Fires Plague California as Latest Disaster Aid Package Moves in Congress
A new spate of natural disasters in the form of wildfires has left at least 31 people dead in northern California, disrupted transportation there and added to the nation's growing cost of infrastructure repairs. President Trump approved a disaster declaration for the state, clearing the way for federal aid to flow. Most of the fires were in California's wine-growing area, and in a series of state disaster declarations Gov. Jerry Brown said the damages included shutdowns of major roads....
See Through the Surface of Ground, Ice or Any Structure with a Drone Equipped with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)
Riga - October 17, 2017 - To bring technically advanced solutions for surveyors, land engineers, researchers, rescue service providers and sappers - SPH Engineering - the developer of leading drone mission planning software UgCS and Radarteam Sweden AB - the manufacturer of Ground Penetrating Radars completed test flights combining Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, drone) and GPR technologies. For the test, a Radarteam Sweden AB Cobra Plug-in Ground Penetrating Radar with SE-70 antenna and p...
Construction Technology Company, Multivista, Announces UK Expansion to London
(PHOENIX, 17 October 2017) – Multivista, a leading global provider of visual documentation services for construction and estate management, announced today the opening of a European Head Office in London, United Kingdom. The move will bring Multivista’s fullservice construction documentation offerings to the London market and provide support for new franchise partners throughout Europe and other international territories. "It’s exciting to introduce our services and software to one of the wo...
Project Frog Announces Autodesk Investment, Bolsters Industrialized Construction Movement by Linking Architectural Design to Fabrication
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 17, 2017 –Project Frog, a leading technology and building systems provider, today announced an alliance with Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) to develop a transformational cloud-based platform to standardize and simplify data flow between the architecture studio, the factory and the jobsite. The agreement, which will strengthen the industrialized construction movement, is made possible through an investment from the Autodesk Forge Fund. The funding from Autodesk will accelerat...
Leif Law, Environmental Services Expert, Joins Cardno's Client Development Team
Los Angeles, CA - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Leif Law has joined the firm as Senior Business Development Manager in the company’s Los Angeles (Lake Forest, CA, USA) office. Leif has a background in environmental remediation and in-depth operational experience leading projects for federal, state, and local governments and private sector clients in the oil and gas industry. He has more than 15 years of business development experience in supporting project implementation, in...
Idaho Transportation Board Approves Additional $100 Million in Funding for I-84 Corridor
BOISE – The Idaho Transportation Board approved a resolution to allocate more than $100 million toward funding expansion in the Interstate 84 Caldwell to Nampa Corridor during the monthly meeting today (Thursday, Oct. 12) in Boise. “The Transportation Board recognizes the need to address congestion in this corridor and are focusing funds here to make greater gains toward improving the corridor,” said Transportation Board Chairman Jerry Whitehead. Funding sources include the Transportation...
NavVis Partners with PrecisionPoint to Bring the American Indoors Online
NavVis, the global leader in indoor mapping, visualization, and navigation, announces a new partnership with PrecisionPoint, a leading reality capture solutions provider in the USA. PrecisionPoint is now an official NavVis technology service provider offering NavVis indoor reality capture solutions to its business customers in the United States. PrecisionPoint, based in Carmel, Indiana, has been leading the way in capturing existing condition documentation since 2009. PrecisionPoint has...
D.A. Davidson & Co. Acts as Exclusive Financial Advisor to RISA Technologies in Its Sale to Nemetschek
PORTLAND, Ore.- D.A. Davidson & Co. announced that it has served as exclusive financial advisor to RISA Technologies, Inc. in its sale to Nemetschek SE. Headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA, RISA offers one of most popular structural engineering software suites in the U.S. for multi-material structures such as steel, concrete, masonry and wood. With around 10,000 users, RISA has leading market share and is a key provider to top design firms in the U.S. RISA was acquired by the Nemetschek Group...
Michael Baker International Adds Long-Range, Highly Durable Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to Improve Large-Scale Mapping Operations
Pittsburgh – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, has expanded its cutting-edge inspection services with the purchase of an Altavian Nova unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The new fixed-wing Altavian Nova joins the company’s expanding UAS fleet, and offers a new tool for Michael Baker pilots to utilize when conducting aerial inspections and mapping of large sites or during inclement weather conditions. With flight times of 45-90 min...
Vectorworks Receives Nine Nominations in this Year’s Construction Computing Awards
Columbia, MD —Global design and BIM software developer Vectorworks, Inc. has been nominated as a finalist in nine categories in this year’s Construction Computing Awards. Known as “The Hammers,” the Construction Computing Awards showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering projects of all sizes. The awards categories are divided into thr...
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