Over Half of Highway Contractors Experience Work Zone Crashes, AGC Survey Finds
A national survey of 550 highway contractors conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America found that 54 percent of them said motor vehicles crashed into their construction work zones during the past year. On top of that, 48 percent of contractors who experienced work zone crashes reported injuries to either motor vehicle operators or passengers, while 24 percent of those crashes involved a driver or passenger fatality. "There are simply too many cars crashing into too many work...
Report Outlines Transportation Project Possibilities and Pitfalls for Georgia
A new report compiled by TRIP outlines the possible transportation projects Georgia could initiate based on the monies raised by the Transportation Funding Act passed three years ago, as well as the gaps such funding is not sufficient enough to cover. The report – entitled Modernizing Georgia's Transportation System: Progress & Challenges in Providing Safe, Efficient and Well-Maintained...
FHWA Repeals GHG Highway Performance Measure
The Federal Highway Administration is formally repealing a final rule that added tailpipe carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions measurement requirements to highway performance assessments. Known as the "greenhouse gas" or "GHG" measure, the rule would have mandated state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to measure the percent change in CO2 emissions as part of assessments required by the National Highway Performance Program. FHWA said repealing this rule – whi...
Tariffs Threaten to Push Highway Project Costs Higher
The Trump administration's long-threatened imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Canada, Mexico, and the European Union went into effect at midnight on May 31 – a move that is hiking construction costs for state departments of transportation across the country, especially for steel-intensive bridge projects, while also potentially forcing a redirection of funds away from future endeavors. "The reality is we have a fixed source of federal funding, so as our topline costs go...
DuPont Safety & Construction Invests Over $400 Million to Increase Tyvek® Capacity
WILMINGTON, Del., June 4, 2018 – DuPont Safety & Construction, a business unit of DowDuPont Specialty Products Division, today announced plans to invest more than $400 million to expand capacity for the manufacture of Tyvek® nonwoven materials at its facility in Luxembourg. The production expansion, which will add a new building and third operating line at the site, is scheduled to start up in 2021. “Global demand for DuPont™ Tyvek® continues to grow worldwide in all of our key end-use market...
KAI Design & Build Completes Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being in St. Louis City's Grand Center Arts District
(St. Louis, MO) KAI Design & Build has completed construction of St. Louis' new $8.5 million Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being -- a 21,272-square-foot facility providing meeting and office space for child advocates, civic leaders and community organizers dedicated to enhancing the well-being of at-risk children. In March, KAI Design & Build received a 2018 Building St. Louis Award for the project. The awards program, sponsored by the St. Louis Business Journal, recognizes commercial real...
BW Adds KVH Connectivity Services to 45 More Vessels, and Extends Airtime Agreement for Prior Vessels
MIDDLETOWN, R.I., June 04, 2018 - KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq:KVHI) has announced that BW Group, a worldwide leader in maritime energy transportation, has chosen KVH’s connectivity services for 45 additional vessels in its fleet. The two companies will also continue with a connectivity contract for the LPG and LNG vessels in BW’s fleet that have had KVH’s VSAT systems and services since 2013. “We chose KVH because of their commitment to excellence, the ease of working with a sole provider,...
FTA Provides $277.5M in Hurricane Recovery Funds
The Federal Transit Administration allocated $277.5 million in emergency relief funding on May 31 for public transportation systems damaged by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria last year. The funds come from a Congressional appropriation of $330 million made for FTA's Emergency Relief Program in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, passed in February this year. The agency said approximately $232.3 million of those funds will be dedicated to response, recovery, and rebuilding projects, with $44...
Michael Baker International Grows Presence in Southwest Ohio with New Office in Cincinnati
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced the opening of its first office in Cincinnati, Ohio. As part of the company’s strategic growth plan, the new Cincinnati office allows Michael Baker to expand its service offerings in the area to deliver innovative solutions to clients and prospects. To best service the needs of the Cincinnati area and the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana (OKI) region, Michael Baker established a team specializ...
Gannett Fleming Wins 2018 Gold Hermes Creative Award
(Harrisburg, Pa.): The Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals presented a 2018 Gold Hermes Creative Award to Gannett Fleming for its C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir renovation video.The video showcases the project’s innovative features using 3D animation. Gannett Fleming won in the category that recognizes electronic, social, and interactive media created for the purpose of an award or banquet. Gannett Fleming served as the design engineer for the renovation of the reserv...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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