WSP’s Julie D’Orazio Elected to APTA Board of Directors
NEW YORK, NY — Julie D’Orazio, senior vice president and national market leader for transit and rail for WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) as a business member at-large. D’Orazio has been active within APTA since 2010 and is currently serving on several committees. D’Orazio is focused on three key areas that align with APTA’s mission. These are safety and s...
ARTBA Announces 2018 Division Award Winners
WASHINGTON - The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Oct. 1 recognized transportation design and construction industry leaders with division awards at the association’s National Convention in New York City. The association announced the following honorees: Nello L. Teer, Jr.: John McCaskie, chief engineer (retired), Swank Construction Company, LLC, New Kensington, Pa. Created in 1988 as a tribute to contractor and Past ARTBA Chairman (1959-61) Nello L. Teer, Jr....
Acrow’s Bridge Structures Support Renovation of Historic Covered Bridge in Québec
(Bolton, Ontario) – Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, announced that it has recently completed the installation of a temporary modular steel truss system to enable the renovation of the historic Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge in Mansfield et Pontefract, a municipality of Western Québec. The Marchand Bridge spans the Coulonge River and was built in 1898. It is Québec’s longest covered road bridge and among the longest in the world. It is notable for it...
HDR to Lead Civil Design Improvements at Five South Florida Airports Including MIA
(OMAHA, Nebraska ) — Miami Miami-Dade Aviation Department has selected HDR to provide civil engineering services for its complex five-airport system --- including Miami International, the 12th busiest airport in the country — on a five-year task-order contract to support an estimated $1.5 billion in capital improvements. Among the planned improvements are rehabilitation of runways, and upgrades to aprons, taxiways, and underground utilities. HDR will also design federally-funded airfield safety...
Lane Construction Corporation Chief Bob Alger Elected ARTBA Chairman
https://youtu.be/KiwpTAwI0Ek WASHINGTON - Robert (Bob) E. Alger, P.E., president and chief executive officer of Cheshire, Connecticut-based The Lane Construction Corporation, has been elected 2018-2019 American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) chairman. The association made the announcement Oct. 1 at its national convention in New York City. Alger’s entire 40-year career in the transportation construction industry has been spent with Lane, where he started as a job...
HxGN Content Program is Now Available through GSA
Hexagon announces HxGN Content Program imagery is now available directly through the General Services Administration (GSA). Imagery, such as this aerial capture of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., USA, can be downloaded or streamed for purchase from GSA. (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Hexagon’s Geosystems Division, the smart digital realities provider, announced today the HxGN Content Program’s imagery is now available to government agencies directly through the General Services Administratio...
NCDOT Sending $147.4M to Help Improve Local Transportation
RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Transportation has begun distributing more than $147.4 million in State Street Aid to Municipalities, also known as the Powell Bill fund , to 508 municipalities across the state. The initial allocation, half of the overall total, was sent out on Wednesday, Sep...
New Wärtsilä Power Plant Will Support Industry Development in Equatorial Guinea
The technology group Wärtsilä was awarded a 38 MW power plant project by the EPC company Groupement TEC-IEE in Equatorial Guinea. The project is sponsored by the Ministry of Hydrocarbons with the intention to boost the development of local industry. The order was booked in Q3 2018. A 24 MW Wärtsilä power plant located in Bata, the country’s largest city, already provides thermal production of energy for continental Equatorial Guinea, a nation of 1.2 million inhabitants. Wärtsilä has been pres...
Wigginton Receives Paul L. Busch Award
On Oct. 2, The Water Research Foundation presented the 2018 Paul L. Busch Award to Krista Rule Wigginton, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. The Paul L. Busch Award recognizes an individual for innovative research in the field of water quality and the water environment, with a special focus on those who show promise and make significant contributions in bridging research and its practical application. The awar...
HNTB Executive, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Director, Gannett Fleming & Two College Students Honored with ARTBA’s Women Leaders Awards
(WASHINGTON) - HNTB Mid-Atlantic Division President Diana Mendes, Texas Transportation Institute Director of External Initiatives Dr. Melissa Tooley, the global infrastructure company Gannett Fleming, and students from Grand Canyon University and the University of Tennessee, are the 2018 recipients of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s “Women Leaders in Transportation Design & Construction” awards. The awards were presented in three categories at an...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
