Utility Coordination Expert Kevin VanHouten Joins Cardno's Atlanta Office
ATLANTA - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Kevin VanHouten, EIT, has joined the firm as Utility Coordination Manager in the company’s Atlanta, GA, USA office. Kevin has more than 20 years of civil engineering experience in project management, construction engineering and inspection, and risk management for transportation and intermodal projects with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). “Kevin has a great deal of insight into GDOT procedures. Together with his experience m...
Phoenix Industries Recently Announced the Addition of a New Product to its PelletPAVE™ Line of Additives for the Asphalt Paving Industry
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz., Nov. 29, 2018 - Phoenix Industries recently announced the addition of a new product to its PelletPAVE™ line of additives for the asphalt paving industry. The new PelletPAVE |TR is a specifically formulated PG 64 -22 binder with 12% - 15% of a very fine crumb rubber (SBR) used to enhance the performance of dense graded hot mix asphalt. Kelly Sockwell, Technical Director for Phoenix Industries stated, "We're excited about the addition of this product to our line. Our...
New Study Shows Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions for North American Steel vs. Chinese Steel for Building Construction
PITTSBURGH, PA - Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from production of Chinese steel are substantially greater than emissions from production of comparable steel in North America, according to a series of reports released today by the Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). Two peer-reviewed reports ( North America...
WSP Boosts Tolling Practice with Appointment of Jeffrey Heilstedt
NEW YORK — WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, has appointed Jeffrey Heilstedt as its national tolling market leader. Heilstedt, a 30-year industry veteran, will lead a company-wide effort to bring clients the most advanced and innovative tolling solutions, enhancing WSP’s presence in the tolling market. As a national resource, he will work closely with tolling entities across the country that are looking to build new or rehabilitate aging facili...
Newforma Announces General Availability of a Connector with Bluebeam to Streamline Project Workflows
Manchester, NH - Newforma, a leader in Project Information Management (PIM) software for architects, engineers, contractors and owners (AECO) worldwide, announces a new connector with Bluebeam Revu, the AEC industry’s leading project efficiency and collaboration solution. The connector increases productivity throughout the build process by connecting Newforma Project Center with Studio Sessions, the real-time collaboration capability within Revu. The Project Center – Studio Sessions co...
Why the Upsurge in Microgrid Development?
For more than a century, advanced economies abided by the ‘bigger is better’ philosophy for electric power supply. The world built massive grids that connected power plants to homes and businesses via wires that traversed thousands of miles. As a result, the US grid, alone, now contains enough high-voltage transmission wire to circle the Earth six times over, making it what some describe as the world’s biggest machine. The grid build-out served its purpose well; 84 percent of the global popul...
To Address Climate Change, New ITIF Report Calls for Robust Energy Innovation Agenda
WASHINGTON — Addressing climate change requires dramatically reducing carbon pollution. Toward this end, a new report released today by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the world’s leading think tank for science and technology policy, offers an energy innovation agenda that would tackle the hardest challenges impeding the transition to a low-carbon energy system. The report diagnoses the limits of the current clean energy innovation agenda, identifies sectors and tech...
Microvi MNE Solution to Restore Billions of Gallons of Drinking Water in California at Cucamonga Valley Water District
HAYWARD, Calif. - Microvi Biotech Inc. (Microvi) announced today that Microvi MNE was selected to treat nitrate for the Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) in Rancho Cucamonga, California. A contract was awarded to WesTech Engineering Inc. (WesTech) to design and build a full-scale groundwater nitrate treatment solution, featuring the breakthrough Microvi MNE™ technology. The multi-million-dollar turnkey project, to be completed in Fall 2019, will reduce nitrate contamination without produ...
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018 Passes House with Jayapal As Democratic Co-Sponsor
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, S. 1768, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of 2018, passed the United States House of Representatives after successfully passing the Senate in September. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) was the sole Democratic co-sponsor of the House version. The bill is expected to go to President Trump’s desk in the coming weeks. “National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization is the first step to ensure our states have the...
Vectorworks Named “One to Watch Company” at Construction Computing Awards
Columbia, MD — Global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. was named the winner of the “One to Watch Company” category at the Construction Computing Awards. In addition, Vectorworks Architect was runner up for the “Architectural Design Software of 2018” award, while Jonathan Reeves, director of Jonathan Reeves Architects (JRA), was runner up for “Training Software/Provider of the Year” for Vectorworks training. “We are honored to have received these awards from Constru...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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