Anderson named KDOT Fiscal Bureau Chief
Pam Anderson has been named the Kansas Department of Transportation’s new Fiscal Bureau Chief. Her duties began in mid-August. Anderson has been with KDOT for 15 years. She started as an Accountant III in Federal-Aid and was promoted after one year to Federal-Aid Chief Accountant. Anderson has been involved in the implementation of several agency-wide computer processing systems. Within the Federal-Aid unit, the staff monitors projects with federal funds, processes purchase orders for the co...
PennDOT Partnership Receives Award
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has received regional and national recognition for a couple of recent projects. PennDOT was named a regional winner in the America’s Transportation Awards competition in the operational excellence category for their Automated Work Zone Speed Enforcement Program. This program is a five-year pilot to address work zone safety through the deployment of mobile units to detect vehicles traveling at least 11 miles per hour over the speed limit. A camera...
Study: States Can Lease Toll Roads to Fund Other Infrastructure, Pay Off Debt
Amidst recession and plummeting revenues, monetizing state-owned toll roads can fund other needed transportation projects or pay off debt and public pension liabilities. Los Angeles (August 25, 2020) — As state governments grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, recession and potentially long-term revenue and budget problems, a new study shows how leasing their major toll road systems would allow states to fund many other transportation projects, pay down state debt or reduce unfunded public p...
Stantec-designed San Luis Obispo RTA Bus Operations & Maintenance Facility Breaks Ground
27,500 square-foot, $17 million facility designed with wellness, functionality, and sustainability in mind San Luis Obispo, CA: The San Luis Obispo Regional Transit Authority (RTA) recently broke ground on a new bus operations and maintenance facility. Top ten global design firm, Stantec, planned and designed the bus facility, which will play a vital role in the RTA’s ability to deliver safe, reliable transit services for San Luis Obispo County. In support of the agency’s wide coverag...
CFSEI to Launch Virtual Expo on September 3, 2020
Eight webinars to be offered over eight weeks for 12 PDH credits WASHINGTON, DC — The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) will launch the first-ever CSFEI Virtual Expo on September 3, 2020 which will include four live webinars and four on-demand webinars conducted by nationally known experts for a total of 12 continuing education credits. The webinars will begin on September 3, 2020 and conclude on November 12, 2020. The CFSEI Virtual Expo replaces the annual live CFSEI Expo th...
Cityzenith gets green light on $500 Million Orlando Sports & Entertainment District Digital Twin project
A ground-breaking Digital Twin project by Cityzenith promote, optimize, and future proof the ambitious $500 million Orlando Sports & Entertainment Smart District (OS+ED), aiming to drive the Florida city’s millions of annual visitors to the downtown hotspot. Confirmation follows a commercial agreement with SISCO, the project’s technology provider, finalizing terms with Cityzenith (CZ) and the project owners, OS+ED Dev Corp, to deploy CZ’s award-winning SmartWorldPro2™ Digital Twin platform f...
Tensar Announces Winner of First Annual Civil Engineering Scholarship Program
ATLANTA, GA – Tensar International, a leading geosynthetic products innovator known for its unique geogrid solutions, announced two winners of it first annual Tensar Civil Engineering Scholarship competition program. The two students each won a $1000 scholarship for completing a specific construction design challenge: one challenge was in flexible pavement design and the other in mechanically stabilized earth wall design. The scholarships are one component of Tensar’s ongoing professional educat...
State DOTs Win Regional Awards for Transportation Projects
Thirty-one transportation projects from 27 state departments of transportation around the country earned regional recognition in the 2020 America’s Transportation Awards competition for providing solutions that increase safety and save lives, make infrastructure more resilient, while improving the quality of life for their communities. [Above photo by the Montana DOT.] Patrick McKenna “The people who planned, engineered and built these projects deserve recognition for the positive impacts t...
FARO® Acquires ATS AB
Swedish Firm’s Solution Enables Strategic Acceleration in 3D Digital Twin Market Lake Mary, FL – FARO Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: FARO), a global leader for 3D measurement, imaging and realization solutions for 3D Metrology, AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction), and Public Safety Analytics, today announced that the Company has acquired Advanced Technical Solutions in Scandinavia AB (“ATS”), a Swedish-based leader in 3D...
University partners with cities to study COVID-19 virus prevalence in wastewater
The Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility serves the majority of the population in the region, making it an ideal location to conduct the environmental surveillance of wastewater. College of Engineering leads wastewater environmental surveillance in the Truckee Meadows RENO/SPARKS, Nev. – The Nevada Water Innovation Institute based at the University of Nevada, Reno, along with regional agency partners, is monitoring Truckee Meadows wastewater to determine the level of COVID-19 in...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
