Transit Group: Tax Proposal a ‘Missed Opportunity’ to Fix Highway Trust Fund
The group representing U.S. public transit agencies said the House Ways and Means Committee's new tax reform plan is a "missed opportunity" to include measures that could put the Highway Trust Fund on a sustainable financial footing. Richard White, acting CEO of the American Public Transportation Association, said in a Nov. 3 statement that the plan offered by House majority Republicans "fails to address key priorities of the public transportation industry." The trust fund provides fundin...
Global Water Treatment Leader Kinetico Acquires Nimbus Water Systems
NEWBURY, Ohio -- Kinetico Incorporated, a global leader in the water treatment industry, is pleased to announce its acquisition of Nimbus Water Systems, a Southern California-based manufacturer of high-quality commercial and residential water treatment products. The strategic purchase combines Kinetico's best-in-class water softening and purification products with innovative water filtration and media technologies from the company's 2016 acquisition of Selecto, and Nimbus' high efficiency revers...
Aster has Announced €240 Million in Capital Raised, Taking Position as the Leading Venture Capital Fund Dedicated to the Energy Transition and the Mobilities of the Future
With €240 million in capital raised, Aster brings its total funds under management to €500 million and strengthens its position as a central player in financing innovation. A specialist in digital transformation and industries of the future, the investment company provides support to growing companies in the sectors of energy, mobility and industry. Building from a “Business Hub”, a true acceleration platform serving entrepreneurs, Aster provides them with support to jump-start their developm...
GeoCue adds Puerto Rico LIDAR data to GetLIDAR.com to Support Hurricane Recovery
Huntsville, AL – In early October 2017, GeoCue Group launched GetLIDAR.com to provide free and direct access to pre-event imagery and LIDAR data for the hurricane-stricken areas of Texas and Florida. Now, GeoCue has added LIDAR data for the coastal areas of Puerto Rico. Some 6,033 LIDAR files from 2004 and 2015 are now available from GetLIDAR.com. The current inventory of data includes: Texas • 980 LIDAR tiles in Aransas-Refugio, Orange, Jefferson counties areas • 189 ortho photos in the Ho...
NARUC Installs Connecticut PURA Vice Chair John W. ‘Jack’ Betkoski as New President
BALTIMORE—The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners installed Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Vice Chair John W. ‘Jack’ Betkoski III as its new President at its Annual Meeting and Education Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. More than 1,300 attendees were on hand for the meeting, held November 12-15, which convened national utility regulators, industry representatives and consumer advocates for panels that covered a range of issues across the energy, telec...
Autodesk and Esri Partnering to Advance Infrastructure Planning and Design
LAS VEGAS — Autodesk, Inc. and Esri, Inc. today announced the start of a new relationship to build a bridge between BIM and GIS mapping technologies. Together Autodesk and Esri plan to enable a broad range of industries to gain better context by visualizing data of the man-made world, the environment, citizens and the networks that weave it all together. “It is important to consider the needs of future generations during the design and building of projects today,” said Jack Dangermond,...
Sulzer Announces MIXPAC MixCoat Manual Protective Coating Dispensing System
Sulzer Mixpac USA, Inc., the leading innovator of 2-component adhesive dispensing systems, announces the availability of MIXPAC™ MixCoat™ Manual, a member of the innovative MIXPAC™ MixCoat™ cartridge-based 2-component dispensing system family. The MixCoat Manual protective coating dispensing system features a lightweight design with a unique brush assembly on a manual dispenser, which greatly increases stripe coating productivity and speed. The MixCoat Manual system is ideal for repairs and rope...
HP Introduces Faster PageWide XL Printers for Enhanced Technical Production
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Today at Autodesk University, HP Inc. announced new HP PageWide XL printers with sharp, up to 70 percent faster1 output, enabling technical production providers to grow AEC volume and expand business in color applications with the market-leading HP PageWide XL printer portfolio. The new HP PageWide XL 5100 and HP PageWide XL 6000 printers and multifunction printers strengthen the fastest printer portfolio in the market2 to equip enterprise print rooms, central reprographic d...
ardno's New Los Angeles Office Opens to Support Environmental & Engineering Projects
Los Angeles – Cardno, an international professional infrastructure and environmental services firm, has announced the opening of a new office in Los Angeles (Glendale), CA, USA. Located at 101 N. Brand Ave., Suite 1920, the new office allows the company to build on its recent growth in the West and better serve existing and future clients in the Greater Los Angeles area. Cardno’s Los Angeles office will initially focus on wide range of projects including hydro, stormwater, NEPA-CEQA (Na...
Winners of “HP Mars Home Planet” Conceptual Design Phase Announced, Entries Open for 3D Modeling Phase
PALO ALTO, Calif.– Life on Mars is one step closer to ‘virtual’ reality as nine winners have been announced at Autodesk University Las Vegas 2017, for the first phase of HP Mars Home Planet – a global project pairing co-creation on the Launch Forth platform with virtual reality (VR) to simulate a utopian civilization of one million people on Mars. From buildings, vehicles, farms and clothing, this co-creation project of professional architects, engineers, designers and artists from around the...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
