Atlas Copco Completes Acquisition of Remaining Stake in Taiwanese Exhaust Management Business
Stockholm, Sweden, June 1, 2017: Atlas Copco, a leading provider of sustainable productivity solutions, has completed the acquisition of the remaining stake in CSKT Inc., a joint venture in Taiwan that sells and services gas abatement and chemical delivery systems. Atlas Copco acquired a 55% stake in CSKT with the acquisition in 2016 of CSK Inc., the South Korean exhaust management company. Atlas Copco has now acquired the remaining 45%. Atlas Copco announced on April 20, 2017, the agre...
Trump Budget Offers Information on Infrastructure Plan
President Trump used documents released with his 2018 budget proposal to provide more information on his plans for major infrastructure investment, along with a request to spend an initial $5 billion for it in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. In all, Trump as expected proposed allocating $200 billion in additional direct federal infrastructure funding over 10 years, with a goal of leveraging non-federal dollars to produce $1 trillion in new project investment over a decade. Although the...
Michael Baker International Appoints New Office Executives to Lead Growing Northeast Region
Pittsburgh - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced the following appointments that support the firm’s focus on growth in the Northeast Region: Magdy Hagag, P.E., to Vice President and Office Executive for the Newark, New Jersey office; Darren Riegler, P.E., to Vice President and Office Executive for the Hamilton, New Jersey office; and William Marman, P.E., to Vice President and Office Executive for the New York (New York C...
Survey Reveals Infrastructure Increase by 4.9%
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WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Rebranding as WSP
NEW YORK, NY – WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global engineering and professional services consulting firm, will assume the WSP name effective May 2017. The firm has operated as WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff since the acquisition of Parsons Brinckerhoff by WSP in October 2014. “We are adopting a single brand as the next step in the unification of the company, leveraging the rich heritage, reputation and combined portfolios of multiple firms to strengthen our position in the marketplace,” said Gr...
IMAGINiT Technologies Earns Autodesk BIM 360 Authorization in U.S. and Canada
OWINGS MILLS, MD ― May 25, 2017 — Rand Worldwide (OTCBB: RWWI), a global leader in providing technology solutions to organizations with engineering design and information technology requirements, today announced that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has earned BIM 360 authorization from Autodesk. “We’re thrilled to have validation from Autodesk that our talented team of building design experts in the U.S. and Canada have demonstrated excellence around the BIM 360 products and as such h...
Michael Baker International Aviation Leader Honored for Commitment and Leadership in Industry by American Association of Airport Executives
Pittsburgh (May 25, 2017) - Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that aviation expert Claudia Holliway was recently honored by the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) for her leadership and commitment to the industry. Ms. Holliway, Vice President and National Aviation Business Development Lead, received the AAAE Leadership Award at the 89th Annual AAAE Conference and Exposition in Long Beach, Calif. T...
Portable UltraCam Panther Offers High-Quality Imagery, Video and LiDAR
Graz, Austria — May, 2017 — Vexcel Imaging is announcing the new UltraCam Panther, a versatile portable platform that carries complementary sensors to capture full-spherical imagery and video, dense 3D LiDAR point clouds and precise trajectory information in both indoor and outdoor environments. The UltraCam Panther’s panoramic head holds 26 cameras to capture very high resolution still imagery or video with a 360-degree field of view. A multi-beam rotating LiDAR sensor simultaneously collect...
Amtrak Taps Developer for $1 Billion-Plus Redevelopment of Union Station
Amtrak has chosen a Chicago development firm to lead a more than 3 million-square-foot real estate redevelopment of Union Station and surrounding land, a project expected to take about six years to complete and cost more than $1 billion. Riverside Investment & Development, led by John O'Donnell, will lead the redevelopment team, according to a news release on the project. More details are expected to be announced Thursday by the developer, Amtrak and Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The total development...
Video Shows Stretch of Iconic Calif. Highway Buried After Massive Landslide
BIG SUR, Calif. -- A massive landslide that went into the Pacific Ocean is the latest natural disaster to hit a California community that relies heavily on an iconic coastal highway and tourism to survive, and it adds to a record $1 billion in highway damage from one of the state's wettest winters in decades. The weekend slide in Big Sur buried a portion of Highway 1 under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt and changed the coastline below to include what now looks like a rounded skirt hem, Susa...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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