Sustainability Efforts Increase Competitiveness of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for Future Meetings
Water feature at NOENMCC’s newly constructed pedestrian park NOENMCC focuses on a greener footprint through energy, water and capital upgrades New Orleans, LA. –The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (NOENMCC) has made sustainability a top priority and is taking steps to reduce environmental impacts. While the coronavirus pandemic impacted hosting events in 2020, NOENMCC took advantage of the downtime and made critical facility upgrades that will reduce their environmenta...
McAdams Makes Bold Move to Bolster Leadership Team by Adding Commissioner of New York City Parks Department as Principal, Vice President of Urban Planning
Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, Hon. ASLA to join McAdams in late spring 2021 Durham, NC – McAdams, a multidisciplinary civil engineering, land planning, landscape architecture and geomatics firm headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, announced today that Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, will join their leadership team in June as Principal, Vice President of Urban Planning. Silver is no stranger to the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, or the planning community, having served as the City of...
Remote GeoSystems Awarded Patent for Essential Geospatial Full Motion Video “Geo-editing” Technology
FORT COLLINS, Colorado, USA, - Remote GeoSystems, Inc., a global provider of immersive geospatial full motion video and survey data mapping software and recorder solutions, is pleased to announce the award of US Patent Number 10,893,287 on January 12, 2021 for essential elements of “video geo-editing” technology capabilities. The patent covers map-based GPS data and video segment selection, extraction and re-splicing functionality found in products like LineVision Desktop, Video GeoEditor and...
Q-Free launches first multiuse high-speed weigh-in-motion and multimodal classification solution
The versatile, future-proof HI-TRAC® TMU4X was developed in direct response to global demand for a single roadside data solution to help communities address Vision Zero and sustainability goals. NORTH SOMERSET, England, UK – Q-Free (OSE: QFR), a global leader in mobility solutions for smart city infrastructure, announced the formal launch of the HI-TRAC® TMU4X, an advanced multimodal, high-speed weigh-in-motion (WIM) and data collection solution offering automatic vehicle classification...
NY Power Authority Names Daniella Piper Regional Manager for Western New York Region; First Female to Head NYPA’s Niagara Power Project in 60-Year History of the Project
WHITE PLAINS—The Niagara Power Project has a new executive in charge of its operations following the appointment by the New York Power Authority of Daniella Piper to regional manager of Western New York, the top position at NYPA’s flagship hydroelectric project in Lewiston. Piper previously served as Chief of Staff for NYPA’s President and CEO Gil C. Quiniones and Vice President of NYPA’s Digital Transformation Office. Piper was promoted to her new role to better align NYPA’s statewide generatio...
Wärtsilä’s 200 MW power plant to provide critical grid balancing and back-up power to the national grid in Colombia
The factory acceptance tests of the Wärtsilä 50SG engines for the El Tesorito power plant were conducted in Delivery Centre Trieste, with the customer attending the tests virtually. © Wärtsilä Corporation Wärtsilä’s 200 MW flexible baseload power plant project in Córdoba Province in Colombia proceeds despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was placed in June 2020 by Termotesorito, a joint-venture enterprise betwe...
AVT launches animation to demystify insertion valve technology
Clearly explains how the innovative technology enables water valves to be installed without shutting off the flow. (Houston ) – Advanced Valve Technologies’ (AVT) is launching a new animation on Wednesday, March 31st at 1pm CST that takes viewers through the full process of installing the AVT EZ Valve – an insertion valve. Although this category of valve has been available in the water industry for more than two decades, many professionals are still unaware of the product and rely on...
Autodesk Expands Preconstruction Offering with Global Launch of Autodesk Takeoff
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., March 9, 2021 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced the worldwide availability of Autodesk Takeoff, a new product that empowers estimators to perform 2D and 3D quantification workflows from a common data environment to increase collaboration, speed and accuracy during the estimation process. Originally announced at Autodesk University in November 2020, Autodesk Takeoff will join Autodesk Build and Autodesk BIM Collaborate as part of the Autodesk Construction Cloud u...
“Build Back Cleaner” by Investing $5 Billion in Demonstration Projects to Decarbonize Heavy Industry, Says ITIF
WASHINGTON—Heavy industries such as steel, cement, and chemicals account for a significant share of greenhouse gas emissions, and that share is continuing to grow, yet U.S. policy efforts to address the issue have been anemic. Most of the large-scale demonstration projects for promising solutions are happening outside the United States. To turn the tide, a new policy brief from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the leading think tank for science and technology policy,...
Nominations Sought For 2021 America’s Transportation Awards
From now until April 23, states can nominate up to three projects for the 2021 America’s Transportation Awards; a program that helps showcase why transportation infrastructure – and why properly funding it – is vital to supporting the nation’s economy while improving the quality of life for communities across the country. To submit a nomination, click here. [Above photo of 2020 Grand Prize Winner WSDOT. Photo by WSDOT.] Sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportat...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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