CINTEC America Provides Anchoring Systems for NYC MTA Subway Station Retrofit Project for World Tunnelling Publication
CINTEC America, a world leader in the field of structural masonry retrofit strengthening, repair, and preservation, announces that after extensive site testing and evaluation it will supply a new anchoring system for the overhead glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) panels for the NYC MTA subway station retrofit project for station platforms at 168th station and 181st station. The NYC MTA subway station retrofit project, due to be completed by the end of 2015, is aimed at providing ove...
Turner Construction Company Leaders Promoted in San Diego and Boston
Turner Construction Company is pleased to announce that John Greenip is now serving as vice president and general manager of Turner’s office in San Diego, reporting to Rick Bach, senior vice president. We are also pleased to announce that Maureen Kirkpatrick is now serving as vice president and operations manager of the company’s office in Boston, reporting to Peter Hamill, vice president and general manager. John joined Turner’s office in Boston, where he has spent his entire career until...
HDR Selected as Owner's Engineer for Rev LNG Project
HDR has been selected as the owner's engineer for Rev LNG, which is building a small-scale liquefied natural gas facility near Scranton in Bradford County in northeast Pennsylvania. The facility will have 180,000 gallons of storage and a liquefaction capacity of 50,000 gallons per day. It will primarily supply LNG for fueling trucks but also for the energy exploration and production sector and eventually for marine customers. HDR will be responsible for the overall project management and d...
Tetra Tech Awarded $200 Million Navy CLEAN Contract
PASADENA, Calif. - Aug. 1, 2016-- Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $200 million, single-award contract by Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Atlantic. Through the Comprehensive Long-term Environmental Action Navy (CLEAN) contract, Tetra Tech will provide environmental engineering support services to installations within the NAVFAC Atlantic Area of Responsibility. The geographic focus is primarily in the northeastern and southeastern United Sta...
Schlumberger's Water Management Division is Now Part of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff has finalized the acquisition of Schlumberger’s industrial water consultancy business on August 1st 2016. The transaction, which was announced in mid-June, enables the company to provide water consulting services and project solutions to clients worldwide. "The industrial water consultancy team will bring an increased presence in the attractive global water market, more specifically, in the supply, management, control and environmental protection of water," comme...
HNTB Grows Architecture Practice to Accommodate New Projects
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 1, 2016 – HNTB Corporation’s architecture practice has added a significant number of new architects, representing approximately a 20 percent increase in the firm’s total architecture staff over the past fourteen months. Hires include senior and mid-level architects and designers, plus recent graduates and interns, most of whom are based in Kansas City, Missouri. By the end of 2016, HNTB’s architecture practice expects to grow by an additional 30 percent in Kansas City and...
HDR Expands Dam, Levees, Civil Works Practice with Addition of Three Key Hires
HDR has recently added three industry-recognized leaders to the dams, levees and civil works practice. They are Dan Osmun, national technical advisor for dam safety and risk, and Jeff Allen, national technical advisor for heavy civil construction, both based in HDR's Denver, Colorado, office; and Ed Zapel, senior hydraulics engineer, based in HDR's Seattle, Washington, office. Over the past 25 years, Osmun has worked as the lead geotechnical engineer and project manager for major dam design...
IoT Paves Its Way Into Commercial Construction
Have you ever sat in a meeting and suddenly wondered if you closed your garage door in the morning? It tends to leave you in a bit of a panic, making it difficult to concentrate on the task at hand. Those days are long gone since the introduction of the Internet of Things (IoT) – there seems to be an app for just about everything you do (and yes, there are several for garage door systems!). Over the past few decades our lives have slowly been transformed with technology and information, but tha...
Skanska Divests Skanska Installation to Assemblin for about SEK 225M
Skanska has signed an agreement to sell 100 percent of the share capital in Skanska Installation to Assemblin. The purchase price is about 225 million on a debt free basis. The transaction will not have any material result effect. The sale, which takes place after a strategic review, includes the entire Skanska Installation operations, all employees and assets. In 2015 Skanska Installation had about 830 employees. The revenue amounted to about SEK 1.5 billion. The sale is conditional on ap...
Atkins Chemical Engineer Quizzes MPs on Brexit and UK Science
Jack Melton, a graduate chemical engineer in Atkins’ Bristol office visited the Houses of Parliament to discuss ‘Science After the Referendum: What Next?’ at a Parliamentary Links Day. Parliamentary Links Day is an annual event organised by the Royal Society of Biology (RSB). It brings together UK science and engineering institutions and invited members with MP’s, to strengthen ties between the UK Government and the scientific community. Jack was one of seven chemical engineers chosen to r...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
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