Bechtel Group Foundation pledges $100,000 to Tri-Cities for COVID-19 response
The donation comes as part of the Foundation’s new $3 million COVID-19 Relief Fund set up to support urgent human needs in communities across the world where Bechtel employees live and work. The Bechtel Group Foundation announced today it will donate $100,000 to the United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties for its COVID-19 Response Fund to help local nonprofits address food insecurity and mental and behavioral health impacts of the pandemic. The donation comes as part of the Foundation’s new...
AECOM supports U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ project to deliver an alternate care facility in Colorado to aid the region’s coronavirus pandemic response
LOS ANGELES – AECOM (NYSE:ACM), the world’s premier infrastructure firm, announced today that it has delivered a temporary healthcare facility with nearly 200 operational patient beds at The Ranch Events Complex in Larimer County, Colorado. An additional 200 patient beds that require minimal build out have also been turned over for future surge capacity. The project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Omaha District, in support of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mission...
SPH Engineering announces a bathymetric drone solution
Riga, Latvia - SPH Engineering announces the launch of a new product to make bathymetric surveys of inland and coastal water. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) drone integrated with an Echo Sounder is time- & cost-efficient and suitable for mapping, measuring and inspecting tasks as well as environmental monitoring. A UAV drone equipped with an Echo Sounder allows to collect data with high accuracy faster due to easy transportation and fast deployment and it is 2 times more cost-efficient com...
Submit Your Proposals and Abstracts Today for Geosynthetics Conference 2021
Accepting submissions until May 25 Geosynthetics Conference 2021 is accepting submissions for short course, workshop, training lecture, technical session and panel discussion proposals, as well as abstract submissions for technical papers of all types. Start making plans now to be a part of the program in Kansas City, MO, Feb. 21–24, 2021. The 2021 Geosynthetics Conference will be co-located with the International Erosion Control Association's (IECA) Annual Conference. Approximately 3,0...
ASCENT Reveals 2021 Autodesk Courseware Roadmap
Over 50 New Titles to be released for Autodesk 2021 Software Including Self-Paced eLearning Courses Baltimore, MD — ASCENT recently released learning materials for core Autodesk 2021 software titles including AutoCAD, Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Revit for Architecture and Autodesk Revit for MEP. The newly released titles follow the release of the Autodesk 2021 software. “Each year, our learning content development team begins reviewing Beta software months ahead of...
Ground-breaking of flexible 90MW Wärtsilä combined heat and power plant for public utility in Dresden
A ground-breaking ceremony for the combined heat and power plant to be engineered, procured and constructed by Wärtsilä in Dresden-Reick, Germany, took place on 22 April 2020. Image courtesy of DREWAG A ground-breaking ceremony for the combined heat and power (CHP) plant to be engineered, procured and constructed by Wärtsilä in Dresden-Reick, Germany, took place on 22 April. Commissioned by the local public utility DREWAG to secure reliable energy supply while increasing the share of ren...
Jenny Manansala Joins Stantec’s Growing Hawaii Buildings Design Team
Honolulu, HI - NYSE, TSX:STN - Jenny Manansala, IIDA, LEED AP, has joined Stantec—a global integrated design firm—as senior interior designer for its Buildings team in Honolulu. With more than 20 years of experience focusing on healthcare and commercial interiors, Manansala joins the firm’s growing Hawaii design team. The addition of Manansala enhances Stantec’s architectural and interior design expertise in Hawaii. With staff on Oahu and neighboring islands, Stantec is involved with the desi...
New in Skyward: Risk Assessment for Safer Drone Operations
Every aviation operation wants to maintain a low risk profile, and corporate drone programs are no exception. But tracking and recording risk across distributed teams flying dozens of missions is a big challenge. That’s where Skyward’s Aviation Management Platform comes in. We help you manage all your drone flights, personnel, aircraft, and more. And with our brand new risk assessment tool, we’re helping drone program managers proactively identify and document critical risks to an operation....
Providing Positive Environmental Impacts in the Phoenix Community
The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure recently awarded the Stage 2 of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport Sky Train (PHX Sky Train®) project team with the Envision Gold Award for sustainability. Gannett Fleming is the lead designer for this project, and this is the first-ever Envision Gold Award win for the firm. Gannett Fleming Project Wins ISI Envision Gold Award (Phoenix) Increasing service reliability. Encouraging travelers to use more sustainable modes of transporta...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces More Than $22 Million in Grants to Restore and Enhance Intercity Passenger Rail Network
U.S Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 www.transportation.gov/briefingroom News WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) today announced more than $22 million in grant funding to three projects that collectively span eight states. Funding is provided through FRA’s Restoration and Enhancement (R&E) Grants Program to initiate, restore, or enhance intercity passenger rail service...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
