MWC Atlanta Adds Rising Star to Roster
Atlanta - Jennifer Winkler Larosa has joined McGuireWoods Consulting as a vice president on the Georgia government relations team. With extensive experience in transportation, infrastructure and local government relations, Larosa will advise clients on procurement goals, public relations initiatives, and legislative agendas. Prior to joining McGuireWoods Consulting, Larosa was the senior officer of government and external affairs for the Atlanta region’s transit agency, the ATL. She also has...
Bob Valenti joins HNTB’s national tunnel and underground team as principal project engineer
HNTB’s growing tunnel team is working on many of the nation’s most complex and innovative tunnel projects OAKLAND, Calif. – Bob Valenti joined HNTB Corporation’s national tunnel practice as principal project engineer. He is based in the firm’s Oakland office and serves as an accomplished resource to the firm’s clients and projects across the nation. With more than 30 years of experience, Valenti brings extensive expertise as an engineering consultant, leading and managing planning, d...
Cintec North America Announces Terracotta Clay speed Tile at Frederick Douglass Academy VI, Queens, New York
The Property Frederick Douglass Academy VI (also known as FDA), is a co-educational public school for grades 6-12 located in Queens, New York City. In 1991, Dr. Lorraine Monroe founded the Frederick Douglass Academy, a public school in Harlem, in the belief that caring instructors, a disciplined but creative environment, and a refusal to accept mediocrity could transform the lives of inner-city kids. Based on the success of Monroe’s original model, the New York City school system created seve...
Scottsdale Firm Saves Millions of Gallons of Water, Setting New Treatment Standard at LA City Hall East
After 18 months of operation at LA City Hall East, a treatment system installed by Dynamic Water Technologies showed more than a 90 percent savings in chemical costs, and a water-use reduction from 5.95 million gallons a year to 4.78 million, a savings of 1.17 million gallons - or 20 percent less water. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 6, 2020 - A pilot program to evaluate better methods to save water in drought-stricken California demonstrates that governments and businesses can save millions of gall...
Entries Open: 2020 North American Copper in Architecture Awards
(McLean, VA) ─ Entries are now open for the 2020 North American Copper in Architecture (NACIA) awards. Architects, designers, and sheet metal contractors are invited to submit their building projects for consideration through January 31, 2020. For over a decade, the NACIA program has been North America’s premier award program in the field of copper architecture, craftsmanship, and design. Since its launch in 2008, NACIA award-winning projects demonstrate a wide range of variety, including gov...
Alexa Mitchell Joins HDR as Highways & Roads BIM Director
OMAHA, Neb. — Continuing HDR’s national leadership in Building Information Modeling for infrastructure, Alexa Mitchell has been named HDR’s highways and roads BIM director. Mitchell will further bolster our capabilities as a trusted partner for our transportation clients, who are increasingly incorporating BIM into projects, including through the development of signed and sealed BIM deliverables. Based in our Phoenix, Arizona, office, Mitchell will provide strategic support and specialized te...
Registration Open for International Deep Mixing Conference June 15-18, Gdańsk, Poland
Hawthorne, N.J. (Jan. 6, 2019): Registration is open for Deep Mixing 2020 — Best Practice and Legacy being held June 15-18, 2020, in Gdańsk, Poland. DFI is hosting the conference in conjunction with leaders in the international deep mixing community. It is the 7th conference in a series on deep mixing. This year’s conference is aimed at defining the future of deep mixing and transferring the charge of advancing the industry to the next generation of practitioners. The technical program...
DFI-PFSF to Host Piling & Ground Improvement Conference in Australia, March 2020 Registration Open
Hawthorne, N.J. (Jan. 6, 2019): Registration is open for the 2nd DFI-PFSF Piling & Ground Improvement Conference taking place March 23-25, 2020, at International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney in Australia. This conference — being hosted by Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) and Piling & Foundation Specialists Federation (PFSF) is intended to promote all aspects of the deep foundations, earth retention and ground improvement works. The technical program focuses on the following topics: Des...
Siemens Utilizes Fugro’s UXO Screening Technology in Herne, Germany
Fugro has completed an unexploded ordnance (UXO) screening project for Siemens AG at the site of a new gas-fired power station in Herne, Germany. Over 1300 foundation pile locations were screened for UXO and cleared down to 15 m below ground level without affecting other site preparation activities. In Germany, any areas that suffered bombing during the Second World War must have a UXO site survey before construction can begin. Conventional survey methods involve drilling boreholes that creat...
Proposed Modifications to AASHTO Culvert Load Rating Specifications
Over the past decade, significant state and federal resources have been expended to develop a state‐of-the-art set of reliability‐based bridge design and load rating specifications, including Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) and Load and Resistance Factor Rating (LRFR). However, these design and rating methods were developed for larger bridge structures, and may result in overly conservative ratings when applied to buried culverts. Of the more than 600,000 records in the National Bridge...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
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