Wärtsilä is in Search of Start-ups with Power-to-X Technology to Join SparkUp Challenge
The technology group Wärtsilä continues its active start-up collaboration by launching the next SparkUp Challenge for start-ups. This time the focus is on the energy field with Power-to-X technologies. The Smart Energy Challenge is based on Wärtsilä Energy Solution’s new vision: ‘Towards a 100% renewable energy future’. Wärtsilä is determined to lead the way in providing power systems based on 100% renewable energy. The renewable energy generation is driven by weather and sometimes more energ...
NJDOT Receives Federal Accelerated Innovation Deployment Grant for Pilot Road Weather Management System
(Trenton) -The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) today announced its first ever Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to better manage the State’s road system during weather events. This $322,461 grant will support a weather savvy roads pilot program in which up to 20 NJDOT vehicles will be outfitted with dashboard cameras and weather sensors that will feed data directly to the Department, allowing for improved situati...
The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb and GFDRR to Launch Resilient Homes Design Challenge
NEW YORK - The World Bank, Build Academy, Airbnb, and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) have launched a global crowd-solving challenge for designs of Resilient Homes. The goal of this challenge is to generate designs for low-cost and sustainable small houses (under $10,000) for people living in vulnerable areas affected by natural disasters. The deadline for design submissions is this November 30, 2018. Natural disasters are on the rise. Since 1990, they have aff...
Goran Sparrman Joins HNTB as Business Development Officer
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Goran Sparrman, PE, has joined HNTB Corporation as business development officer and vice president. Based in HNTB’s Bellevue office, Sparrman is responsible for continuing the firm’s growth in the Pacific Northwest by expanding HNTB’s footprint in the region and supporting infrastructure clients by tackling their most challenging issues. Sparrman brings more than three decades of private- and public-sector experience to the firm. In this newly created position, Sparrma...
Geotechnical Engineering Firm Kumar & Associates Selects Agile Frameworks to Mobilize Field Data Collection and Reporting
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Agile Frameworks®, the leading provider of collaborative, cloud-based corporate, field, and lab information management enabling Profitable Engineering® for the construction and engineering services sector, today announced Kumar & Associates has selected its flagship MetaField® solution to mobilize its engineering staff in the field and streamline field data reporting, reducing the time it takes to generate reports from weeks to days. Headquartered in Denver with five...
Mark Fuhrmann to Lead HDR's Minnesota-Wisconsin Transit Practice
(OMAHA, Neb.) - HDR is pleased to welcome Mark Fuhrmann to the firm’s award-winning transit practice as a senior project manager based in the Minneapolis engineering office. He will focus on growing HDR’s full-service transit consulting practice and continued delivery of exceptional projects and programs for clients in the Minnesota and Wisconsin region. Fuhrmann’s first assignment is serving as program manager for the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District West Lake and Double Track...
KAI Design & Build to Construct Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis Teen Center of Excellence in Ferguson, MO
(St. Louis, MO) The sun was shining and so were the spirits of all who gathered to break ground on Sept. 13 for the new Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis Teen Center of Excellence in Ferguson, MO. The event marked a time of renewal for the area which gained national attention in 2014 for violent protests following the fatal police shooting of teen Michael Brown. The $12.4 million Teen Center of Excellence, under construction at 9200 West Florissant, will offer afterschool and summer pro...
Gilberto Ruiz Joins Stantec to Grow Transportation and Water Sector Practice Areas
Los Angeles, California, NYSE, TSX:STN: Gilberto (Gil) Ruiz has joined global engineering, architecture, consulting, and construction firm Stantec as principal environmental planner, joining the Environmental Services team in Los Angeles, Calif. Ruiz will manage the firm’s preparation of environmental compliance documents and focus on growing Stantec’s transportation and water sector practices in Southern California. With more than 25 years of experience working across a wide variety of proje...
Boral Resources Commences Marketing of Previously Disposed Fly Ash
ATLANTA - Boral Resources has commenced harvesting and making available approximately 2 million tons of high-grade Class F pozzolan from a fly ash monofill in central Pennsylvania. The fly ash was produced by a coal-fueled generating station in the 1980s and 1990s, with the material stored in a covered dry stack on a 30-acre site. In preparation for harvesting and marketing the fly ash, Boral Resources sampled and tested the materials comprehensively. Samples were drawn from boring locations...
Rep. Brian Mast Named Chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
Washington, D.C. - House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) has named U.S. Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) to serve as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation for the remainder of the 115th Congress. The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation is one of six subcommittees of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “Oversight of the Coast Guard and the Nation’s maritime transportation system is a vital...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
