PipePlastics Industry Awards Announced
INDUSTRY PROJECTS AND MEMBERS AWARDS ANNOUNCED Winners in Each Plastics Pipe Institute Division IRVING, Texas - The Plastics Pipe Institute, Inc. (PPI) announced the winners of its Projects and Members of the Year program during its annual membership meeting, which was held in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 15 – 18, 2022. PPI is the major North American trade association representing the plastic pipe industry. “Aside from the excitement of announcing the winners of our industry comp...
North America Digital Twin Market Size to Surpass $1.5 Billion by 2026
According to a recent study from market research firm Graphical Research, the North America digital twin market forecast is likely to witness a spiraling demand from multiple industrial sectors through the next five years. The development of cutting-edge technologies has ushered in automation and hyper-automation trends. As such, the emergence of several smart factories across North America is one of the primary growth drivers of the market for digital twins. Industrial internet of Things (II...
Stantec wins four national engineering design awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies
Edmondson Avenue Bridge Over Gwynn Transportation projects in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Minnesota demonstrate an exceptional degree of innovation, complexity, achievement, and value New York, NY - TSX, NYSE: STN Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, received four National Recognition Awards in the American Council of Engineering Companies’ (ACEC) 2022 Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) competition. The annual competition recognizes engineering f...
Duke Energy One, L3Harris Offer New Operational Solution for Nuclear Power Plants
Innovative new service for nuclear facilities provides customized, immersive 3D simulations. Solution provides way for customers to address operational opportunities, challenges while helping to improve efficiency, reduce costs. CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Duke Energy One and L3Harris Technologies have announced a customized, cost-effective solution for nuclear power plants that will provide complete 3D simulations of operating nuclear facilities. The new service will enhance response preparednes...
O’Melveny Advises Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc. in Strategic Merger with J. Roger Preston
HONG KONG —O’Melveny advised Global Infrastructure Solutions Inc. (GISI) in a strategic merger to bring Asia-based professional engineering consultancy J. Roger Preston Holdings Limited (JRP) into the GISI group of companies. The completion of the transaction was announced on May 23, 2022. GISI is the largest privately owned construction manager in the commercial building, industrial, and healthcare markets, and a leading project/construction manager in the environmental and public infrast...
De Nora signs MOU with SWCC
Water leaders broaden focus on sustainability MILAN – In line with Saudi Vision 2030, De Nora Water Technologies and Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) expand their partnership with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on brine mining and water electrolysis research. The MOU also includes innovations to the vacuum-based Capital Controls® Chlorine Dioxide Generators used in desalination pre-treatment and disinfection, which were approved by the Desalination Technolog...
DFI Announces 2022-2023 Traveling Lecturer Dan A. Brown, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE
Hawthorne, N.J.: Dan A. Brown, Ph.D., P.E., D.GE, chief engineer and senior principal, Dan Brown and Associates, has been selected as the 2022-2023 Traveling Lecturer. He is available, on request of DFI, to present lectures September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023. As one of America’s leading authorities on the construction and design of deep foundations, Brown will travel and present a series of lectures to university students, professional groups and industry associations. The program promotes t...
S&T tornado simulator helps researchers investigate structure failure
Dr. Grace Yan, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering, talks with her students about the importance of Missouri S&T’s tornado simulator in understanding how tornadoes destroy homes, schools and other structures. ROLLA, Mo. – Tornadoes are so violent they often destroy sensors intended to record wind speed and pressure on commercial buildings, schools and homes, so there is no current technology to measure their real wind speed. Researchers at Missouri University...
Steelike, Inc. Successfully Achieves $3 Million Dollar Funding Round
Investment increases company’s capacity to support large projects and coincides with the introduction of its revolutionary mix/pump/spray technology that expands UHPC to shotcrete and applications with access challenges. Springfield, VA, May 31, 2022 – Steelike, Inc., creator, producer, and supplier of Steelike® Ultra-High Performance Concrete (Steelike® UHPC), announced today that it raised $3 million in a second investment round to support the company’s accelerating growth in the face...
Leica Geosystems announces major performance increase in airborne bathymetric survey
The new Leica Chiroptera-5 bathymetric LiDAR sensor provides 40% higher point density, a 20% increase in water depth penetration and improved topographic sensitivity to generate more detailed topographic maps. (Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 31 May 2022) – Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, announced today the introduction of Leica Chiroptera-5, the new high-performance airborne bathymetric LiDAR sensor for coastal and inland water surveys. This latest mapping technology increases the depth penet...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
