Matern Professional Engineering Expands Project Management Team with Key Promotion
Matern Professional Engineering is pleased to announce the promotion of Austin Podurgiel, EI, to Project Manager within the company's Commercial Division. This promotion recognizes Podurgiel's significant contributions to the firm and his extensive experience in mechanical systems design. Podurgiel brings over eight years of experience to his new role, having worked with clients across diverse sectors, including municipal, community, higher education, commercial, and healthcare. He is an expe...
Protecting PEX from Effects of Artificial Lighting Explained in New PPI Document
Recommended setback distance between artificial light source (non-LED) and PEX pipe/tubing in a typical residential or light commercial setting. Image courtesy of PPI. New PPI TN-72 Describes Safe Installation Practices for Commercial and Residential Lighting IRVING, Texas - March 25, 2025 - The Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) has published a new technical document that provides recommended installation practices for PEX piping exposed to indoor artificial lighting. PPI TN-72 “Potential...
Expert comment: ASCE Infrastructure Report
Please see commentary from Pete Adams, Global Market Director Power & Energy, Jacobs, on ASCE's 2025 Infrastructure Report Card, which was published this morning. “Energy infrastructure is the backbone of modern societies and the critical enabler for America’s AI-driven future. Combined, power outages cost U.S. businesses and households nearly $300 billion each year. With the demand for data centers, our aging energy infrastructure is coming under even more pressure. Meeting that demand...
Architecture Students Get Hands-on Design-Build Experience
CHICAGO - Architecture students spend plenty of time in the studio, but it’s rare for them to see their designs spring into life. Thanks to grants from the AISC Education Foundation, four classes of university students will get a chance to bring their designs into the real world! They are all part of a design-build studio where they will design and help fabricate steel by collaborating with fabricators, engineers, and community and campus leaders. “Design-build studios are taught in many...
Itron and Schneider Electric Collaborate to Tackle Grid Complexity, Enable Visibility and Control at the Grid Edge, Integrating Microsoft Solutions
Collaboration to Extend Grid Edge Intelligence to the Utility Control CenterLIBERTY LAKE, Wash. and BOSTON - Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI), a leader in grid edge intelligence, and Schneider Electric, a leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, are expanding their collaboration with Microsoft to deliver a comprehensive Grid Edge Intelligence solution that addresses utility grid visibility and control challenges. This collaboration takes advantage of Itron’s distrib...
NRMCA & Build With Strength Announce Winners of 2025 Concrete Innovation Awards
Annual awards program celebrates excellence in concrete manufacturing, research, design and construction while lowering environmental impacts Alexandria, VA– Build With Strength, an initiative of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA), has announced the recipients of the 2025 Concrete Innovation Awards. This annual program highlights outstanding achievements in the design and construction of concrete structures where NRMCA member companies played a significant role in supp...
Woolpert, Chance Maritime Employ Autonomous Vessel and Team Collaboration to Efficiently Map Florida Seafloor
KEY WEST, Fla. (March 25, 2025) — Woolpert and Chance Maritime have partnered to leverage autonomous technology, geospatial expertise, and broad-based staffing to most efficiently collect hydrographic survey data in support of the Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative and other projects off the coast of Florida. Woolpert, a leading provider of lidar and sonar bathymetry and hydrographic survey data, was tasked by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to map the seafloor off the coa...
FLIR Si1-LD Acoustic Imaging Camera for Compressed Air Leak Detection Offers Higher Performance at Accessible Price Point
New Acoustic Imaging Camera Helps Professional Inspectors Locate Smaller Compressed Air Leaks Faster and More Accurately FLIR, a Teledyne Technologies company, today introduced the Si1-LD, an industrial acoustic imaging camera that brings faster and more accurate compressed air leak detection to those operating on a modest condition monitoring budget. The new FLIR Si1-LD offers improved detection and quantification capabilities in comparison with the existing FLIR Si124-LD Plus, along wi...
New material moves seawater batteries step closer to primetime
As the world makes more use of renewable energy sources, new battery technology is needed to store electricity for the times when the sun isn’t shining, and the wind isn’t blowing. “Current lithium batteries have reached their limitations in terms of energy storage capability, life cycle, and safety,” says Xiaolei Wang, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. “They’re good for applications like electric vehicles and portable electronics, but they’re not s...
AtkinsRéalis Awarded Florida Interstate Oversight Contract
Tampa, FL: AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear company with offices around the world, announces today that it has been awarded a Construction Engineering & Inspection (CEI) services contract to serve as the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) oversight manager for an Interstate 275 (I-275) construction project near Tampa, Florida. The project adds capacity along a major emergency evacuation route, will reduce travel delays by up to 85 percent and supports $1.42...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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