ALLPLAN 2025-1: Smarter design-to-build workflows and enhanced interoperability
New service release boosts efficiency and collaboration in digital design Munich, 24 April 2025 – ALLPLAN, a leading provider of BIM solutions for the AEC industry, introduces a comprehensive service release with ALLPLAN 2025-1. The latest enhancements further streamline design-to-build workflows and strengthen cloud connectivity, enabling professionals across all disciplines to work faster and more precisely. "With ALLPLAN 2025-1, we are taking digital workflows to the next level. By enha...
Global transformers market to reach $89.34 billion in 2030, led by Asia-Pacific, forecasts GlobalData
The global transformers market is on a strong growth trajectory, projected to reach $89.34 billion in 2030, driven by rising electricity demand, renewable integration, and grid modernization. The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is set to lead the charge with robust investments, while the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region is poised to grow fastest, fueled by infrastructure upgrades and power sector reforms across developing economies in the Middle East and Africa, reveals GlobalData, a lea...
American Concrete Institute Releases New Joint Standard With Post-Tensioning Institute
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (4/22/2025): The American Concrete Institute (ACI), in collaboration with the Post-Tensioning Institute (PTI), proudly announces the joint release of ACI/PTI CODE-320-25: Post-Tensioned Structural Concrete—Code Requirements and Commentary in PDF format. This new code provides minimum requirements and guidance for the materials, design, and detailing of post-tensioned concrete buildings and, when applicable, nonbuilding structures. ACI/PTI CODE-320-25 was developed thro...
The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Achieves Impressive Sustainability Results
From left to right, NOENMCC employees—Rodney Williams, Project Manager-Capital Project Delivery; Donna George, Operations Manager- Environmental; Linda Baynham, Director of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility—and Zack Henley of AECOM Hunt pose with the Convention Center’s Environmental Leadership Program Award. Environmental Leadership Program Award Recognizes the Convention Center for Record-breaking Recycling Rate on a Building Renovation Project NEW ORLEANS – New Orl...
Difficult and costly energy transition unless the EU invests in biomass
Both forestry and agriculture can produce biomass for the energy system. In a cost-optimal European energy system with negative emissions of carbon dioxide, biomass is mainly used to complement the supply of fuels and chemicals for industry, aviation and shipping. A small share of biomass is also used as a flexible reserve for electricity production to strengthen supply reliability. Wind power supplies 54 per cent of the whole electricity demand, and solar power supplies 40 per cent. Photographe...
ACI Foundation Celebrates New Trustees and Re-Election of an Existing Trustee
[Farmington Hills, MI] – [April 22, 2025] The ACI Foundation is pleased to announce the election of new Trustees and the re-election of an existing Trustee to its Board. The Trustees elected new Trustee— Michael J. Schneider, who will serve as Chair of Trustees, and re-elected Trustee— Khaled Awad. New ACI Vice President, Matthew R. Sherman, also joins the Trustees as part of his new role. They join Jeffrey Coleman, Scott M. Anderson, Frederick Grubbe, Keith Kesner, David Lange, and Brett McMaho...
Yunex City of Ann Arbor Leads the Way in Transportation Technology with Deployment of Yutraffic FUSION
Ann Arbor is the first city in North America to adopt Yutraffic FUSION. The system’s intuitive interface simplifies adaptive traffic management and opens the door for multi-modal optimization for all road users. Yutraffic FUSION gives the user the ability to easily optimize signal timing in response to current traffic conditions. Ann Arbor, MI, April 23, 2025 - The City of Ann Arbor remains at the forefront of transportation innovation with the introduction of Yutraffic FUSION, be...
New Millennium celebrates 25 years as a leading steel joists and deck supplier
Workers at the New Millennium plant in Butler, Indiana welding steel joists. A manufacturer of steel joists, joist girders, and deck solutions for commercial steel construction projects, New Millennium was founded in Butler in 1999 and celebrates its 25th anniversary on May 2, 2025. New Millennium, a division of Steel Dynamics, now operates seven plants across North America with headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana. FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A division of Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI), New Millenniu...
Newforma shares new primary research assessing challenges and opportunities in AECO industry
Survey findings underscore the need for architects, engineers and contractors to adopt robust data solutions MANCHESTER, N.H. — April 22, 2025 — Newforma, a global leader in project and information management software for the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AECO) industry, has shared findings from “The 2025 AECO Project & Information Management Survey”, capturing insights from more than 600 design and construction professionals across the United States, United Kingdom,...
Pressure Piping Training Videos Now Available
From the PPI Building & Construction Division Training Short video “Polypropylene (PP-R & PP-RCT) Butt Fusion Joining.” Image courtesy of PPI. New Series of PPI Training Shorts Videos Focus on Joining CPVC, PEX, PE-RT, and PP Piping Materials IRVING, Texas - April 22, 2025 - The Plastics Pipe Institute’s Building & Construction Division has launched a series of eight videos which focus on proper techniques for joining CPVC, PEX, PE-RT, and PP pressure piping materials. The Tra...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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