Jacobs to Deliver Upgrades of Koramangala & Challaghatta Valley Water Treatment Plant for Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board
DALLAS - Jacobs (NYSE:J) was selected to provide project management consultancy to Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to rehabilitate the Koramangala & Challaghatta (K&C) Valley Used Water Treatment Plant in Belur Nagasandra, India. The project will deliver critical upgrades to the 248 million litres per day (MLD) facility as part of an innovative water reuse and groundwater rejuvenation program. Upgrades include the addition of a new biosolids management facility to improve en...
Michael Baker International Partners with the City of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership to Reimagine Streets during COVID-19 Pandemic
PITTSBURG – Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services celebrating 80 Years of Making a Difference, has partnered with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility to reimagine several thoroughfares in Downtown Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle, home to the City’s highest concentration of restaurants. Michael Baker’s Urban Design Studio has reconfigured streets in this area to allow for more outdoor, socially...
Dr. Kalavacharla Sree Rama Krishna Named 2020 DFI Distinguished Service Award Recipient
Hawthorne, N.J. (July 2, 2020): Kalavacharla Sree (K.S.) Rama Krishna, Ph.D., geotechnical consultant, chair of DFI of India and a member of the DFI Board of Trustees, is the recipient of DFI’s highest award to an individual, the Distinguished Service Award (DSA). This award recognizes individuals who have made exceptionally valuable contributions to the advancement of the deep foundations industry. The award is being presented during DFI’s 45th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations tentatively...
Woolpert Adds Vice President, Senior Strategic Consultant to ISO/TC 251 Asset Management Advisory Group
Woolpert Senior Strategic Consultant Bob Leitch (left) and Vice President David Feuer were named to the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 251. David Feuer and Bob Leitch are the most recent members of the firm to be named to an International Organization for Standardization committee or group. DENVER (July 2, 2020) — Woolpert Vice President David Feuer and Senior Strategic Consultant Bob Leitch have been named to t...
House approves $1.5T plan to fix crumbling infrastructure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House approved a $1.5 trillion plan Wednesday to rebuild the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into projects to fix roads and bridges, upgrade transit systems, expand interstate railways and dredge harbors, ports and channels. The bill also authorizes more than $100 billion to expand internet access for rural and low-income communities and $25 billion to modernize the U.S. Postal Service’s infrastructure and op...
Many New Resources to Help Los Angeles Shape an Equitable Vision for its Urban Forest
LOS ANGELES, CA — The City of Los Angeles has recently received a bounty of resources to help complete the City's tree inventory and Urban Forest Management Plan (UFMP). With budget cuts looming for the coming fiscal year, these extra resources - including a $1.5 Million CalFire grant, a visiting scholar, tree donations and repurposing of an existing contract - could not have come at a better time for LA's urban forest. Together these new resources create a unique and remarkable opportunity to r...
ACI Foundation is Now Accepting Fellowship and Scholarship Applications
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – The ACI Foundation announces that applications are now being accepted from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2021-2022 academic year. Three new fellowships and one new undergraduate scholarship have been added to the program. Additionally, the ACI Middle East Fellowship has been re-named as the ACI Middle East & North Africa Fellowship and is available to students studying in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordon, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi...
DelDOT Announces Opening of New Christina River Bridge and Approach Roads at Wilmington Riverfront
The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces that the new Christina River Bridge and approach roads at the Wilmington Riverfront has opened to pedestrian, bicycle, and motor vehicle traffic as of 2:00pm today. The new access roads and bridge improve multimodal traffic flow around the Wilmington Riverfront and provides direct access to Route 13 and the southeastern side of Wilmington. The nearly $50 million project, which broke ground in June 2017, includes a 470-foot multi-mod...
Project ASLAN steers a new course for autonomous urban mobility
Unprecedented international collaboration to accelerate the commercial viability of autonomous vehicles in cities with the launch of a fully-functional open-source self-driving platform Global not-for-profit open-source collaboration with founders from Australia, Asia-Pacific and Europe The project announces ‘go live’ on a completely free and rapidly deployable open-source self-driving software stack for urban low-speed autonomy Project ASLAN invites additional capability to supplemen...
GSSI Announces Marc Lussier as New VP of Operations
GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc Lussier as Vice President of Operations. In his new role Marc will lead GSSI’s initiative to build production capacity to meet the growing global demand for their products, while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction, quality and profitability. “It is with great pleasure that I join GSSI and I’m excited to be part of an organization renowned for its tec...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
