Vexcel’s UltraCam Osprey Powers the City of Espoo’s Advanced 3D City Model
Graz, Austria – Vexcel Imaging highlights the City of Espoo, Finland, and its continued success in building one of Europe’s most advanced open 3D city models, powered by high-resolution nadir and oblique imagery captured with Vexcel’s UltraCam Osprey systems. Espoo’s long-term imaging strategy – implemented through service providers using UltraCam Osprey cameras since 2017 – has enabled the city to develop a consistent, scalable, highly accurate digital twin that supports planning, visualization...
D5 Introduces an AI-Powered End-to-End Workflow for 3D Design
As generative AI continues to move beyond text and images into spatial and 3D domains, one of the biggest challenges remains translating human intent into complex visual environments. Describing how a space should feel—its light, atmosphere, materials, and context—has traditionally required hours of manual setup, iteration, and technical adjustment.D5 Render has announced a new AI-driven approach to 3D design that aims to close that gap. With the release of D5 Render 3.0, the company introduces...
D5 Introduces an All-in-one AI-Driven Workflow That Redefines How Architects Design, Iterate, and Visualize
As architectural projects grow more complex and timelines continue to compress, many design teams are re-examining a long-standing assumption in their workflows: that design, visualization, and delivery must happen in separate stages, across disconnected tools.D5 has announced a unified, AI-driven design workflow that intended to eliminate this fragmentation—allowing architects to work in a continuous, iterative flow from early concept through final visualization. Rather than introducing another...
Ohio hospital needed a water line repair, Tele-Vac had the “cure”
Tele-Vac completes trenchless CIPP installation beneath major highway for Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital. Canton, Ohio — Tele-Vac Environmental, in partnership with HammerHead® Trenchless, successfully installed a cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) liner to rehabilitate a critical water line serving Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital. The project required trenchless installation beneath the southbound lanes of Interstate 77 in Canton, Ohio—an application where open-cut excavation would have been impractic...
STV to Lead Upgrade of Effluent Service Water System at Philadelphia’s Southwest Water Pollution Control Plant
PHILADELPHIA, PA – STV today announced it has been selected by the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) to lead a major rehabilitation of the Southwest Water Pollution Control Plant (SW-WPCP), Philadelphia’s second-largest wastewater facility.STV will provide engineering services for rehabilitation at SW-WPCP, which treats an average of 150 million gallons per day (MGD) and wet weather flow in excess of 500 MGD. The SW-WPCP is one of three Philadelphia Water Department water pollution control pla...
Scottish Water names Stantec preferred bidder to deliver multibillion-pound transformation of water and wastewater infrastructure
Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, has been named as a preferred bidder to be a primary designer for the multibillion-pound Scottish Water Enterprise, which is set to transform Scotland’s water and wastewater networks. The enterprise is the largest program of investment in Scottish Water’s history. The initiative will enhance the country’s public assets to improve drinking water quality, increase water resilience, and protect the environment.New wave of water delive...
Discover Six Cutting-Edge Projects for 2026
CHICAGO - Looking for innovation in 2026? We’ve got six places to start. The 2026 IDEAS Awards, presented by the American Institute of Steel Construction and Building Design+Construction, are the steel industry’s highest design honor. This year’s winners all embody the innovation that’s driving our world forward--from a groundbreaking fire station at the forefront of sustainability to a field-applied cold-spray additive manufacturing technique that could change the future. “American innovation--...
2026 North American Utilities Outlook: Striking a Balance Between Load Growth, Significant Capex, and Earnings Stability
SummaryOur outlook for North American Utility companies (Utilities) in 2026 is neutral.Key highlights include the following:-- We expect major utilities in the U.S. and Canada to continue to invest heavily in increasing reliable grid capacity to cater to the surge in electricity demand from artificial intelligence, data centers, industrialization, as well as broader electrification trends.-- This could pressure credit metrics and leverage ratios could be elevated in the near to medium term for s...
Simpson Strong-Tie Celebrates Grand Opening of New, 500,000-Square-Foot Manufacturing Facility in Gallatin, Tennessee
Pleasanton, Calif. — Simpson Strong-Tie, the leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, marked the grand opening of its newest manufacturing plant, located in Gallatin, Tennessee, with a ribbon cutting, celebration and tours on Thursday, January 15, 2026. The 500,250-square-foot, $125 million facility will test and manufacture a range of anchors, fasteners and Quik Drive® fastening tools. The facility opened with 227 employees, including machine operators, maintenance tec...
Cortec® Offers Solutions to Boost Concrete Longevity as Desalination Demand Grows
The rising demand for drinking water in arid regions around the globe has naturally led to steady growth in the desalination market, projected to expand at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 11.6% from 2025-3033. Many desalination projects are under way, especially in the Middle East and Africa, while facilities built one or two decades ago are shifting to the maintenance phase. In either case, the corrosiveness of seawater (average 3.5% salinity) and even higher salinity brine water is a c...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
