U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $106.95 Million Loan to the Colorado High Performance Transportation Enterprise for the C-470 Express Lanes Project
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide a $106.95 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the Colorado High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE) at 2.81% with a term of 35 years after substantial completion to finance the completion of the C-470 Express Lanes Project (the Project). The C-470 is a 26-mile highway that run...
Dixon’s Wastewater Treatment Facility Earns Envision Silver Award from Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure
Dixon’s Wastewater Treatment Facility in California is the recent recipient of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Envision Silver award. The Envision sustainable infrastructure rating system verifies the sustainability of infrastructure projects across the full range of environmental, social, and economic impacts. The City of Dixon’s Wastewater Treatment Facility Improvements project is the culmination of years of collaboration between the city, Stantec Consulting, state...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces $99.6 Million Loan to the City of Bellevue, Washington for the Belred Street Network Project
WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (Bureau) will provide a $99.6 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the City of Bellevue, Washington, at 2.86% with a term of 35 years after substantial completion to finance the completion of the BelRed Street Network Project (the Project). The City of Bellevue is developing the Project, a combination of 12 multimoda...
Department of Energy Advances $32 Million in Funding for Advanced Technologies
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $32 million in funding for 16 projects as part of two new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) programs: ENergy-efficient Light-wave Integrated Technology Enabling Networks that Enhance Datacenters (ENLITENED) and Power Nitride Doping Innovation Offers Devices Enabling SWITCHES (PNDIODES). “The ENLITENED and PNDIODES programs demonstrate ARPA-E’s unique approach to advancing the development of energy tec...
Bell Canada Receives Award for Fiber Networks from Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure
Huntsville, Alabama – Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure presented Bell Canada with an Icon Award for Bell’s efforts to increase high-speed internet access in its service territory through quicker rollout of fiber networks. Announced at HxGN LIVE, Hexagon’s annual conference, the Icon Awards are Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure’s highest customer award, presented for visionary use of software to significantly benefit customers and communities. Bell Canada is a major telecommunications company in...
Marine Corps Systems Command Receives Award for Emergency Response System from Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure
Huntsville, Alabama – Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure presented Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) with an Icon Award for its efforts to improve emergency response capabilities at U.S. Marine Corps bases globally. Announced at HxGN LIVE, Hexagon’s annual conference, the Icon Awards are Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure’s highest customer award, presented for visionary use of software to significantly benefit citizens and communities. In 2009, a gunman opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 1...
Transportation Expert Richard Schmalz Joins HNTB
NEW YORK – Richard Schmalz, PE, joined HNTB Corporation as civil/transportation growth champion and associate vice president in the firm’s New York office, located in the Empire State Building. Schmalz leads New York office growth efforts targeting complex, large-scale highway, bridge and rail infrastructure programs as well as design-build projects. “Richard is a recognized leader with extensive multimodal transportation engineering expertise,” said Thomas J. Spearing III, HNTB’...
Luis Villegas, Construction Management Expert, Joins HNTB
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Luis Villegas joined HNTB Corporation as director of the firm’s construction management and construction inspection practice in Pennsylvania. He brings more than 25 years of experience with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation that includes delivery of highway and bridge projects across a large portion of central Pennsylvania. Villegas is based in the firm’s Harrisburg office. “Luis is a highly respected professional, well known by our clients in Pennsylvania for h...
Environmental Permitting Expert, Jason Lancaster, PWS, CEP, Joins Cardno
Atlanta - Cardno, Inc., is pleased to announce that Jason Lancaster, PWS, CEP, has joined the firm as a program manager in the company’s Atlanta office. As a permitting specialist with more than 20 years of professional experience, Jason has developed and implemented multiple studies on upland, wetland, riverine, and other aquatic systems throughout the Southeast United States. Jason will be focused on supporting clients through Cardno’s surface water and permitting practices in Georgia...
Cynthia Keeffe Joins HDR’s San Francisco Studio as Regional Director for Health
HDR welcomes Cynthia Keeffe, AIA, ACHA, LEED BD+C, as a Regional Director for Health in the San Francisco architecture studio focusing on the west coast region. She brings more than 30 years of experience in architectural project management, planning and design and construction administration specializing in healthcare facility new construction and renovation projects. Cynthia is passionate about engaging client and design teams to identify issues, establish operational, technical and functio...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
