Voters Re-elect State Lawmakers Who Supported Gas Tax Increases, New ARTBA Analysis Finds
(WASHINGTON)— Voters in 12 states re-elected 93 percent of 530 state lawmakers who supported a gas tax increase between 2015 and 2018 and ran for re-election in 2018. Winning state lawmakers in Nov. 6 races included 92 percent of Republicans, and 94 percent of Democrats, according to a new analysis from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center™ (ARTBA-TIAC). The results are consistent with those from the last five years that show sup...
New Release of IMAGINiT Pulse Increases Business Critical Data Sharing
BALTIMORE, MD — Developed to overcome data workflow challenges facing design and manufacturing engineers and architects, IMAGINiT Pulse now offers more integrations with multiple business systems and software platforms as well as support for the Autodesk Vault 2019 product release. Visitors to IMAGINiT Booth #A221 at Autodesk University (AU) 2018 in Las Vegas, NV will see first-hand how they can use Pulse to connect engineering data to other business systems. “Customers who use IMAGINi...
Bay Area Construction Companies Rebrand and Restructure: Form the Building Easier Construction Group
TAMPA, Fla. - The owners of Bay Area Shell recently announced they were restructuring into three separate and unique companies to be more efficient and combine with other companies to present a "group" of companies with various construction disciplines into the newly formed group be marketed and collectively known as Building Easier Construction Group (BECG: https://buildingeasier.com/) as a way to leverage economies of scale, and more accurately reflect their core scopes of work. The other two...
HNTB Adds Two Experienced Environmental Planning Professionals, Liz Suh and Lilly Acuña, in Southern California
LOS ANGELES – HNTB Corporation has added two environmental planning professionals in transportation to its growing environmental practice in the West Division. Elisabeth “Liz” Suh joined the firm as director of environmental planning (highway) and Lilly Acuña serves as environmental planner. Both are based in the firm’s downtown Los Angeles office. “We are pleased to welcome both Liz and Lilly to our expanding Southern California environmental planning and sciences team of professionals,” s...
Ritchie Bros. Sells US$50+ Million of Equipment in Houston, TX
HOUSTON, TX - Ritchie Bros. ended its 2018 Houston auction season with a strong event this week, selling US$50+ million of equipment and setting multiple site records. Approximately 5,600 people from 58 countries registered to bid in the November 6 – 7, 2018 auction—setting a new Houston site record—including 4,100+ people registering to bid online. U.S. buyers purchased approximately 88 percent of the equipment, including 45 percent purchased by Texas buyers, while international buyers from...
Global LEAP Awards Video Highlights Azuri Solar TV Life-Changing Impact
Azuri’s solar TV has been highlighted by the Global LEAP Awards in its video celebrating global solar innovation and the positive impact of solar for off-grid families. The video, released at Unlocking Solar Capital in Rwanda today, features Azuri solar TV customer Subira Kingi from Kilifi, one of Kenya’s poorest counties where 80 percent of homes don’t have access to electricity, and shares the life-changing impact solar has had on her family. [Watch the solar TV video https://vimeo.com/29...
Continental Mapping Hires New Civil Works General Manager – Retired U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Officer Aaron Wolf
(Sun Prairie, WI) – November, 2018 – Continental Mapping is pleased to announce the hiring of Aaron Wolf, PMP, as new General Manager of the Civil Works Sector. Mr. Wolf is a recent active duty army officer retiree with 24 years of service. His hiring bolsters the growing sector with comprehensive experience and industry insight. Mr. Wolf, a native of Poynette, Wisconsin, has a distinguished military career. Retiring as Lieutenant Colonel, he has served as the deputy district commander with t...
'Spatial Manager v5' Fall Release
Enjoy a big leap in data management, especially in CAD applications (AutoCAD, BricsCAD and ZWCAD) which have incorporated a powerful and unique Data Grid (already in Desktop) that will allow you to manage the spatial data in your drawings and maps more effectively than ever Recover Data Tables from objects in the drawing, Rename Data Tables, choose the value of a Field from a list of available values when selecting by query, Import and Export user dynamic Background Maps, and many more. BTW,...
Governor Holcomb and Indiana Department of Transportation award $100 million through Next Level Roads: Community Crossings Initiative
INDIANAPOLIS. – Governor Eric J. Holcomb and INDOT Commissioner Joe McGuinness today announced 283 Indiana cities, towns and counties received a combined $100 million in state-matching funds for local road projects through the Next Level Roads: Community Crossings Initiative. “Infrastructure plays a vital role in taking Indiana to the Next Level, and that includes everything from our interstates down to the last mile—including our local roads, bridges and sidewalks,” Gov. Holcomb said. “When...
Voters Across the Nation Demonstrate Support for Transportation Investment
(WASHINGTON)— Voters in 31 states Nov. 6 once again showed their support for transportation infrastructure investments, approving 272, or 79 percent, of 346 state and local ballot measures. In total, the approved initiatives are expected to generate over $30 billion in one-time and recurring revenue, according to the analysis conducted by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s Transportation Investment Advocacy Center™ (ARTBA-TIAC). The 2018 preliminary results reaffirmed...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
