Michael Baker International Hires Jennifer Lewis to Head Southeast Region
Michael Baker International Hires Jennifer Lewis to Head Southeast Region | Michael Baker International Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced today that Jennifer Lewis, P.E., has joined the firm as the director of the company’s Southeast Region. Michael Baker’s Southeast Region consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee. Ms. Lewis, a 22-year veteran of the engineering industry in central...
Black & Veatch Wins Hong Kong International Airport Expansion Project
Hong Kong SAR (6 September 2016) – Black & Veatch has won a water management role in the expansion of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) that incorporates business sustainability best practices. The Black & Veatch team will design the hydraulic and water treatment systems for the new Three-runway System (3RS) to be completed by 2024. The HKIA expansion will meet future air traffic growth and maintain its competitiveness as an international aviation hub while improving the facilities’ oper...
NOAA Awards Tetra Tech $49 Million Coastal Geospatial Contract
PASADENA, Calif -Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded the Company a $49 million, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to support the Office for Coastal Management’s (OCM) Digital Coast program. Tetra Tech is one of five contractors who will share in the contract ceiling over a five-year period. Tetra Tech will provide OCM with highly technical geospatial services to support NOAA’s mandate to ma...
Marblehead, MA Pipeline Replacement Named APWA Project of the Year for 2016
BOSTON, MA – The American Public Works Association (APWA) has named the South Essex Sewerage District's Marblehead Pipeline Replacement Project as one of its Public Works Projects of the Year for 2016. The award was presented on August 29 during the APWA’s Public Works Expo in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The APWA Public Works Project of the Year Award was established to promote excellence in the management and administration of public works projects by recognizing the alliance between the managin...
Fire Engineers Help Set capital Alight to Mark 350th Great Fire of London Anniversary
Arup joined public arts events charity Artichoke and American ‘burn artist’ David Best to mark the anniversary of the Great Fire of London. The finale of the week long London’s Burning festival saw a 120 foot-long wooden replica of the 1666 city skyline being set alight on the Thames in a re-enactment of the Great Fire on Sunday 4th September. Arup was commissioned by Artichoke to provide fire and environmental advice for the project. The key challenge for the fire engineering team was to...
Atkins Donates $10,000 to American Red Cross for Louisiana Flood Relief
In the wake of devastating floods in Louisiana, Atkins has donated $10,000 to the American Red Cross to help aid in recovery and relief efforts. The Red Cross has deemed the flooding in Louisiana the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on New York/New Jersey and the surrounding area in 2012. The organization predicts at least $30 million is needed for the relief effort in Louisiana and estimates as many as 110,000 homes have been affected, displacing countless people....
Hatch-Zhongshe Joint Venture to Target Environmental Challenges in China
Shanghai, China—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended a commercial signing ceremony in Shanghai today which marked the formal establishment of a new joint venture between Hatch and the Zhongshe Baiqi Joint Investment Development Co. Ltd. The newly-formed Hatch Beijing Environment & Technology Co. Ltd. (HBET) will focus on providing solutions to some of the most serious environmental issues facing China today. The HBET joint venture will draw on Zhongshe’s financial strengths and H...
Stantec's Ian Cotton Named One of Northwest's Top Young Professionals
Lynnwood-based electrical engineer Ian Cotton, PE, LEED AP, was recently selected as one of top young professionals in the Northwest by Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine, the nation’s largest industry journal for contractors and design firms. A key project manager at design firm Stantec, Cotton is one of just six professionals selected for the honor, which highlights the most accomplished construction industry professionals under the age of 40 in Alaska, Washington and Oregon. Cotton,...
Dewberry Selected to Provide QA/QC for Connecticut Map Data
Dewberry has been selected by the Capitol Region Council of Governments to perform comprehensive quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) services for Connecticut's recently acquired statewide data collection. The firm will survey 3-D QA/QC checkpoints, test the horizontal and/or vertical accuracy of geospatial products, and perform qualitative assessments of orthoimagery and lidar. The Sanborn Map Company recently completed the orthoimaging project, which provides Connecticut with high-reso...
Michael Baker International Drives Growth Trajectory in Railroad and Transit Practice with Appointment of Bonnie D. Shepherd as SVP and National Market Lead
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today announced that Bonnie D. Shepherd has joined the firm as Senior Vice President and National Market Lead in the Railroad and Transit practice. In this role, Shepherd will be based in the firm’s Baltimore office and will direct all activities related to Michael Baker’s rail and transit national market to better serve the public and private demands of the industry and the firm’s growing client base....