Contractors From Ohio, Texas and Utah Receive 2020 ARTBA National Contractor Safety Awards
WASHINGTON)— Transportation construction companies from three states were recognized for their outstanding employee safety programs during the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) Annual Convention. The annual ARTBA “Contractor Safety Awards” were created to promote worker safety and health as core values of the transportation design and construction industry. The contractor finalists were competitively selected, based upon their accident and injury rates on work s...
Veolia North America (VNA) secures three municipal water contracts in St. Michael, Albertville and Hanover, Minnesota
September was a good month for VNA’s Municipal Water Division in the State of Minnesota, where the company’s strong record of service excellence led to the renewal of three municipal contracts and the addition of a new one. “The Minnesota projects have been a great example of partnerships in the truest sense of the word,” said Joseph Tackett, the Municipal Water senior vice president. “It’s a testament to the great job being done by Larry Cook, our general manager in Minnesota, and the proje...
Open Call for Solutions to Create the Future of Resilient Energy Production, Transmission, Usage and Storage for the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense
Submission Deadline Extended to October 29 LAS VEGAS – AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force’s innovation catalyst, is seeking solutions from public and private industries, commercial sectors, government, and academia for the Department of Defense (DoD) Reimagining Energy Challenge to modernize and create the future of resilient energy production, transmission, utilization and storage for the U.S. Air Force. Due to the high level of interest received from participants and government agencies, AFWERX...
HNTB group director Mary Jane O’Meara honored with ARTBA lifetime achievement award
American Road & Transportation Builders Association honor awarded for outstanding leadership and long-term service in the transportation design and construction industry’s public or private sectors BOSTON – The American Road & Transportation Builders Association honored HNTB group director Mary Jane O’Meara with the Ethel S. Birchland Lifetime Achievement Award for her 40-plus year commitment to the transportation industry, including the advancement of female leadership. The presentation...
Bentley Systems Announces Winners of Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards
All Year in Infrastructure 2020 Award winners, finalists, and nominees will be featured in the 2020 Infrastructure Yearbook, which will be published in early 2021. EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the winners of the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards. The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing design, construction, and operations of infrastructure throughout th...
HNTB Vice President, Georgia DOT Chief Engineer, Two Project Managers/Policy Researchers and A. Morton Associates Inc. Honored with ARTBA’s Women Leaders Awards
WASHINGTON)— A chief state transportation engineer, a vice president at HNTB Corp., two transportation policy project managers, and a women-led civil engineering firm are the 2020 winners of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s “Women Leaders in Transportation Design & Construction” awards. The awards were presented in three categories Oct. 20 at the ARTBA National Convention, held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethel Birchland Lifeti...
Building roads to save Yosemite toads
Caltrans installs the mini-culvert undercrossing for Yosemite toads along State Route 108 in Mono County. Credit: Kris Bason/Caltrans Yosemite toads collected along State Route 108 during the maintenance project. Credit: Kris Bason/Caltrans Each spring deep in the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite toads roam the alpine meadows in search of a mate. Biologists have been tracking the movements of these toads, and have noted that they travel surprisingly long distances for such small creatures. Fro...
Digital Twin Consortium Announces Liaison with buildingSMART
The Digital Twin Consortium® and buildingSMART International (bSI) have entered into a liaison agreement to accelerate the development, deployment, and wide-scale adoption of open digital twin technologies. Both have agreed to the following: Collaborating on standards requirements, including open-source standards Realizing interoperability by harmonizing technology components and other elements to enable connected data environments Aligning work in horizontal domains for adoption w...
UP42 Partners With Hexagon To Offer HxGN Content Program Aerial Imagery on Geospatial Marketplace
BERLIN, Germany – High-resolution aerial imagery from the HxGN Content Program is now available on the UP42 developer platform for Earth observation data and analytics. UP42 customers may now choose from nearly 11 million square kilometers of 30 cm orthorectified imagery for North America and Europe and over 500,000 sq km of 15 cm data for major U.S. cities in the Hexagon aerial image library. UP42 gives users direct access to extensive Earth observation data sets and advanced processing alg...
Fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship to Open December 1
Global competition will recognize design students’ best work Columbia, MD (October 20, 2020)—Continuing its commitment to cultivate future generations of designers, global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. will open submissions for its fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship on December 1, 2020. The Vectorworks Design Scholarship invites undergraduate and graduate students in major disciplines related to architecture, landscape architecture, landscape, entertainment and interio...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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