China Is Leading the New Wave of Towers Rising to 500m and Beyond
China is leading the new wave of mega-tall towers, but locating services such as lifts and cooling towers within these slender giants has required some serious lateral (and vertical) thinking. The Home of Super-Tall If America was the birthplace of the skyscraper, China is undoubtedly the home of the super-tall tower. The Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats defines a tower as ‘super-tall’ when it tops 300m. So far, 97 have been completed around the world and 36 are in China. Of t...
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Announces Winners of the 2016 Sidney Freedman Craftsmanship Award
CHICAGO – The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) has announced the co-winners of the fifth annual Sidney Freedman Craftsmanship Award, an award that recognizes PCI certified plants for excellence in manufacturing and craftsmanship of architectural precast and glass fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC) structures and individual components. Two PCI certified precast concrete producers were honored with this year’s award. Forterra Structural Precast was recognized for producing the cladd...
Trolley Extension into La Jolla: Construction Kicks Off This Week
A groundbreaking ceremony and community celebration is scheduled Saturday to officially kick off construction of the $2.1 billion extension of the San Diego Trolley’s Blue Line into La Jolla and University City. The 11 a.m. event on the field at The Preuss School at UC San Diego will include a picnic, music and children’s activities, as well as information about the 11-mile Mid-Coast Trolley extension and the construction schedule. Preliminary work has been underway for most of...
Tensar Helps Transform The Hills at Governor's Island
Over the course of the past year, Tensar Corporation took part in a nationally acclaimed project in New York City: The Hills at Governor’s Island. The Hills at Governor’s Island was an abandoned, natural island, previously a military fort, just a few hundred yards south of Lower Manhattan. New York City wanted to transform this abandoned military base and excavation dumping ground into a grand park on an island accessible from New York City via a short ferry ride. For the transformati...
Nutonian and Autodesk Team to Offer IoT Analytics and Simplify Data Science
BOSTON - Nutonian, the machine intelligence company, today announced an OEM relationship with Autodesk, the global leader in design software and services. Autodesk’s Fusion Connect, an IoT cloud platform, will embed Nutonian’s artificial intelligence (A.I.) modeling engine, Eureqa, to interpret IoT data and maximize business outcomes. Eureqa automatically discovers the simplest possible predictive models from raw data, enabling any user in an organization to solve data-driven business problem...
New CloudCities Release unites BIM and GIS
SmarterBetterCities today announced its new CloudCities release with web-based 3D data mashup and advanced editing capabilities. The new CloudCities is now available at www.cloudcities.io. CloudCities is an online platform for visualizing, editing, and publishing interactive 3D city models. It dramatically simplifies creating 3D plans and combining data with it. With the new version, users can now take full control over their 3D content by adding, moving and transforming 3D assets. CloudCiti...
Bechtel Recognized for Reaching Key Environmental and Occupational Health Milestones
Bechtel today announced that the company’s Nuclear, Security & Environmental global business unit has achieved key certifications for International Organization for Standardization 14001:2015 for environmental management systems and Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series 18001:2007 for occupational health and safety management. These certifications recognize Bechtel’s implementation of a management system designed to help control environmental impacts as well as address occupational...
Fluor Completes Module Fabrication for Oil Sands Project
IRVING, Texas & CALGARY, Alberta - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that all 358 modules have been fabricated and shipped to the site for its portion of the Fort Hills Energy L.P. oil sands mining project in the Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada. Fluor is performing engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction for the utilities scope of the project. The project applied Fluor’s innovative 3rd Gen Modular ExecutionSM approach, which optimizes process block layouts and p...
Jacobs Wins Contract Extension for Transperth Route Information System in Australia
PASADENA, Calif. - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a five-year contract extension from the Western Australia Public Transport Authority (PTA) to provide support services for the Transperth Route Information System (TRIS). Transperth provides the Perth metropolitan region with bus, train and ferry public transport services. Jacobs has provided support services for PTA’s TRIS for 15 years, including design, implementation and ongoing management. The system...
Arup Appointed to Advisory Role for Sydney’s Parramatta Light Rail
Parramatta Light Rail is an upcoming twin track light rail line that will connect the growth areas surrounding Western Sydney’s CBD. Arup is supporting the NSW Government as Infrastructure Technical Advisor for the project, providing definition design services. By 2036, more than half of Sydney’s population will reside in Western Sydney. This shift is pulling the heart of metropolitan Sydney westward and will increase the importance of Parramatta as the region’s centre. Parramatta Light Ra...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
