President Biden, USDOT Announce More than $20 Billion for Communities of All Sizes to Support Transit This Year
President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides largest-ever investment in transit, giving riders better service while creating jobs and growing U.S. manufacturing WASHINGTON – President Biden and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a more than $20 billion investment in American transit, thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The funding levels, detailed by FTA in apportionment tables for each of 30 programs for Fiscal Year 2022,...
VpCI®-641 Hydrotest Corrosion Inhibitor Earns USDA Certified Biobased Product Label
Cortec® Corporation is pleased to announce that VpCI®-641 and VpCI®-641 PTSA corrosion inhibitors for hydrotesting and freshwater cooling systems have earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product label! These products represent Cortec’s commitment to developing technologies that use biodegradable and renewable materials where possible, allowing industries to fight corrosion in an environmentally responsible manner. VpCI®-641 offers an economical, “greener” alternative to other hydrotesting product...
Perkins Eastman and Kliment Halsband Architects Join Forces
Kliment Halsband Architects designed New York University’s School of Global Public Health, which opened on March 31st. Copyright Ruggero Vanni / Courtesy Kliment Halsband Architects Expanding expertise in educational and institutional practices will serve a broader range of clients New York, NY: Perkins Eastman and Kliment Halsband Architects are pleased to announce their merger, which will combine the formidable talents, experience, and skills of both legacy firms. With Perkins Eastman...
How Ongoing Risk Management Benefits Complex Infrastructure Programs
Latest HDR Experts Talk Interview Features Value Engineering and Risk Management Insights from Jose Theiler OMAHA, Neb. — Large, complex transportation programs have a huge number of unknowns that can disrupt early estimates and forecasts. Properly managing risk throughout a program can help owners make informed decisions to head off these unplanned changes. In the latest from HDR’s Experts Talk series, risk management and value engineering expert Jose Theiler, P.E., CVS, shares how regular a...
Aquajet Offers Innovative Solutions For Hydropower Applications
Aquajet’s Aqua Cutter 710V Hydrodemolition robot increases productivity and safety for challenging concrete removal and surface preparation tasks on spillways, dam faces, intake structures, tunnels, gates, draft tubes, tailraces and locks. Photo courtesy of Walco Industries MONROE, Wash. — Aquajet, a global leader in Hydrodemolition machine manufacturing, offers a lineup of cutting-edge Hydrodemolition equipment for concrete repair and restoration in hydropower applications. Paired with...
Bentley Systems Announces Acquisition of ADINA to Extend Nonlinear Simulation throughout Infrastructure Engineering
Digital Twins Will Benefit from Authoritative ADINA Simulations for Enhanced Infrastructure Resilience EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced it has acquired Watertown, Massachusetts-based ADINA R & D Inc., a leading developer of finite element analysis software applications used in a comprehensively diverse range of engineering fields (adina.com). ADINA was founded in 1986 by Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, pro...
Michael Baker International Introduces Consulting and Technology Solutions Vertical
Firm unites and expands offerings to provide clients with added value and accelerate growth in the technology consulting space PITTSBURGH- Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, today introduced the firm's Consulting and Technology Solutions (CTS) vertical. The CTS vertical is focused on technology differentiation and innovation to support Michael Baker's growth initiatives, identifying and incubating technologies and maximizing opportunit...
American Concrete Institute Launches New Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (April 7, 2022) -- The American Concrete institute (ACI) announced the launch of NEU: An ACI Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Concrete, at its Spring convention in Orlando, Florida, USA. NEU aims to collaborate globally to drive research, education, awareness, and adoption of carbon neutral materials and technologies in the industry. Located at ACI Headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA, NEU will focus on transforming the concrete industry into a proac...
Johnson Controls Named to Prominent FT Climate Leaders 2022 List
Johnson Controls is one of only 400 companies selected from more than 4,000, and for a second consecutive year Johnson Controls has reduced its energy and greenhouse gas intensity by more than 70% since 2002 Since 2017, Johnson Controls has achieved a 38% reduction of scope 1 and 2 emissions, eliminating more than 415,000 metric tons of CO2e. OpenBlue digital platform plays a critical role in decarbonizing buildings in Europe and the world CORK, Ireland, 7 April, 2022 — Johnson Cont...
Treated plastic waste good at grabbing carbon dioxide
Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master HOUSTON – Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide. What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice University lab’s newly discovered chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for industry. Rice chemist James Tour and co-lead authors Rice alumnus Wala Algozeeb, graduat...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
