Dewberry Welcomes Highway Hydraulic Design Expertise of Steven Bondor
Dewberry has announced that Steven Bondor, PE, has joined the firm's Raleigh, North Carolina, office as a senior project manager. He will support the firm's water resources division for transportation and design-build projects. Bondor has nearly 20 years of experience in hydraulic highway design for roadway drainage systems, large culverts, and bridges. His most prominent projects include the Western Wake Expressway in Raleigh; the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Division...
Sohail Khan Joins HNTB as Senior Project Director
AUSTIN, Texas – Sohail Khan, PE, has joined HNTB Corporation as senior project director and vice president. He is based in the firm’s Austin, Texas, office. Khan has over 30 years of experience in planning, design, construction, procurement and oversight of major infrastructure projects across the country in a variety of market sectors including highways, bridges, tunnels and rail. He also has project delivery expertise in bid-build, design-build and public-private partnerships. Khan’s main...
AECOM Signs Framework Agreement to Provide Infrastructure Services to Shell
LOS ANGELES — AECOM (NYSE:ACM), a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has signed a framework agreement with Shell regarding delivery of enabling infrastructure works (EIW) across major global projects. The types of project elements that AECOM could deliver under this program include roads, rail, airstrips, marine structures, power, telecommunications, water and sewerage systems, as well as offices, warehouses and workforce accommodation. The EIW agree...
Associations’ Panel Urges Congress to Act Fast on 2017 Funds, End Rescission Threat
AASHTO Journal - Associations’ Panel Urges Congress to Act Fast on 2017 Funds, End Rescission Threat / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / A panel representing three major infrastructure investment organizations is urging Congress to quickly approve 2017 transportation appropriations with already authorized increases, and to kill a Senate proposal that would strip $2.2 billion out of certain highway programs. The panel is the Joint Committee of...
Autodesk Increases Share Repurchase Program
SAN RAFAEL, Calif.-Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) today announced a program to repurchase up to 30 million shares of the company's common stock, in addition to the approximately 1.5 million shares that remained at the end of the second quarter of fiscal 2017 under previously announced share repurchase programs. The repurchase program provides Autodesk with the ability to cover dilution and reduce shares outstanding over time. Under the share repurchase program, Autodesk may repurchase shares fr...
OGC Publishes Testbed 12 Aviation Thread Engineering Reports
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently approved the release of 7 draft public OGC Engineering Reports, products of the recently completed OGC Interoperability Testbed 12 Aviation Thread. Testbed 12’s Aviation Thread was sponsored by FAA and Eurocontrol, and is the most recent in the OGC's long series of major geospatial interoperability initiatives. The 7 released draft engineering reports focus on Aviation Information Management, specifically: •Semantics - Managing comple...
BTS Releases 2nd Quarter 2016 Airline Financial Data
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines reported an after-tax net profit of $4.6 billion in the second quarter of 2016, up from $3.1 billion in the first quarter of 2016 and down from $5.5 billion in the second quarter of 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today (Table 1). U.S. Scheduled Service Passenger Airlines Quarterly Net Income Table Version | Excel The 25 U.S. scheduled service passenger airlines reported an after-tax n...
Cardno Negotiates a Permanent Debt Reduction
Cardno Limited (CDD) today announced it has negotiated a permanent reduction in its debt facilities from US$210.0m in June 2016 to US$108.5m. This reduction of debt facilities reinforces Cardno’s strengthening balance sheet and reflects the Company’s decreasing focus on the use of debt in its day to day operations. As part of the reduction agreed with Cardno’s banking partners, the banks have also agreed to covenant waivers (for the next 2 testing periods) on any potential further impairment...
Sokkia Announces New Compatibility with Autodesk Layout Application
LIVERMORE, Calif., USA/ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, The Netherlands — Sokkia announces its new iX robotic total station series’ compatibility with the Autodesk BIM 360 Layout application. BIM 360 Layout is designed to provide vertical construction contractors the ability to connect the coordinated model to the field layout process — helping to increase job site productivity, while improving the accuracy of staked or installed building components. “We are committed to the interoperability between o...
Oldcastle Precast Supplies Retaining Wall System for PENNDOT’s Largest Project Ever
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (September 2016) – Oldcastle Precast, a specialist in manufacturing precast concrete components used in heavy highway and bridge construction, has supplied over 330,000-square-feet of The Neel Company’s Pennsylvania Department of Transportation approved T-WALL® Retaining Wall System for Philadelphia’s Interstate 95 Corridor Reconstruction Project. Ultimately, on separate contracts for Interstate-95 sections CP1, CP2, GR2, and GR3, Easton-based Oldcastle Precast manufactured...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
