R&R Engineers - Surveyors, Inc. Adds New Controller to Team
Denver, Colo. - R&R Engineers - Surveyors, Inc., a Denver-based land survey and civil engineering firm operating primarily in the Rocky Mountain Region, announces that Timothy Rees is R&R's new Controller. Rees' duties at R&R include: Responsibility for leading the company's financial reporting; Cost accounting, budget management, A/R, A/P, and forecasting; Growing the overall competence of those involved in financial reporting and analysis; Effectively communicating results, t...
Revit Software Users Can Now Link PDF and Microsoft Word Documents to Revit Files Thanks to Ideate Sticky
San Francisco, CA – Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member, announced that recent updates to Ideate Sticky include one of the features most requested by Autodesk Revit software users. “As a developer of software that streamlines Revit workflows, we closely monitor the Autodesk Ideas Forum to identify Revit challenges we can address through our productivity tools,” said Glynnis Patterson, Director of Software Development. “We heard loud and clear that Revit users wanted t...
Melissa Elliott of Colorado takes gavel as AWWA president
Melissa Elliott of Greenwood Village, Colo., began her one-year term as president of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) today during a live-streamed gavel passing ceremony hosted at AWWA’s Denver headquarters. Today’s ceremony is available to view online. The Presidential Gavel Passing Ceremony usually takes place at AWWA’s Annual Conference and Exposition, but it was conducted virtually this year after the conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Elliott is director...
Stantec-XL Construction Design-Build Team to Deliver New UC Davis Health Administrative Building
Rancho Cordova, CA - Global integrated design firm Stantec and Northern California based General Contractor XL Construction have been selected by UC Davis Health to lead the forward-looking design and construction of new administrative office spaces that will comprise another well-planned facility in the University’s portfolio. The space will house members from the University’s executive leadership team, as well as employees in the Finance, Human Resources, Revenue, and IT sectors. The project a...
Terra Inspectioneering’s UT drones to aid Vopak
Bruinisse, The Netherlands – June 30, 2020 – Terra Inspectioneering, a group company of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has been awarded a confined space inspection contract for the Netherlands and Belgium by Dutch multinational tank storage company Vopak. Under the contract, Terra Inspectioneering will provide non-entry visual testing, ultrasonic thickness testing, and deformation analysis services to Vopak using the proprietary collision-proof Terra UT drone. The drone inspection servi...
Hybrid City competition results offer solutions to improve both sustainability and efficiency
Metsä Wood’s Hybrid City Challenge called for ways to make construction more sustainable, while maintaining efficiency using current building methods. The answer lies in hybrid construction: modular construction practically combining wood and other construction materials. The Hybrid City Challenge gathered some 40 ideas from 22 countries. The winner of the first prize of €10,000 was a design called “WHAT IF… New York´s SEAGRAM Building was a HYBRID building”, by Colombian architect Jose Gust...
Vectorworks, Inc. Offers Discounted Licenses to Graduating Students with student2PRO Program
Higher education graduates are eligible for a 40 percent discount on award-winning design software licenses up to twelve months after graduation Columbia, MD (June 30, 2020)—To help graduating students transition into their professional careers, global design and BIM software provider, Vectorworks, Inc. is offering recent graduates 40 percent off perpetual licenses as part of its student2PRO program. This deal is applicable to any Vectorworks product. “Starting a career after graduatio...
Cityzenith Launches $20,000,000 Regulation A+ on StartEngine
Market-leading Digital Twin provider Cityzenith based out of Chicago recently launched its $20 million Regulation A+ crowdfunding round on StartEngine, one of the leading crowdfunding platforms in the world. Cityzenith’s Regulation A+, or SPO (Simple Public Offering), is open to accredited and non-accredited investors alike the world over who are able to invest as little as $500. In the first couple of days since launching Cityzenith have already amassed over 100+ new investors. Cityzenith has...
Skanska signs biggest lease ever in the company’s history at Generation Park Y, a skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland
Skanska has signed a 10 year lease with the insurance company PZU Group for 47,000 square meters office space and in addition 325 parking lots in the skyscraper office building, phase III of Generation Park in Warsaw, Poland. The tenant will start to take occupancy in the second quarter 2022. With this lease the building is now 98.5 percent occupied. This is the largest office lease agreement in terms of square meters in Skanska's history. Generation Park will comprise of three office buildin...
Light Weight, Design Flexibility Make FRP Cantilever Sidewalks COVID-19 Compliant
DAYTON, Ohio (June 29, 2020) Demand for walkable urban places coupled with the growing number of pedestrians has vehicle bridge owners looking for ways to add sidewalks to provide safe places for people to walk and ride. The weight and cost associated with traditional concrete is typically prohibitive and time to cure disruptive. The new requirement for social distancing is boosting demand for sidewalks up to 15 ft. wide. Composite Advantage’s lightweight FiberSPAN-C fiber reinforced polymer (...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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