Commissioner Burman of New York to Lead NARUC Committee on Gas
WASHINGTON—Commissioner Diane X. Burman, of the New York State Public Service Commission, has been appointed as chairman of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Committee on Gas. Burman served previously as co-vice chair. In addition to the Committee on Gas, Burman is a member of the NARUC Board of Directors, the Committee on Critical Infrastructure and NARUC’s Subcommittee on Pipeline Safety. She also serves on the Gas Technology Institute Public Interest Advisory Com...
KAI Design & Build Expands Marketing Department with New Director of Marketing, Senior Marketing Coordinator and Promotions
St. Louis, MO: KAI Design & Build has expanded its Marketing Department with the addition of new hire Daniel Poole as Director of Marketing and Michelle Gray as Senior Marketing Coordinator. Ashley Mensinger and Kristina Glassl were also promoted within the department. New Hires Daniel Poole, Director of Marketing - Poole has seven years of marketing and public relations experience, having previously led content marketing strategy for a Webster Groves, MO-based engineering firm. In his new p...
Carmen Turner: A Pioneer for Public Transit
In 1983, Carmen E. Turner made history as the first African-American woman to lead a major transit agency when she became general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Her appointment to this position also reflected the overall strides being made by women at the time when it came to assuming key leadership roles in U.S. transportation. Turner was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, but grew up in the nation’s capital. She began her government career in administrat...
Governor Appoints New Caltrans Director
SACRAMENTO — Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today the appointment of Laurie Berman to serve as the new Director for the Department of Transportation (Caltrans). The announcement comes as Director Malcolm Dougherty announced his departure from public service to pursue other opportunities in the private sector. "I am honored to have the opportunity to lead an agency that has a major impact to those who live, visit and do business in the state of California. Transportation plays a vital ro...
New VC500 Controls for ROVVER X Makes Sewer Inspections Accessible on the Cloud
RANDOLPH, NJ—February 21, 2018— Envirosight’s new VC500 controller for the ROVVER X sewer crawler is the industry’s first to allow an operator to build a PACP-compliant inspection, then upload it wirelessly to the cloud for instant access anywhere, on any device with a browser. The new controller also includes a suite of tools to measure pipe diameter and bend, crack size, obstructions, flow level, lateral diameter and angle, and inclination. In addition, it brings drag-and-drop simplicity to th...
Agilitas Backs Buyout of Hydro International
Agilitas, a pan-European private equity firm, today announces the buyout of Hydro International Limited ("Hydro" or the "Company"), a leading global provider of advanced products, services and technology for the treatment of wastewater and the control of stormwater, for municipal, industrial and construction customers. Hydro is headquartered in the UK, with significant US operations, and has operated in the water management sector since the 1980s. The Company is a technology leader in all its...
Wood Wins Government Backing to Bring Space Technology to Nuclear Decommissioning
Wood is leading research to make nuclear decommissioning safer, faster and more cost-effective by innovatively applying new technologies developed in space exploration, car production and medicine. The company has secured approximately £1.5m funding from the UK’s government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Innovate UK after winning a prestigious competition to find the best new ideas. Wood and its supply chain will c...
Michael Baker International Partners with SCDOT to Complete the Harbor River Bridge, Providing a Safer and More Accessible Sea Island Parkway
Columbia, S.C. - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, was selected to assist the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) to manage the replacement of the existing Harbor River Bridge in Beaufort County, S.C. The firm was awarded an Engineering and Construction Engineering and Inspection (CE&I) contract to oversee the design-build contractor’s plan development, environmental permitting efforts, and the construction of the new...
Profile Products Recognizes Distributors at Annual Awards Banquet
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (February 22, 2018) — Profile Products honored the work of several outstanding distributors at its annual awards banquet on Feb. 13 during the International Erosion Control Association Conference in Long Beach, California. “Every year we are proud to host this banquet to show our appreciation to our distributors and recognize their successes,” Wally Butman, vice president of sales for Profile Products said. “Their projects are innovative and showcase their creative busine...
Presto Announces Ballast Research Performance Results
Presto Geosystems, industry-leading manufacturer of the HDPE GEOWEB® base stabilization system, has released results from rigorous track research performed to quantify the reinforcement benefit of GEOWEB-confined ballast as compared to unconfined ballast. The research initiative was a cooperative effort between Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Kansas (KU) under the direction of Ben Leshchinsky, PE, PhD and Jie Han, PE, PhD. The results substantiate the effectiveness of GEOWEB...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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