Jeffrey W. Coleman Elected President of American Concrete Institute
President, vice president, and board members elected FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. : The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announces its 2020-2021 president, vice president, and four board members. Jeffrey W. Coleman has been elected to serve as president of the Institute for 2020-2021, Charles K. Nmai has been elected ACI vice president for a two-year term, and Cary S. Kopczynski is now the Institute’s senior vice president, which is also a two-year term. Additionally, four members have been elec...
Geosynthetics Conference 2021: Call for Proposals and Abstracts
Accepting submissions until May 25 Geosynthetics Conference 2021 is looking for short course, workshop, training lecture, technical session and panel discussion proposals, as well as abstract submissions for technical papers of all types. Now is the time to start making plans to join us in Kansas City, MO, Feb. 21–24 and be a part of the program. The 2021 Geosynthetics Conference will be co-located with the International Erosion Control Association's Annual Conference. Approximately 3,0...
New Tremco Construction Products Group Unites Leading Brands, Offers Industry's First Single-Source Building Enclosure
BEACHWOOD, Ohio - Tremco Incorporated’s Commercial Sealants & Waterproofing, Roofing & Building Maintenance, and Tremco Barrier Solutions operating divisions, together with Dryvit Systems, Inc.; Nudura Inc.; Willseal; Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. and Weatherproofing Technologies Canada today announced they are joining forces under a single corporate identity: the Tremco Construction Products Group (CPG). Representing the combined power of these recognized leaders, Tremco CPG is the indus...
New Vice President Membrane Solutions for MANN+HUMMEL
Marco Nava, Managing Director of MICRODYN-NADIR Italy (Oltremare Membranes), becomes new Vice President Membrane Solutions at MANN+HUMMEL and Managing Director of the MICRODYN-NADIR Group Walter Lamparter, CEO of the MANN+HUMMEL company MICRODYN-NADIR, transitions to an external advisor role Ludwigsburg/Wiesbaden: The MANN+HUMMEL Management Board announces that, effective April 2020, Marco Nava, has been appointed new Vice President Membrane Solutions with MANN+HUMMEL and Managing Dire...
ARTBA, Construction Industry Allies Develop COVID-19 Guidance Materials
WASHINGTON)— The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) and its partners in the Construction Industry Safety Coalition (CISC) have developed a suite of guidance materials to assist contractors in safely performing essential construction activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The materials, which are available in English and Spanish, include a "toolbox" training talk, a checklist for safe work practices and a template to help build a prevention, preparedness and response...
New ASCE Standard 70 Helps in Estimating Hydraulic Properties of Groundwater Systems
Reston, Va. – ASCE’s newest standard, Estimation of Aquifer Hydraulic Properties by Inverse Numerical Modeling of Aquifer Pumping, ANSI/ASCE/EWRI 70-19, is the fifth in a series of standards that seeks to enhance the probabilistic and empirical characterization and understanding of the saturated hydraulic conductivity (Kstat), a key groundwater parameter. Providing guidelines for estimating the hydraulic properties of a groundwater system by inverse numerical modeling of aquifer pumping tests...
CULTEC, Inc. Achieves a Published ASTM Product Standard
BROOKFIELD, Connecticut – CULTEC, Inc. successfully balloted a newly approved and published ASTM product standard, designated as ASTM F3430-20, Specification for Cellular Polypropylene (PP) Corrugated Wall Stormwater Collection Chambers. This new standard defines the requirements for PP chambers manufactured by the structural foam process, which produces chambers with a cellular wall. Since this was the first product of its kind brought before the ASTM Committee F17 on Plastic Piping, CULTEC...
Climeon receives SEK 12 million from the Swedish Energy Agency for project with the steel industry
Climeon has been granted approximately SEK 12 million from the Swedish Energy Agency for a project to use waste heat in the steel industry more efficiently. The project is being implemented in collaboration with SSAB and gives Climeon the opportunity to extend its concept of electricity generation from waste heat to also include steam. Climeon has worked with Swedish Steel producer SSAB in Borlänge since 2015 when SSAB became the first industrial customer to install Climeon's Heat Power syste...
Skanska builds new double-track on the West Coast Line, Sweden, for about SEK 1.7 billion
Skanska has signed a contract with the Swedish Transport Administration to build double-track on the West Coast Line, Sweden. The contract is worth about SEK 1.7 billion, which will be included in the order bookings for Sweden for the second quarter 2020. The project encompasses 24 kilometers of double-track on the railway line between Ängelholm station and just south of Maria station in northern Helsingborg. It includes 19 new railway bridges and two road bridges. In addition, seven level cr...
Taskade: Real-Time Collaboration Platform Launches Free Pro During COVID-19
San Francisco, CA — Taskade, a Y-Combinator backed startup, launches a real-time organization and collaboration platform for distributed teams. This week, it announced it will be offering a 6-month free upgrade to its Pro version to support businesses and individuals adopting remote work amidst the COVID-19 situation. Taskade is a real-time workspace for remote teams to manage tasks, write notes, and video chat together, on the same page. In the past few weeks, the world has witnessed an u...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
