Johnson Controls Issues First $500 Million Sustainability-Linked Bond
Johnson Controls becomes first S&P500 industrial company to publish an integrated sustainable finance framework and issue a Sustainability-Linked Bond Sustainability-Linked Bond will target greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals The offering and publication of an integrated sustainable finance framework represent new milestones in sustainable finance, following entry into sustainability-linked revolving credit facility in 2019 and issuance of inaugural green bond in 2020 CORK, Irel...
Healthpeak Properties Selects View Smart Windows for Second Large-Scale Development in San Diego
Callan Ridge Life Science development follows The Boardwalk campus installation in 2020. San Diego, CA and Milpitas, CA — View, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIEW) (“View”), the leader in smart building technologies, announced its Smart Windows will be installed at the Callan Ridge campus, a new life science project under development by Healthpeak Properties (Healthpeak), a publicly traded national REIT, in the Torrey Pines submarket of San Diego. Callan Ridge represents Healthpeak's second life science deve...
Jennifer Steen Joins HDR as Highways and Roads BIM Director
OMAHA, Neb. — Jennifer Steen, P.E., PMP, ENV SP, has joined HDR as its Highways and Roads BIM director. She will assist clients in advancing their digital delivery practice, support agencies’ goals and aid in carrying out their vision regarding building information modeling and digital delivery. She joins a robust team of Building Information Modeling experts who are on the forefront of the industry’s digital delivery advancements. Based in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, Steen will provide s...
The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Announces Design-Build Award for U.S. Embassy Doha
The Department of State has awarded American International Contractors, Inc. (AICI) of Arlington, Virginia the design-build contract for the new U.S. Embassy in Doha, Qatar. Richärd Kennedy Architects of Phoenix, Arizona is the design architect. The 12-acre campus will provide a sustainable and state-of-the-art platform for U.S. diplomacy in Doha. Since the start of the Department’s Capital Security Construction Program in 1999, OBO has completed 168 new diplomatic facilities. OBO curren...
Bill Cramer joins HNTB as public involvement director
Industry communications expert will leverage relationships and understanding of future changes in transportation RALIEGH, N.C. – Bill Cramer has joined HNTB’s Raleigh office as public involvement director. Cramer has 30 years of experience developing clear and concise messages on complex issues and delivering them to targeted audiences. For the past eight years, Cramer has worked with infrastructure leaders throughout the country and internationally. Cramer will be providing public invol...
International Public Works Study Tour Opportunity for Public Works Professionals
Applications Now Being Accepted for Jennings Randolph International Fellowship Program Washington D.C. – Public works professionals looking to expand their knowledge and further technology exchange may apply now for the coveted Jennings Randolph International Fellowship, which is annually sponsored by the American Public Works Association and provides up to $2,500 for travel and related costs to the winning fellow or fellows. The deadline for applications is Nov. 15. “This is an am...
Seven Western State DOTs Win Regional Transportation Awards
Seven state departments of transportation in Arizona, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, and Utah earned regional recognition in the 2021 America’s Transportation Awards competition for projects providing safer access to kids walking to school, removing a highway to reconnect a community, and creating a better way to inform motorists about weather events to save lives, among others. [Above photo by the North Dakota DOT] Those state DOTs received their awards September 15...
Fourth Street Bridge project in Flagstaff wins regional award
PHOENIX – For its efforts to improve traffic flow and safety in Flagstaff, the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Fourth Street Bridge replacement project has won a regional award, as announced Wednesday by the Western Region of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Winning in the Quality of Life/Community Development category in the America’s Transportation Awards competition, the Fourth Street Bridge project was recognized for improving safety for drive...
Skanska tightens its climate target
Skanska is updating its climate target to include a reduction of the company’s own carbon emissions by 70 percent as early as 2030, with 2015 as the base year. The update to the previous target, which was a 50-percent reduction by 2030, is the result of a need to drastically increase the pace toward a carbon-neutral society and the fact that Skanska has already reduced carbon emissions in its own operations by 40 percent compared with the base year 2015 through its goal-oriented initiatives....
Cortec® Corporation Doubles Investments in Europe! New Acquisition in Croatia and Opening of New Markets
CorteCros's logistics and distribution center is strategically located in the port near Split, enabling fast shipment and distribution of Cortec's products throughout Europe and the world. CorteCros®, a member of the Cortec® Corporation group, has acquired a new facility building in Split, Croatia, from CROSCO d.o.o., subsidiary of INA, a Croatian multinational oil company. CorteCros® is now the 100 percent owner of the logistics and distribution center in Split, which has recently...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
