Client Portal Adds New Dimension for Sewer System Operators
E/One partners with High Tide Technologies to strengthen telemetry monitoring capabilities of ALL-TERRAIN SEWER™ NEW ORLEANS - At WEFTEC 2018, the largest annual water quality event in the world, Environment One Corporation (E/One) and High Tide Technologies announced a partnership that will result in E/One Sentry Advisor 2.0™. The upgrade will enhance the remote monitoring capabilities of E/One's industry-leading grinder pumps through the use of a secure client portal, maximizing equipment f...
DDOT Begins Direct Oversight of DC Circulator
Washington DC — The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) today announced two major milestones for the DC Circulator. Beginning Monday, October 1, DDOT will assume direct oversight responsibilities for the DC Circulator from Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which has served in this capacity since the launch of DC Circulator in 2005. Monday will also mark transition of the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the DC Circulator system to RATP Dev from First...
Fiscal Year 2019 Transportation Funding Potentially Delayed until December
As the end of the federal government’s fiscal year approached, the House of Representatives approved an appropriations “minibus” funding bill on Sept. 26, which includes the Department of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations bills for fiscal year 2019, as well as a short term continuing resolution to temporarily fund remaining government programs – including the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development or “THUD” bill approved by the committee back in May 23...
Utah’s Braceras Named AASHTO’s President, Missouri’s McKenna Vice President
The board of directors of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials elected Carlos Braceras (above on the left), executive director of the Utah Department of Transportation, to serve as its president for 2018-2019, along with Missouri Department of Transportation Director Patrick McKenna (above on right) as its vice president. These actions occurred during the group’s annual meeting in Atlanta on September 20-24. “I’m honored and inspired to accept the role of AAS...
GreenBlu Begins $1.6 Million U.S. Department of Energy Award to Commercialize Adsorption Desalination Technology
GreenBlu's stand-alone module deployed with solar collectors can produce 16000 gal/day using a 5000 sq. ft. footprint. A one million gallon per day plant, enough for a town of 20,000, would require 63 containers and shade the parking lot of a standard big-box retail store. HAMILTON, N.J. - GreenBlu, Inc., a water technology company commercializing a new thermal distillation technology, Vapor Adsorption Distillation with Energy Recycling (VADER), announced it is beginning its $1,600,000 a...
50 US Schools Ready to 'Go Solar' to be "Buddied Up" with Schools Already Using Solar Energy
WASHINGTON, D.C. – How do you encourage more schools to go solar when so many school administrators are unsure about the process, time frame and costs? The “Solar Schools 2025” initiative of the nonprofit Renewable Nation thinks it has the answer: by using the “buddy system” to pair up schools eager to go solar with schools that already have gone solar. Today, Solar Schools 2025 announced that it is seeking 50 K-12 schools across the United States that it can “buddy up” with schools that alre...
Hexagon App Wins UX Design Award
(Heerbrugg, Switzerland ) – Hexagon’s Geosystems division, the smart digital realities provider, announced today the Leica Cyclone FIELD 360 laser scanning mobile-device app won a UX Design Award during the International Design Center Berlin ceremony 3 September 2018. Along with user-experience (UX) company Ergosign, Leica Geosystems submitted the app under the concept of “intuitive image management for industrial 3D scanning.” The UX Design Awards is a competition focused on recognising exc...
Stantec Tower Officially Opens as Company’s New Global Headquarters
Stantec and ICE District Properties Joint Venture are celebrating the grand opening of Stantec’s new global headquarters, Stantec Tower. At 69-storeys in height (66 functional floors), Stantec Tower will be the tallest building west of Toronto and serves as one of the key pillars in Edmonton’s vibrant ICE District. The structure will house 29 floors of commercial workspace for Stantec’s 1,500 Edmonton-based employees, Dentons Canada LLP, DLA Piper, and PwC Canada, as well as SKY Residences—483 p...
Geophysics Expert Jacob Spinsby, PG, Joins Cardno's Denver Office
Denver, CO - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Jacob Spinsby, PG, has joined the firm as a Utility Engineering and Surveying (UES) Practice Group Leader in the company’s Lone Tree, CO, USA office. Jacob has more than 10 years of experience in advanced geophysical, geological, non-destructive, and utility projects, including subsurface utility engineering investigations. He has performed thousands of shallow-surface explorations, advanced subsurface utility locating/designation, a...
Fluor Announces Financial Close on Gordie Howe International Bridge
IRVING, Texas (September 28, 2018) – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced that Bridging North America, a partnership of Fluor, ACS Infrastructure Canada and Aecon Group Inc., reached financial close to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project for Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA). Fluor plans to book its share of the design and construction contract value in the third quarter of 2018. Fluor is participating in the entire 36-year life c...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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