Amy Lussetto Promoted to Lead HDR’s Strategic Innovation Team
Amy Lussetto, MPH, EDAC, has been promoted to director of strategic innovation for HDR's architecture practice. With 14 years of experience in the healthcare industry and eight years with HDR, Lussetto is uniquely positioned to lead the strategic innovation practice, which integrates human-centered design and strategy to help a wide variety of organizations explore the evolution of their business, improve service delivery and strengthen a connection to their community. Working for a major hea...
Epic Games’ Free Unreal Studio Beta Extended Through September 2019
Cary, NC - Epic Games today announced that the free beta for its popular Unreal Studio platform will be extended for another year, through September 2019. Unreal Studio was launched as a free beta in March of this year, providing enterprise users in architecture, design, and manufacturing a shortcut to producing high-quality, real-time, fully immersive visual experiences. To date, over 100,000 users have registered for the free beta. "The response to Unreal Studio has been incredible - i...
Robert Zmudzinski to Lead National Rail Systems at WSP
NEW YORK, NY — Robert Zmudzinski has been appointed vice president and national rail systems engineering manager in the New York office of WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy. In his new role, Zmudzinski will lead the firm’s transit and rail systems engineering team and support business development across the United States. Zmudzinski has more than three decades of varied transit and rail industry expertise, including work on p...
Autodesk Supports ‘Hard Hatted Woman’ Documentary
By Sarah Hodges When you think of ironworkers and electricians, pile drivers and pipe fitters, do you picture women in hard hats, reflective vests and steel-toe boots? Perhaps you should, because many construction tradeswomen are breaking ground in the historically male-dominated industry. Five of those women share their personal stories in “Hard Hatted Woman,” the first feature-length documentary about women in construction trades. The film acknowledges the struggle the...
Video: Hard Hatted Woman Trailer
Hard Hatted Woman Trailer 2017 from Lorien Barlow on Vimeo.Hard Hatted Woman is the first feature documentary film about women breaking down gender barriers in blue-collar construction trades.
Job Opening: AASHTO Seeks Project Engineer
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials seeks to hire a project engineer at its Washington, D.C., headquarters location to support its National Transportation Product Evaluation Program or NTPEP. The project engineer will be responsible for the implementation of new products, monitor the sustainability of current NTPEP technical committees, and serve as a liaison for several NTPEP technical committees, as well as provide support for AASHTO’s Committee on Materia...
Grondel Tapped to Chair GHSA
The Governors Highway Safety Association elected Darrin Grondel, director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, to serve a one-year term as the organization’s chair during the group’s annual meeting in Atlanta in late August. [Grondel can be seen above, standing in the middle between FMCSA’s Ray Martinez on the left and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s David Harkey on the right.] As head of GHSA – a national nonprofit association of state and territorial agencies that ad...
ODOT Hires Kris Strickler to Head Highway Division
SALEM -- “As a Department of Transportation we build and maintain more than highways. Kris brings a vision and the right fit to help us deliver new ways for all Oregonians to get around – whether in a car, on a bike, in a truck, on a bus or on a trail.” That’s how Oregon Department of Transportation Director Matthew Garrett describes Kris Strickler – chosen as the next administrator of ODOT’s Highway Division. “A historic five billion dollar transportation package brings great opportunity to str...
Wolf Administration Expanding Small Business Opportunities through New Transportation Pilot Project
Harrisburg, PA – The Wolf Administration today announced that the state Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is aiming to increase opportunities for Small Business Enterprises (SBE) through a new pilot program where SBEs can compete to work as prime consultants on federally-assisted engineering and design agreements on at least six projects. "We are committed to increasing opportunities for small, disadvantaged, and diverse businesses, and this pilot program is another step forward," PennDO...
Hawaii DOT Battles Yet Another Tropical Storm
While still working to fix the damage caused by Hurricane Lane in late August, the Hawaii Department of Transportation is now preparing to handle the impact of Tropical Storm Olivia, which made landfall on Sept. 12. The agency said in a pre-storm statement that it paid close attention to safeguarding Hawaii’s commercial harbors (seen above in this U.S. Coast Guard photo) as they play key roles in the supply system everyone in the islands depends upon. HDOT’s highways division also engaged...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
