Esri Joins Digital Twin Consortium
Organizations Can Use ArcGIS to Connect Virtual Models, Solving Business Challenges REDLANDS, Calif.— Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it has joined the Digital Twin Consortium. This authoritative community of users brings together industry, government, and academia to drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security, and interoperability of digital twin technology. Esri provides ArcGIS software to organizations across industries, enabling them to conn...
FHWA Awards $18.7 Million to Eight Projects to Explore New Highway Funding Methods
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) today awarded $18.7 million in “Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives” (STSFA) grants to eight projects, led by six state Departments of Transportation and two transportation coalitions, to test new user-based funding methods for highways and bridges. The program helps states explore innovative new ways to provide long-term support for the Highway Trust Fund. “The pilot projects under the S...
Autodesk U.S. Construction Outlook 2021 Report Finds Commercial Bidding Activity Has Surpassed Pre-Pandemic Levels
Despite forecasted drop in non-residential spending for 2021, real-time bidding data from BuildingConnected suggests short-term relief is en route as delayed or rescheduled projects come back online SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Mar. 16, 2021 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today released the “Construction Outlook 2021: Risks & Opportunities” report, a new study that dives into macro industry trends across five areas including growth, health and construction safety, labor, supply chain and design....
Fast-Track Energy Transitions to Win the Race to Zero
World Energy Transitions Outlook outlines global strategies towards carbon-neutrality and leads way to a climate-safe 1.5°C pathway by 2050 Abu Dhabi, UAE, 16 March 2021 – Proven technologies for a net-zero energy system already largely exist today, finds the preview of World Energy Transitions Outlook by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Renewable power, green hydrogen and modern bioenergy will dominate the world of energy of the future. Previewed at the Berlin Energ...
Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Unreal Engine Partnership and Service Pack 3 Release
Major updates include a new real-time rendering connection to Twinmotion and Unreal Engine, a direct connection with Solibri plus a new Vectorworks Cloud Services folder sharing feature for project teams Columbia, MD (March 16, 2021)—Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. has released its third service pack for the Vectorworks 2021 product line focusing on key updates for their architecture, landscape architecture and entertainment design customers. Notable highlights...
Federal Investment Helped Advance 22,000 Highway Improvement Projects in 2020, New Data Reveals
National and state-by-state data available artbahighwaydashboard.org WASHINGTON)— State governments leveraged $29 billion in federal funds to advance $70 billion in highway improvements during fiscal year (FY) 2020, according to new federal data. An interactive dashboard created by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) provides U.S. taxpayers, elected officials, news media, and the public with a clear look at how and where all 50 states use their federal highway...
Helsinki Energy Challenge: Four international award winners announced
From floating islands to energy market reform, the winners of the City of Helsinki’s €1 million global competition help point the way to solutions that will help cities around the world decarbonise their urban heating grids. The Helsinki Energy Challenge illustrates the diversity of approaches necessary to achieve a flexible and resilient system. www.energychallenge.hel.fi #HelsinkiEnergyChallenge #HEL2035 HELSINKI, FINLAND: An international jury has selected four winners...
Utility Companies Look For Options to Assist Consumers
EnergyX Solutions, a leader in the building retrofitting movement, explains why retrofitting is the best long-term solution TORONTO, Canada – People want to save money on their utility bills, and utility companies want to help consumers find ways to do just that. Even so, there are only so many things one can do when it comes to behavior modification that will result in energy savings. As more utility companies continue to look for options to provide to their customers, many will be tur...
Breaking The Blueprint
Digital technology allows organizations to collaborate earlier, forming new, more efficient, or safer ways of working. While its implementation is easier for uniform processes in bulk, things get trickier when working at a rarer size and scale. However, technology exists that can make planning a heavy lift project as simple as walking around site – months or years before it even exists. Mammoet World investigates. The role of engineered heavy lifting has always been to support the incredib...
New Timeline Depicts the First Decade of AISC: 1920-1929
CHICAGO - The American Institute of Steel Construction is celebrating its centennial this year--in true historic style! As we look forward to the next 100 years, we're also taking a deep dive into the decades that defined both AISC and the world in general, starting with the 1920s. A new interactive timeline from AISC places key events from the history of AISC and structural steel in context with other historical benchmarks of the 1920s. "It's remarkable how much we've accomplished--and...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
