AASHTO Issues Revised Pavement Design Guide
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has released a new publication: Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide: A Manual of Practice, 3rd Edition. This revised manual provides an overview of the methodology termed mechanistic-empirical or “M-E” pavement design. Based on engineering mechanics that have been validated through extensive road test performance data, the manual references AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design and M-E Pavement – crafted as part of...
Renewables Account for Almost Three Quarters of New Capacity in 2019
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — The renewable energy sector added 176 gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity globally in 2019, marginally lower than the (revised) 179 GW added in 2018. However, new renewable power accounted for 72 per cent of all power expansion last year, according to new data released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). IRENA’s annual Renewable Capacity Statistics 2020 shows that renewables expanded by 7.6 per cent last year with Asia dominating growth an...
SimActive Used to Determine Solar Potential from Satellite Imagery
Montreal, Canada, April 7th, 2020 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, announces that his Correlator3D™ product is used by Dutch company NEO B.V. to assess solar potential in multiple cities. Digital surface models (DSMs) are generated from WorldView and GeoEye satellite stereo images and serve to calculate solar panel capacity. DSMs covering hundreds of square kilometres are quickly generated by the software. Key metrics to estimate solar potential are th...
Ergon Purchases Western States Asphalt Group
JACKSON, Miss. – Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc., (EA&E) has announced finalization of an agreement to purchase the asphalt business of Western States Group, LLC, and Western States Asphalt of Montana, LLC. EA&E has long been known as a valued resource in the development of the asphalt industry in the United States. The company’s footprint has grown over the past 38 years from a single plant in Mississippi to 54 asphalt and emulsions facilities stretching from coast to coast across the United St...
USDOT Announces $25 Billion to Help Nation's Public Transportation Systems Respond to COVID-19
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a total of $25 billion in federal funding allocations to help the nation’s public transportation systems respond to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Funding is provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed by President Donald J. Trump on March 27, 2020. "This historic $25 billion in grant funding will ensure our nation’s public transportat...
Woolpert, Esri Develop Free Airport FEMA Reimbursement Application
The application will help airports submit forms to expedite FEMA reimbursements. DAYTON, Ohio (April 3, 2020) — Woolpert and Esri have partnered to develop a free, user-friendly application to help airports enter, track and submit reimbursable expenses to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The FEMA Reimbursement Toolkit is accessible via desktop, tablet or mobile device. It will support all FEMA-related reimbursements, including COVID-19 costs, to repay 75 cents on the dollar f...
Trump's ambitious infrastructure vision faces Senate GOP roadblock
President Trump faces a clash with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Senate Republicans over the president’s desire for a $2 trillion infrastructure spending bill, something he promised during his 2016 campaign. McConnell has criticized Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for proposing a big infrastructure package, saying she wants “to practice what [former Obama White House chief of staff] Rahm Emanuel famously said after the financial crisis in 2008: ‘Never let a crisis g...
Streamline and Teal Communications Partner to Deliver Intelligent Technology Solution for the Transportation Industry
KAMLOOPS, British Columbia & BELLEVUE, Wash. - Streamline Transportation Systems Inc. (Streamline) and Teal Communications have partnered together to deliver an innovative and intelligent technology solution for the transportation industry. Teal Communications’ Intelligent eSIM Platform will enable Streamline’s products to reliably stay connected across the United States and Canada for a wide range of use cases in the transportation industry. The joint solution will enable connectivity across m...
Three African Organizations Receive Cadasta’s Inaugural Data Accelerator Grants to Advance Land Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 2nd, 2020)—The first round of Cadasta Foundation’s Data Accelerator Grant has been released to three African organizations to advance land rights and tenure security for vulnerable populations. Under Cadasta’s Global Land Rights Challenge Fund, Cadasta launched its Data Accelerator Grant to help partners better leverage Cadasta’s innovative tools and services to document land and resource rights worldwide. The first round of the Data Accelerator Grant is being awarded...
R&R Engineers - Surveyors, Inc. Adds New Survey Manager 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 Mark Gabert is R&R's new Survey Manager. Gabert is an experienced Survey Team and Project Manager, licensed in Colorado and Kansas, with over 30 years' experience in the Land Surveying profession. He excels in customer service, proposals, successful project planning and execution, team collaboration, mentoring staff, boundary l...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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