CH2M Awards $1 Million for Endowed Professorship to Oregon State University
DENVER - CH2M has made a $1 million gift for one endowed professorship in OSU's College of Engineering. The endowment honors CH2M's founders and their roots at OSU while investing in the future workforce promoting science, technology, engineering and math education. "Our strong ties with CH2M are seen all over our campus, at Merryfield Hall, the CH2M HILL Alumni Center and the CH2M HILL Auditorium in Kearney Hall," said Scott Ashford, Kearney Professor and dean of OSU's College of Engineering...
Bechtel Names Project Director for Construction and Startup of World’s Most Complex Radioactive Waste Treatment Plant
Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, construction, and project management, today announced that Brian Reilly, a 35+ year veteran of nuclear construction, will become the next project director for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Reilly will guide completion, startup, and commissioning of WTP’s first phase: the seven-story, sports arena-sized Low Activity Waste Facility and its associated sup...
Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC) Selects Jacobs for Front-End Engineering Design for Greenfield Petrochemical Facility in Alberta
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) has been awarded a contract by Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corporation (CKPC) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a proposed greenfield, integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada. CKPC is a joint venture of Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) of Canada and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait. “Jacobs’ strength in front end project delivery, combin...
Gannett Fleming Names Tulumello as Northeast Region Facilities Business Line Leader
(Harrisburg, Pa.): Giuseppe (Joe) Tulumello, AIA, LEED® Green Associate, has been named leader of Gannett Fleming’s Northeast Region Facilities Business Line. In this role, Tulumello will oversee business strategy and planning, project delivery, and operational growth of Gannett Fleming’s facilities practice across Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.“There are tremendous opportunities in the northeast facilities markets, including tr...
Longest HDD Saves Miami Sewer Line - Wins Industry Honor
IRVING, Texas - The longest horizontal directional drilled (HDD) installation of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe in the United States and Canada was recognized as Project of the Year by the Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI). The award was presented to PPI member company, ISCO Industries (Louisville, KY), at the association's annual membership meeting in May 2017. PPI is the major North American trade association representing all segments of the plastic pipe industry, "Not only was...
Joe North Joins HNTB in Tallahassee as Senior GIS Analyst
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Joe North joined HNTB Corporation as senior geographic information systems analyst, based in the firm’s growing Tallahassee office. He is responsible for providing direction to HNTB’s West Florida team on the most effective GIS technology to improve the project life-cycle process, from planning to design, construction, maintenance, and most recently, to emergency management pre-event planning and post-event recovery. North has more than 20 years of experience in geospatial...
APTA Board Chooses Skoutelas as Transit Group’s Next CEO
The board of the American Public Transportation Association said it has chosen transit industry veteran Paul Skoutelas to become its new president and CEO effective Jan. 8. Skoutelas, who currently resides in Pittsburgh, will relocate to Washington, D.C., where the association is based, APTA said. "Skoutelas has been a highly successful and respected national leader in the public transportation industry for more than 40 years," the announcement said. It noted that he has headed transit sys...
FRA, FTA Award $197M to Positive Train Control Projects in 13 States
Two federal agencies recently awarded $197 million in grants to state departments of transportation, transit agencies and commuter rail lines to help them deploy crash-avoiding "positive train control" systems. Those systems use a combination of technology that include trackside signals, antennas connecting trains with global positioning satellites and distant dispatch centers, and gear inside the locomotive that can take control of a train's braking under certain circumstances to help preven...
Gov. Cuomo Taps Consultant Karas to Head NYSDOT
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that he has appointed infrastructure consultant and former Chicago public works commissioner Paul Karas to be commissioner of the state Department of Transportation. In the same personnel announcement, Cuomo also said he appointed Cathy Calhoun, who had been acting NYSDOT commissioner since August, to serve as director of state operations. The governor said that Karas most recently worked for four years as vice president and manager of RS&H Inc., a tra...
Gov. Hickenlooper Names Lewis CEO of Colorado DOT as Bhatt Leaves for ITSA
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper named Michael Lewis to take over as executive director at the state Department of Transportation, as agency CEO Shailen Bhatt exits to head the Washington, D.C.-based trade association Intelligent Transportation Society of America. Lewis has been CDOT's deputy executive director and chief operating officer since 2015, and was formerly director of the Rhode Island DOT from 2008 until early 2015. He had also been president in 2012-13 of the American Assoc...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
