America’s Structural Steel Industry Remains a Success Story
CHICAGO - Domestic steel mills produced more than 6 million tons of structural steel last year, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. That structural steel supply chain has remained robust, active, and ready to build tomorrow’s landmark structures throughout the last few months. Confusion and uncertainty regarding the availability of structural steel boil down to the generic nature of the word “steel.” When people hear that mills supplying the automotive industry are shutting...
Monograph Launches New Forecasting Features
Firm management software provides comprehensive project status and budgeting tools for AEC firms San Francisco, CA — June 2020 — Monograph, a San Francisco-based technology company innovating the way architects and engineers oversee projects, timesheets and forecasts, is pleased to announce two important software features. Designed to support connected workflows and improve forecasting capabilities, the new Project Status categorizations and Project Planner are a direct response to curre...
Grand Opening Today for Old Hilliard’s Franklin Street, Redesigned by Woolpert
These before-and-after photos illustrate the renovation of Franklin Street in Hilliard, Ohio. The city will host a ribbon-cutting event with walking tours and local vendors from 4:30-6:30 p.m. HILLIARD, Ohio — The grand reopening of Franklin Street will take place from 4:30-6:30 p.m. today, June 17, at the corner of Franklin and Main streets in Hilliard, Ohio. Woolpert provided engineering, design and survey services for the redesign of the roughly 600-foot st...
ACEC Research Institute Releases Findings of COVID-19 Business Impact Survey Series
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented disruption in America’s economy, which extended to the engineering industry. To gauge the effect of the economic shutdown on design firms, the ACEC Research Institute – the research arm of the American Council of Engineering Companies – conducted a series of surveys to accurately measure the pandemic’s effect on the industry. The summary of those surveys is now available. “The Business Impact Surveys are the first of their kind...
Parsons Adds Resilience to Wildfire Mitigation and Utility Infrastructure Protection
Grid Armor™ empowers utility companies with predictive analytics CENTREVILLE, Va., – Parsons Corporation (NYSE:PSN) today announced Grid Armor™, a predictive resiliency solution that helps utility companies improve operational efficiency and better respond to and prevent potential catastrophic events, such as wildfires and major power outages. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, Grid Armor™ collects real-time data from weather, conductors, video and vegetation and provides sim...
Burns & McDonnell Keeps Workforce Moving Through Pandemic
Firm Completes World Headquarters Campus and Continues Work on Nearly 10,000 Critical Infrastructure Projects KANSAS CITY, Missouri — State and local leaders joined Burns & McDonnell to dedicate the opening of the final building on its world headquarters campus to those who worked on its front lines — the critical infrastructure workers. Since breaking ground in 2018 on the $42 million project, crews worked more than 134,000 hours without any safety incidents — even through the height of th...
ARTBA Foundation Hall of Fame Class: Two Highway Contractors, Former U.S. DOT Secretary & Engineering Family
WASHINGTON — Peter Kiewit, Jim Peterson, Norm Mineta and the Roebling Family are the 2020 inductees into the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) Foundation’s Transportation Development Hall of Fame. Launched a decade ago, the Hall “honors individuals or families from the public and private sectors who have made extraordinary contributions to U.S. transportation development during their careers.” Nominees are considered in two categories: Transportation Design &...
Ideate Software Applications Now Aligned with Autodesk Revit 2021
San Francisco, CA – Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member, announced enhancements to its Revit productivity applications. “As we do every year, we launched updates to all our products shortly after Autodesk released its newest version of Revit software,” said Glynnis Patterson, Director of Software Development. “In addition to aligning our software with Revit 2021, we added enhancements requested by Revit users around the world. One of the most significant changes is wi...
AEIS Appoints Dr. Chandra Sekhar Meduri as Lead Metallurgical Engineer
New York, NY — AEIS, a testing, inspection and certification company based in South Plainfield, NJ, has named Dr. Chandra Sekhar Meduri as Lead Metallurgical Engineer. This newly-created role will focus on solving complex metallurgical technical challenges, and oversight of the firm’s Failure Analysis Laboratory which analyzes failures across all industrial sectors and material types. Currently, the lab is engaged in failures related to ductile iron pipe, marine shaft, HDPE (high density polyeth...
GPA elects officers for FY2021
SAVANNAH, Ga. -At its meeting Tuesday, the Georgia Ports Authority board elected officers for the coming fiscal year, selecting Will McKnight to serve a second year as chairman. Also on Tuesday, GPA Secretary-Treasurer Joel Wooten, Jr. was elected vice chairman and member Kent Fountain was elected secretary-treasurer. "I look forward to working with Joel and Kent, who have a deep understanding of our economy and the role our ports play in the development of jobs," McKnight said. "With thei...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
