Jeff Brickner Joins Stantec as Senior Principal in its Las Vegas Office
Jeff Brickner, PE, has joined Stantec’s Las Vegas office as a senior principal and Area Manager for U.S. West Transportation. With more than 34 years of experience in the infrastructure industry, Brickner will lead transportation-related activities in the Northwest and Southwest regions. Bricker’s primary initial focus is on expanding Stantec’s transportation practice in the Northwest and Southwest. He will be focused on the transit, aviation, highway, and ports/harbors market sectors an...
Viewpoint Construction Software Announces Viewpoint Team, its Next- Generation Collaboration Platform
PORTLAND, OR – – Last week Viewpoint Construction Software® launched Viewpoint Team, a fully collaborative, cloud-based platform for project management and construction operations solutions. Viewpoint Team integrates with Vista, Viewpoint’s core ERP product, and is browser and mobile friendly. The first application to launch in Viewpoint Team is Submittals. The Team Submittals solution streamlines the complex submittal process, ensuring all stakeholders can review, comment and approve documen...
VBA Wins Prestigious British Geotechnical Association’s Fleming Award for Crag End Landslip Project
VBA, the joint venture comprising VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and Atkins, together with Northumberland County Council and Keller, have won the coveted British Geotechnical Association’s Fleming Award for the Crag End Landslip stabilisation project in Rothbury, Northumberland. The Fleming award is given annually to commemorate the life and work of Dr Ken Fleming and to recognise excellence in the practical application of geotechnics, teamwork, expertise and innovation. The team were giv...
Thornton Tomasetti Acquires Swallow Acoustic Consultants
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Swallow Acoustic Consultants Limited (SACL), a specialist in acoustics, noise and vibration control engineering based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The addition of Swallow will bolster Thornton Tomasetti’s Structural Engineering and Forensics practices as well as its Canadian presence. The deal is scheduled to close in early 2017. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. K...
Dewberry Announces the Promotion of Brian Batten, Ph.D.
Dewberry is proud to announce the promotion of Brian Batten, Ph.D., CFM, to associate in the firm's Richmond, Virginia, office. Batten is a senior coastal scientist and project manager with Dewberry's resilience solutions group and leads the firm's sea level rise (SLR) practice. He has more than 20 years of experience in coastal marine sciences and is an expert in coastal hazards, including coastal flooding, coastal erosion, and SLR. Batten has led research efforts on coastal erosion for t...
AECOM, EnergySolutions Joint Venture Wins San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Decommissioning Contract
LOS ANGELES — AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, and EnergySolutions, a nuclear waste management and decommissioning services firm, announced today they have been selected as the decommissioning general contractor for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station through their joint venture, SONGS Decommissioning Solutions (SDS), by Southern California Edison (SCE). The Decommissioning General Contract represents a significant portion of the work requir...
Unique Precast Pipe Structure Helps Community Park with Increased Stormwater Run-Off
HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Unsettled with the increasing storm water flowing through the Hanover Township Community Park, in Bethlehem, Pa., the Hanover Township Public Works Department teamed with Oldcastle Precast to devise a unique storm water solution, using special reinforced concrete pipes, to reconstruct the exiting storm water structure. With increased storm water run-off through the park and the increasing development occurring near the Allentown Airport, where the community park adjoi...
DMAC Architecture Spearheads Design of Doc B’s Fresh Kitchen
DMAC Architecture, Chicago’s premier architecture firm, partners with Doc B’s Fresh Kitchen, the Chicago-based fresh, casual dining concept, spearheading the innovative design of its restaurant locations nationwide. With three completed restaurants under its belt and a slew of new sites coming down the pipeline, DMAC continues as an integral partner of the budding chain as it expands. Under the creative direction of Dwayne MacEwen – Principal and Founder – the DMAC team is behind the minimali...
Belgian Investment Firm Korys Invests in Swedish Renewable Energy Software Company Greenbyte
Belgian investment firm Korys, owned by the renowned Colruyt family is investing in the Swedish renewable energy software maker Greenbyte AB. Greenbyte’s software supports wind energy and solar PV owners, operators and asset managers in capturing the full potential of renewable energy projects. Since its founding in 2010, Greenbyte has grown almost entirely organically and now more than 7GW of wind and solar PV energy across 20+ countries are monitored through its software services Breeze and...
Great Lakes Appoints Ryan Levenson to Board of Directors and Announces Agreement with Privet Group
OAK BROOK, Ill. -- The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) (NASDAQ:GLDD), the largest provider of dredging services in the United States and a major provider of environmental and remediation services, announced today that Ryan Levenson has been appointed to the Board of Directors, effective December 27, 2016. Mr. Levenson has also been appointed to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Concurrent with the 2017 Annual Meeting of S...