Profile Products Honors Distributors At Annual Awards Banquet
Representatives with JMD Company and Hanes Geo Components accepted the Top Gun, Ground Assault and President's Club awards. BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — Profile® Products celebrated the work of several outstanding distributors at its annual awards banquet on February 24 during the International Erosion Control Association Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Through their hard work, our distributors make the world a better and more beautiful place,” said Wally Butman, vice president of s...
Leica Geosystems continues to focus on construction safety with latest personal alert technology
The Leica iCON PA10 and PA80 personal alert systems create collision-avoidance warnings to increase safety (HEERBRUGG, Switzerland) – Leica Geosystems, a Hexagon company, announced today the Leica iCON PA10 and PA80 personal alert systems that create warnings when vehicles and pedestrians on construction and mining sites come into close contact to avoid potential accidents, significantly increasing safety. The iCON PA10 is a standalone personal alert device that creates multiple zon...
World Construction Leader Komatsu Partners with Cesium on ‘Smart Construction’ Initiative
Cesium Technology Will Power Smart Construction Dashboard to Make Construction Safer, More Efficient and More Profitable Las Vegas and Philadelphia – Today at CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Komatsu officially announced an incoming suite of the company’s ‘Smart Construction’ solutions, which will include the 3D visualization power and geospatial accuracy of Cesium™, a leading platform to visualize, analyze and share 3D data. “Together, Komatsu and Cesium are bringing a new era of innovation to...
Natural bayou better when floods threaten Houston
Buffalo Bayou. (Credit: Andrew Juan/Rice University) HOUSTON – One bayou meanders toward downtown Houston. The other runs in parallel to the south, much of it through a concrete channel. Which is better at preventing floods? Researchers at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering give the nod to nature. In studying the evolution of flood plains based on Houston’s Buffalo and Brays bayous, the researchers associated with Rice’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education & Evacuation f...
Connect Pivotal Workflows with Trimble's New Construction Operating System
LAS VEGAS — Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) announced today it will be previewing Trimble® WorksOS, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) operating system, at ConExpo 2020. The cloud-based system will integrate data from Trimble and third-party providers across the entire civil construction project lifecycle, including estimating, scheduling, designs and the field. The Trimble WorksOS preview will demonstrate 3D productivity and real-time progress to plan to bring next-generation, real-time visibility from t...
AGTEK Development Company introduces major upgrade to mobile apps
(Livermore, California, USA) – AGTEK Development Company, part of Hexagon, announced today the release of a major upgrade to SmartPlan, SmartDirt and SmartTrack mobile apps to bridge the gap between the construction site and the office. AGTEK has moved the traditional construction and earthmoving plan set into the 21st century, putting the plans into the palm of users’ hands no matter where they are in the world. Simply geo-referencing traditional 2D plans and supplementing them with rich 3D...
Immersive Civil Engineering Game to Be Used Across the Country
Teaching tool has proven successful in the classroom TROY, N.Y. — Without ever needing to step outside of a classroom, a college dorm room, or a quiet nook in a library, civil engineering students can now transport themselves into the field where they must take measurements, make observations, and understand the impact of the environment on their designs, and their designs on the environment. This unique pedagogical approach is being made possible by an immer...
Structures Congress 2021 Call for Proposals
Call for Abstracts and Sessions Be a part of the program! Submissions Due June 3 SEI invites abstracts and sessions on topics of interest to structural engineers at every level of their career. Emphasis is on presentations that support advancing the structural engineering profession including leadership development, innovation and novel project solutions, emerging technologies, resilience, sustainability, functional recovery, Global Climate Change, and innovative research with practical ap...
LBX and Trimble Announce Precision Grade Upgrade Kits for Link-Belt 160X4, 245X4 and 350X4 Excavators
LBX and Trimble are pleased to announce Link-Belt Precision Grade™—powered by Trimble® Earthworks—upgrade kits for Link-Belt 160 X4, Link-Belt 245 X4 Spin Ace and Link-Belt 350 X4 excavators. These kits provide all necessary components, hardware and software required to upgrade a standard machine to 2D/MG (Machine Guidance) or 2D/MC (Machine Control), or upgrade a machine with 2D/MG already installed to a 2D/MC capable machine. The Link-Belt Precision Grade 2D/MG system uses technology from T...
Missouri S&T professor’s work honored by American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers has recognized Dr. Islam El-adaway, the Hurst/McCarthy Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his team with the 2020 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize for significant contributions to construction engineering. El-adaway won the prize for the paper “First Attempt Toward a Holistic Understanding of the Interdependent Rippled Impacts Associated with Out-of-Sequence Work in Construction Projects: System Dynamics Modeling Approach.” The paper...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
