Promotion, Two New Hires
Waukesha, Wis. – Aries Industries, the industry leader in state-of-the-art equipment for inspection and maintenance of underground infrastructure, has strengthened its market outreach with a significant promotion and two new employees. John Kudis, formerly Northeast Regional Sales Manager, has been promoted to the new position of National Accounts Manager. Kevin Hastings has rejoined the company as Western Regional Sales Manager. Boris Holmes has been hired as the company’s first-ever Ro...
Chief Counsel of Federal Railroad Administration Rejoins Seyfarth
NEW YORK - Seyfarth Shaw LLP today announced that Juan D. Reyes III has rejoined the firm in New York as a partner in the Real Estate department and Public-Private Partnership (P3) practice. Reyes returns to Seyfarth from distinguished federal government service, where he was the Acting Administrator and Chief Counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). During his tenure as Acting Administrator, Reyes oversaw the agency’s staff of 950 and its $3...
Turning Natural Gas into Carbon Nanotubes Cuts Energy Use, Carbon Dioxide Emissions
HOUSTON – Rice University chemical and biomolecular engineer Matteo Pasquali and his colleagues have won a $3.3 million federal grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals. The award comes from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), through it's OPEN+ initiative. OPEN+ announced seven awards in its second and third rounds of funding in December to groups advancing concrete and methane techn...
Penn Awards Indian Minister Top Prize in Energy Policy
New Delhi, India —Today the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania presented its fourth annual Carnot Prize for achievements in energy policy to the Honorable Piyush Goyal, India’s former minister of power and of renewables and current minister of railways and coal. During his tenure, Goyal directed a fast-track effort to electrify 18,000 villages in remote parts of India. He was also instrumental in reforming India’s power markets and expanding renewable en...
Wireless Gas Detectors Gain an Edge with Rising Adoption of Internet of Things Technologies
Santa Clara, Calif. – The rising interconnectivity among devices in industries is opening up the market for wireless gas sensors. These sensors can be installed in smartphones and are designed to support Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, near-field communication, and other wireless connections. Their portability, low power requirements, and high-performance potential make them ideal for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, especially in critical and hard-to-reach areas in mining and oil & gas. With further im...
New Hardox 500 Tuf Wear Steel Helps Heavy-Duty Bucket Manufacturer Winkelbauer Get Tough on Wear
Upgrading to this material allows Winkelbauer’s customers to load more and extend the service life of their equipment. Winkelbauer GmbH in Austria is a leading supplier of heavy-duty buckets and other construction equipment for the European market. The company is an early adopter of SSAB’s new wear-resistant steel grade Hardox® 500 Tuf. Upgrading to this material allows Winkelbauer’s customers to load more and extend the service life of their equipment. Hardox® 500 Tuf is an abrasion-resi...
Antony Wood, Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat to Keynote AEC BuildTech Conference & Expo
ROSEMONT, IL - BNP Media's AEC BuildTech Conference & Expo (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) is pleased to announce that Dr. Antony Wood, CEO of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat will be a keynote speaker at the inaugural event taking place April 30 to May 2, 2019, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL. On May 2, 2019 Dr. Wood will share his expertise on the multi-disciplinary aspects of skybridge connection between tall buildings with the audience of arc...
Kuvella Modular Designs and Z Modular Announce Partnership to Expand Delivery of Modular Design and Construction
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. and BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Kuvella Modular Designs, a leader in sustainable modular construction, and Z Modular, a division of Zekelman industries and leader in modular steel construction, today announced an alliance between the two companies to streamline the modular construction process and broaden availability of their products throughout North America. Z Modular's signature product, the Vectorbloc, provides extremely tight tolerances and ensures even stacking of modules. It'...
New Method To Determine How Safe Buildings Are After An Earthquake
More information: Yves Reuland et al. A model-based data-interpretation framework for post-earthquake building assessment with scarce measurement data, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (2018). DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2018.10.008 Measurement-supported performance assessment of earthquake-damaged concrete and masonry structures. Infoscience. DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8113 Quantitative data for fast decisions The recordings are then processed to separate out signals resulting from...
Former Las Vegas Engineer Kristina Swallow Expected to Head NDOT
Kristina Swallow, a former engineer for the city of Las Vegas, is poised to be tapped by Gov. Steve Sisolak to become the new director of the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT), NDOT documents show. Her appointment was listed on the agenda for a meeting scheduled for Thursday of the NDOT’s seven-member board of directors, which is led by the governor and includes the lieutenant governor and controller. A spokesperson for the governor’s office declined to comment. “As a practicin...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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